The conference fee is $1,095 and includes all courses below, any course materials, and two private InSight Cruises parties.
Speaker: David Schloss
Getting the most out of your digital photography means more than just buying a digital camera. Digital technology has turned the photographer into more than an image-maker; shooters have had to become printers, designers, archivers, studio assistants and more.
Great photographers know that it's crucial to make the right choices in hardware, software and to the setup their own digital "studios" in order to create truly great pictures, every time. Aperture is center-stage in this new photographic workflow, but it takes an understanding of things like camera selection, monitor calibration, printer settings and archiving solutions to let you really unleash the full power of digital photography.
In this day we'll cover:
Plus a digital camera question and answer session. Find out the answers to everything you've always wondered about digital cameras.
Speakers: Sisse Brimberg and
Cotton Coulson
Learn the ins and outs of digital photography on our Mediterranean cruise. In this full-day class you’ll discover the creative potential within yourself as a photographer and how your digital equipment can help you achieve your goals.
This photographic workshop is for people who want to learn how to use color, light, and composition to create new and contemporary images allowing for your personal style to shine through. Digital photography offers so many creative possibilities, freeing us to explore new ways of seeing with our cameras. Lectures and demonstrations cover essential digital camera settings, accurate metering and exposure, the rules of composition, creative uses of light (such as flash techniques and mixing different light sources). We will also explain how to tell a story with photographs. Travel photography requires an understanding for shooting in a variety if situations; people in their environment, landscapes, cityscapes, food shots, as well as portraits to evoke a sense of place.
We then discuss how to be in the moment, recognizing and working with different qualities of light, and discovering new ways to compose images that capture the essence of location. Back onboard, we will demonstrate our workflow for downloading, editing, and processing digital images using Aperture.
Speaker: Joe Schorr or Martin Gisborne
There are literally dozens of plug-ins available for Aperture — and most of them are free! This session will introduce you to the best of these plug-ins and show you exactly how they can be used to extend Aperture and save you hours. We'll cover plug-ins for connecting to popular photo-sharing sites such as Flikr and SmugMug, as well as plug-ins for archiving photos or for sending them to other applications such as FileMaker Pro and Soundslides.
Speaker: Joe Schorr and Martin Gisborne
The perfect introduction to Aperture. We'll start at the very beginning — getting pictures off your camera's memory card and into Aperture — and walk you through all the steps that it takes to go from RAW images on a CompactFlash card to a set of final prints. First, you'll get an overview of Aperture's tools for culling your best shots, and organizing thousands of photos into well-arranged projects. Then we move on to image processing, with an emphasis on basic exposure adjustments and color correction. Finally, we'll introduce you to each of Aperture's various output options: Mocking up layouts on the Light Table, creating contact sheets and full-size prints, building web pages and producing printed books and albums.
This is a great class for getting the big picture: What is Aperture really about? How does it differ from other tools, such as Photoshop, or iPhoto? And most importantly, how can it help make you a better photographer?
Speaker: Joe Schorr and Martin Gisborne
Taking you beyond the basics, this class will dig deep into the keyboard shortcuts, hidden features, and advanced options that can really make Aperture fly. Discover shortcuts that allow you to accelerate repetitive tasks and streamline your photo processing. Learn how to customize the Aperture interface so that it conforms to your working style and puts the tools you want exactly where you need them. Go under the hood to see how Aperture organizes your files on disk, and learn how to use that knowledge to work faster and more efficiently.
Speaker: Martin Gisborne
Aperture provides all the tools to manage vast collections of photographs and to get the most from it, you need a good strategy. This session will run through all the elements of image management with Aperture from folders to projects, albums to Smart Albums and import strategies to backup strategies. Take some time to dig in deeper and see just how powerful Aperture's organization and management tools are. If your image collection is bursting at the seams, you'll need all the tools Aperture provides.
Speaker: Joe Schorr
We'll reveal a host of tips and tricks designed to help you get every bit of speed out of Aperture. Learn how to best configure the interface for a streamlined workflow and how to set preferences to get the best possible performance out of Aperture on your particular Mac.
Speaker: Martin Gisborne
Learn how to use Aperture along with other Apple tools such as iDVD, Keynote, GarageBand and even Final Cut Pro to easily create presentations that combine photos and audio with dramatic results. This seminar will show you the fastest and easiest techniques for turning a set of photos into a standalone audio slideshow that can be shown on screen or distributed on disk or via the internet. Topics will include creating both Flash- and QuickTime-based slideshows, as well as enhanced podcasts.
Speaker: Joe Schorr
Aperture's book-layout tools go far beyond those found in iPhoto and allow you to create incredible one-of-a-kind booklets, albums, and keepsake books. This class reveals the program's surprisingly powerful (and usually undiscovered) page layout features in all their glory and shows you what you need to know to design a custom book from scratch with high-quality results. Learn how to go beyond the pre-made templates to produce professional-looking designs from your photos with as little effort as possible.
Speaker: Martin Gisborne
Learn how Aperture's adjustment tools can do more than correct problem images. Learn all about masterly monochromes, creative color and awesome adjustments. In addition, wrap your head around one of Aperture's most unique and powerful features: Versions. With versions, you can spin off as many different variations of an image as you want — without ever having to duplicate the original photo. This time- and space-saving feature can radically streamline the way you work with digital photos — once you understand it. Learn all about how versions work, how they can help you save hard drive space, and how to keep them perfectly organized in Aperture. Discover the benefits of using Smart Albums in combination with versions to locate photos in your library more quickly. See how versions can help you create better books, better websites and better prints.
Speaker: Sal Soghoian
Mac OS X version 10.4 "Tiger" introduced Automator, a new application that automates anything on your computer quickly and easily. Using the power of Mac OS X, Automator controls your applications and files, automating — in an instant — what you need done with them. Automator will change the way you use your Macintosh. There's no scripting or coding, it's drag-and-drop easy. It's truly "Automation for the rest of us!"
Apple's Automator Product Manager, Sal Soghoian, gives you a personalized tour of this innovative application and you'll learn when and how to use Automator to make automating complex or repetitive tasks a breeze!
Speaker: Sal Soghoian
Taking the shot is just the first step in the long process of delivering finished work. Now you can super-charge Aperture's workflow features to automate the traditional image workflow and extend it to include other applications and scenarios, such as:
You'll learn to use Aperture's built-in AppleScript and Automator support to create custom workflows for you and your staff. No code writing experience necessary — it's drag-and-drop simple!
Speaker: Joe Schorr
How to use Aperture's built-in web publishing tools to make great websites from your photos. Learn the nuances of web journal creation and discover how to get the most out of the pre-defined templates. In addition to how to use all of Aperture's built-in web publishing features, you'll learn the basics of customizing Aperture's built-in templates, by using some simple HTML tricks.
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