Photoshop For Photographers

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Wednesday, September 4


10:45 am - 11:45 am	Camera Raw Essentials with Ben Willmore Learn to use Camera Raw like a true professional by understanding the crucial relationship between all the adjustment sliders and how the histogram can indicate if you push them too far. After this class you will eliminate all guess work when it comes to fixing images that are underexposed, overexposed, flat-looking or have blown out detail. You'll know which adjustment to start with and the order in which you should perform the adjustments. You'll also learn how the default settings can actually harm many images and which settings need to be changed to ensure quality results.
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	HDR Post Processing with RC Concepcion When working with HDR imagery it will shock you to know that the tone mapped file will require a lot of processing in Photoshop. The best HDR images out there have some tried and true photoshop processing steps applied to them. This class will teach you all of those steps getting your HDR images looking amazing!
6:15 pm - 7:15 pm	Commercial Post Production with Jim DiVitale This session deals with the Photoshop retouching techniques needed to create and enhance new products for marketing use. From clipping paths to color changes, real life problem solving retouching solutions will be demonstrated to help speed up creativity and production.

Thursday, September 5


8:15 am - 9:15 am	Photoshop & Lightroom Workflow Secrets with Frank Doorhof In this seminar you will learn a quick and easy workflow that you can use for both fashion and other styles of photography. Learn to quickly work through your files and fast ways to edit and archive your files. If you are stuck in a workflow that slows you down, this is the seminar for you. Also learn tricks to even out the backgrounds, do model retouching, add an unique look to your images via plugins, paint with light, work with curves and color channels to create your own "brand/look", the plugins that rock and will save you loads of time and much much more.
9:30 am - 10:30 am	Compositing Made Simple with Joel Grimes Master selection techniques, pre shot set-ups and learn all the tips, tricks and effects for creating realistic, professional composites.
10:45 am - 11:45 am	Restoration Crash Course with Matt Kloskowski Kick start your projects with some of the best tips and techniques to repair old and damaged photos, and bring them back to life.
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Post Production That Rocks with Joel Grimes Get inspired to take your creative vision to the next level and move past just producing technically proficient images.
4:45 pm - 5:45 pm	Instant Portait Painting For Profit with Jack Davis Can you really paint traditional media convincingly in Photoshop? How about quickly, easily and profitably? Yes! Award-winning artist, designer and author Jack Davis will walk you through the process (and even give you his custom brushes, textures and Actions!) he used to create commissioned portraits of Princess Diana, SciFi illustrations of Darth Maul and landscape paintings from around the world.
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm	Camera Raw Advanced Technique with Ben Willmore Photoshop CS6 brought with it Adobe Camera Raw 7, which radically transforms your raw workflow like never before. See how the new features will change the way you interpret and adjust all the images you adjust. From recovering additional highlight detail to being able to crank up clarity more than you've ever imagined, you'll see how this is a true game changer. You'll also see how and why you'd want to use the older raw processing versions for those times that it will produce a higher quality image.

Friday, September 6


8:15 am - 9:15 am	Photoshop Video For Photographers with Colin Smith You have shot video on your DSLR, now what? This session is a photographer's crash course in video and motion graphics in Photoshop CS6. Using photographer's vocabulary, you'll learn how to edit HDSLR footage and create a stunning short film with effortless ease. Create customized slideshows, complete with music and title graphics. This is stuff you can use in your photography business and Colin makes it so simple to understand.
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Photoshop For Landscape Photographers with Matt Kloskowski You'll learn all of the techniques that help you show off those beautiful places you captured, so the world can enjoy them just like you did.
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	The Art Of Dodging & Burning with Matt Kloskowski Dodging and burning is more than just brightening or darkening parts of a photo. It's about shaping a two dimensional photo to make it look like the three-dimensional photo and experience you had when you captured the image. It's become one of the most forgotten parts of the editing process, but after this class you'll realize how it's one of the most essential.
2:15 pm - 3:15 pm	Portrait Retouching Techniques for Photographers with Scott Kelby Learn portrait retouching from the guy who literally wrote the book. You'll learn Scott's latest portrait retouching techniques and the fastest, most efficient, and most realistic-looking retouches for anyone who shoots portraits, and need to spend less time behind the computer and more time making images.

*NOTE: Schedule subject to change.

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