Paolo Saccheri courses

A great course covering, in detail, how to use EDN. I used it for gum which is very difficult to linearise and I'm now progressing with PMF. Highly recommended!

Big up to Paolo for the EDN course. Whilst I was already using EDN in a limited capacity, I have improved my workflow and found the course to be methodical and easy to follow, it certainly took a lot of the strain outta my brain. The operative word here is 'control' and thanks to this course that's what I now have with my own creative practice.

Completing Paolo's Digital Negative for Alternative Photography Course has been a complete game changer for me. While I don't consider that I've really completed it as I will be coming back to it over and over again to remember what he said, I have finally gotten over the last hurdle of being able to create cyanotypes that I am proud to display. I have been a commercial photographer for over 10 years and dabbling in cyanotype work for over 15 years. Being a commercial photographer, 99,9% of my work gets delivered as a digital file for someone else to print or put on a website. I decided last summer that I would hunker down and start printing some of the 100,000 photos I've taken over the last 20 years. Besides learning color management and printing in color on my new Epson P900, at long last I have a printer that can properly print digital negatives. Christina Z. Anderson's book got me back into the process, but I got stumped at the point of creating a digital negative that would look the way I wanted it to. Through more stumbling around in the dark, I came across Peter Mrhar's Easy Digital Negatives book and incredibly helpful and generous online resources. I knew that was the way I had to go, but the title is the greatest oxymoron of the century. Learning how to make digital negatives for alternative photography is HARD and not for the faint of heart. Because there were too many concepts that were new to me and because I had no local help or friends to guide me, I had to give up on Peter's method and decided to look into other resources. Then, BEHOLD! I don't remember how I found him, but I was SO THRILLED when I came across Paolo's course!! Someone who is showing me, step-by-step in a practical way, how to use Peter Mrhar's tools?!! OMG!! The timing couldn't have been more perfect. Again, let me restate: creating digital negatives is not for the faint of heart! But Paolo stays with you at every step, giving very clear instructions OVER AND OVER again. That last part is really what's the most helpful. The steps are so many, and you have to be so diligent to do everything the same way every every time, but Paolo reviews them over and over again helping you remember them. Not only that, he shows you what it looks like when something is not right, and my work kept looking like those examples. Lol! The explanation about why it's not really the best practice to try and combine curves and how to work with the curve you've got was very helpful! He is a gifted teacher. Thank you, Paolo, for creating this course at a fraction of the cost of what it is worth! I hope I get to meet you someday and show you some of the work I am doing now.

Este curso superó mis expectativas, de manera completa abarca todos los temas y dudas posibles que te pueden surgir. Definitivamente recomiendo este curso para aquellos que quieren obtener los resultados deseados. Me encantó, Muchísimas gracias Paolo!

I have experimented with several procedures to produce digital negatives. Paolo has succeeded in putting all the bits and pieces together to form a concise process with direct explanations, including visuals and evaluation of each step. I truly appreciate incorporating all of the Easy Digital Negatives software. Less time spent on the mundane with more time to be creative. https://www.alternativephotography.com/carol-gula/ https://www.cgula.com/p1042114716

I found this training to be very straightforward and easy to follow. Every step was explained with excellent example images and notes. The printing of a real image at the end is a desired bonus!

This is a very professional and complete course for those wishing to reproduce accurately the full range of tones in their alt process method

I am already an alt-process photographer, but wanted to expand my knowledge and understanding of negatives, and what better way than listening to an established artist whose own work is superb. I found the course to be detailed and thorough, and broken down into many easy steps. Having the text displayed also helped. I found that it was best to go through the overview a couple of times to get my head round what was being described before diving deeper into the process a section at a time. Play it over a couple of times first, and use the pause button, it helps! If you dive in straight away you may find some of the terminology and understanding quite overwhelming, but when you break it down and review it, it really is quite straightforward. Being able to use the free GIMP software helped me too, as my version of Photoshop would not accept the process when it came to resizing and aligning the scanned test prints. All in all, it is a very affordable course and detailed process, and helped me sort a few things out in my head. It also led to my negatives being much better calibrated, and this process works for pretty much any alt-process negative creation.

I have been printing digital negatives for a long time and print them as callitypes and cyanotypes. Calibrating by trial and error costs time, nerves and a lot of money for materials. I don't know anyone who has spent so much time and effort perfecting digital negatives. Paolo is a perfectionist and you can learn a lot from him. My recommendation for making digital negatives!

Corso veloce ed intuitivo, facile da seguire. Per un primo serio approccio alla creazione di Negativi.