Posted on April 17th, 2013 by Andy Kemmis

Photographer, Photoshop luminary, author and longtime RMSP instructor Mark S. Johnson is at it again. If you will remember back, just a few weeks ago, we announced here on Paper Airplanes that Mark was re-releasing his popular book Botanical Dreaming a a downloadable e-book. Well, now on the heels of that release, Mark is announcing [...]
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Posted on November 20th, 2012 by Andy Kemmis

If you are familiar with RMSP’s line-up of workshops, the name Mark S. Johnson is most likely very familiar to you. Based in Boulder, Colorado Mark has been teaching workshops for RMSP for over 10 years, in which time he has helped countless students learn to use Adobe® Photoshop® to add creativity and depth to [...]
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Posted on August 3rd, 2012 by Bob McGowan

The clock keeps ticking and the Summer Intensive students are rounding the far turn and quickly heading toward home stretch. Coming off the second and last long break of the course, Week 9 involved more of the quality creative education and experience they’ve been immersed in since the beginning. The week began in Photo Studies [...]
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Posted on February 29th, 2012 by Forest Chaput de Saintonge

Back in the film days, people would shoot through a roll of film, bring it to the lab and get their slides developed. Then, if they wanted a print, they would bring the slide back to the lab to have a print made. This process was repeated over and over again, until digital came along. [...]
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Posted on September 23rd, 2011 by Bob McGowan

To the many fans of uber-creative artist/instructor Mark S. Johnson, the way in which he sees the world is one of pure inspiration and creativity that can’t help but be infectious to others. If you’ve ever had the fortune to be taught Adobe Photoshop creative techniques by him, then you know what I’m talking about. [...]
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Posted on June 17th, 2011 by Mel Mann

In the argument for “photography as art” it’s been declared that photographs aren’t meant to duplicate a scene but rather are the means for photographers to interpret a scene. Like painters, photographers use light and shadow, focus and blur, framing and design elements to represent what they are seeing – a mood, a story, a [...]
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Posted on May 4th, 2011 by Forest Chaput de Saintonge

For those of you who don’t know, a couple of weeks ago RMSP had an open house. We invited the general public into our facilities, gave them a look around and invited them to experience our educational style for a few hours. I gave a lecture on how to choose image editing software. Everyone in [...]
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