Saturday, September 13, 2008 -- 9:00am to 4:30pm
Course Fee: $225, including lunch!

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Perhaps you've completed Part 1 of Simplified Photoshop, as taught by Allen Kuhlow, or you may have explored Photoshop on your own. Now you'd like to extend your knowledge and practical experience with this powerful image editing software, see what PS3 has to offer. We'll be working with masks, one of Photoshop's most powerful features! During this workshop you'll discover how to use masks to optimize small, local areas in your images. If you are ready to move your skills to a new level, then Part 2 is designed for you.

Photoshop is the gold standard of digital image processing programs, so extending your knowledge of the features that are applicable to outdoor photography will be our goal. Past attendees of our introductory Part 1 class have had their Photoshop questions answered and left the class understanding digital photography concepts more clearly. During Part 2, we'll answer any general-interest questions that have come up during your basic exploration of Photoshop, we'll work through a complete image optimization.

We'll concentrate on three important areas: creating Selections by several methods will be a major part of our studies, applying the Levels Tool and the Curves Tool at appropriate times, and working with Masks! We'll also discover a couple of special image enhancement techniques for working in Photoshop.

If you've worked with Photoshop at all, you know that being able to select and maximize a portion of your image is one of the most important skills you can acquire. Making an accurate selection of a portion of your image is crucial to controlling the final image. This class will emphasize several techniques to make accurate selections, so your printed image will burst from the page in an explosion of color.

The class is limited to three participants to ensure help with your training. We'll limit the number of tools and techniques we explore. You'll feel comfortable using these few tools, so you'll go home ready to continue your exploration of Adobe's popular Photoshop software. The benefits of our Photoshop class are that we'll have a maximum of three participants, you'll have your own computer to work on, and instructor access is much better with a class this small.

During this all-day class, we'll provide a home-cooked lunch on the premises, so you can take a break from your studies without having to worry about finding a lunch location.

If you're relatively new to the digital darkroom, you'll feel comfortable here. You should know how to use a computer for such tasks as surfing the Internet or checking e-mail; we'll be working on Windows-based computers with Photoshop CS2, but Photoshop works almost identically on Mac computers, so the instruction will work well for you if you are comfortable using either Windows or Mac machines. If you are using a Mac computer, we'll provide the information you need to work on that type of computer too.

This second part of the introductory Photoshop workshop will advance your skill level, so that you'll gain additional techniques to make your image editing sessions go more smoothly as you continue to develop your Photoshop skills. Our goal is to provide you with tools that will make your image optimization quicker and more effective.