Advanced Photo editing
You’re comfortable with Lightroom or other editing software, but you know your photos could look even better. You’re absolutely right—editing is an art, and mastering it requires more than just knowing the tools. It takes practice, feedback, and guidance to truly elevate your work. This workshop isn’t just about improving a handful of photos—it’s about unlocking the tools, vision, and confidence to bring your photography to life.
Take Your Skills to the Next Level
March 10, 17, 24 & 31, 2025 | Tuition: $315
Each session will begin at 8 PM EST. The length of each session will depend on class size – we will meet for one hour for classes of three to five and up to two hours for classes of six to ten students. It will be recorded and made available to registered participants for 60 days. Tuition is non-refundable.
Just as musicians refine their craft through practice and lessons, photographers grow through hands-on experience and expert insight. This workshop offers a practical, collaborative approach to help you refine your editing skills and see your photos in a whole new way.
By the end of this workshop, your original 10–15 photos will be transformed—polished, impactful, and ready to shine. Beyond the edits, you’ll walk away with a deeper understanding of how to make better creative decisions, solve common editing challenges, and apply new techniques to all your future work.
How it works
Submit Your Work:
Start by editing 10–15 photos and submitting them for review before the first class.Receive Feedback:
During live Zoom sessions, expert instructor Rich will provide detailed feedback, highlighting what works, what doesn’t, and where improvements can be made.Refine and Repeat:
Apply Rich’s suggestions and resubmit your updated files for the next session. This iterative process helps you learn by doing and reinforces key editing techniques.Grow Your Vision:
By reviewing not just your own edits but also those of your classmates, you’ll learn to identify effective decisions, solve common challenges, and develop a sharper eye for editing.
you Will get
Hands-On Learning
Unlike traditional lectures or video tutorials, this workshop provides real-time feedback and actionable steps to improve your photos.
Personalized Guidance
Rich’s constructive critiques will help you build confidence, sharpen your vision, and make smarter editing choices.
Collaborative Growth
Seeing the challenges and successes of others in the class accelerates your own learning process, providing unique growth opportunities.
Meet Your Instructor
Rich Seiling
Rich Seiling’s passion for capturing light and beauty with photography has led him on a series of adventures that have shaped his vision and view of the craft. From a stint at The Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite as an assistant curator, to his pioneering work in digital printmaking, founding of a leading fine art printing studio, and 22 years living in and photographing the Yosemite region of the Sierra Nevada, Rich has deeply explored the vision and craft of photography while continuing to express his own vision.
He learned photography in the darkroom, seeking to make prints with the rich tonal scale exemplified by the West Coast traditions of photography. But his frustration with color processes lead him to explore digital photography starting in the early 1990s.
Combining his darkroom knowledge with digital tools led to a process for making color prints of museum quality that pushed the process to new heights. His reputation for making vibrant yet realistic digital prints allowed him to help photographers like Michael Forsberg, Galen Rowell, Jack Dykinga, Robert Glenn Ketchum, and many others, make the transition to digital fine art printing. With his team at West Coast Imaging, he has helped produce numerous museum shows, supplied prints for leading galleries, and done prepress for art books from publishers like Taschen and Houghton Mifflin.
His simple yet powerful Photoshop workflow, tested on tens of thousands of prints at WCI, is in use by many top professionals, and has been taught to countless students across the country through workshops and lectures.
Working in both black & white and color, Rich strives to capture the profound beauty of nature and communicate it through vibrant, and sometimes large, prints. He considers himself a student of light, discovering its qualities and how it communicates the inherent realities of a subject, often seeking out fleeting moments of rare light that make the landscape sing its own voice.
Driven by the belief that each photographer has a unique story only they can tell, Rich teaches the art of photography through workshops and articles. His goal is to help students unlock their potential to tell their own stories by helping them gain control of the craft, expand their vision, and most of all, to experience the enrichment and joy that photography brings.
Rich lives just outside Nashville with his wife and creative partner Susan, and his three children.
You can see more of his photography at richseiling.com and read his blog for photographers at craftingphotographs.com.