Ben Willmore – Author, and Instructor

Ben Willmore

Photoshop Hall of Famer, Ben Willmore, has taught over 100,000 Photoshop users on five continents. His bestselling books, DVDs, and hit seminars have established Ben as one of America's favorite Photoshop instructors, and he is often a standing-room-only speaker at design and photography conferences throughout the world. He writes for numerous digital imaging publications, including a monthly column for Photoshop User magazine, and his audience-winning training techniques have helped multitudes of design and photography professionals make the transition from blindly following step-by-step techniques, to "Ah-ha! I finally GET Photoshop!"

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Wednesday, September 5th
06:15pm – 07:15pm	Mastering Adjustment Layers The method you use to apply an adjustment has as much to do with your success as the adjustment settings you apply, including: � Limiting your adjustments to the bright or dark areas of the image � Using masks to refine your results � Seeing how blending modes can dramatically affect your results � Quickly applying the same adjustment to multiple images � Using the Adjustments and Masks panel most efficiently � Using clipping masks to limit which layers are affected � Applying adjustments to a selective group of layers instead of the entire image � What to look out for when changing modes (RGB to CMYK for instance)	Ben Willmore	Techniques Track
Friday, September 7th
11:00am – 12:00pm	Understanding Color Adjustments Photoshop offers an abundance of color adjustments including Hue/Saturation, Color Balance, Curves, Levels, Photo Filter, Channel Mixer, Selective Color, Gradient Map and Match Color. See how you can divide all those adjustments into three categories (warm/cool, HSB and specialty) and learn how to think about each category in such a way where your education applies to all the adjustments in that group. You'll have a much better idea about how color adjustments work in Photoshop after this class, including: � How Color Balance, Curves, Levels and Channel Mixer are really variations of the same adjustment � See that switching between working with light and ink is just a shift in thinking and not adjustment � Learn how the Info panel plays a critical role in precise adjustments � Understand simple concepts will allow you to perform professional color correction � Walk away with the knowledge of how to choose between all of Photoshop's adjustments	Ben Willmore	Techniques Track
01:00pm – 02:00pm	Panoramic Stitching Learn how to successfully shoot and stitch multi-shot panoramas. While this might sound simple, there's so much to know, including: � How to find the nodal point of any lens and why it's important to rotate the lens around that point � Dealing with gaps in a long panorama � The camera settings that are essential to producing a successful panorama � Creative panorama techniques for those times when you don't want a "plain Jane" panorama � How to best incorporate filters such as a polarizer, neutral density and more � Methods for producing the sharpest and highest quality results � How to even out the sky so it matches from side to side	Ben Willmore	Photography B Track

Ben Willmore – Author, and Instructor

Classes with Ben Willmore: « Back to Full Schedule

Wednesday, September 5th

Mastering Adjustment Layers

Friday, September 7th

Understanding Color Adjustments

Panoramic Stitching