Description
This course is available in English and French
This course is the third in a series dedicated to floral art.
After creating a first course a few years ago, laying the foundations of floral design, a second course followed more recently, teaching how to use certain plugins.
This Photoshop Creative Floral Art course, completely independent of the previous 2 and completely new, will teach you how to create unique and artistic floral compositions. You'll discover how to use Photoshop to transform images of flowers into real works of art.
The concept here is to create magnificent artistic compositions featuring flowers, mainly tulips in various colors, which seem to dance gracefully against a clear, luminous, almost ethereal background. A delicate blur effect surrounds the flowers and their stems, giving them an impression of movement and softness, as if swaying in a spring breeze. The overall effect is poetic, light and dreamlike, evoking nature's delicate renewal.
What you'll learn:
✅ Clipping and selection techniques to isolate flowers precisely
✅ Using layers and blending modes for artistic effects
✅ Creating harmonious floral compositions
✅ Application of textures, lights and special effects for artistic rendering
✅ Advanced retouching and colorimetry techniques to magnify colors
Methodology :
- Real-time demonstrations with practical exercises
- Source files provided for self-paced practice
- Personalized support and follow-up for effective progress
Using plug-ins:
Although they're absolutely unnecessary for this course, I'll show you a few possibilities using plugins. If you don't have them, you can download trial versions. They are installed in Photoshop filters.
Boris FX Optics: this software specializes in the creation of visual effects. It contains a huge number of filters, all of which can be modified, offering almost infinite possibilities.
Food2: this plugin lets you create water reflections. It's very easy to use, and creates some interesting effects.
Nik Collection: this software suite is well known to photographers. Here, I'll show you how to use some of the lesser-known filters.
For your information:
Boris FX and Flood 2 are only available in English. However, it's not very difficult to use them, even without understanding the language.
Notes :
This course consists of a theoretical and a practical part. I will adapt and alternate these two parts according to the knowledge you have already acquired, and the techniques I will introduce to you.
For the practical part, you will be guided through the image creation process.
Course video :
This course is accompanied by a video, recorded live during the course.
Depending on your specific needs, which will be assessed during the course, certain additional points may be added to the video.
The video will be sent to you in MP4 format, via WeTransfer, after the course.
Working files :
Image files used during this course are provided, and sent prior to the course date.
By the end of this course, you'll be able to create sublime floral arrangements and add a unique artistic touch to your projects!
Cheryl Eagers (confirmed customer) -
I found this course to be incredibly thorough, with clear and concise instruction throughout. What I especially loved was the one-on-one format-it made the learning experience so much more personal and effective. Being able to practice the techniques live during the Zoom session was a huge advantage. I learned so much and would certainly book again!
Abby Bookhultz (confirmed customer) -
I so enjoyed the Creative Floral Art class, not only learning how to isolate parts of a subject so easily, working with smart objects, using blur techniques in several ways and so much more. David, I very much appreciated your patience with all of my questions, my forgetfulness at times as I worked through different steps and your expertise as a teacher. The three hour one-on-one zoom was paced to meet my needs, skill level and provided me ways to be more creative in my flower post-processing! I can't wait to create images using what I learned and my next scheduled class with you - Photoshop Creative Floral Art Class, Part 2.
Sylvia Rourke (confirmed customer) -
Taking a one-on-one Zoom course in Creative Floral Photography with David was an incredibly enriching experience that pushed both my technical skills and artistic eye to a new level. From the outset, the personalized format made all the difference. Unlike group workshops where content is generalized, this session was entirely tailored to my interests, strengths, and areas for growth.
David provided me with hands-on guidance with composition and using photoshop tools creatively, always explaining the "why" behind each decision. I particularly appreciated how we explored less conventional approaches-like the movement of petals and layering in post-processing. It was about creating emotion, narrative, and style through flowers.
Overall, I walked away from this course not only with stronger technical skills, but with a fresh perspective on how to express myself creatively through floral photography. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned shooter looking to break out of a rut, I highly recommend this kind of one-on-one mentorship. It's an investment that will keep paying off in your work long after the session ends.
Ed O. (confirmed customer) -
I have taken a few of David's past workshops and courses, and he never disappoints. This particular course focused on using his techniques for creative floral art using Photoshop. He demonstrated his methodology and techniques for improving your floral images. The course is a 1:1 live course where you learn the techniques from David's explanations and demonstrations, and then practice the techniques, with David's guidance, with the supplied images on your computer. David was very professional in explaining his techniques in different ways so that everyone could understand, regardless of their Photoshop level. This course is three hours of comprehensive training on using Photoshop's creative tools, as well as plugins such as Boris FX, Flood 2 and Nik Collection for a truly wow final result. As a bonus, he also sends you a recorded video of the session that allows you to review techniques demonstrated during the course.
Eileen Allen (confirmed customer) -
David's Creative Floral Art Photoshop course is a wonderful combination of learning and practicing many photoshop tools, concepts and techniques. The knowledge gained can be appied to not only foral images but to many other genre's of photography. David is a master at photoshop and in the making of creative, artistic images. The course is a 1:1 live course where you learn the techniques from David's explanations and demonstrations and then practice the techniques, with David's guidance, with the supplied images on your computer. David also gives you a recording of the class for you to review, as needed, to further review and master the techniques. At the conclusion of the course, I felt I had a deeper understanding of several photoshop tools and the knowledge of how to apply them in a creative way to my images. David is a great teacher and I highly recommend his courses.
Sharon Garner (confirmed customer) -
I took David's latest class on creative flower editing this past weekend. I would encourage anyone who is interested in learning some new techniques to sign up for this wonderful class. You will have 3 hours of personal attention as David carefully goes through how he has used several tools to create his unique art. He is such a wonderful, patient teacher who makes sure that his students understand his directions, the tools he is implementing, having us use practice photos to try out his techniques as he guides.
I will be signing up for more classes in the future and encourage anyone interested in gaining new tools for their creative toolbox to do the same.
O.Fung (confirmed customer) -
A very informative 1:1 course. David introduced a number of lesser known features in Photoshop and Nik software, and also showed me the numerous Boris FX/Optics options. It opened up a new realm of possibilities with my flower photography. The 1 on 1 session was helpful as I was able to practise with his guidance real time on Photoshop. Definitely recommended for anyone who desire to push creativity to the next level.
Candia Peterson (confirmed customer) -
This was a great course and I learnt several new techniques. David's teaching style is great and the content very useful. The one-on-one format is very useful. Highly recommended.