Teaching
Learn with Samantha Lee Osner
She wrote and teaches the Art Photography Academy’s Photoshop course, gives private lessons online, and assists with the teaching on Martin Osner’s workshops.
Online course
Photoshop for the Artist
Twenty two short lessons in four modules, with more being recorded. Bridge and Camera Raw, layer masks and blending modes, then the artist’s side of Photoshop: hand painting black and white images, solarisation, transfers, montage and pop art.
$490, one payment, yours to keep.
See the coursePrivate lessons
One to one, online
An hour on Zoom with Samantha Lee Osner, on whatever you are working on: Camera Raw, masks, a montage that will not come together, or getting a file ready to print. No course needed.
$90 an hour. A small number of lessons each week.
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Workshops
Assisting on Martin Osner’s workshops
Samantha Lee Osner assists with the teaching on Martin Osner’s workshops, from Swellendam and Montagu to Stilbaai, Marloth Park and France, helping each student turn their photographs into art.
Gardens of INARA
Two days in award winning gardens, photographing flowers and texture, then working the photographs by hand into painted pieces.
22 and 23 October 2026
Wildlife Art Photography, Marloth Park
Wildlife at first and last light, then turned into art by hand with the Photo Alchemy techniques.
17 to 21 May 2027, second group 22 to 26 May
Swellendam Art Photography Retreat
Photograph in the morning, turn the photographs into artwork with paint and texture in the afternoon.
21 to 25 June 2027
Art of Painting Breakaway, Montagu
Bring your own photographs, leave with a painting. No painting experience needed.
16 to 20 August 2027
Landscape Photography Course, Stilbaai
Five days on the Southern Cape coast: seascapes at first and last light, a day in the fynbos and a day at the harbour.
18 to 22 October 2027
Château workshop, France
A week at a Loire château. Photographs in the morning, paintings in the afternoon, with Samantha Lee Osner in the studio.
19 to 25 September 2027