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Photoshop Fling II Seminars Southwestern Caribbean • February
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FEBRUARY 6, 2005 Everything Everyone Says They Know About Photoshop (But Very Few Do) Speaker: Deke McClelland If you've been using Photoshop for any amount of time, you probably figure you know all the basics of the program. And perhaps you do. But the last time Deke presented this session, one experienced fellow said, "You shouldn't call this a beginning class. I'd never heard of half this stuff." So prepare to learn the basics of Photoshop the right way. It ain't hard; it's just essential. • What Photoshop can do • Workspace and navigation • Image Size and Resolution • Rotate, Crop, and Perspective • Presets and Preferences • Master Selections • Transforming
Selections independently • Making a Wand Selection look right
The Creative Workflow Speaker: Bert Monroy This session will take you on a tour of the creative workflow process in the preparation of commercial images for a variety of clients. Bert will demonstrate the concept stage by explaining what the client visualizes and the steps to converting those ideas into a finished product. Bert will then show how the concept is then turned into final art through the use of Adobe Illustrator and the many features of Photoshop. • Conceptualization • Preparation of layouts • Creating the basic elements • Follow through to finished art
The Russell Brown
Power Hour Speaker: Russell Preston Brown Back by popular demand! Yes, it's The History of Photoshop! Mr. Brown will kick off the hour with a virtuoso performance of this classic theatrical event. Prepare for an "altered" view of history guaranteed to make you smile. Immediately following the show, Russell will take you on a wild and wacky ride through some of the key new features found in Photoshop CS. In his own unique (ahem!) style, he will cover some of his favorite new features and reveal amazing ways to use them. Make sure this event is on your schedule. Class topics will include: • Digital
photo flow: batch-processing • Creating the perfect panorama with Photomerge • Hocus pocus focus using New Lens Blur Filter • Design variations: how to use Layer Comps • Seeing
in black and white: creative ways • The Photo Folio: designing picture package promotional materials • Lighting
with Layers: simple ways to • Hidden
in the Shadows: a review of
Photo Adjusting and Optimizing Techniques Speaker: Jack Davis Learn a wide variety of essential workflow-enhancing techniques that will turn your standard snapshots into frame-able photographs -- all with an emphasis on quality, flexibility, and speed. These are the essential optimizing techniques that lay the foundation for everything else. • Tonal and color Adjustment Layers and Masks • Instant gray point color correcting • Non-destructive Dodging/Burning with Layers • Automatically
combining different exposures • Controlled
B&W conversions and • Noise
removal, up and down Scaling, and • Saving, formats, and backing up
Using Illustrator with Photoshop Speaker: Deke McClelland If there's one program that's designed to
work • Setting up consistent cross-application color • Making the most of the Pen Tool • Tracing a piece of scanned artwork • Using Pathfinder operations • Creating iconic artwork • Copying
and pasting objects between • Rasterizing Illustrator Layers • Enhancing Illustrator Art in Photoshop
Photo Retouching and Repairing Techniques Speaker: Jack Davis Soften skin (on weathered faces or pristine complexions) and perform five o'clock shadow shavings after the fact, learn to whiten stained teeth, neutralize red eye, unify blotchy skin and swap body parts and even skies. • Controlling
blemishes and wrinkles • Skin softening and post-shoot shavings • Unifying skin tone in a single dialog • Feature
enhancing and body reshaping to • Dust and scratch removal using Repair Layers • Reconstruction of damaged photos • Sky exchange made simple
Painting with Photoshop Speaker: Bert Monroy In this session, Bert Monroy, an internationally renowned digital artist, will take you to places you never thought possible with Photoshop. He will leave you with a full understanding of the basic features, and their functionality, to create images from scratch. Bert will share the techniques he uses in the creation of his photo-realistic images. Paths for shapes, filters for textures, layers for effects, all will be combined to attain final images that will ask the question -- "is it real or is it Photoshop". Masking? You have no idea what that is all about until you do it with Alpha Channels. How about a Paintbrush that creates a forest in one stroke? A brush for every occasion. The Paint Engine, one of the most powerful features in Photoshop, will be covered in detail. Bert will take you through the processes for creating brushes to produce anything your imagination can conjure up. You will learn how to create specialized brushes to tackle a myriad of problems that arise in retouching and image creation. Be it a peaceful landscape or a roaring fireplace, you will create them from scratch without the need to hunt for the right place to shoot that photograph or searching through tons of stock shots. • Working with Layers • The Brush Engine • Alpha Channels • Creating and the proper use of Perspective • When
and how to use vectors from Illustrator |
MONDAY,
FEBRUARY 7, 2005 The Tasty Side of Camera Raw Speaker: Russell Preston Brown You've heard about it. You've read about it. Now learn how to cook with Adobe Camera Raw! If your camera can shoot in the Raw format, then you can learn how to set it up. If you can't shoot Camera Raw, we'll loan you an Olympus digital camera all ready to go. Venture out on your digital safaris at each port of call and return to class, where you'll process your Raw images. Discover the secrets of using Camera Raw and feel confident about achieving quality results, quickly and easily. Class topics will include: • The Russell Brown Quick Course of Color Management -- Really! • What is Adobe Camera Raw and how do I use it? • Tips:
setting up your camera and • Workflow:
how to process images, • Introducing
Dr. Brown's Photo Styler: At the end of class, you'll be ready to go out on assignment and get pictures that can be included in your very own books! Be sure and check out Russell's Art of Creating Hand-made Books class on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday.
The Art of Creating
Hand-made Speaker: Russell Preston Brown It's time to put your creativity and new-found Photoshop knowledge to work! After returning from your foray ashore each day, you'll have the opportunity to craft a hand-made book of your photos under the tutelage of Cap'n Brown. In class, we'll learn how to plunder the bounty of Camera RAW images. Bring your treasured photographs -- Cap'n Brown will provide paper and all other supplies necessary to make your books. And arrrr, maties, beware! A good time awaits us all! Classroom topics: • The Power of Working with Adobe Camera RAW • Workflow: From Memory Card to Print • The Secrets of Epson Printing: Profiles, Papers, Inks, and How to Make a Great- Looking Print • Folding Paper with Your Very Own Hands! • PLUS:
Learn how win valuable prizes (This class will
be sponsored by
Filters and Masks Speaker: Deke McClelland Photoshop's corrective filters rank among the program's oldest and finest capabilities. Besides permitting you to sharpen the contrast of an image, blur away the defects, and generally make a photograph look better, they can help you hone in on exactly those details that need help the most. Combined with Photoshop's Masking function, filters make it possible to separate even the most complex foreground subject from its background and composite that image into a new setting. Sound amazing? You have no idea. • Filtering basics • The top ten filters • Unsharp Mask and High Pass • Gaussian Blur and Median • Creating an Edge Mask • Using the Color Range command • Extracting image elements • Blue screen and sky • Full-on Masking
Photo Enhancing and Embellishing Techniques Speaker: Jack Davis This session is about how to go beyond what
was captured to communicate what was experienced -- by seeing how to
change focus with Lens Blur, create diffused glows and extend density
with Advanced Blending, make images "pop" with instant High
Pass Dodging and Burning, and "massage" your photo to • Enhancing
density and lighting with • Creating
subtle diffused glows and • Popping
images with instant • Applying
fast and flexible tonal, color, • Creative
focus control: • Quick and easy antique color tinting
Creating Special Effects with Photoshop Speaker: Bert Monroy Creating realistic textures, the effects of lights and shadows, and the ability to make an image jump off the page will be covered in this session. Filters? There are many of them in Photoshop. What happens when you use them for other than their intended purpose? What happens when you put a few of them together? You will create images that are more realistic than a camera could ever achieve. The ability to bend things on a curve has been one of the most asked-for features, yet it has always been there. Bert will demonstrate the use of the Displace Filter to make controlled, fluid distortions. The Liquify Filter will also be explored for distortion effects. Distorting with the Transform function will be explored for perspective matching and the creation of realistic reflections. • Working with Filters • Using the Liquify command • Light and shadows • Reflections • Integrating
Photoshop into other programs
The Wow Factor: One-Click Solutions in Photoshop Speaker: Jack Davis Quick and easy ways to use Photoshop's built-in presets (and hundreds of complimentary Wow presets that will be provided in class) to create special effects on-time and on-budget. • The
phenomenal power, flexibility and • How
to create dimensional effects like chrome, • One-click
framing and tinting techniques to tie disparate photographs together
-- separately • Quick
template-based collaging for weddings, • Single image collages and ghosted backgrounds
Layers and Non-Destructive Edits Speaker: Deke McClelland There are few things in life so beautiful as the non-destructive edit. By relegating color adjustments, focus enhancements, and even large-scale modifications to independent layers you ensure less damage to your images and a greater range of creative freedom. "Going parametric," as it's sometimes called, takes a little extra discipline. But the effort you expend today will be rewarded tenfold tomorrow. Join us and make your future self eternally grateful. • Going Parametric • Mastering the Layers Palette • Transformations and other permanent changes • Using Opacity and Blend Modes • The Big Blend Modes: Screen and Multiply • Advanced Blending Options • Knockouts and Luminance Blending • Adding in Layer Effects • Fixing Problem Effects • Using Adjustment Layers
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