Photoshop Fling Seminars

Eastern Caribbean • February 8th to 15th, 2004

 
   
         

Day 1, Monday, February 9

TRACK 1
BEGINNER
Introducing Photoshop
(Full Day, Deke)

What Photoshop Can Do

The File Browser

Workspace & Navigation

Image Resolution

Rotate & Crop

Presets & Preferences

Select & Modify
(basics of Marquee, Lasso,
and Wand tools)

Introducing Layers

Opacity & Blend Modes

Fill, Stroke, & Colors

Painting Tools

The Brushes Pallette

 

TRACK 2
ADVANCED/BEGINNER
Painting with Photoshop
Part 1
(Half Day, Bert)

Working with layers

The Brush Engine

Alpha Channels

Proper use of Perspective

When to use vectors
from Illustrator

 

TRACK 2
ADVANCED
Layer Styles for Fun & Profit
(Half Day, Jack)

 

Day 2, Tuesday, February 10

TRACK 1
INTERMEDIATE
Heal, Liquify, & History
(Half Day, Deke)

The Edit Tools

Cloning with the Stamp Tool

Healing Brush & Patch Tool

Liquify & Displace

Using History

The History Brush

 

TRACK 1
INTERMEDIATE
Correcting Colors & Focus
(Half Day, Deke)

Color Variations

Hue Shift & Colorize

Mixing Color Channels

Auto Color & Levels

Adjustment Layers

Correcting Focus

 

TRACK 2
INTERMEDIATE
Painting with Photoshop
Part 2
(Half Day, Bert)

Working with Filters

Using the Liquify command

Light and Shadows

Reflections

 

TRACK 2
ADVANCED
Photo Retouching Techniques
(Half Day, Jack)


 

Day 3, Friday, February 13

TRACK 1
ADVANCED
Photo Enhancing Techniques
(Half Day, Jack)


TRACK 2
INTERMEDIATE
Painting with Photoshop
Part 3
(Half Day, Bert)

Combining techniques from classes 1 and 2 to create complete images

Tips and Techniques

Integrating Photoshop into
other programs

TRACK 2
ADVANCED/BEGINNER
Photoshop & the Web
(Half Day, Deke)

Work large, then shrink

Working with sRGB

More rules of the Web

Saving JPEG images

Preparing & saving GIFs

Making side-by-side comparisons

Slicing a Composition

Rollovers & Animation

         

 

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To help us tailor the Photoshop Fling program, please select those courses that might interest you -- were you to come along on our cruise.

You may choose any combination of full-day or half-day seminars for a total of three (3) days' worth of sessions (and you may mix and match from any of the three tracks). The conference fee is $750 and includes all courses, course materials, and the Bon Voyage Cocktail Party.

 

 
     
   
     
     
 
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Day 1, Track 1

Introducing Photoshop -- BEGINNER (Full Day)
Speaker: Deke McClelland

Get your sea legs as we cast anchor for a week of image-editing adventure. Whether you’re a polliwog or an old salt, here’s your chance to learn what everybody pretends to know about Photoshop, but few really do.

• What Photoshop Can Do

• The File Browser

• Workspace and Navigation

• Image Resolution

• Rotate and Crop

• Presets and Preferences

• Select and Modify (basics of marquee, lasso, and wand tools)

• Introducing Layers

• Opacity and Blend Modes

• Fill, Stroke, and Color

• Painting Tools

• The Brushes Palette

Day 1, Track 2

Painting with Photoshop,
Part 1 -- ADVANCED BEGINNER (Half Day)
Speaker: Bert Monroy

Sure Photoshop can take any photograph and make it look great. What happens when you need that photograph of something that doesn't exist? What about that dream you are trying to describe to your spouse in so many words when a picture, as they say, is worth a thousand words? Maybe you just want to let your imagination soar and create your own little world you can escape to. Photoshop is the answer. Even though PHOTO is part if its name, Photoshop is the best painting tool out there.

In this session, Bert Monroy, considered one of the pioneers of digital art, will take you to places you never thought possible with Photoshop. He will leave you with a full understanding of the basic features, and their functionality, to create images from scratch.

So you did not take art in school, Bert will give you an understanding of perspective, shading and other basics that will set you on the path to artistic freedom.

Masking? You have no idea what that is all about until you do it with Alpha Channels. How about a Paintbrush that creates a forest in one stroke? A brush for every occasion. Be it a peaceful landscape or a roaring fireplace, you will create them from scratch without the need to hunt for the right place to shoot that photograph.

Get ready to let your imagination run wild.

Day 1, Track 2

Layer Styles for Graphics, Photos
and Fun -- ADVANCED (Half Day)
Speaker: Jack Davis

Quality Craftsmanship, Creative Flexibility and Go-Home-At-Night Speed - if a "photoshopper" has these, they have just about everything. OK ... it helps to have a good eye, and a strong sense of story telling, and the right equipment and... OK, OK. But once you have the Photoshop basics down, and you have the passion to move beyond the basics to communicating your vision through powerful, engaging, motivating imagery - where do you go? This class by Jack Davis, author of the best-selling, award-winning guide to our most beloved Photoshop: "The Photoshop Wow! Books," will focus on real-world methods of achieving that Quality, Flexibility and Speed in Photoshop so essential to creating memorable work and enjoying every minute of it.

Learn how to create stunning darkroom and dimensional special effects that look hard but are easy once you now the secrets. In this session, Jack will show you how to create successful and innovative graphic communication and photo effects with a high "WOW Factor." You'll learn:

• Quick and easy ways to use Photoshop's built-in presets to create special effects on-time and on-budget.

• The phenomenal power, flexibility and speed of Layers Styles

• Customizing effects with displacement maps and controlled distortions

• How to create dimensional effects like chrome, rock, and glass (and beyond) instantly and without filters

• One-click framing and tinting techniques to tie disparate photographs together - separately or as a collage

Day 2, Track 1

Heal, Liquify, and History --
INTERMEDIATE (Half Day)
Speaker: Deke McClelland

Retouching is nothing more than the safe and inexpensive art of making people look the way they think they look on a really great day. Armed with Photoshop, you can erase wrinkles, whiten yellow teeth, remove unsightly hair, and fill in unsightly lack thereof. Best of all, you can take that 10 pounds that the camera adds and delete it with interest. Join Deke for three hours of non-evasive cosmetic surgery, skeletal reformation, and selective time travel.

• The Edit Tools

• Cloning with the Stamp Tool

• Healing Brush and Patch Tool

• Liquify and Displace

• Using History

• The History Brush

Day 2, Track 1

Correcting Colors and Focus --
INTERMEDIATE (Half Day)
Speaker: Deke McClelland

The stuff you need to do to virtually every digital photo, explained in exciting, nautical detail. Learn how to remove color casts, boost saturation, revive lost skin tones, increase contrast and brightness, offset vivid backlighting, temper a hot flash, and correct the focus of a soft image. No bells, no whistles -- just good, clean digital photography fun.

Photoshop and the Web: Whether you’re posting images to a Web site or emailing photographs to friends and family, the low-bandwidth limitations of many Internet connections must be endured. Learn how to make your images small enough to upload and download in a flash. Plus learn how to achieve consistent color, compare optimization settings, and slice a design into rollovers and animations.

• Color Variations

• Hue Shift and Colorize

• Mixing Color Channels

• Auto Color and Levels

• Adjustment Layers

• Correcting Focus

 

Day 2, Track 2

Painting with Photoshop,
Part 2 -- INTERMEDIATE (Half Day)
Speaker: Bert Monroy

Part one of Painting with Photoshop left you with your head hungry for more? Oh yeah, there's more! This session will have you creating the elements. Stone, wood, water, even air will be filling those blank canvases leading the way to unlimited visuals locked in the crevices of your imagination's attic.

Filters? There are many of them in Photoshop. What happens when you use them for other than their intended purpose? What happens when you put a few of them together? You will create images that are more realistic than a camera could ever achieve.

Of course there will be some practical application to all this zaniness. Bert will put all these outrageous techniques into context of real-world situations such as web design. The real focus is on creativity and FUN!

Day 2, Track 2

Photo Retouching and Optimizing Techniques -- ADVANCED (Half Day)
Speaker: Jack Davis

The experienced user knows there are a million tools in Photoshop to adjust your images for maximum impact, but which ones work best, work fastest and are most "photographer friendly"? In this session you will learn all sorts of workflow enhancing techniques including: 101 uses for Auto Levels, how to create nondestructive dodge and burn layers, advanced gray scale conversions, eyedropper color correcting, the best way to use Photoshop 7's healing brush and patch tool (so as not to create genetically altered mutant models) stained teeth whitening, red eye neutralizing and blotchy skin unifying — all with an emphasis on quality, flexibility and speed.

• Which editing tools are best to use when fixing images - and which ones to avoid.

• How to quickly fix under and over exposed images once and for all.

• Quick tone and color adjustments that leave your original image intact

• Creating nondestructive, fast and flexible repair layers for fixing, dodging and burning and color correcting.

• Simplified levels, curves and sharpening techniques

• Advanced gray scale conversions using Channel Mixer

Day 3, Track 1

Photo Enhancing Techniques --
ADVANCED (Half Day)
Speaker: Jack Davis

Here is a session to let you get especially creative with your work. Your photograph has a strong subject but it lacks the unique "execution" that will allow that subject to shine. And how do you go beyond what was captured to communicate what was experienced? In this session techniques will be demonstrated that can exaggerate, enhance and elaborate on the concept of an image while minimizing unwanted distractions — from creative focusing to sepia tones to infrared effects and hand coloring -- all using layers, masks, clipping groups, adjustment layers, layer styles and advanced blending techniques.

• Focusing attention by changing the focus of an image after the fact

• Creating soft focus and density effects

• How to create stunning dark room effects using layers, adjustment layers, and filters

• Quick and easy framing and tinting techniques to tie disparate images together

• How to composite panoramas and multiple images to solve color and tone inconsistencies

• Hand coloring and tinting effects

Day 3, Track 2

Painting with Photoshop, Part 3 --
INTERMEDIATE (Half Day)
Speaker: Bert Monroy

Still want more? This session will put it all together. You will be given assignments that will have your creative juices flowing. You will learn how to solve problems and create new ones along the way that will challenge you to do more. You'll take those shots you took with Jack and those type treatments Deke taught you and combine them into finished artwork suitable for framing.

When this class is over you will be ready for anything. Step aside Michelangelo the new masters are coming.

Day 3, Track 2

Photoshop and the Web --
ADVANCED BEGINNER (Half Day)
Speaker: Deke McClelland

Whether you’re posting images to a Web site or emailing photographs to friends and family, the low-bandwidth limitations of many Internet connections must be endured. Learn how to make your images small enough to upload and download in a flash. Plus learn how to achieve consistent color, compare optimization settings, and slice a design into rollovers and animations.

• Work large, then shrink

• Working with sRGB

• More rules of the Web

• Saving JPEG images

• Preparing and saving GIFs

• Making side-by-side comparisons

• Slicing a composition

• Rollovers and animation