Transform Your Images, Transform Your Voice: A Creative Post-Processing Workshop with Shelley Vandegrift
Jan 11, 18, & 25, 2026, 11-2 Eastern
LOCATION
Zoom
EVENT ORGANIZER
SE Center for Photography
This is a 3 Session Zoom Workshop
Step beyond the technical and into the expressive world of digital post-processing. In this hands-on, four-session course, photographer and educator Shelley Vandegrift invites you to reimagine what’s possible in Lightroom and Photoshop—not through complexity, but through clarity, intuition, and creative play.
This workshop isn’t about memorizing menus or mastering every tool. It’s about using what’s essential to craft images that resonate. Through Shelley’s clear, encouraging instruction, you’ll learn to use tone, color, light, and texture as artistic tools—bringing emotion, story, and a personal voice into every image.
From mood-rich toning and artistic blurs to atmospheric glows and texture overlays, you’ll explore the techniques that give images impact. Learn the fundamentals of blending, layering, and compositing in a way that’s approachable and deeply creative. Whether you're new to post-processing or ready to go beyond the basics, you'll discover workflows that are powerful, intuitive, and built for expression.
By the end of this course, you’ll have a new set of tools and a deeper sense of creative confidence—ready to craft imagery that feels true to you.
Create with intention. Process with heart. And discover how a few well-chosen techniques can open the door to endless visual possibilities.
Shelly Vandegriff
Shelley Vandegrift’s journey into photography began at age 10, mesmerized by the magic of her father’s darkroom. This early exposure sparked a lifelong passion for blending the creative artistry of capturing images with the technical precision of post-production. The emergence of digital photography provided the perfect medium for Shelley to unite her love of photography with her expertise in computer technology. Today, she channels this synergy into her photographic art and teaching imaging software, artistic post-processing, and infrared photography.
Shelley is known for making complex techniques accessible to all. She has lectured for Skylum and DxO software, earned the 23rd Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Digital Manipulation and Collage, and co-authored Infrared Photography: Digital Techniques for Artistic Images, 2nd Edition.
Her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions, including The Beauty of Invisible Light at the Commons Gallery, as well as in B&W Magazine, A. Smith Gallery, the Latino Cultural Center of Dallas, PhotoPlace Gallery, and the Art Travelers Gallery at Dallas Love Field Airport.
Through her evocative art and empowering teaching, Shelley inspires others to discover the magic of photography and craft their own creative stories.
Max 14 Attendees
Refunds up to 30 days before event.
This event is organized by
SE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY
Our workshops and expeditions cover all aspects of photography and challenge, encourage and inspire the photographer in all of us. During the workshops, our complete focus is on you, the photographer.
Our instructors are working professional photographers who have a passion for sharing and inspiring. We recognize the commitment of time, energy and money it takes for you to attend a workshop and work very hard to be the best at intimately knowing our locations, providing a wealth of high quality information via excellent presentations and one on one help in the field, presenting extremely supportive and highly detailed image reviews, and doing all of this in an energy rich, supportive environment where inspiration and having fun are the hallmark of our workshops.
SE Center Workshops fully realizes that in addition to the education business we are in the inspiration business, and ultimately, we are a service business. We are here to serve you and your complete satisfaction with your workshop experience is our pledge. After all, the majority of our workshop participants are repeat customers and we know as well as anyone that we only get one chance to make a memorable first impression.
When we publish a workshop cost it includes everything. We won't surprise you with additional Materials Costs or Model Fees. If the workshop is all day at the SE Center, we provide lunch, snacks and beverages. Before you register you know the true cost of our workshops.
Portfolio Review Toolkit Workshop, with Michael Pannier, via Zoom and the
SE Center for Photography
104 S Main St, Greenville, SC 29601
SE Center Members $325, Not Yet Members $395
