Creating Quality Digital Images $49
A practical approach to professional quality images.
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Creating Quality Digital Images. A practical approach to professional quality images.
Learn a practical process for creating clear, accurate photographs of your artwork using a phone or camera and simple editing tools. This course takes you from preparing and lighting your work to making finished images for galleries, juried shows, websites, social media, and prints.
Learn a practical process for creating clear, accurate photographs of your artwork using a phone or camera and simple editing tools. This course takes you from preparing and lighting your work to making finished images for galleries, juried shows, websites, social media, and prints.
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What You’ll Learn
Prepare paintings, prints, works on paper, and sculpture for a photo session.
Create a simple, seamless background for three-dimensional work.
Position lights to reduce glare, hot spots, and shadows.
Set your phone or camera to capture high-quality images.
Transfer original image files to a computer or iPad without losing quality.
Crop and straighten photographs in Affinity.
Use automatic editing tools while checking the result against the artwork.
Export high-quality JPEGs and make copies at the sizes requested by shows, galleries, and websites.
Name and organize your files so the right image is easy to find.
Decide when a professional photographer may be useful.
You’ll finish with a repeatable process for creating images that present your artwork clearly and professionally.
A good photograph helps people see your artwork clearly before they can see it in person. Whether you’re applying to a juried show, approaching a gallery, adding work to your website, or posting on social media, the quality of the image affects that first impression.
This course gives artists a practical process for photographing both two-dimensional and three-dimensional work. You’ll learn how to prepare the artwork, choose a background, and use even lighting to avoid glare and shadows. You can follow the process with a phone or camera, using equipment you may already have.
The course also walks through basic editing in Affinity: cropping, straightening, and making careful color and tonal corrections so the photograph represents the original work accurately. Finally, you’ll learn how to export, size, name, and organize your images for different uses.
