Speaker: Jan Kabili
This course is for you if you're new to Photoshop, or if you're self-taught and want to polish your grasp of Photoshop essentials.
Speaker: Deke McClelland
Before you do anything else in Photoshop — before you resize an image, before you straighten it, before you filter it, before you do anything — you need to fix the colors. This means adjusting the brightness, fixing the contrast, tweaking the color cast, and generally making the image look the way you thought it looked when you captured it. We’ll look at two of the most powerful tools for fixing colors in Photoshop: the Levels command and the Camera Raw image processor. In this half-day session, you’ll learn how to:
Speaker: Jan Kabili
Making a good selection is an essential Photoshop skill, whether your goal is to correct exposure in part of a photograph, color part of a logo, or create a complex photo collage. In this course we'll examine the many ways to select, concentrating on which method is best for a particular situation. We'll look at how and when to use:
After this class, you'll be able to tackle any selection problem with confidence. This course is suitable for beginning to intermediate Photoshop users.
Speaker: Eddie Tapp
We'll go over the necessary features and tools good photographers must have in their bag of tricks: from using filters to the "high end" features that give you the power of creative control as well as creative discoveries. We'll work on a variety of projects and exercises using Layers and Masks, blending and adjustment modes, backgrounds and edge effects, cookie lighting, and specialized effects that will change the way and speed with which you work.
February 5th — 5pm to 7pm
Speaker: Chris Campbell
This session will be ideal for photographers currently shooting JPGs. You should gain enough knowledge from this session to begin shooting with Camera Raw. Photographers that have some experience processing Raw, should be able to pick up lots of ideas to improve their image processing.
Speaker: Jan Kabili
Take this course if you're an intermediate user who wants to learn the ins and outs of combining images in Photoshop. These skills are essential to any photo composition, from a montage of wedding photographs, to a fine art collage, to a professional photo illustration. Learn how to:
If your experience with Photoshop has been limited to working with single photographs, take this next step toward expressing your artistic side as you learn to combine images like a pro.
Speaker: Eddie Tapp
Learn the steps to a color managed workflow. We'll review device calibration, profiles, and color spaces along with tips for getting predictable results time after time. Go beyond the cloning tools with exercises in advanced masking and enhancement techniques along with creating exciting panoramas and controlling digital noise. In this class we'll also have a 'stump the instructor' learning session (bring a problem image file for this session).
February 7th — 6pm to 7pm
Speaker: Chris Campbell
The perfect follow-up to our February 5th evening class, Exploring Camera Raw. Shooting Raw files requires some work after image capture. But the results are worth it! Understanding Raw work flow is critical to getting quality results quickly, and to avoid being buried in data.
Speaker: Deke McClelland
Strictly speaking, focus happens inside the camera. You focus the image before you shoot it, not “in post.” Photoshop can’t really do anything to sculpt razor-sharp transitions or generate missing or vague detail. But it can simulate sharp or blurry focus, and sometimes quite well. Explore ways to use Photoshop’s sharpening and blurring functions to enhance the good details in an image and smooth over the bad. You’ll learn how to:
Speaker: Eddie Tapp
In this session we'll explore the aesthetic fundamentals of the image idiom. Conceptual and visualization exercises, and simple techniques to engage your compositional expressions, will be explored. We'll learn about the four attention-getting "stages" that make an ad or printed piece "effective". We'll learn that the three elements that comprise compelling images (exposure, composition, and light) are only one facet. Finally, we go over the five-point "visual drill" — the things you need to think about when looking through the camera's viewfinder (SLR cameras) or LCD imaging screen to capture that compelling and effective image.
At the conclusion of this half-day session you'll be able to close your eyes and pre-visualize, conjure up your newly-found creative juices, and enjoy your imaging as you have never imagined possible!
Speaker: Deke McClelland
The simplest way to create a black-and-white image from a full-color original is to choose Image > Mode > Grayscale. But as is so often the case in Photoshop, the simple way is the bad way. Especially when they are so many other options that offer such better control in return from a modest increase in effort. And who wants a drab, flat grayscale image when you can increase the dynamic range and richness of an image by converting it to a duotone or adding spot colors? And you haven’t lived until you’ve color-corrected and colorized an image in one operation with Gradient Map. In this half-day session, you’ll learn how to:
Speaker: Eddie Tapp
Meet the challenge to create better images quickly. Mandate the four steps of the digital camera pre-flight; techniques for white balancing; and when and how to use certain color functions during the 30% Light Rule. Using metering, exposure, and the Histogram. Seeing light for the first time. When Camera Raw is important and understanding the difference. In this session we'll also explore using Adobe Lightroom for file management along with obtaining high quality printing and output.
February 9th — 6pm to 8pm
Speaker: Chris Campbell
Review your photos with a pro! Chris will review many of your submitted photographs and discuss solutions to problems that he sees.
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