Muench Studios Print Workshop

April 19-20, 2008

Goleta, CA

This two-day intensive workshop will show you that printing color is not smoke and mirrors! When this weekend is over, you should be able to walk into any lab in the world, un-calibrated monitors and all, and make a fine art print.

There are many industrial strength instruments capable of creating the theoretically perfect color balanced workflow in this day and age. However, what needs to be understood prior to making the final refining touches with such instrumentation is what really happens when the ink meets the paper.

This weekend course will cover subjects including:

• color by numbers
• proper monitor calibration
• evaluation of different paper types
• when to use a UV coating laminate or display glass
• how to make your own gallery wrapped canvas

We will have the opportunity to print on a minimum of four different types of media, ranging from semi gloss to the new LexJet Sunset Fibre Elite (PDF link) media designed to resemble classic wet process darkroom paper.

Schedule

April 18

Your tuition includes lodging at the Pacifica Suites for Friday and Saturday nights. We will meet at the hotel at 6pm and travel to the Beachside Restaurant for dinner.

April 19

7-8am, Breakfast
8am, Transportation to Muench Studio
8:30am-12pm, Morning Session
12-1pm, Lunch
1-4:30pm, Afternoon Session
5pm, Transportation to hotel
6:30pm, Meet in Lobby for Transportation to Dinner

Material Covered:

• Explain source, monitor and output profiles
  
• Efficient methods to test the accuracy of both monitor and printer profiles
  
• Printer drivers vs. third party Raster Image Processors – RIP
  
• File preparation in Photoshop

April 20

7-8am, Breakfast
8am, Transportation to Muench Studio
8:30am-12pm, Morning Session
12-1pm, Lunch
1-4:30pm, Afternoon Session
5pm, Transportation to hotel

Material Covered:

• Workflow
  
• Final file preparation
  
• Choosing the right paper
  
• Proof printing and paper coatings
  
• Gallery wrap canvas demonstration

What to bring

• Each participant should bring a minimum of 5 RAW files or scanned Tiff files that are at least 60megs each. If you feel adventurous bring more but remember we will not have much time for editing through many pics. Our goal is to master at least one file for printing large.
  
  
• Laptop with Photoshop CS2 or CS3
  
  
• Camera, optional for sunrise shoot on the beach weather permitting!

Everyone will have the opportunity to make multiple Muench Certified Prints up to 40 inches. We will ship your prints to you.

Matting and framing is extra, as is the shipping for framed prints.

We will also have some samples of many cool ways to present your photos from Finishing Concepts, including the float!

Lodging and Food

You will be staying at the Pacifica Suites on Friday and Saturday nights.

Breakfast on Saturday and Sunday will be at the hotel before we start our sessions.

Lunch will be brought in to the Studio for us to enjoy during our break.

Dinner Friday and Saturday nights will be at a local eatery.

All food and accommodations are included in the tuition.

Printing on canvas

This will be a great opportunity to learn a unique craft that you can use to create completed works of art in your own back yard. Marc will be teaching his "no visible fold" technique for gallery wrapped canvas.

Learn the art of turning RAW image files into your personal vision.

Lightroom is great but can only make global changes. We will be spending time making edits/enhancements to regions of your images with the use of quick masks in Photoshop.

This Workshop is sponsored by the good folks at LexJet who will be offering all participants 20% off on their first purchase of LexJet branded media.

Payment

This workshop is open to only 10 people. So sign up soon if you're interested. All participants should have at least an intermediate level of experience with Photoshop. This is not a class for beginners

$900, all inclusive, excluding airfare.*

A deposit of $450 is due at sign up, and is non-refundable.

The balance of $450 is due no later than Februrary 15, 2008. Failure to pay the balance by the due date could cause you to forfeit your spot in the workshop.

*What does all inclusive mean? It means that your hotel, food, transportation (excluding airfare) and other miscellaneous costs associated with the workshop are covered by your tuition. Once you get to the hotel, you're done spending money -- unless you want to.



Please contact us first before sending in your payment, to ensure that there is still a space available for you.

Once we have confirmed that space is available, you can make your deposit by selecting "Deposit" from the Google Checkout below.

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Registration/Release Form

Please download, complete and sign the Registration/Release Form. You can enter the information on your computer and then print it out, if you'd like. You must sign and date it by hand, and mail it in to the address on the form.