The Abyss

Master
Visual
Communication

Master professional visual communication skills through Rick Burress’s expert workshops.

The Abyss

Master
Visual
Communication

Master professional visual communication skills through Rick Burress’s expert workshops.

The Abyss

Master
Visual
Communication

Master professional visual communication skills through Rick Burress’s expert workshops.

June 6th

The Most Efficient Photographic Workflow

Capture Smarter. Edit Faster. Deliver Sooner.

  • Your biggest photography bottleneck isn’t your camera—it’s your workflow.

  • Thousands of photos. Endless editing. Constant backlog.

Photographers are drowning in files, endless culling sessions, disorganized archives, and editing bottlenecks that steal time, energy, and creativity.

This webinar
changes that.

Join Rick Burress for a practical, high-efficiency masterclass on building a professional photographic workflow—from capture to final delivery—that dramatically reduces post-production time while improving consistency, organization, and image quality.

What You’ll Learn:

Make better decisions in-camera so you spend less time fixing problems later.

  • Exposure strategies that maximize image quality and editing flexibility

  • Composition habits that reduce cropping and rescue work later

  • Camera settings and file format choices that speed up your entire process.

Organize Like a Pro

Build a system that keeps your images searchable, secure, and instantly accessible.

  • Bulletproof import and backup routines

  • Folder structures and naming systems designed for speed and scalability

  • Efficient management techniques for large shoots and growing archives.

  • Proven techniques for rapidly eliminating weak images

  • Keyboard shortcuts and selection strategies that dramatically speed up culling

Edit & Export Faster

Create polished results in a fraction of the time.

Build a Workflow
That Scales

Stay efficient—even during your busiest shoots.

You’ll Walk Away With…

  • A complete, repeatable workflow you can implement immediately

  • Faster editing with fewer mistakes and less frustration

  • Better organization and easier file retrieval

  • More time for shooting, marketing, client relationships, and creative growth

  • Greater confidence and control over your entire photography process

LIVE: June 6th,
1:00pm–4:00pm EST
(10:00am–1:00pm Arizona & California Time zones.)

Zoom link will be provided days before the Webinar to all registrants.

Join in person if you can, but all will receive the recording and all the resources from the Webinar.

Stop Drowning in Photos. Restore your joy. 
Start Working Like a Professional.

Register now and transform the way you capture, organize, edit, and deliver your photography.

Register: $89

July 18th

Advanced, Modern Masking Techniques

Adobe Camera Raw, Photoshop & Lightroom Classic

The difference between a good image and a great image is often not the adjustment itself—it’s where that adjustment is applied, what precision edits are applied—That’s the power of masking.

Join photographer, educator, and Adobe efficiency expert Rick Burress for this intensive 3-hour webinar and learn how today’s most powerful masking tools can transform your editing workflow. You’ll discover how to make precise, targeted adjustments that enhance your images naturally while dramatically reducing editing time.

Whether you’re working on landscapes, portraits, wildlife, architecture, or commercial photography, you’ll learn professional techniques for isolating subjects, controlling light, enhancing color, recovering detail, and directing viewer attention with precision.

You’ll see how to take full advantage of Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom Classic’s AI-powered masking tools, while also learning when Photoshop’s advanced selections, layer masks, channels, and luminosity masks provide the extra control demanding images require.

In This Webinar
You’ll Learn:

  • How professionals use masks to create powerful yet natural-looking edits

  • Advanced AI masking techniques for subjects, skies, people, backgrounds, and objects

  • How to combine, refine, and intersect masks for maximum precision

  • Professional Photoshop masking workflows for difficult selections, hair, foliage, and complex edges

  • Luminosity masking and slider techniques for superior tonal control and dynamic range management

  • Methods for directing viewer attention through selective light, color, contrast, and detail

  • How to avoid common masking mistakes such as halos, edge contamination, and unnatural transitions

  • Time-saving workflows that produce better results in less time

Perfect For:

  • Photographers seeking more control over their edits

  • Lightroom Classic and Adobe Camera Raw users ready to move beyond basic adjustments

  • Photoshop users wanting faster and more accurate selections

  • Anyone looking to create cleaner, more professional images without spending hours in post-production

Stop applying adjustments everywhere. Learn how to apply them exactly where they matter.

By the end of this session, you’ll have a complete masking workflow that allows you to edit faster, work more precisely, and produce images that stand out for all the right reasons.

LIVE: July 18th,
1:00pm–4:00pm EST
(10:00am–1:00pm Arizona & California Time zones.)

Zoom link will be provided days before the Webinar to all registrants.

Join in person if you can,
but ALL will receive the recording and the entire set of resources from the Webinar.

The best edits are the ones nobody notices.

Precision where it counts. Power where it matters. Results that stand apart.

Register now!

Register: $89

August 15th

TBD
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Be the first kid on your block to own the whole set!

Be the first kid on your block to own the whole set!

Be the first kid on your block to own the whole set!

Get LIVE Consulting or Training for you or your Team

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for you or your Team

Consultation for Designers, Layout,
Illustration, Typography, Color, &
Photography.

Consultation for Designers, Layout,
Illustration, Typography, Color, & Photography.

Rate:

$360

p/hour

Billed in 1/4-hour increments

Groups

One-on-One

Telephone or eMail support

In-person or ZOOM

Keynote or
Lecture

Email me the scope of your needs
to get an estimate.

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Sedona & Grand Canyon Arizona

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