Photoshop 1 with Sue Anne Hodges

This class is now Sold Out! Please email donna@griffinmuseum.org to be added to the Waitlist.

This workshop will allow you to take your images further, technically or creatively, using Adobe Photoshop. It will cover the basics of Photoshop and best practices for a non-destructive workflow using layers, masks, tools and demonstrating a variety of techniques. From the latest retouching tools to creative compositing you will be guided through a series of step-by-step procedures with demonstrations and in class practice exercises. The class will start with information about acquiring the image, the basics of raw processing, file formats and resolution. Then each week will focus on one aspect of use with a demonstration and in class practice using images provided by the teacher. Further homework practice with your own images is encouraged and will be reviewed the following week. If you are a beginner or a self-taught user, you will find this class gives you a solid foundation and creative insight, going beyond the basics to help you get the most out of Photoshop.

Wednesday evenings from January 10th – Feb 28rd , 2024
3 hours per week – 6 – 9 pm   EST  

8 sessions to meet: Jan  10, 17, 24, 31 Feb 7, 14, 21, 28
Limited to 10 students

Members $595, Non-Members $645 (non-member price includes a one year membership to the Griffin Museum, a $75 value).
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Instructor Bio:

Sue Anne Hodges is a photographer and educator. Since 1992, Sue Anne has been exploring and using digital cameras and digital imaging technology. She studied this technology at the Center for Creative Imaging in Camden, Maine. Digital images from her early experiments have been included in Kodak’s publication, International Photography, and one of the first exhibits of digital imaging “L’Épreuve Numérique” at the Centre National de la Photographie, Palais de Tokyo, Paris.

Sue Anne was the Director of Digital Imaging at New England School of Photography (NESOP). Her career began as an advertising photographer, helping to build and supervise an in-house studio for Lechmere, a retail chain store. This led her to teaching studio lighting at NESOP where in 1995 she helped them establish the digital imaging department and taught for the past 25 years. In 2011, 2012 and 2018 Sue Anne was honored to be one of 20 educators in the country to be invited by Adobe to attend the Adobe Educators Summit. She remains a specialist in Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom. and Digital Printing.

Her more recent photography has taken her out of the studio and includes a variety of projects including work for The Cultural Landscape Foundation, Down East Magazine, and Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce. Sue Anne’s personal work has been widely exhibited and for 15 years she was represented by Redfield Artisans Gallery in Northeast Harbor, Maine. She splits her time between Mount Desert Island, Maine and West Newbury, Massachusetts.

Image: © ‘Invisible Man’ by Sue Anne Hodges, 2020.