Pre-conference Workshops
Pre-conference workshops are a great way to kick-start your Photoshop World experience. These special workshops are only open to registered attendees of Photoshop World and require a separate fee at registration.
Live Photography Workshops
NAPP Photo Safari 12:00pm - 9:00pm | Price: $279
w/ Moose Peterson, Joe McNally
Legendary photographers - Moose Peterson and Joe McNally - will be taking safari participants to a special location (to be announced soon) outside of Vegas to learn how to shoot landscapes, flash photography, and work with models, plus, they'll cover the on-location techniques every photographer needs in their bag of tricks. 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.
Canon Live Studio 12:00pm - 6:00pm | Price: $229
w/ Eddie Tapp, Jack Reznicki
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.
On Location Wedding Photo Shoot 12:00pm - 6:00pm | Price: $199
w/ David Ziser
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.
Believing is Seeing - Turn Ideas into Reality NEW 12:00pm - 6:00pm | Price: $199
w/ Vincent Versace
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. Limited to 45 participants.
Classroom Workshops
Early Bird Price: $89
Regular Price: $99
Epson Print Academy
w/ Jeff Schewe and John Caponigro
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.
Shooting for Photoshop NEW
w/ Ben Willmore
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. Techniques will include:
- How to slow down water without slow shutter speeds
- Learn to reduce or eliminate environmental mist and fog
- Combine a bracket of exposures into a single full-range image
- Processing a RAW file twice using smart objects and masks
- Changing background colors by filtering the subject's light
- Simulating graduated neutral density filters
- Learn about the three essential on-camera filters for digital
- Creative light painting & car streak photos with a difference
- Shooting techniques that ensure accurate color & skin tones
- Combining two less than ideal shots to produce an acceptable result
- Hand held extreme panoramas that will blow your mind
- Simulating Infrared
- Learn a two shot process for making flash look natural
- Digital cross processing techniques
- Eliminating sunburn and blotchy skin
- Simulating sunrise or sunset light
- Car Streak photography
- Transforming a 2D photograph into 3D
- Compositing fireworks and lightning
"Impressions of Nature" A Landscape & Seascape Photo Painting Class NEW
w/ Fay Sirkis
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.
Photoshop Channels & Masks
w/ Deke McClelland
Masking is the art of creating detailed organic selection outlines for generating photorealistic layered compositions and image enhancements. If 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.)
LAB in Depth NEW
w/ Dan Margulis
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. You'll learn:
- 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
Building an Electronic Portfolio (Using DVD, Slide Software, and Web Galleries)
w/ Richard Harrington
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.
Inside the Digital Photography Studio
w/ Jim DiVitale
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.
Lighting, Posing, Metering and Photographing Fashion
w/ Kevin Ames
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!
