Stephen M. Burns
"Value Based Workflow In Photoshop"
PPA Merited Workshop
Friday, May 23, 2025
10:00am - 4:30pm
Location: Great American Portraits
207 N Broadway Unit I, Santa Ana, CA 92701
Please complete the registration to attend the event :
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How do you keep up in today’s world of Digital
Photography, Photoshop?
Value-Based Workflow in Photoshop emphasizes the importance of utilizing black and white values to enhance depth and detail in color images. By focusing on the grayscale representation of an image, artists can accurately assess the tonal range and contrast, ensuring that shadows and highlights are well-defined. This approach allows for meticulous adjustments that improve the overall composition and visual impact of colors. By using tools such as the Curves and Levels adjustments, designers can refine their images, bringing out texture and dimensionality that might be lost in a purely color-focused workflow. Ultimately, this technique not only elevates the aesthetics of the final piece but also promotes a deeper understanding of how light interacts with color, resulting in more dynamic and engaging artwork.
This full-day PPA Merited class will take us from beginning to end, or from Vision to Finish! You will leave with a better understanding of the tools of Photoshop whether you are a Photoshop beginner, intermediate, or advanced user.
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BIO:
Stephen Burns (www.chromeallusion.com) is a digital artist and author of books on being creative with your digital tools. He is an Adobe AEL (Adobe Educational Leader) as well as an Adobe Community Expert and has taught digital creativity internationally.
He is an Instructor at Goldenwest College and Santa Monica College and Coast College and Studio Arts of Los Angeles. He worked as a Pro-Artist for WACOM Technologies and he is the president Of Photoshop Users Group (www.sdphotoshopusers.com) which is currently the largest Adobe Photoshop Users group in the country. You can view the Facebook section at https://www.facebook.com/groups/photoshopusersgroup.
He is guest writer for a number of magazines to include the feature article and front cover of Photoshop User Magazine.(http://www.chromeallusion.com/articles_index.htm).
In addition, Stephen is the author of the following books (http://www.chromeallusion.com/books.htm):
1. "3D Photoshop For Creative Professionals"
2. “Photoshop CS5 Trickery & FX”
3. "The Art Of Poser & Photoshop"
4. “Advanced Photoshop CS4 Trickery & FX”
5. "Advanced Photoshop CS3 Trickery & FX"
6. "Advanced Photoshop CS2 Trickery & FX"
7. "Photoshop CS Trickery & FX"
He has discovered the same passion for the digital medium as he has for photography as an art form. His background began as a photographer 28 year ago and in time, progressed toward the digital medium. His artistic influences include the great
Abstractionists & the Surrealists including Jackson Pollock, Wassily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, Mark Tobey, and Lenore Fini, to name a few.
Stephen Burns has been a corporate instructor and lecturer in the application of digital art and design for the past 29 years internationally. He has been exhibiting digital fine art around the world at galleries such as Durban Art Museum in South Africa, Citizens
Gallery in Yokohama, Japan, and CECUT Museum Of Mexico to name a few. Part of his exhibiting won him 1st place in the prestigious Seybold International digital arts contest.
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