Colin Smith (PhotoshopCafe) details “How to use Landscape masks in Photoshop ACR and Lightroom. Make awesome edits on landscape photos easily and quickly to make them pop in Lightroom and ACR.”
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Enjoy an evening of pure inspiration as artist/photographer/writer John Paul Caponigro illuminates his creative process – not just where and how, but also why.
John Paul will show how he creates synergy between the diverse disciplines of drawing, photography, and writing, detailing how process influences perception – that ways of seeing lead to ways of being.
He’ll share sublime moments in locations around the world, circling behind an Icelandic waterfall, floating through an Antarctic iceberg graveyard, walking in the sky on a Bolivian salt flat, and flying like a bird over the Namibian coral dunes.
Finally, he’ll offer proof of how images of nature improve health. Like he does, you may conclude that we are not apart from nature but a part of Nature.
We’ll finish with a lively Q&A session.
Reserve your space for this special event now – space is limited.
About John Paul Caponigro
A form of environmental art in virtual space, John Paul Caponigro’s works are about the nature of perception and the perception of nature.
Exhibited internationally, his works have been purchased by private and public collections, including The Smithsonian, Princeton University, and The Estee Lauder Collection.
John Paul is a pioneer among visual artists working with digital media. He consults with the corporations that build the tools he uses, including Adobe, Apple, Canon, Kodak, and Sony. A member of the Photoshop Hall of Fame, Epson’s Stylus Pros, and X-Rite’s Coloratti, his images have been published widely in periodicals and books, including Art News and The Ansel Adams Guide.
Author of the video training series R/Evolution and the book Adobe Photoshop Master Class, for over twenty years, he has been a contributing editor to a variety of magazines and websites, including Camera Arts, Digital Photo Pro, The Huffington Post, and Apple. His creative nonfiction and poetry have been published in over 75 literary journals, in 17 countries, on 5 continents.
A highly sought-after speaker (Apple, Microsoft, MIT), teaching thousands in workshops and tens of thousands in lectures, he leads unique adventures in the wildest places on earth to help participants creatively make deeper connections with nature and themselves. Get a taste of what he does in his Google and TEDx talks.
Learn more – visit www.johnpaulcaponigro.art.
Jeff Larason (The Crit House) hosts a 4 segment series on a new book by legendary photographer Sam Abell.
Adobe Project Indigo Explained
Learn what Project Indigo is and how it works, discover all the features, and see real examples of photos compared with the iPhone camera app. Create the most realistic-looking photos from a free smartphone app.
How to use Project Indigo
Adobe’s new iPhone camera app. Colin Smith created a no-nonsense user guide. Learn how to take photos with the new Adobe phone app.
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“In this video, Julieanne demonstrates how to apply Denoise, Raw Details, and Super Resolution to your photographs nondestructively in Lightroom Classic. This technology update provides additional flexibility when editing and reduces the use of disk space as well as the number of files that need to be managed.”
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“In this video, Julieanne demonstrates the Point Color controls in Adobe Camera Raw, including the new Variance slider, offering simple yet powerful control over color contrast. You’ll learn how to accentuate or diminish specific color ranges—either globally or selectively using masking.”
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“In this video, Julieanne demonstrates ten recent enhancements made to Photoshop including updates to Select Subject & Remove Background, the Gradient tool, Fonts & Type, Generative Fill & Generative Workspace, the Adjustment Brush, Remove tool and more!”
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“The June 2025 update of Lightroom, brings mostly features we have seen before in ACR and beta releases, but brings them to Lightroom and implements them nicely into a finished release. There are a couple of things that we haven’t seen.”
Auto Remove People, Reflection Removal, AI Denoise, and Super Resolution are the big hits.
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Wed, June 18, 2025 > 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST
Santa Fe Workshops collection of free online events, Creativity Continues features a summer evening with fine-art photographers Stephen Shore and John Paul Caponigro. In this special hour of inspiration, Stephen and John Paul take a deep dive into perception, addressing what’s special about photographic vision, how it influences everyday seeing, and how intention and awareness make dramatic differences for creators, their creations, and the people who view them.
Stephen says, “A quote that I like very much comes close to explaining my attitude about taking photographs – ‘Chinese poetry rarely trespasses beyond the bounds of actuality… the great Chinese poets accept the world exactly as they find it in all its terms and with profound simplicity… they seldom talk about one thing in terms of another, but are able enough and sure enough as artists to make the ultimately exact terms become the beautiful terms.’”
Stephen and John Paul conclude their conversation with a lively Q&A session with the webinar audience. Even if you can’t make the live event, a recording of it will be available for all those registered.
Creativity Continues is a program that collectively develops creative voices by offering connection and encouraging expression. Because the goal is to engage all within our creative community, we encourage you to extend invitations and share Santa Fe Workshops Creativity Continues events with anyone who expresses an interest.
View 12 Great Photographs By Stephen Shore.
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The Nature of Photographs
The Nature of Photographs provides a framework for understanding the visual language of photography by analyzing the fundamental elements that contribute to a photograph’s form and meaning. It aims to help readers understand the mechanics of how a photograph functions visually. Shore explains how the qualities of a photograph, such as the collapsing of depth, the relationship between lines and the frame, and the duration of exposure, create tension and meaning.
Shore suggests that photographs can be viewed on multiple levels:
Physical Level: Recognizing the photograph as a physical object, a print with specific characteristics like size, paper texture, and printing process.
Depictive Level: Understanding how the 3-dimensional world is transformed into a 2-dimensional image through techniques like flatness, frame, time, and focus.
Mental Level: Acknowledging the mental process of apprehending the image and its interaction with the depictive level. This involves the focus of the lens, eye, attention, and mind.
The Nature of Photographs features a wide range of photographs from various eras and genres, including iconic images, documentary photography, and everyday snapshots, illustrating Shore’s concepts.
Shore’s writing is described as lucid, perceptive, and thought-provoking, offering clear explanations and insightful observations delivered in a concise, even poetic, style.
Now a classic, it’s considered an indispensable tool for students, teachers, and anyone interested in taking better photographs or looking at them in a more informed way. It teaches viewers how to see through the eyes of a photographer.
Modern Instances
Modern Instances: The Craft of Photography (MACK Books) is a memoir by renowned photographer Stephen Shore. It offers insights into Shore’s career and creative process, drawing on his decades of teaching and exploring the influences that have shaped his work. The book is a blend of essays, photographs, stories, and excerpts, functioning as an “impressionistic scrapbook” that documents the touchstones of his journey.
Modern Instances reveals Shore’s artistic vision, stylistic leanings, and the inspirations behind his images. While containing some of Shore’s images, the book features reproductions of other art forms like paintings and movie stills. Shore contrasts photography with painting, describing it as an “analytic” process where the photographer brings order to the world through framing and other decisions. Shore encourages readers to find inspiration in the everyday world by paying close attention to their surroundings.
The Mental Image
Stephen Shore is hard at work finishing his latest book The Mental Image (MACK Books), which takes what he’s done in his previous books even further. We’ll discuss key the ideas in it in our upcoming conversation.
June 18 – Join us for a Conversation online with Santa Fe Workshops.
View 12 Great Photographs By Stephen Shore.
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