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1, Track 1
Introducing Photoshop -- BEGINNER (Full
Day)
Speaker: Deke McClelland
Get your sea legs as we cast anchor for a
week of image-editing adventure. Whether you’re a polliwog or
an old salt, here’s your chance to learn what everybody pretends
to know about Photoshop, but few really do.
• What Photoshop Can Do
• The File Browser
• Workspace and Navigation
• Image Resolution
• Rotate and Crop
• Presets and Preferences
• Select and Modify (basics of
marquee, lasso, and wand tools)
• Introducing Layers
• Opacity and Blend Modes
• Fill, Stroke, and Color
• Painting Tools
• The Brushes Palette
Day 1,
Track 2
Painting with Photoshop,
Part 1 -- ADVANCED BEGINNER (Half Day)
Speaker: Bert Monroy
Sure Photoshop can take any photograph and
make it look great. What happens when you need that photograph of something
that doesn't exist? What about that dream you are trying to describe
to your spouse in so many words when a picture, as they say, is worth
a thousand words? Maybe you just want to let your imagination soar
and create your own little world you can escape to. Photoshop is the
answer. Even though PHOTO is part if its name, Photoshop is the best
painting tool out there.
In this session, Bert Monroy, considered
one of the pioneers of digital art, 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.
So you did not take art in school, Bert will
give you an understanding of perspective, shading and other basics
that will set you on the path to artistic freedom.
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. 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.
Get ready to let your imagination run wild.
Day 1, Track 2
Layer Styles for Graphics, Photos
and Fun -- ADVANCED (Half Day)
Speaker: Jack Davis
Quality Craftsmanship, Creative Flexibility
and Go-Home-At-Night Speed - if a "photoshopper" has these,
they have just about everything. OK ... it helps to have a good eye,
and a strong sense of story telling, and the right equipment and...
OK, OK. But once you have the Photoshop basics down, and you have the
passion to move beyond the basics to communicating your vision through
powerful, engaging, motivating imagery - where do you go? This class
by Jack Davis, author of the best-selling, award-winning guide to our
most beloved Photoshop: "The Photoshop Wow! Books," will
focus on real-world methods of achieving that Quality, Flexibility
and Speed in Photoshop so essential to creating memorable work and
enjoying every minute of it.
Learn how to create stunning darkroom and
dimensional special effects that look hard but are easy once you now
the secrets. In this session, Jack will show you how to create successful
and innovative graphic communication and photo effects with a high
"WOW Factor." You'll learn:
• Quick and easy ways to use
Photoshop's built-in presets to create special effects on-time and
on-budget.
• The phenomenal power, flexibility
and speed of Layers Styles
• Customizing effects with displacement
maps and controlled distortions
• How to create dimensional effects
like chrome, rock, and glass (and beyond) instantly and without filters
• One-click framing and tinting
techniques to tie disparate photographs together - separately or as
a collage
Day 2, Track 1
Heal, Liquify, and History --
INTERMEDIATE (Half Day)
Speaker: Deke McClelland
Retouching is nothing more than the safe
and inexpensive art of making people look the way they think they look
on a really great day. Armed with Photoshop, you can erase wrinkles,
whiten yellow teeth, remove unsightly hair, and fill in unsightly lack
thereof. Best of all, you can take that 10 pounds that the camera adds
and delete it with interest. Join Deke for three hours of non-evasive
cosmetic surgery, skeletal reformation, and selective time travel.
• The Edit Tools
• Cloning with the Stamp Tool
• Healing Brush and Patch Tool
• Liquify and Displace
• Using History
• The History Brush
Day 2, Track 1
Correcting Colors and Focus --
INTERMEDIATE (Half Day)
Speaker: Deke McClelland
The stuff you need to do to virtually every
digital photo, explained in exciting, nautical detail. Learn how to
remove color casts, boost saturation, revive lost skin tones, increase
contrast and brightness, offset vivid backlighting, temper a hot flash,
and correct the focus of a soft image. No bells, no whistles -- just
good, clean digital photography fun.
Photoshop and the Web: Whether you’re
posting images to a Web site or emailing photographs to friends and
family, the low-bandwidth limitations of many Internet connections
must be endured. Learn how to make your images small enough to upload
and download in a flash. Plus learn how to achieve consistent color,
compare optimization settings, and slice a design into rollovers and
animations.
• Color Variations
• Hue Shift and Colorize
• Mixing Color Channels
• Auto Color and Levels
• Adjustment Layers
• Correcting Focus
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Day
2, Track 2
Painting with Photoshop,
Part 2 -- INTERMEDIATE (Half Day)
Speaker: Bert Monroy
Part one of Painting with Photoshop left
you with your head hungry for more? Oh yeah, there's more! This session
will have you creating the elements. Stone, wood, water, even air will
be filling those blank canvases leading the way to unlimited visuals
locked in the crevices of your imagination's attic.
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.
Of course there will be some practical application
to all this zaniness. Bert will put all these outrageous techniques
into context of real-world situations such as web design. The real
focus is on creativity and FUN!
Day 2, Track 2
Photo Retouching and Optimizing Techniques
-- ADVANCED (Half Day)
Speaker: Jack Davis
The experienced user knows there are a million
tools in Photoshop to adjust your images for maximum impact, but which
ones work best, work fastest and are most "photographer friendly"?
In this session you will learn all sorts of workflow enhancing techniques
including: 101 uses for Auto Levels, how to create nondestructive dodge
and burn layers, advanced gray scale conversions, eyedropper color
correcting, the best way to use Photoshop 7's healing brush and patch
tool (so as not to create genetically altered mutant models) stained
teeth whitening, red eye neutralizing and blotchy skin unifying —
all with an emphasis on quality, flexibility and speed.
• Which editing tools are best
to use when fixing images - and which ones to avoid.
• How to quickly fix under and
over exposed images once and for all.
• Quick tone and color adjustments
that leave your original image intact
• Creating nondestructive, fast
and flexible repair layers for fixing, dodging and burning and color
correcting.
• Simplified levels, curves and
sharpening techniques
• Advanced gray scale conversions
using Channel Mixer
Day 3, Track 1
Photo Enhancing Techniques --
ADVANCED (Half Day)
Speaker: Jack Davis
Here is a session to let you get especially
creative with your work. Your photograph has a strong subject but it
lacks the unique "execution" that will allow that subject
to shine. And how do you go beyond what was captured to communicate
what was experienced? In this session techniques will be demonstrated
that can exaggerate, enhance and elaborate on the concept of an image
while minimizing unwanted distractions — from creative focusing
to sepia tones to infrared effects and hand coloring -- all using layers,
masks, clipping groups, adjustment layers, layer styles and advanced
blending techniques.
• Focusing attention by changing
the focus of an image after the fact
• Creating soft focus and density
effects
• How to create stunning dark
room effects using layers, adjustment layers, and filters
• Quick and easy framing and
tinting techniques to tie disparate images together
• How to composite panoramas
and multiple images to solve color and tone inconsistencies
• Hand coloring and tinting effects
Day 3, Track 2
Painting with Photoshop, Part 3 --
INTERMEDIATE (Half Day)
Speaker: Bert Monroy
Still want more? This session will put it
all together. You will be given assignments that will have your creative
juices flowing. You will learn how to solve problems and create new
ones along the way that will challenge you to do more. You'll take
those shots you took with Jack and those type treatments Deke taught
you and combine them into finished artwork suitable for framing.
When this class is over you will be ready
for anything. Step aside Michelangelo the new masters are coming.
Day 3, Track 2
Photoshop and the Web --
ADVANCED BEGINNER (Half Day)
Speaker: Deke McClelland
Whether you’re posting images to a
Web site or emailing photographs to friends and family, the low-bandwidth
limitations of many Internet connections must be endured. Learn how
to make your images small enough to upload and download in a flash.
Plus learn how to achieve consistent color, compare optimization settings,
and slice a design into rollovers and animations.
• Work large, then shrink
• Working with sRGB
• More rules of the Web
• Saving JPEG images
• Preparing and saving GIFs
• Making side-by-side comparisons
• Slicing a composition
• Rollovers and animation
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