The Upstairs Artspace is offering a smartphone photography workshop on Saturday, Dec. 22, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. As with a similar class held in early December, anyone with an iPhone, iPad or camera-equipped Android phone or tablet is welcome to participate.

The event aims to help everyone from novices to experienced art photographers explore the possibilities of smartphone digital photography.

All participants are encouraged to bring images they would like to manipulate and, possibly, to submit their finished works to be displayed in “UPLOAD: The Art of the Digital Camera Phone,” the gallery’s opening exhibit of 2013.

The deadline for submissions is Dec. 31; the show opens on Jan. 18.

Mixed-media artist Melissa Parrish Pittman, a member of the Upstairs board of directors, will lead the workshop. She will demonstrate how to take images shot with standard smartphone cameras and camera apps, such as Camera Plus, and transform them using some of the most popular editing apps, including Snapseed, Image Blender, ScratchCam and Juxtaposer. Participants are also encouraged to share tips with each other.

“There’s really no right way of doing this,” said Melissa Parrish Pittman. “That’s the beauty of smartphone photography. It puts the photographer’s tools — from different lenses and film to the darkroom and computer — right in your pocket, and they’re with you whenever you need them to capture a moment.”

The workshop will be held at the Upstairs, 49 S. Trade St., Tryon. It’s free for the gallery’s members; non-members also are welcome to participate, for a small fee.

For more information, visit the gallery’s website (www.upstairsartspace.org), email to frontdesk@upstairsartspace.org, or call 859-2828, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday.