September 5-7, 2012 - Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino - Las Vegas
Seriously, next to our own Scott Kelby, John Paul Caponigro has to be the most dedicated blogger/PSW Instructor I know.
When Scott launched his co-blogging initiative in Vegas last year, John Paul became the glue that corralled everyone’s blogs together.
John Paul Caponigro FTW! =)
Posted in Instructors, Show Coverage, Thoughts on PSWHere’s a taste of what happened yesterday…
Posted in Show CoverageDigital Silver Imaging (DSI) is hosting a book signing by author, Ted Dillard, at Photoshop World Boston. Dillard, author of RAW Pipeline and Color Pipeline, will be at DSI’s booth #820 on Thursday March 26th to discuss and sign copies of his two books. Dillard will have advanced copies of his 3rd book, Smart Object Pipeline, due in July. DSI will be selling both books and take advance orders for the new book. His fourth book, Black & White Pipeline, will be out in October.
“We are pleased to be working with Dillard” says DSI owner Eric Luden. “His understanding and skill of both the RAW and Smart Object workflow are critical to how photographers are working today. His books help our customers produce better files.” Dillard is working with DSI on his latest book, Black & White Pipeline and will feature the unique printing services and techniques offered at the lab in Belmont.
About Digital Silver Imaging
Digital Silver Imaging is the only North American lab dedicated to true archival b&w silver gelatin printing from digital files or scans. They do not use any color or inkjet methods to produce customers’ work. The owner, Eric Luden, has worked in the photographic industry 25 plus years for leading manufacturers such as Kodak, Ilford, and HARMAN technology.
About Ted Dillard
Ted’s career in Photography spans over three decades, from his first work in his grandfather’s darkroom, through his early work for the local newspaper, through 25 years of commercial and advertising work for a national client base. In the late 1990’s Ted joined Calumet Photographic as Digital Imaging Specialist, and then moved to EP Levine. There he founded the Pixel Institute where he wrote The Digital Imaging Masterclass, which would ultimately be edited (ed: Kara Helmkamp) and published as Raw Pipeline, by Lark Books in May ‘08. His Second book, Color Pipeline came out in Jan ’09. He is currently the Founder and Manager of Tech Superpowers Professional Imaging Services in Boston.
The Expo opens at 1:00 pm today. When it does, be sure to visit Hoodman USA in Booth #520 for this GREAT deal!
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Posted in Show Coverage, Tech Expo, Vendor Spotlight
NEWSFLASH – Wacom has just announced the new Intuos4 Pen Tablet during the Photoshop World Keynote Presentation.
The Wacom Intuos4 Family of Tablets
With a new design and features inspired by members of the professional creative community, Intuos4 redefines the pen tablet experience. Featuring the new Wacom Tip Sensor and 2048 levels of pen pressure sensitivity, the Intuos4 pen captures the most subtle nuances of pressure, allowing you to dynamically adjust exposure, brush size, opacity and more. User-defined ExpressKeys activate frequently- used shortcuts and modifiers, while the accompanying, illuminated ExpressKey displays on the medium, large and extra large models, provide a constant reminder of each key’s function. The finger-sensitive Touch Ring quickly controls up to 4 different functions such as canvas rotation, zoom, scroll, brush size and more.
Download/view product brochure PDF
Intuos4
Intuos4 redefines the Intuos pen tablet experience, thanks to a new design and new features inspired by members of our professional creative community.
As natural as can be
The shape and surface alike have been completely re-engineered to enable ergonomic, consistent strokes, even over long periods of time.
Go with the flow
Workflow, that is. An all-new professional tablet, Intuos4 takes into consideration the many aspects of a professional’s workflow, software integration points, and equal demand for both performance and comfort.
Details, details
Innovation in every detail. That’s Intuos4. Whether it’s the new Wacom Tip Sensor that lets you capture every nuance of a stroke, the added levels of pressure sensitivity for pixel-level accuracy, or
Posted in Keynote, Show Coverage, Vendor SpotlightAs the Early Bird deadline for Photoshop World draws closer, I thought I’d give you a taste of the atmosphere and energy of Photoshop World.
Jason Scrivner (TheScriv), our awesome Manager of Video Operations cobbled this together from hours of footage shot at Photoshop World ’08 – Las Vegas in time for the closing ceremonies. The fact that some of this footage was taken a few hours before the ceremony is a major testament to the hard work that Jason and his team put in every conference. Talk about ninjas! These guys are it!
Enjoy!
Posted in Show CoverageIn terms of Social Media, a lot has changed between Photoshop World ’08 Vegas and the upcoming event in Boston. NAPP_News on Twitter has grown from 500 to over 2,100 followers, more NAPP members are emerging on Twitter, and even Scott Kelby is joining in on the fun.
Twitter is a great tool for broadcasting events as they unfold at Photoshop World and the best way, for anyone following along, to track these “tweets” is by using a “hashtag.”
Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. – Hashtags.org
Think of it like tagging a tweet just as you would tag a blog post or photo. Hashtags are are characterized by the placement of a hashmark in front of the word you use as your tag. (Example: #hashtag)
Last year at Photoshop World, we started using the tag, “#psworld.” By placing that hashtag at the beginning or end of any Photoshop World-related tweet, it automatically added context (see example below) and made it easier to for people to hear the latest from Photoshop World via Twitter searches. (see screen capture below)
Example 1:“Learning new lighting set up from Frank Cricchio.” << No context. You could be reading a blog or watching a video for all I know.
Example 2:“Learning new lighting set up from Frank Cricchio. #psworld” << Ah ha! You are at Photoshop World sitting in one of Frank Cricchio’s live photo shoot classes!
- Here is a screen shot of a twitter search for the #psworld hashtag
By adding the #psworld hashtag to all your Photoshop World tweets, you are giving everyone interested in following the action, and easier way to do so.
Last year, there was a small discussion among the handful of twitter users who were planning on using hashtags at Photoshop World on what our preferred hashtag should be. We settled on #psworld (over #PSW) for one reason: context. Technically, “PSW” can mean a lot of things and, at that time, NAPP and Photoshop World’s existence in the “Twitterverse” was very, very small.
However, things certainly have grown since then… plus, I think the addition of our social media-based Top Ten Contest has really helped. That brings us to a new roadblock, the need for space.
Shortening our Hashtag to #PSW adds 4 extra characters to any post, which can make a world of difference and falls in line with some current schools of thought when it comes to hashtags.
While I am all for brevity (on twitter, not blogs obviously *blushin’*) I prefer the context aspect of #psworld. In the end, I noticed that people used a mixture of both (including me).
Regardless your preference, if you are attending Photoshop World and plan on utilizing Twitter, please consider adding a hashtag to your posts. It’s a great way for “tweeple” to track the events and it’s also a great way to make new connections through social media.
I think the best way to gauge the true caliber of any product, service or event is to go straight to the masses. If we truly inspire as many people as we say we do during our three-day Photoshop lurve fest, then there has to be reviews from past attendees out there… and there are.
Meet AaronVan – Designer, Photographer, Photoshop World attendee, Orlando, Fl 2008.
“… so much of who I am as a photographer today is thanks to the experiences I had in those 3 days last year. The people I met, the classes I attended and just generally having access to the information and inspiration provided was priceless. PSW was one of the best conferences I had ever attended mostly because of the attention to detail and I could really feel that there was an honest devotion to making it the best it could be.
I actually went to this conference for the graphic design side of things. I have been a freelance designer for over 10 years so of course, Photoshop World sounded like something I couldn’t miss. I have also been involved with photography for over 15 years but never at a professional level. When I signed up for the conference I had already gotten back into photography pretty heavily and when I started reviewing classes I realized just how much of an opportunity this really was for the photography side of things too. I signed up for the portfolio review to get an idea of where my skills were at the time and also attended the precon lighting workshop.
This is a photographic exploration of my time at the 2008 Photoshop World conference in Orlando, FL.
Since last April I feel that I have furthered my photography tenfold, I met so many great people and was so inspired by what I heard and saw, I absolutely loved “The Art of Digital Photography.” I could have sat in that room and watched for days! Graphic design has always been a love but I am not as passionate about it as I am about photography so in the last 8 months I have begun making the transition to working in photography full time. I actually had my first published work last week, very exciting! I still have a ways to go but just the fact that I am on that path now is huge and I owe most of that drive and motivation to PSW.
All of the instructors were wonderful and I have a lot of respect for each and every one of them. I love that I can follow them and continue to learn through their various blogs and I hope to one day have more time under their direct tutelage.
"To top off the day remember that line I was sitting in at 5:30am, well those tickets were for Midnight Madness which was that night! Yeah I know, I did the math too and yes it was a loooong day!" - AaronVan
I am not able to get to Boston this year but I am working feverishly towards attending PSW in Vegas as I don’t think I could wait for it to come back to Orlando before I went nuts from not being in the environment again.
.Tons more to learn, tons more to do, if you look through my flickr account I think you’ll see a fairly defined line between the work I was doing before last April and what I’ve done since, all of which I can genuinely attribute to my Photoshop World experience.”After Midnight Madness - "...on the way back to my car I took some time to see what I could capture if I put some of the techniques and concepts from the days teachings into action." - AaronVan
‘Nuff said. Thanks Aaron. Can’t wait to meet you in Vegas!
Read Aaron’s blog posts from Photoshop World:
Day Three: The Art of Digital Photography
Day Four: More classes… Meeting Joe McNally
Aaron’s Flickr page – “If you look through my flickr account I think you’ll see a fairly defined line between the work I was doing before last April and what I’ve done since, all of which I can genuinely attribute to my Photoshop World experience.”
When it comes to the bundle of awesomeness that is Photoshop World, you know that I’m going to do nothing but sing the praises over here… That’s why I did a lil’ poking around and a lil’ asking around for other people’s blog posts about Photoshop World.
It only seemed fair, ya dig?
Hare’s what I found.
We have attended many conventions and seminars over the years and we can tell you first hand most of them are not worth your time or hard earned $$$, but we can tell you that Photoshop World and becoming a member of NAPP is worth it’s weight in gold. So if your looking to learn from seasoned professionals, guys like Dave and the amazing Joe McNally, then look no further than PHOTOSHOP WORLD…………..
- Jared & Trish from Studio ATG
I can honestly say, [Photoshop World] was the best time of my life! I not only crammed my head full of amazing information, but I met a ton of really great people who I am still friends with to this day. Also, it wasn’t boring! FAR FROM IT! Photoshop World is actually run by a bunch of big goofy kids who like to play just as hard as they work (and they work very very hard!) So, you may suffer from lack of sleep while you’re there, but you will never suffer from lack of fun, knowledge or inspiration.
- Elizabeth from Design by Firgs
...my mind started running on what could be done with the title... and with a few of the tips I picked up at Photoshop World in Las Vegas, I could actually picture how to do this.
- Mitch Bolton from his tutorial on Ripples
Just got back from Photoshop World. My brain is so full of cool tricks and new techniques… three days of delicious adobe creations! The coolest new thing I learned was Motion Control 3D. …
These guys really do make it easy to have a good time, and the uplifting positive attitude of all the instructors and NAPP staff is probably what makes this event so wonderful. It’s really a great thing to see so many people together at one time (participants included) who obviously just love their jobs! It makes me feel like I’ve picked the right path for a career.
If you would like to share your thoughts on Photoshop World, please feel free to comment here with a link to your blog.
See you in Boston!
Posted in Show Coverage, Thoughts on PSW
TAMPA, FL — Monday, Jan. 12, 2009 — Today, Scott Kelby, best-selling author and conference technical chair of the largest Adobe Photoshop educational event in the world — Photoshop World Conference & Expo — announced that for the first time ever, Photoshop World is adding a conference within a conference to its upcoming event in Boston, March 25-27, 2009.
“We’re really excited about The Lightroom Conference at Photoshop World and to be able to add this new training experience, which is based on what attendees at last year’s Photoshop World Conference & Expo in Las Vegas told us — ‘We want more Lightroom!’” said Scott Kelby.
An all-star roster of the world’s leading Lightroom instructors teaching at Photoshop World include: Katrin Eismann, Scott Kelby, Julieanne Kost, Matt Kloskowski, Jack Davis, Martin Evening, Kevin Ames, Andrew Rodney, and David Ziser. A complete list of all Photoshop World instructors can be viewed at www.PhotoshopWorld.com/instructors.html.
The Lightroom Conference at Photoshop World offers sessions from morning to night all three days so that Lightroom users can totally immerse themselves in Lightroom learning if they so choose. The Lightroom Conference at Photoshop World is included in the conference pass, which is available at www.photoshopworld.com/register.html. A complete list of Photoshop World classes can be viewed at www.photoshopworld.com/schedule.html.
Sponsored by Adobe Systems Incorporated and produced by the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP), this extraordinary conference — now in its 11th year — offers photographers, graphic designers, illustrators, Web developers, retouchers, video pros, and Photoshop users of all skill levels and interests the absolute best in digital imaging and design education.
A $100 advanced registration discount is available now through February 20th, keeping the total cost of the event to only $499 for NAPP members and $599 for the public — an incredible price for three days of world-class training from the best and most creative experts and instructors.
About NAPP
The National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) is a Kelby Media Group company and the largest digital imaging and design association worldwide with more than 70,000 members in 102 countries. It is the leading resource for Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom training, education, and news. For more information, visit www.PhotoshopUser.com.
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![[After Midnight Madness]...on the way back to my car I took some time to see what I could capture if I put some of the techniques and concepts from the days teachings into action. Needless to say I didn’t get back home until 2:30am. - AaronVan](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3073/2640775245_be2492c183.jpg "Experimenting w/Photography after Midnight Madness")
