Weekend Courses
Digital imaging and Photo Lithography
Full Price: £170 / £140 concession
Combine digital imaging with printmaking. Learn to prepare images in Adobe Photoshop and print out acetates for a printmaking process. Expose images onto light sensitive photo litho plates and print in transparent and opaque colours, exploring the subtle layering of colour lithography. Bring along photographs, a digital camera or drawings to scan and manipulate in the computer. See how the process of printmaking can extend and enrich your images.
Select a date:
- 22 & 23 June 2019
- 2 & 3 November 2019
Time: Saturday & Sunday 10am - 5:30pm
Class size: 6
Materials: Included
Tutor: Alastair Clark
Course Level: 3 star, Intermediate
To book a place on one of our courses, payment must be made in full. We recommend booking online to guarantee a place.
If you have an enquiry please email your enquiry here please phone 0131 557 2479 to pay by card or in person at Edinburgh Printmakers, Tuesday-Saturday 10am-6pm.
More about the course
Some previous experience of computers essential, during this course we will be working with Apple Mac computers and Adobe Photoshop software. A basic working knowledge (or better) of Photoshop is expected. No previous experience of lithography required
The size used during the course is aprox 28 x 38cm. The course includes:
- Some basics about working with Adobe Photoshop
- Working with Layers in Photoshop
- Working with tone and ways of creating separate tonal separations
- Working with full colour, CMYK and RGB
- Creating optimum separations and dot sizes for litho
- An overview of different printers and printing acetates
- Registration systems and placing registration marks
- Plate making, exposing and developing
- Paper preparation and placing registration marks
- Setting up to print & printing a small edition
- Clearing up after printing
- Ink Mixing. Mixing transparent and opaque inks
- Printing & overprinting, using blends
- Cleaning up and storing plates
- Working in the studio after the course & studio practice
