Class Schedule

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 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.

There is an artistic voice that is unique to each individual. A way of seeing the world that so moves us that we are compelled to photograph it for others to see. This class is about not looking but about seeing. It is a class about creating images that when viewed we believe we were there to feel what the photographer felt when he was taken by the picture. In this class we will explore the boundaries of light, pattern, geometry, gesture, emotion, color and most importantly time and how to incorporate these elements in the images we create. The focus of this class is to learn not how to take photographs but rather how to be taken by them. This class is not one that will just explore how to take technically perfect, compositionally correct, average photographs of an extraordinary subjects, but rather how to create extraordinary photographs of the world we see through the lens from the smallest things we walk by everyday and the average things we take for granted. This class is about how to see past the obvious.

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

Experience a "live" model shoot and learn the proper use of flash, light modifiers, and how to light and pose a model with renowned portraiture photographer Jack Reznicki while Photoshop Hall of Famer Eddie Tapp processes the images in real-time demonstrating the latest Photoshop and printing secrets the pros use.

Instructor: Jack Reznicki & Eddie Tapp
Track: Pre-Conference Workshops
Price: $229.00

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

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

Instructor: Bert Monroy
Track: Creativity Track

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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

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

From concept to final production, see how Photoshop is a designer's most powerful creative tool.

Instructor: Felix Nelson
Track: Photoshop® Design Track

By popular demand, Scott has combined the best parts of his incredibly popular "Lost of Typography" class and his "Designing with Type" class in this packed-full class where you'll not only learn the top 10 most important typography rules, but also "the tricks of the trade" on how to design with type. If you combine type and images, this class will change the way you work forever, and have an impact on everything you do that touches type.

Instructor: Scott Kelby
Track: Photoshop® Design 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 where to stop in the camera and take the lighting project into Photoshop. Photography means writing with light. Learn how to use Photoshop as a "light processor" for interiors, fashion and landscapes.

Instructor: Kevin Ames
Track: Photoshop® & Digital Photography Track

Here they are! The top 10 techniques that Photoshop users have told us that they want to learn most. From cutting edge photographic techniques to portrait retouching tricks all the way to some of the most requested design techniques - they're all here.

Instructor: Matt Kloskowski
Track: Productivity Track

Get the most out of CS3 by learning the best methods for working back and forth between InDesign, Bridge, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat. Learn keyboard and workflow shortcuts with an emphasis on using Bridge to coordinate your whole workflow.

Instructor: Taz Tally
Track: Productivity Track

Strictly speaking, focus happens inside the camera. But Photoshop can help you simulate the appearance of sharper focus, sometimes with spectacular results. In this eye-popping session, Deke McClelland explores new ways to enhance the focus of an image, not only using Unsharp Mask and Smart Sharpen, but also with the likes of High Pass, Emboss, Find Edges, convolution kernels, and the Fade command. We'll look at contrast enhancement, two-pass sharpening, shadow sharpening with a density mask, and ways to address vintage photographs with an edge mask. Learn how to bring out gorgeous, tactile edges without exaggerating blemishes, artifacts, or noise.

Instructor: Deke McClelland
Track: Productivity 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 everyday with the all new miracles found in the Bridge, ACR 4 and Photoshop CS3.

Instructor: Jack Davis
Track: Photoshop & Digital Photo Techniques Track

Edit photos at the pixel level to create vibrant and stunning images.

Instructor: Vincent Versace
Track: Photoshop & Digital Photo Techniques Track

In this session, you'll learn how current state-of-the-art technologies and software allow you to photograph and edit incredible black-and-white and tinted images, as well as photos taken in the invisible world of the infrared spectrum.

Instructor: Jack Davis
Track: Photoshop & Digital Photo Techniques Track

Discover how to start creating pro-quality Internet sites with absolutely no programming through the creative fusion of Photoshop CS3 and Dreamweaver CS3. You'll learn the fundamentals of designing effective splash pages, how to export Photoshop documents into Dreamweaver, techniques for organizing and assembling a website, and much more. Created for art directors, Web designers, and anybody looking to stake their place on the Internet, this class gets you on your way to designing Internet sites that will thrill and astound you and your clients.

Instructor: Rafael Concepcion
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

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 out 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

Less time spent processing photos = more time spent shooting. That one simple formula is what this class is all about. You'll not only learn about actions and shortcuts to make working on your photos faster but some techniques to create stunning images and templates faster than ever.

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

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Instructor: Corey Barker
Track: Creativity Track

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Instructor: Joe McNally
Track: Creativity 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

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

This seminar is designed to help you and your studio to be ready for the increasing demands from your clients who ask you to deliver images in CMYK for 4 color print work. Andrew will delve into the fundamentals of the CMYK color space and then demonstrate the steps necessary to provide superb CMYK conversions along with reliable CMYK reference prints right from your own Epson printer. And here's the big one -- taking the mystery out CMYK conversions! What is UCR/GCR and TAC, how should you communicate with the printer and service bureau and how to ensure RGB supplied files are properly handled. If your clients are asking for print ready files, this seminar could save your bacon!

Instructor: Andew Rodney
Track: Creativity Track

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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

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Instructor: Helene Glassman
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

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

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

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

In this session you'll learn how to use Lightroom's Develop module and Photoshop CS3 together. You'll find out exactly what tasks need to be done in Lightroom and what tasks should be done in Photoshop and how to move seamlessly between the two.

Instructor: Matt Kloskowski
Track: Photoshop® Lightroom® Track

Metadata (instruction based) editing of RAW data is a totally new way of rendering multiple iterations of images that isn't the same as correcting existing photographs using the pixel editor supreme: Photoshop. What are the best practices in moving into a RAW workflow using Lightroom and where does Photoshop fit into this big picture? This session will discuss the advantages of metadata image rendering on both RAW and existing rendered images. You'll see how you can speed up production by using the new tools in Lightroom and Camera RAW to greatly reduce the time spent 'fixing' problems in Photoshop and produce better quality data too.

Instructor: Andrew Rodney
Track: Photoshop® Lightroom® Track

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Instructor: Kevin Ames
Track: Photoshop® Lightroom&treg; Track

Lightroom is a powerful tool that enables an efficient workflow for photographers to manage, sort, organize, and share their images. In this session Tim Grey, author of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Workflow (Wiley, 2007) will guide you through and end-to-end workflow and show you tricks for getting the most done in the shortest amount of time. Learn about the best preferences for your needs, downloading images, sorting with maximum efficiency, and sharing images in slideshows, prints, and the web. After this session you'll have great confidence about your workflow in Lightroom.

Instructor: Tim Grey
Track: Photoshop® Lightroom® 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

In this session, Scott shows you the secrets behind the latest and most popular Photoshop special effects--the same ones you see on TV, in the Movies, and on the Web. You'll learn the insider's techniques for creating these "most-asked-for" looks, and you'll learn how to create some absolutely amazing effects that look hard, but are easy, once you know the secrets.

Instructor: Scott Kelby
Track: Professional Photography Track

Get ready to "take cover' at David's Gatling gun approach gives 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

This is not a Harvard Business School session, but it does offer the portrait/wedding photographers in the audience solid methods, marketing tools, and product ideas to increase their profit and further build their business. David's program will outline, the clear, simple, and concise steps that you to can use to enhance your business profile in your community, increase customer recognition, and, in turn, increase your "bottom line" substantially.

Instructor: David Ziser
Track: Professional Photography Track

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Instructor: Richard Harrington
Track: Artistic 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

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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

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Instructor: Richard Harrington
Track: Motion Graphics Track

Discover how to create and edit files in Adobe Acrobat 8 to maximize your productivity.

Instructor: Taz Tally
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

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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

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: Early Bird Sessions

Photographing fashion is all about the girl and the lighting, exposure, the pose and of course Camera Raw. This session explains how to light a model, how to use a light meter with electronic flash, posing techniques, camera angle as well as how to refine the exposure in Lightroom or Bridge while shooting directly into the computer.

Instructor: Kevin Ames
Track: Early Bird Sessions

Panoramic photography has long been of interest in documenting cities and landscapes. They have the unique ability of bringing the viewer to a better understanding of the whole scene. With the advent of digital panoramic photography, whole new vistas opened up to let viewers experience the surround of a space and a single image and interactively.

Steve was hired by Apple in the spring of 1995 to work with them on the development of QTVR as it came to be known. Later that year when he began to use a hand crafted panoramic adapter for his BetterLight Scanning camera, another dimension opened up, panoramics with such resolution and clarity that they became the most immersive photographic experience he had ever encountered.

Explore digital panoramic photography with Stephen Johnson in this talk covering panoramic sets from stitched multiple exposures, scanning cameras, interactive Quicktime VR files and surround panoramic displays.

Instructor: Stephen Johnson
Track: Early Bird Sessions

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: Early Bird Sessions

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: Early Bird Sessions

Learn professional scanning techniques for capturing and reproducing high quality line art, grayscale, and color images. Both reflective and film techniques will be shown. Also covered is scanner calibration and color management for achieving higher quality, more consistent and predictable results. Update your knowledge about state of the art scanning hardware and software technology, including high dynamic range scanning.

Instructor: Taz Tally
Track: Early Bird Sessions

In this session, we will explore how to use Photoshop Fireworks and Dreamweaver CS3 to build a basic website. From design concept to site definition, we will tour key features of each of the programs to show how to incorporate the suite in a basic workflow.

Instructor: Rafael Concepcion
Track: Early Bird Sessions

This session provides inspirational and user-friendly lessons when using Photoshop CS3 to emulate, bend and refract natural light. Step-by-step lessons guide you through the process of believably replicating the most fleeting and beautiful light of all -- a late afternoon beam of sunlight streaming through a window. Starting with initial image capture and lighting considerations, this series of progressive Photoshop lighting techniques gives you the essential skills to emulate brilliant, realistic lighting.

Instructor: Vincent Versace
Track: Digital Photography Track

This class teaches how geto convert an RGB file to black and white replicating the physics of how it would have been recorded if it were actually shot with black and white film. In addition, learn why you should not convert by global desaturation or by doing a classic black and white conversion only using the luminosity channel. Learn how to convert an image from a spectral approach and not a luminance approach. In this lesson, also learn how to recreate the dynamic range expansion with a two step development process.

Instructor: Vincent Versace
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

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: Productivity 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: Dave Cross
Track: Productivity 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

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 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

Learn techniques for using Photoshop's Camera Raw to "process digital negatives" just like manipulating film negatives in the lab.

Instructor: Deke McClelland
Track: Photoshop Techniques 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

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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