Photoshop World - Vegas 2009

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 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

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 hands-on session - both camera and laptop - you'll create a movie poster from start to finish. We'll start with a photo shoot, taking photos specifically with Photoshop in mind. Then we'll go through a complete design process from extracting the model from a green screen background to compositing several images together to adding type and special effects. And while you're creating your movie poster you'll also be learning many important Photoshop techniques and shortcuts, including some 3D effects. By the end of the session you'll have a couple of finished pieces of artwork - and you'll get a poster-sized print of your design. This is not an introductory class for Photoshop. You need to have good basic Photoshop skills especially using selection tools and layers.

Requirements: Participants must bring a camera, card reader and laptop with Photoshop CS3 or CS4 (ideally the Extended version) and should have good basic skills in Photoshop. This is a hands-on session where participants will take photos and work in Photoshop on their own laptops. Limited to 45 participants.

Instructor: Dave Cross & Corey Barker
Track: Pre-Conference Workshops
Early Bird Price: $199.00
Price: $199.00

Learn how to capture high-voltage concert images and overcome lighting challenges in this live photo shoot session. Limited to 40 participants.

Instructor: Alan Hess
Track: Pre-Conference Workshops
Early Bird Price: $199.00
Price: $199.00

Ever wanted to select hair? Come to this session and learn how. Masking lets you select the finest of details with precision control. Or as Deke likes to say "Masking is the art of using the image to select itself." But given that no software has successfully automated the process (even you, a talented craftsman, cannot be replaced by a machine) masking is really the art of making yourself invaluable.

Instructor: Deke McClelland
Track: Pre-Conference Workshops
Early Bird Price: $98.00
Price: $99.00

From the beginning of Art history, there has been a universal fascination with the representations of the human face. Many of the greatest and most endearing works of art ever created are the paintings of portraits. Using Photoshop CS4 and Corel Painter, you'll learn how to transform your photographs of portraits into paintings that replicate the traditional styles of the Old Masters. Fay will cover the new CS4 functions that will give you more control than you've ever had before when retouching your portrait in preparation for the painting process, and you'll see Fay's signature style of Blending pixels using the latest version of Corel Painter.

Fay will teach you various ways you can transform your photos of "the portrait," into the different styles of the Old Masters. You'll learn to interpret high-key portraits to be painted as watercolors, and low key images as classical portraiture for the heirloom canvas oil painting. From the detailed work of Rembrandt, to the traditional style of Vermeer, to the brilliance of Monet, Fay will explore the many ways of representing the painting of the portrait, including the "Sfumato" technique first introduced by Da Vinci in the famous Mona Lisa.

The blending of lifelike and different complexions will be covered in great detail. Each step, from preparing the foundation of the face to applying the final highlight will be thoroughly demonstrated and explained. These lessons can be successfully applied to any painting style. From retouching your image in Photoshop, to applying your paints and blending them in Corel Painter, to the final printing process, including tips on preparing your image in Photoshop for the perfect print. You'll learn selective sharpening to make your portrait pop, fine art principles, and Fay's painting techniques that will elevate your portrait paintings to a new level. Prior experience or drawing ability is not necessary for this class.

Instructor: Fay Sirkis
Track: Pre-Conference Workshops
Early Bird Price: $89.00
Price: $99.00

This is a hands-on class where you'll learn about the hottest thing to hit digital photography in years — HDR (High Dynamic Range). We'll cover every aspect of HDR from how to shoot great HDR photos all the way through to hands-on processing them in Photomatix and Photoshop. You'll learn:

• Why HDR has become so important
• What to do in the camera to get the best HDR photos
• A quick photowalk so you can take your own HDR photos to work with in class
• Hands-on processing in Photomatix (and how it's much easier then you thought)
• How to organize and post-process your HDR photos in Photoshop, and seamlessly fit HDR into your workflow

Whether you're looking to learn HDR to help capture a realistic natural look to your photos, or you're looking to learn that surreal/grungy style this class will make you an HDR pro by the end of the day.

Note: For this pre-con you'll need your DSLR camera, a card reader, a tripod, your laptop, and Photoshop or Lightroom. You'll also need Photomatix Pro 3. This is a 3rd-party plug-in. You'll be required to have this installed (the free trial version) before you come to the conference. We'll also be providing a discount code for purchase to all attendees of the workshop. Class limited to 50 participants.

Instructor: Matt Kloskowski & Rafael Concepcion
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. Lunch Included. Limited to 45 participants.

Instructor: David Ziser
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 a remote ghost town outside of Vegas. 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

You'll learn how to successfully use Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and Lightroom to build a simple website. We'll cover the basics of site design and implementation into a Dreamweaver-based site, as well as how to incorporate a Lightroom template into a Dreamweaver-based design.

Instructor: Rafael Concepcion
Track: General Photoshop

If you want to learn how to make a photo gallery using Actionscript 3.0 — then this is not your class. If you want to learn about all of the different components, tricks, and techniques to get a photo gallery up using Flash, Fireworks, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, plug-ins, components, and online services — then step right in! Just don't tell your clients you were here.

Instructor: Rafael Concepcion
Track: General Photoshop

This class will push limits of what is capable with 3D in Photoshop Extended. We'll explore how you, as Photoshop artists and designers, can utilize 3D features in very creative ways to create even the most seemingly complex effects in no time at all.

Instructor: Corey Barker
Track: General Photoshop

Bert demonstrates many of the techniques that he develops in the creation of his photo-realistic imagery. A little of everything will be covered including, masking techniques, layer styles, filters, and more.

Instructor: Bert Monroy
Track: Photoshop 101

Dave will show you how to work faster, which will help make your work life easier. You'll be introduced to the automation features built into Photoshop, and learn how to create Smart Object templates and your own Actions.

Instructor: Dave Cross
Track: Photoshop 101

What comes first skin smoothing or the healing brush? Discover the order of retouching portraits in Photoshop in this step-by-step session. Kevin shows how to make retouching strategy maps, new skin smoothing techniques, and a variable soft focus filter in Photoshop CS4.

Instructor: Kevin Ames
Track: Photoshop 101

In this session, you'll learn typographic goodies such as creating intersecting type, placing a photo within text, working with type masks, and adding effects using Layer styles. You'll also learn how to kern so your text looks professionally set, master spacing with leading, and more. Plus, how to easily add texture to your text by using a filter, a brush, or another photo.

Instructor: Lesa Snider
Track: Design Track

No boring techie stuff here. This is the fun stuff. In this course, we’ll use Illustrator to create eye-popping effects that you can implement into your work immediately. There are so many little gems in Illustrator that you will find yourself wanting to experiment right away, especially with all the new goodies in Illustrator CS4.

Instructor: Corey Barker
Track: Design Track

Content aware scaling and Photomerge collaging are two new features in CS4 that are incredibly useful for graphic designers in terms of creativity, flexibility and productivity. CAS (Content Aware Scaling) can reshape imagery (either photographic or illustrative, or subtlety, or dramatically) to fit any layout or creative solution. And, the new collage feature of Photomerge can take any series of images and instantly create a dynamic "Polaroid tossed on the table story" of an object, a scene, or even of a sequential event! With Jack's 25-years-of experience as a graphic designer you're sure to come away from this session with both practical and inspirational "lifesavers!"

Instructor: Jack Davis
Track: Design Track

Expand your creative potential by learning how to utilize Photoshop to create unique and eye-catching photographic effects. In this session, you will learn how to: enhance images through adding light for emphasis, add drop and directional shadows, and effectively use motion and lens blur, add film grain, create a vintage-style, apply creative layer blending, and much more.

Instructor: Chris Orwig
Track: Photoshop Fixes

In part one of this class, you'll learn the pro's portrait retouching techniques for making your subjects look their best, while still looking natural and un-retouched.


Instructor: Scott Kelby
Track: Photoshop Fixes

How to make an out of focus image be in focus both non-destructively and with the least amount of image manipulation possible.

Revive and breath new life into all of your images with amazing techniques Vincent applies to his workflow. His class is for anyone who has ever taken an image and the focus was a wee bit "off." Or tried to photograph a waterfall, and no matter what, the image was a little too soft. Then there are those images that you know were in focus when you shot them, but because of the type of sensor or the way the RAW file was processed, the sharpness you expected was slightly missing. This class is also about a new way of thinking about your images, as well as a new way of seeing and creating.

Each class attendee will receive three, free plug-ins from Nik Software: Contrast Only, Skylight, and Tonal Contrast, and a set of actions for both CS3 and CS4. If you have CS4, you'll also receive a Configurator.

Instructor: Vincent Versace
Track: Photoshop Fixes

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: Productivity Track

Learn how to work with your digital photographer from start to finish to achieve the most effective and creative photo shoots.

Instructor: Jim DiVitale
Track: Productivity Track

It's no secret that CS4 isn't leaping off the online shelves. Whether it's the economy or some other factor, one thing is for certain; it's not the software's fault. Photoshop CS4 is one of the most compelling upgrades in recent years. Deke is not going to tell you that you have to upgrade - it's your money, you spend it as you see fit - but even if you end up skipping CS4, you'll want to know about the treasure trove of enhancements you missed.

Instructor: Deke McClelland
Track: Productivity Track

Lightroom 2 (and its cousin ACR 5) is not only the most powerful Image Optimizer on the planet, it's also the easiest, fastest and most flexible image enhancer imaginable! With one click you can add Illustrative Edge and Moody Portrait Grunge effects, Diffused Glows and Vignetted Double Borders, Hand Tinting, and Antique Re-coloring. Especially when you use Jack's brand new ACR Wow Presets (free to all attending his session)!

Instructor: Matt Kloskowski
Track: Lightroom ® Track

Push the limits by applying false color temperature, creating compelling black and white conversions, and experimenting with snapshots, virtual copies, and multiple processing to create the image in your imagination.

Instructor: Katrin Eismann
Track: Lightroom ® Track

One of the most compelling features of Photoshop Lightroom is its ability to organize your images. Everyone seems to have a different approach on how to set up such a task.

This session will explore some possibilities of how you may want to think about setting up a database of images, organizing folders of photos and renaming them so you can find them inside and outside of Lightroom. We'll examine when keywords and collections are useful in organizing both originals and variations for print and web output, best practices for setting up image catalogs, and how to handle multiple catalogs on location and back in the studio.

Instructor: Andrew Rodney
Track: Photography Track

Welcome to the official... the one, the only... Russell Brown Show!

Discover the latest Adobe® Photoshop CS4® tips and techniques, delivered by the master himself, Dr. Brown. Choose from a great collection of classic tutorials and special features. You'll learn more than you ever thought possible about the art and skill of Photoshop!

Dr. Brown will review several new CS4 features, including content aware scaling, working with 3D models, easy to use Adjustment and Masking panels, improved Auto Alignment, and much more. Delight in the bold, zany style that has won Russell a following among beginning, intermediate, and advanced users alike!

Instructor: Russell Brown
Track: Techniques Track

Learn how to get the most out of Photoshop CS4's new Adjustments and Masks panels. This new setup frees you from the modal hell of the previous versions. You'll see how to be much more productive and efficient with your adjustments.

Instructor: Ben Willmore
Track: Techniques Track

Learn how to use combinations of filters, layer styles, and brushes to make believable textures from scratch! Then, see how to add that finishing touch to make your textures come alive.

Instructor: Bert Monroy
Track: Techniques Track

See which sharpening techniques the working Photoshop professionals prefer and use in real-world everyday applications.

Instructor: Jeff Schewe
Track: Creative Suite Track

Camera Raw 4, hosted in Photoshop CS4 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 and 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

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

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

Learn what makes InDesign CS4 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

Empower your creative energy with professional techniques that will be fun to do and change the way you approach your creative finishing ideas. Learn image enhancements and masking ideas to achieve outstanding imaginative effects..

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

Photoshop is every bit a designer's tool as it is a photographer's tool. Here we’ll cover various design techniques such as creating graphic elements from scratch and using photographs as part of an overall design effect. After this course, you’ll never look at Photoshop the same way and you’ll surely approach creative possibilities with new vigor.

Instructor: Corey Barker
Track: Creativity Track

During this session, Joe McNally will present a slide show representative of his 30-year career as a magazine shooter for publications such as LIFE, National Geographic and Sports Illustrated. He will discuss strategies for shooting covers and lead stories for major publications, offer insights, stories and a Q&A about the process of getting work, keeping clients, and re-invention as a photographer. 

Joe will take the participants from the initial stages of a job, from when the phone call comes in to the ongoing interaction with editors, the time in the field, final image selections and publication.
 
All questions about a life in photography are welcomed.


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

Learn how Photoshop CS4 works with color images and color profiles. This seminar will cover how Photoshop can be set up to easily produce accurate previews of digital images and how to get reliable and predictable color output. Learn about color gamut, which RGB working spaces to utilize (and why), soft proofing and a thorough understanding of how Photoshop's color architecture operates for best results with virtually no color-geek speak.

Instructor: Andrew Rodney
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: Photo Studio Live Track

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

Instructor: Jim DiVitale
Track: Photo Studio Live Track

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

Instructor: Helene Glassman
Track: Photo Studio Live Track

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

Instructor: Joe Glyda
Track: Photo Studio Live Track

Using just an Elinchom Ranger kit (a battery powered head and large octabank), Joe shows the power and versatility of moving studio-quality light in the field.

Instructor: Joe McNally
Track: Photography Track

Ever say to yourself "Sure, anyone can get a great photo with that beautiful model, but you should see the folks I have to photograph. Let's see them light that!" OK, we will. In this live demo, Jack will forgo the usual beautiful models and use audience members, men and women as his models. This could be your star moment on a Photoshop World stage! Using just one strobe light with a 4'x6' softbox and reflectors, Jack will show you all the different looks you can get from using just one light. You don't need three or six lights to create a professional portrait - just one light to demonstrate dramatic high contrast profiles that are so popular in movie posters and editorial shots these days along with traditional classic beauty light. Jack will also demonstrate how to duplicate a natural looking sunlight effect, again with just one light.

Instructor: Jack Reznicki
Track: Photo Studio Live Track

From your image archives or after the shoot, there are often obvious issues that need to be corrected. In this session, explore a series of problem images and create some quick and easy solutions to more advanced methods using the powerful feature and filters found only in Photoshop.

Instructor: Eddie Tapp
Track: General Photoshop Track

Everyone talks the Photoshop game, but do you stammer and look at the ceiling when someone mentions Curves? Do you know what a grey slider is used for? Do you tell people that the lasso tool is where it's at because you're afraid of the pen tool? RC Concepcion will go over the top 10 (maybe more) things that everyone should know about Photoshop. You'll leave this class confident in how to use these tools, as well as getting some practical uses of these concepts.

Instructor: Rafael Concepcion
Track: General Photoshop Track

In part two of this two-part class, Scott will dig in deeper to the retouching processing, including taking an un-retouched image from beginning to end, where you'll see every step of the process, and the thoughts behind the retouch.

Instructor: Scott Kelby
Track: General Photoshop Track

All photos are about light and lighting. Available light, strobe light, ambient light, studio light, it's all about being able to see and control light. Some days the lighting gods smile upon you and kiss your photos with a glorious light and some days the lighting gods frown and you end up babbling in a corner, mumbling to yourself. This session is about seeing the light, understanding light, and controlling it to make the light do and look the way you want. It doesn't matter if it's artificial strobe light or natural available light like the sun, the principles of light are the same. Jack will show in this lecture, how moving your feet a little bit can drastically change the light and look of your photos, no matter if you are using the sun or a strobe. He will discuss how where you place your light in relationship to your subject can make a huge difference in how the light reacts with your subject. A few feet can mean the difference between just another portrait and an award-winning photo.

Instructor: Jack Reznicki
Track: General Photoshop Track

Masking is the art of using an image to select itself. In many cases, you can clone a channel - red, green, or blue - and build a mask from that clone, but often, a single channel is not enough. Photoshop's calculations command (Image > Calculations) lets you combine two color channels to create the ideal base for a mask. But it's not easy. With three channels, 22 blend modes, and a couple of invert check boxes to choose from, how do you know what to do? Join Deke and learn how to make sense of one of Photoshop's oldest and most powerful commands - calculations.

Instructor: Deke McClelland
Track: General Photoshop Track

The best images start in your camera. Learn the essential camera settings, shooting strategies, and recommended equipment to take the best source images to create high-quality panoramas, High Dynamic Range, Helicon Focus, and noise-free images.
Instructor: Katrin Eismann
Track: Photography 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

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 chroma key shoot.

Instructor: Richard Harrington
Track: Motion Graphics Track

Learn how to use 3D cameras, lights, particles, and the Vanishing Point feature to create exciting animations that capture the image and engage your audience.

Instructor: Rod Harlan
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 pros 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

Learn the Hollywood-style, 3D motion effects you’ve seen used in major motion pictures.

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 class!

Instructor: David Ziser
Track: Photography Track

Master this powerful module and get optimal output results each and every time.

Instructor: Kevin Ames
Track: Photography Track

Find out when it's time to take a photo into Photoshop, what kind of work is best to do there, and how to get it there and back.
Instructor: Julieanne Kost
Track: Photography Track

If you have been using Lightroom, yet want to take your skills to the next level, this session is designed for you. In particular, you will learn the top pro tips and tricks that will not only speed up your workflow but also expand your creative photographic output.

Instructor: Chris Orwig
Track: Photography Track

In this class, RC goes over the process of how to upload a Lightroom gallery to the Web. Starting with a basic Website gallery to an increasingly more complex Lightroom and Dreamweaver workflow, plus Lightbox galleries and incorporating a gallery into a Wordpress solution.

Instructor: Rafael Concepcion
Track: Photography Track

Whether its shooting the coast of Maui, the mountains of Tibet or the African Serengeti, saving, editing, and organizing your images is essential.

Instructor: Jack Davis
Track: Photography Track

You're up before dawn's early light, the ground crunches as you head out across the field. Over your shoulder is your trusty tripod as you quicken your pace with the sight of the glow on the horizon. Then... your subject appears in front of you. Here's the question of the moment. Which lens do you select?

Lens selection and application goes way beyond your wallet. The characteristics of a given focal length and f/stop is everything in making the image. The lens you select directly determines your style. Do you know your style? We'll explore style to give you a direction.

Instructor: Moose Peterson
Track: Photography Track

In this class, we'll see how to take full advantage of "the big 3" - Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign - with Photoshop at the center of everything. We'll discuss a few different ways to share files between each application, but particularly focus on methods that allow for easy updates and changes on the fly. Then we'll look at some examples of how we can take advantage of this integration between the applications.

Instructor: Dave Cross
Track: Productivity Track

This new session covers concert workflow starting from securing credentials, picking the right gear, shooting just three songs, no flash usage, downloading and editing images, to outputting to website galleries. We'll cover high ISO, low-light shooting, importing and tagging in Bridge and Lightroom, to editing selected images in Photoshop and creating outputs for different clients.

Instructor: Alan Hess
Track: Productivity Track

Learn insider techniques and the strategies of the best professional portrait and glamour retouchers. This session addresses retouching skin while maintaining pore structure, refining make-up, and reworking facial contours and lighting to make the beautiful - perfect.
Instructor: Katrin Eismann
Track: Productivity Track

Whether you work with good or bad originals, the lessons on how to fix a bad one are applicable. These sessions (Part 1 and 2) alternate between excellent and terrible originals, showing how the same techniques, in slightly different forms, can be used to improve each one.

These are advanced-level courses.

Instructor: Dan Margulis
Track: Productivity Track

Whether you work with good or bad originals, the lessons on how to fix a bad one are applicable. These sessions (Part 1 and 2) alternate between excellent and terrible originals, showing how the same techniques, in slightly different forms, can be used to improve each one.

These are advanced-level courses.
Instructor: Dan Margulis
Track: Productivity Track

Master the tools and techniques that will help you develop your very own distinct artistic style.

Instructor: John Paul Caponigro
Track: Creativity Track

Explore the newest feature of Photoshop — 3D. Learn how to make your two-dimensional images appear three-dimensional as you explore shadows, reflections, all the elements that turn the 2D canvas into a living world you can fall into.

Instructor: Bert Monroy
Track: Creativity Track

Light is the cornerstone of our vision, both physiological and photographic. Matching these two up is the challenge of photographers and a lifetime pursuit to master. In this age of digital, there are many tools — both at the point of capture and in post — where we can take control and make light dance for us. To see light, capture light, and then speak photographically in light is what we'll pursue in our quest to know it better.

Instructor: Moose Peterson
Track: Creativity Track

Transform a RGB file to B&W replicating the physics of how it would have been recorded if actually shot on black and white film.

Instructor: Vincent Versace
Track: Digital Photography Track

Accentuate and perfect any shot by emulating, bending and refracting natural light using special Photoshop techniques.

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, audiences at previous Photoshop Worlds were 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 audiences at previous Photoshop Worlds were 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

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
Track: Print/Prepress Track

Jim will share his compositing techniques on a start-to-finish advertising illustration project using several photographic elements. Emphasis will be on the creative use of Layers, Layer Masks, Blend Modes, and type to montage images into an easy formula for creating the final art.

Instructor: Jim DiVitale
Track: Productivity Track

See the newest plug-ins and techniques for producing High Dynamic Range (HDR) images. See a quick comparison of the tools available and then learn a start-to-finish workflow that will get you started with HDR right away.

Instructor: Ben Willmore
Track: Productivity 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 class will give you enough information in one hour to fuel immediate and dramatic results in your photography.

Instructor: David Ziser
Track: Photography Track

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

Instructor: Joe Glyda
Track: General Photoshop® Track

You'll learn sophisticated selections and masking techniques and how to use them in combination with targeted color adjustments to bring new light to your images. John Paul will also cover how to recognize the possibilities for enhancing and/or interpreting your images.

Instructor: John Paul Caponigro
Track: Artistic Photoshop® Track

How do regular portraits evolved into the fantastic? You'll find answers to this question in Kevin's newest class, which shows how to use simple special effects to create unusual, illustrative, and surreal portraits.

Instructor: Kevin Ames
Track: Photoshop & Photography Track

Learn how to add illustrative edges, moody portrait grunge effects, vignetted double borders, and antique re-coloring.

Instructor: Jack Davis
Track: Lightroom ® Track

As a photographer we totally love Lightroom but it's only one piece of the puzzle — you still need Photoshop. In this class, you'll find out 1) when it's time to take a photo into Photoshop, 2) what kind of work is best to do there and, 3) the best way to get it there and back.

Instructor: Jeff Schewe
Track: Lightroom® Track

In this session, Scott shows you how to build creative single- and multi-image print layouts that clients absolutely love. You'll learn the step-by-step process, some very clever workarounds, and how to automate the entire process.

Instructor: Scott Kelby
Track:Lightroom® Track

Lightroom and Camera Raw popularized two color correction options, temperature and tint. And yet, despite their unrivaled utility (if you only had two options, these would be the ones) temperature and tint exist nowhere inside the larger world of Photoshop. Nowhere in RGB, that is. But when you switch to LAB, you enter a world in which temperature and tint are everything and everywhere. Better still, you can re-saturate colors with a degree of simplicity and control that neither Lightroom nor Camera Raw possess. LAB is scientific... LAB is even controversial... but it's also great. Here's LAB the practical way.

Instructor: Deke McClelland
Track:Techniques Track

This session will teach you how to simplify the process of creating stunning panoramic images using any type of camera from small point-and-shoot to digital SLRs. We’ll start with proper digital exposure techniques and end with stitching multiple images together in Photoshop's Photomerg. You’ll also learn about lens choice, white balance, and overlapping image-framing to create wall-sized panoramas.


Instructor: Jim DiVitale
Track: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: Techniques Track