Creating Fine Digital Inkjet Prints with Lightroom
Learn from a master printer how to create fine digital inkjet prints using Adobe Lightroom Classic. In this class you’ll explore efficient workflow, inkjet printer settings, color management, and handling the finished print. Topics will include sharpening and noise reduction, evaluating files for enlargement, black and white printing, soft and hard proofing, matching screen and print, and making selective and global edits to color and tonality.
We’ll also discuss the qualities and characteristics of a fine print and how to assess a print. Students will learn how to best produce a print to realize their artistic vision. We’ll discuss choosing the best paper for a particular project from the many options available to today’s printers, and how to install and use the appropriate paper profiles. This class can also be really helpful for those preparing their images to be printed by a professional lab.
Students who register early will be mailed a set of paper samples to help them understand some of the different options available (class fee includes these materials).
Based in Maine, Jim Nickelson works as a fine art photographer, book artist, and teacher. He also worked for two decades as a fine art digital printmaker. The core of Jim’s work is photographing the natural world and embodying those photographs in a fine print, but that work now includes exploration of traditional bookmaking practices to create handmade artist books utilizing his photography. He has also expanded his practice to focus on advocacy, using photographs, photographic prints, and artist books to advance environmental causes.
Jim has received numerous awards, including being honored as Artist-in-Residence at Acadia National Park, Chiricahua National Park in Arizona, the Baer Art Center in Iceland, and the Book Arts Studio at Maine Media Workshops + College. Jim’s work has been exhibited widely and resides in museum, public, university, corporate, and private collections.
