Communications Media Technologies – PD Workshops
with Rick Burress of Artistec
Managing—All Things—Digital Color
Saturday, October 10, 2026
Virtual via Zoom
10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Arizona Time Zone
Color is not Magic.
It’s Management.
This ”Digital Color” presentation is my most popular professional seminar. It tackles a hard truth head-on: most color education is incomplete, oversimplified, or flat-out wrong. Color profiles and the vast array of color-editing tools leave us in a sea of confusion. We want confidence.
Textbooks, online tutorials, and even industry “experts” often repeat the same misconceptions, and those misunderstandings limit our efficiency, our creativity, and our overall ability to produce our vision.
This seminar carefully unpacks some bold claims—yes, including “everything you think you know about color is wrong”—and then does the most important thing: it shows the evidence and builds the corrections. We build a clear, practical framework for how digital color actually works across devices, software, and output mediums.
Learn the concepts, learn the tools.
Photographers walk away with language, demonstrations, and mental models they can immediately bring back to the field. More importantly, they gain the ability to explain why colors shift, why prints disappoint, why screens don’t match, and how to make intentional choices instead of guessing.
Stop treating color as trial-and-error and start treating it as a system to understand. If you want to strengthen your workflow and give your images real-world clarity, this seminar will change how you see and manage color.
Mastering Non-Destructive Image Editing in Adobe Camera Raw
Friday, November 13, 2026
Virtual via Zoom
4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Arizona Time Zone
The best edits are the ones nobody notices.
Adobe Camera Raw is not a one-way trip. If you are baking adjustments, flattening too soon, or jumping to Photoshop because “that’s where the real work happens,” you are working harder than the file requires.
In this ZOOM webinar, we’ll build a Camera Raw habit that stays reversible: snapshots, masks, versions, and the Camera Raw Filter when Photoshop is actually the right next step.
Stay Flexible
- Why RAW stays RAW
- Snapshots vs. virtual copies vs. “Save Image”
- Reset, compare, and go back without panic
- When Open as Smart Object is the move
Edit Without Painting Yourself into a Corner
- Global first, then local
- Masks you can still change next month
- Color grading inside a mask
- Don’t flatten to “fix” a problem Camera Raw already solves
- Camera Raw Filter in Photoshop—still non-destructive if you keep the Smart Object
Live Demo
One file. Several versions. I’ll show the cheap habits that lock you in, then the workflow that lets you change your mind.
Stop applying adjustments everywhere. Leave yourself a way home.
