Photoshop World - Las Vegas 2008

Masking is the art of creating detailed, organic selection outlines for the purpose of generating photorealistic layered compositions and precisely directed image enhancements. And masking is what this pre-conference seminar is about. Excerpted from Deke's 20-hour tour-de-force video series (www.lynda.com/deke), this half-day intensive covers masking from A(lpha channels) to Z(iv), with a smattering of everything between. Topics include the Color Range command, the quick mask mode, alpha channels, LZW compression, selection tricks, blend modes, luminance blending, layer masks, knockouts, luminance and density masks, blue screening, and Calculations (a.k.a. channel operations). Along the way, we'll mask highlights, shadows, hair, fabric, glass, flame, smoke, and even a goldfish. Whether you're new to masking or you want to "raise your game," this session will elevate your idea of what a mask is and what can be done with it. (Materials for this class will be provided on a CD by the instructor.)

Instructor: Deke McClelland
Track: Pre-Conference Workshops
Price: $99.00

When Dan Margulis' landmark book on LAB was released in 2005, it quickly became the #1 bestseller in the entire computer field as the world discovered that this arcane color space could be exploited by non-experts. Today, LAB's power in creating believable separation of colors has made it the venue of choice for many outdoor photographers. This session explores not only the basic structure of LAB and its common uses, but expands into several advanced retouching areas.

• The basic AB color correction and its variants
• How to identify the kinds of image that can only be handled satisfactorily in LAB
• The power of Blend If in LAB
• The decisive advantage in retouching
• Advanced curving to isolate objects without formally selecting them
• Advanced blending using the A and B channels

Instructor: Dan Margulis
Track: Pre-Conference Workshops
Price: $99.00

Looking to expand your portfolio? This in-depth class will teach you how to create dynamic electronic portfolios. Learn how to prepare your images for the screen, then take them to new places with the web, DVD, and presentation software. This session will help you show your portfolio to more people with less expense.

Instructor: Richard Harrington
Track: Pre-Conference Workshops
Early Bird Price: $89.00
Price: $99.00

If you're approaching digital the same way you shot film, then you have a lot to learn about shooting to take full advantage of the digital tools available. In this session you'll learn how to produce images that would be impossible in a traditional darkroom.

Instructor: Ben Willmore
Track: Pre-Conference Workshops
Early Bird Price: $89.00
Price: $99.00

In this new 4-hour expanded live shooting class, Jim will demonstrate multiple lighting setups for commercial illustration assignments in the studio. The class will include practical color management from capture to output, shooting tethered for complete control in creating the perfect exposure, using Merge to HDR and combining separate exposures, and advanced lighting techniques to create complex illustrations quickly.

Instructor: Jim DiVitale
Track: Pre-Conference Workshops
Early Bird Price: $89.00
Price: $99.00

What goes into a studio fashion shoot? Which light will do the best job? How do you pose for beauty and body shape? What about metering light? Makeup? Styling? Answer these questions and many more as Kevin works with a professional fashion model to demonstrate and explain how to create lighting styles including the classics--Rembrandt and butterfly all the way to modern day pop "Hip Hop" and ring light. You'll see how light "thinks," how to recognize its qualities as well as when to use them at the same time learning how to control contrast and tweak exposures in Adobe Camera RAW. This pre conference shows how it all works--live!

Instructor: Kevin Ames
Track: Pre-Conference Workshops
Early Bird Price: $89.00
Price: $99.00

You'll learn how to make the finest prints possible through customized lessons just for the Photoshop World Conference from the popular Epson Print Academy national tour.

Instructor: Jeff Schewe & John Paul Caponigro & Andrew Rodney
Track: Pre-Conference Workshops
Early Bird Price: $89.00
Price: $99.00

Nature provides us with literally millions of different scenarios that can be captured and painted. Clouds, water, waves, and weather are in continual turmoil, moving and churning through sequences of varying aspects. Fields and forests hold thousands of shades of green that change depending on the time of day, the season, and the weather. From retouching your image in Photoshop, to applying your paints and blending them in Painter, to the final printing process, you'll learn how to transform your photos of nature into beautiful works of art.

Using the latest versions of Photoshop and Corel Painter, Fay Sirkis will show you how to transform your landscapes and seascapes into masterpieces that emulate both oil and watercolor paintings using her trademark style of photo painting. This brand new pre-con workshop will reveal the secrets to painting the natural world, and give you the tools you'll need to paint trees, mountains, clouds, rivers, the sky, the ocean, and the effects of weather and seasonal changes on terrain like a master.

This class has been cancelled due to a family emergency. However, the instructor notes will still be available in your convention workbook.

Instructor: Vincent Versace
Track: Pre-Conference Workshops
Price: $199.00

Learn to capture the moment by improving your on-location photography skills, including lighting, composition, and posing. Attendees can bring their own cameras to shoot along and they'll get a CD of their shots on the last day of the conference. The highlight will be a "road trip" where David shows you how to work with the bride and groom to produce gorgeous images with minimal equipment and time - just like a real wedding. Limited to 45 participants.

Instructor: David Ziser
Track: Pre-Conference Workshops
Price: $199.00

Attendees, please note the new start time. Lunch will be included. Limited to 60 participants.

Instructors, Eddie Tapp and Jack Reznicki have so much planned for this workshop that they decided to start it two hours earlier!

Immerse yourself in what promises to be the most in-depth and hands on learning workshop from the professionals at Canon.

Start off with the finer points of lighting techniques as Jack takes you through various set ups utilizing different equipment. Then, split off into smaller groups to work with live models in the lighting set ups just created. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own cameras but Canon will also provide a wide array of cameras and lenses for you to experiment with.

After the 1pm lunch break, Eddie takes over as you open, process, review, and select your 3 best images. During this time, Eddie will be teaching you all sorts of new and interesting techniques to apply to your images in unbelievable ways. The key to this portion of the workshop is creativity because the entire class will vote on everyone's photos during the session-ending slide show and Canon will award a 40D Camera for the best overall photo!

Instructor: Jack Reznicki & Eddie Tapp
Track: Pre-Conference Workshops
Price: $279.00

In this special advanced Photoshop class we will cover the techniques behind layering and animating images to make lenticular stereo grams that create the illusion of 3-dimensionality. This class is specially designed for graphic designers and photographers who want to experiment, and play, in the 3rd dimension. Adobe's senior art director, the mad scientist "Dr. Brown" will guide you through this amazing adventure. Learn some advanced masking secrets of Photoshop as you create your very own lenticular poster.

All supplies necessary to create your lenticular project are included in this class. Just bring your imagination, your own layered Photoshop files, and most definitely, your own computer.

Warning! This class is definitely not for beginning Photoshop users. All participants must bring their own computer to class and they must have Adobe Photoshop CS3 installed on their computer prior to class starting. This event is limited to 40 participants, so sign up early. Additional information about class can be found at this location: www.russellbrown.com/photoshopworld2008.htm

Instructor: Russell Preston Brown
Track: Pre-Conference Workshops
Price: $199.00

Spend the day with legendary photographers - Moose Peterson and Joe McNally - learning how to work with models, landscapes, and flash photography techniques on location in the Orlando area. There's no better way to learn photography than getting behind the camera shooting side by side with these two pros. Lunch included, limited to 65 participants.

Instructor: Moose Peterson & Joe McNally
Track: Pre-Conference Workshops
Price: $279.00

Photography is all about showcasing your images, and there are countless tools for sharing your images on the Web. While these options make it easy (and even fun) to share your best images, many photographers want to create a unique website all their own for this purpose. In this session, Tim Grey will show you how to design a site that looks exactly as you want it in Photoshop, incorporating your own photos into the design. He'll then show you how to take that design and build the site using web authoring software.

Instructor: Tim Grey
Track: Adobe® Web Tools Track

Learn how to import Layered PSD files into Flash to create pro-level, optimized, and compelling websites.

Instructor: Chris Orwig
Track: Adobe® Web Tools Track

Take a close look at how the new features in Photoshop and Flash can help create an astonishing online portfolio that will get you noticed.

Instructor: Chris Orwig
Track: Adobe® Web Tools Track

Learn how to build artistic masterpieces with a combination of filters and brushes that replicate any effect.

Instructor: Bert Monroy
Track: Creativity Track

Learn how some of the most powerful, but often over-looked functions in Photoshop can help you work faster, smarter, and more creatively.

Instructor: Dave Cross
Track: Creativity Track

This session will explore the natural world by showing you techniques for creating the many forms of nature. Things like water, ice, rain, fire, wind, and storms will all be created from scratch right inside Photoshop.

Instructor: Corey Barker
Track: Creativity Track

Find out how some very cool Photoshop techniques can help you build dramatic and exciting composite images.

Instructor: Julieanne Kost
Track: Photoshop® Design Track

Don't ruin a great design with poor typography. Learn a whole portfolio full of secrets for improving your design with great type treatments.

Instructor: Scott Kelby
Track: Photoshop® Design Track

What's the difference between memorable communication and distracting decoration -- and when can they cross-pollinate in powerful ways? And, how can Photoshop (even Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom) be used to strengthen the one without getting caught up in the temporal black hole of the other? Jack will show you how to quickly produce motivating and compelling works that strengthen and support the unique selling proposition of a company, product, or service using extremely flexible Type, Shape and Fill Layers, Smart Objects and Layer Styles in ways you never thought possible!

Instructor: Jack Davis
Track: Photoshop® Design Track

Photoshop users of all skill levels will love these quick and easy techniques for retouching and restoring digital images and photos.

Instructor: Matt Kloskowski
Track: Productivity Track

Capturing original images in grayscale images used to be common. In the film days we even had different kinds of B&W film Pan-X, Tri-X etc. for different uses. Today, nearly all images are captured by digital cameras in RGB color mode. For years converting our RGB color images to grayscale using the Mode menu conversion usually produced sad-looking low contrast muddy grayscale images with little pop. If you had the time and Photoshop expertise you could create good quality grayscale image, but it was demanding. We now have access to new tools in Photoshop allowing us to create high quality grayscale images with just the look we want. Taz will show you the tools and techniques he uses to create his gorgeous grayscale images. Taz will also show you how to use these same tools and techniques to convert color graphics as well.

Instructor: Taz Tally
Track: Productivity Track

Master using Photoshop to simulate the appearance of sharper focus in your images, sometimes with spectacular results!

Instructor: Deke McClelland
Track: Productivity Track

Quick fixes to the most common image problems such as blown out details, white balance issues, removing harsh shadows, colorizing white and black objects and more. In most cases, you'll learn a Plan B in case the first solution doesn't work, and where possible you'll see how to avoid the problem in the first place.

Instructor: Dave Cross
Track: Photoshop® & Digital Photography Track

Learn the art of creating fine art montages with emphasis on Blend modes and Masking techniques. Working with both simple and multi-layered illustrations, Jim demonstrates techniques necessary to produce creative montages.

Instructor: Jim DiVitale
Track: Photoshop® & Digital Photography Track

Learn Photoshop and Aperture enhancements while viewing stunning images of Antarctica, Cambodia, India, Mexico, and more.

Instructor: Rick Sammon
Track: Photoshop® & Digital Photography Track

If you are like most people, you spend a good part of your day (week, month or year) doing roughly the basic things over and over again -- optimize, enhance, prep for print, etc. Stop! That's why Presets and Actions were created. In this session, Jack will show you how to automate a huge number of the repetitive image tasks you do every day with the all new miracles found in the Bridge, the latest ACR, and Photoshop.

Instructor: Jack Davis
Track: Photoshop & Photo Techniques Trackk

This class has been cancelled due to a family emergency. However, the instructor notes will still be available in your convention workbook.

Instructor: Vincent Versace
Track: Photoshop & Photo Techniques Track

As a color management consultant, the number one item we teach and train on is how to make your prints match your monitor. We cover form DeltaE tolerance to viewing conditions to setting up PS3 to accurately soft proof any media you print to. This will save you 100's of dollars in media and time.

Instructor: Randy Hufford
Track: Photoshop & Photo Techniques Track

After three years of living with smart objects and a full year of smart filters, one thing's for certain: These things are powerful. But are they as "smart" as they're cracked up to be? According to Deke McClelland, the answer is yes, once you figure out how to make smart use of them. Join Deke for an in-depth examination of smart objects, smart filters, filter masks, blend states, nested objects, Camera Raw objects, go-between objects, and everything else you need to make your edits entirely non-destructive and infinitely editable. Teach these bad boys to behave.

Instructor: Deke McClelland
Track: Photoshop® Techniques Track

In this session, Ben will pull out all the stops and show you the best tips he's come up with over the last decade. You'll learn everything from how to remove the background on flames in just seconds to how to transform a photograph into a 3D object you can rotate in 3D space. He'll also reveal many hidden keyboard shortcuts and show you how to get the most out of Photoshop.

Instructor: Ben Willmore
Track: Photoshop® Techniques Track

Learn to make these two powerful graphics applications perform better together.

Instructor: Bert Monroy
Track: Photoshop® Techniques Track

Photoshop offers a world of new possibilities to those who are familiar with JavaScript and are interested in writing scripts to automate and extend Photoshop. In this session you'll learn the basics of scripting Photoshop CS3 using JavaScript. We'll begin by examining some real world scripting examples, code some simple examples in the Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit 2, install and use the ScriptingListener plug-in, and use script templates to start building more complex workflows.

WARNING: You will be looking at JavaScript code. If you have never seen JavaScript before, you probably will not enjoy this class. If you are already comfortable writing scripts for Photoshop, using the Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit 2 and ScriptingListener plug-in, this class will be too basic for you.

Instructor: Tai Luxon
Track: Adobe Bonus Sessions

In this session you'll learn how to write and debug more complex scripts using the Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit 2.

WARNING: If you are lost after the Photoshop Scripting Beginner class, you will not enjoy this class. If you are hungry for more information after the Beginner class, or are already comfortable writing scripts for Photoshop, using the Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit 2 and ScriptingListener plug-in, this class will probably be right for you.

Instructor: Tom Ruark
Track: Adobe Bonus Sessions

In this session you'll learn many timesaving tips for creating really tough selections and fast ways to create today's most popular photo effects like silhouettes, creative photo frames, edges, and more. We'll also take a look at the four secrets of great graphic design that will ensure your layouts always look their very best.

Instructor: Lesa Snider-King
Track: Creative Suite Track

Whether you're a photographer or a new designer, chances are there will come a time that you need to layout a marketing brochure, business card or other promotional piece to promote your business. In this class we'll learn InDesign from the ground up and you'll be laying out your own projects in no time.

Instructor: Terry White
Track: Creative Suite Track

Camera Raw 4, hosted in Photoshop CS3 and Bridge has gone from just being a raw conversion tool to an entire image adjustment tool in and of itself. Not only can you apply adjustments such as tone & color to RAWs, but JPEGs and TIFFs as well. So Camera Raw 4 has become an even more critical and complex tool for photographers to learn to use. Jeff Schewe knows a little something about Camera Raw. A long time collaborator with Thomas Knoll, Jeff has also taken over Bruce Fraser's Real World Camera Raw book. So, there's nobody better to learn from.

Instructor: Jeff Schewe
Track: Creative Suite Track

This session will show you how to recreate the hottest classic effects in Illustrator and how you can put them to work today.

Instructor: Matt Kloskowski
Track: Creative Suite Track

Learn what makes InDesign CS3 tick - plus, helpful hints and techniques that every InDesign user should know. In this class we'll go beyond the basics and dig deep into the power of InDesign. Learn to set up the New Table Styles, how to use the new powerful Find/Change as well as how to speed up your workflow taking advantage of the Bridge, Multiple Place and the New Transparency Effects that reduce the need to constantly go back and forth to Photoshop.

Instructor: Terry White
Track: Creative Suite Track

Learn professional image enhancement techniques that will simplify your life and change the way you work from designing your own edge effects, specialized soft focus filters and advanced masking techniques using powerful features in Photoshop CS3. Explore new and fun techniques to empower your creative discoveries.

Instructor: Eddie Tapp
Track: Creative Suite Track

This class is for the animal lover in you as you explore the creative possibilities of turning photographs of pets and wildlife into paintings.

Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter have sparked a new trend in the professional pet and animal photography market as photographers and animal lovers alike explore the creative possibilities of turning photographs of pets and wildlife into paintings.

Fay makes it easier than ever to create hand-painted works of art from your photographs by turning animal portraits into a unique hand-painted piece of art. Whether it's your own pet or any other, the watercolors and oil paintings of pets and wildlife are adorable. You can practically feel their little wet noses when the painting is finished! Fay will show you how different animals have different skin, and fur, and you'll learn how to use specific brushes and strokes to capture the different textures of each animal category. Using Photoshop and Corel Painter, and a variety of brushes and tools available to us today, you will learn how to turn photos of dogs, cats, horses, birds, bears, and anything with more then two legs into watercolor and oil masterpieces!

Instructor: Fay Sirkis
Track: Creativity Track

Retouching the eyes of a portrait in Adobe Photoshop is easer than ever. Join Fay as she shares her step-by-step recipe for retouching the eyes of a subject. Whether in preparation for the painting process in Corel Painter, or for the Heirloom Portrait Photograph, the eyes are the focus of your portrait, and need the most attention to draw in your viewer. Fay will show you how to retouch the eyes of men, women, children, and even man's best friend! Different scenarios of photographed eyes will be covered... indoor, outdoor, and more. Once you have mastered this technique, your subject's eyes will take on life and soul.

Instructor: Fay Sirkis
Track: Creativity Track

Discover how simple and subtle Photoshop fixes can make your digital portraits and final prints really "pop."

Instructor: Scott Kelby
Track: Creativity Track

Learn the tricks and techniques that pro photographers use to create the dynamic, breathtaking, and sexy images you see in top publications.

Instructor: Joe McNally
Track: Creativity Track

A master of natural-light color photography, Jay Maisel strives to maintain the integrity of his images with minimal retouching techniques. This rare engagement is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to spend one hour with a photographic legend learning how he handles light, gesture and color challenges.

Instructor: Jay Maisel
Track: Creativity Track

Explore how to use the special features in Photoshop Extended to create dynamic animations, realistic movement, and stunning special effects.

Instructor: Corey Barker
Track: Creativity Track

See examples of various on-location lighting set-ups, including a live demo of the Nikon Speed Light wireless flash system.

Instructor: Joe McNally
Track: Digital Photography Live Studio Track

From set-up, to capture, assembly and retouching, learn from the pros at a "live" shoot.

Instructor: Jim DiVitale
Track: Digital Photography Live Studio Track

Learn the lighting and photography techniques that create great portraits, along with pro Photoshop and posing tips.

Instructor: Helene Glassman
Track: Digital Photography Live Studio Track

A "live" food shoot will show you the power of digital photography and Photoshop to enliven food shots.

Instructor: Joe Glyda
Track: Digital Photography Live Studio Track

There are six must-have steps to developing the perfect portrait file and Frank will show them to you.

Instructor: Frank E. Cricchio
Track: Digital Photography Live Studio Track

An in-depth discussion of the classic Triangle lighting techniques used to create great digital portraits.

Instructor: Frank E. Cricchio
Track: Digital Photography Live Studio Track

Digital B&W printing has finally come of age-it meets or exceeds many of the technical aspects of traditional silver gelatin prints-but only if you know how to convert and print digital B&W. Jeff Schewe will guide on the road to the "perfect" digital B&W print.

Instructor: Jeff Schewe
Track: Photoshop & Photography Techniques Track

Well-known intellectual property attorney Edward Greenberg and professional photographer Jack Reznicki will present real life, real world examples and explanations. Topics to be covered include: model releases, property releases, contracts, licensing images, and more. There will also be a question and answer period so you can come to the session with that "burning" question you just have to have answered. Both Edward and Jack are well known for their very plain, easy to understand English, rather than "legalese" explanations of legal issues. And, they're funny.

Instructor: Jack Reznicki & Ed Greenberg
Track: Photoshop & Photography Techniques Track

One of the keys to Photoshop is making accurate selections, very quickly. In this class you'll learn a variety of selection techniques for various situations, including channel-based selections plus the new Quick Selection tool and Refine Edges command.

Instructor: George Lepp
Track: Photoshop & Photography Techniques Track

See and understand what Jack calls available light - "any light that's available." Using mostly studio lights, Jack will show his "one light" philosophy even if it takes five strobes. He'll also cover sunlight in the studio, and the importance of positioning both you and your light bank.

Instructor: Jack Reznicki
Track: Photoshop & Photography Techniques Track

This class is all about adding a finishing touch to your images, including frames, photographic effects, dramatic lighting effects, adding texture, and much more. You'll learn how to create special effects in very flexible, editable ways that are just the tip of the iceberg, giving you countless possibilities.

Instructor: Dave Cross
Track: Photoshop & Photography Techniques Track

Well-known intellectual property attorney Edward Greenberg and professional photographer Jack Reznicki will present real life, real world examples and explanations. Topics to be covered include: model releases, property releases, contracts, licensing images, and more. There will also be a question and answer period so you can come to the session with that "burning" question you just have to have answered. Both Edward and Jack are well known for their very plain, easy to understand English, rather than "legalese" explanations of legal issues. And, they're funny.

Instructor: Jack Reznicki & Ed Greenberg
Track: Photoshop & Photography Techniques Track

Looking to create animation from photos? Learn how to combine layered Photoshop files with After Effects Puppet Tool to quickly add natural motion. You can bend, warp, and animate both raster images and vector graphics, including still images, shapes, and text characters. In this session, you'll learn creative possibilities for creating animated elements for use in video and multimedia projects.

Instructor: Richard Harrington
Track: Motion Graphics Track

Everything you NEVER wanted to know about video in Photoshop, including working the timeline, setting key frames, animating layers, applying filters to video, creating video smart objects, rendering animations to video, choosing the right codec and much more!

Instructor: Rod Harlan
Track: Motion Graphics Track

Clients, Producers, and After Effects Artists alike have fallen in love with bringing pictures to life. Want to learn how to create movement "within" a photo? This popular class has been fully updated to show you even more techniques for using Photoshop files for creative story telling. Learn how to use 3D cameras, lights, particles, and the Vanishing Point feature to create exciting animations that capture the imagine and engage your audience.

Instructor: Richard Harrington
Track: Motion Graphics Track

Get to this class early as Layers magazine's dynamic media editor, Rod Harlan, pulls back the curtain and reveals the tricks the pro's use to create one of a kind special effects for commercials, television shows, and corporate video design.

Instructor: Rod Harlan
Track: Motion Graphics Track

Start in Photoshop Extended and finish it in After Effects. Learn the advantages, and pitfalls, of this common industry workflow. See real-world examples developed in class by Photoshop World's audio visual director Rod Harlan.

Instructor: Rod Harlan
Track: Motion Graphics Track

The use of green-screen and blue-screen is a popular technique for both video and film special effects. In this informative session you'll learn how to create virtual environments from photos, then key your video using Photoshop or After Effects. A special emphasis will be placed upon using After Effects' powerful keying technology like Keylight as well as strategies to help with the production of the chromakey shoot.

Instructor: Richard Harrington
Track: Motion Graphics Track

David will show you 12 of the easiest, fastest, and coolest techniques to get the most out of your on camera flash and your off-camera flash. The results of his techniques will bring a fresh and creative look to your wedding and portrait images. If you want your lighting to go beyond the "ordinary," then don't miss David's program!

Instructor: David Ziser
Track: Professional Photography Track

Smacking the viewer right between the eye with the subject is key in photography. Through the knowledge of how the eye travels through an image, we'll use everything from layers, brushes, filters and special techniques in Photoshop to finish our landscapes so all who see our images and inspired by them just as we were at the point of capture.

Instructor: Moose Peterson
Track: Professional Photography Track

The advance of high-end digital cameras with their unique abilities to see and record light have the potential to change many of the ways we think about photography, including how we think a photograph should look. With their extended dynamic range and unprecedented color accuracy, digital sensors can offer dramatically higher image quality than film. The photographic print is evolving concurrently with direct digital printing, now moving onto pigmented prints lasting hundreds of years on a wide variety of substrates. The advent of digital photography brings us much more than convenience, it can deliver a very different visualization of our world. Attendees will learn about this brave new digital world from a photographer who has been on the bleeding edge of this new technology for years.

Instructor: Stephen Johnson
Track: Professional Photography Track

Get ready to "take cover" at David's Gatling gun approach giving you 60 rules, concepts, theories and ideas on posing, lighting and composition. David's brand new program will give you enough information in one hour to fuel immediate and dramatic results in your photography.

Instructor: David Ziser
Track: Professional Photography Track

Empower your creative energy with professional enhancement and masking techniques that will simplify the way you work using Smart Filters and Smart Objects along with a host of fun image enhancement techniques using the powerful features in Photoshop CS3.

Instructor: Eddie Tapp
Track: Professional Photography Track

Learn how Adobe Photoshop CS3 works with color images and color profiles. This seminar will cover how Photoshop can be setup to easily produce accurate previews of digital images and how to get reliable and predictable color output. Learn about color gamut, what RGB Working Spaces to utilize (and why), soft proofing and a through understanding of how Photoshop's color architecture operates for best results with virtually no color-geek speak.

Instructor: Andrew Rodney
Track: Professional Photography Track

Get basic tips for turning snapshots into great shots, learn how to rescue an image, and awaken the artist within.

Instructor: Rick Sammon
Track: Productivity Track

A run-down of some very powerful, but often over-looked, Photoshop functions such as Calculations, Tool Presets, Apply Image, and more.

Instructor: Dave Cross
Track: Productivity Track

Taz shows you his much acclaimed approach to fast and accurate color correction and image adjustment. After your class with Taz, you will be able to devote more of your precious time to kayaking and shooting images rather than struggling in Photoshop. Color evaluation, correction and adjustment are covered including: identifying key image characteristics and features, evaluating Histograms, best use tips for the Color Sampler and Info tools, using Adjustment layers for maximum editablity, sharpening techniques, taking the most advantage of the Super Curve tool, as well as color workflow tips and a whole stash of time-saving keyboard shortcuts to make the whole process even faster and easier.

Instructor: Taz Tally
Track: Productivity Track

Learn to capture the full brightness range of a scene when shooting in harsh lighting conditions or enhance the detail in your images so much that you will leave your viewers asking "is that a photo or an illustration?". This multi-exposure technique is taking the world by storm and is deal in any of the following situations: 1) When the brightness range of a scene is too wide to capture in a single shot, 2) When shadow detail is overly important, 3) When there is a tremendous amount of important fine detail in a scene, 4) When you want to produce a unique illustrative feeling.

Instructor: Ben Willmore
Track: Productivity Track

This advanced course concentrates on practical applications of channel operations--blends and masks--that take advantage of the characteristics of certain channels--even when the channel is in a file that's not in the same colorspace as the file being worked on. Someone working in RGB, for example, may find that a copy of the black of CMYK, or the B of LAB, can solve otherwise difficult problems.

Starting with generalized descriptions of how each of the ten available channels is formed, the sessions move quickly to real-world examples of how they are used. Attendees need to be familiar with the Apply Image command, how to load and modify a layer mask, and how to save, load and modify alpha channels.


Instructor: Dan Margulis
Track: Productivity Track

This advanced course concentrates on practical applications of channel operations--blends and masks--that take advantage of the characteristics of certain channels--even when the channel is in a file that's not in the same colorspace as the file being worked on. Someone working in RGB, for example, may find that a copy of the black of CMYK, or the B of LAB, can solve otherwise difficult problems.

Starting with generalized descriptions of how each of the ten available channels is formed, the sessions move quickly to real-world examples of how they are used. Attendees need to be familiar with the Apply Image command, how to load and modify a layer mask, and how to save, load and modify alpha channels.


Instructor: Dan Margulis
Track: Productivity Track

Discover new ways to work with color and harness its power to enhance and enliven your creations.

Instructor: John Paul Caponigro
Track: Creativity Track

This session will concentrate on creating the sense of the third dimension within the two-dimensional limitation of Photoshop. How to create realistic shadows and highlights will be covered. You will learn how to set up highlights and reflections to make elements appear as if they belong in the scene. Adobe Illustrator will be discussed for the creation of 3D planes.

Instructor: Bert Monroy
Track: Creativity Track

Getting close to wildlife is a personal and photographic experience we all desire. This is a challenge for all that often causes frustration rather than rewards. What are the "tricks" to getting close physically? Where do you go to get close physically? And once you are close, than what? What lenses do you use and how do you compose to bring back that experience to others? We'll start you on down the road of these rewards in the hour we have so you can experience the wonders of our wild heritage first hand.

Instructor: Moose Peterson
Track: Creativity Track

This class has been cancelled due to a family emergency. However, the instructor notes will still be available in your convention workbook.

Instructor: Vincent Versace
Track: Digital Photography Track

This class has been cancelled due to a family emergency. However, the instructor notes will still be available in your convention workbook.

Instructor: Vincent Versace
Track: Digital Photography Track

Light is the basis for all of our exposure information. How much light is there? What is the quality of light? Do we need to add light? Subtract light? How much Depth of Field will communicate my vision of the scene? What aperture do I select? Do I need a fast or slow shutter speed to capture the essence of the moment? These are the questions that I face when I compose an image and make creative exposure decisions. Let's take a look at the relationship of Aperture-Shutter Speed and ISO to each other.

Instructor: Laurie Excell
Track: Digital Photography Track

When Dan Margulis demonstrated his latest blending moves, which aren't in any of his books, the audience at Photoshop World Boston was flabbergasted at the speed at which drab outdoor originals could be transformed into astonishingly vivid, yet realistic, final images. Only half a dozen basic moves are illustrated here, but you'll be shocked at the results. Note: these two advanced sessions assume that attendees have a basic understanding of 1) LAB channel structure and 2) the function of layer masks.

Instructor: Dan Margulis
Track: Print/Prepress Track

When Dan Margulis demonstrated his latest blending moves, which aren't in any of his books, the audience at Photoshop World Boston was flabbergasted at the speed at which drab outdoor originals could be transformed into astonishingly vivid, yet realistic, final images. Only half a dozen basic moves are illustrated here, but you'll be shocked at the results. Note: these two advanced sessions assume that attendees have a basic understanding of 1) LAB channel structure and 2) the function of layer masks.

Instructor: Dan Margulis
Track: Print/Prepress Track

Unlock the full power of InDesign page layout tools by taking advantage of its integration with other Creative Suite applications.

Instructor: Taz Tally
Track: Print/Prepress Track

An exploration of Color Management in theory and practice designed to get you comfortable with the concepts and architecture of color management and build practical experience methods for using profiles for display and in printing. Monitor calibration and print profiles will be explained and you will leave with a gut understanding of the why and how without feeling like you have to be a color scientist.

Instructor: Stephen Johnson
Track: Artistic Photoshop® Track

Randy uses Lightroom and CS3 tools and techniques for creating Fine art Prints. See Randy's tips, tricks and solutions for creating "Over the Top Prints" and saving you hours in producing powerful images that Sell!

Instructor: Randy Hufford
Track: Artistic Photoshop® Track

Learn all there is to know about making large prints, from the need for a calibrated monitor, to buying paper, to the handling final prints.

Instructor: George Lepp
Track: Artistic Photoshop® Track

Gain valuable insight from a career creative professional about how to stay inspired in the concrete commercial world.

Instructor: Joe Glyda
Track: Artistic Photoshop® Track

Simple brushing techniques applied precisely can take your image to a whole new level, giving you expanded possibilities for creative expression.

Instructor: John Paul Caponigro
Track: Artistic Photoshop® Track

After the shoot wraps, experience the post-production for finishing a photograph chosen by the model from today's Early Bird session The Art of Photographing Women. You'll see the Strategy Map outlining the work the model expects. Kevin demonstrates layer setup for non-destructive retouching to handle inevitable changes, eye enhancements, skin smoothing and more.

Instructor: Kevin Ames
Track: Photoshop & Photography Track

This session will walk you through, from start to finish, how to import, edit, and output a photo shoot using all of the modules in Lightroom.

Instructor: Matt Kloskowski
Track: Photoshop® Lightroom® Track

This class takes you through the process of integrating Lightroom and Photoshop to producing outstanding digital pictures.

Instructor: Julieanne Kost
Track: Photoshop® Lightroom® Track

One of the real and tangible benefits to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is the new and efficient way of printing digital images. But, while Lightroom can do a lot for your images, sometimes you still need Photoshop, particularly for local tone and color correction as well as Photoshop Soft Proofing. This Session, by Jeff Schewe (one of the original pre-alpha testers of Lightroom), will answer the burning question "When do you use Lightroom and when do you use Photoshop?" when the final result is a digital print. This will be an in-depth look at Lightroom to Photoshop to Lightroom for printing.

Instructor: Jeff Schewe
Track: Photoshop® Lightroom® Track

Learn all of the in and outs of design with Illustrator CS3, including techniques for some spectacular visual effects.

Instructor: Deke McClelland
Track: Photoshop Techniques Track

Learn the seven essential Photoshop techniques you need to quickly and easily create killer digital images. Based on the best-selling book.

Instructor: Scott Kelby
Track: Photoshop Techniques Track

Curves is the most powerful adjustment in all of Photoshop, but it's also one of the most underutilized and misunderstood features. Once you learn how simple curves can be, you'll start to use it on every image you open and the quality of your imagery will improve to a level you currently cannot imagine.

Instructor: Ben Willmore
Track: Photoshop Techniques Track