March, 2008: MCP Class Schedule
Continuing This Month
Steve Bye
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Course #2005 + Intermediate Adobe Photoshop:
for Photographers
February 25 to April 7, 2008
Mondays, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. (7 sessions)
COURSE FULL
Instructor: Steve Bye
Fee: $256.50 MCP members, $285 non-members
Deadline to Enroll: February 19, 2008
Class Limit: 10
Location: MCP's digital lab
To sign-up contact Jes Schrom, Gallery and Education Coordinator, at jes@mncp.org or call her at 612.824.5500
Course Description
You've used Photoshop for years, but do you really know the fastest, highest quality ways to do the things photographers want to do? Have you upgraded to CS3 and want to learn the new tools in it and Camera raw? Or maybe you've had some experience with Photoshop, but want to improve your skills.
This class will teach you how to refine your images, using localized adjustments of tone, contrast, color, and sharpness to bring out the image's nuances and focus attention on its strengths. The goal of the class is to optimize images for printing on inkjet printers, or a color coupler printer (Lightjet or Frontier printer) using a photo service such as White House Custom Color. Attention will be given to color management, so that color will be predictable.
At the end of the class a student will be able to:
+ use Curves to set black and white points and adjust contrast of specific tonalities
+ use adjustment layers to make non-destructive enhancements to images
+ use layer masks to target adjustments to specific parts of the image
+ use Soft Light and Hard Light to dodge and burn without degrading image quality
+ make accurate selections quickly
+ use Quick Mask to alternate between selections and masks to refine selections
+ understand blending modes and their uses
+ use the High-Pass filter with bending modes to add "snap" to an image
+ learn the benefits, simplicity, and power of working with RAW files
+ use built-in automation and scripts to increase efficiency and productivity
+ create Actions to automate repetitive tasks
+ learn modern sharpening concepts for capture, creative, and output sharpening
+ create a website gallery of images in minutes and upload it to a server
Each class will start with an explanation of the concepts and tools, with demonstrations and supporting visuals to simplify learning. Sample images will be provided for students to practice the concepts during class, and some optional take-home assignments will be used.
The class is hands-on, with each student using their own iMac computer and CS3 Photoshop Suite. Students will practice each concept during class to make sure they understand it. The class is taught on Apple computers but, once within the Photoshop application, the functionality and user interface are nearly identical to Windows. Windows users will easily learn the few Mac computer functions that are required.
At the end of the class students will have a very strong understanding of the tools and features of Photoshop that are most important to photographers.
Requirements
Participants must have a solid working knowledge of computers and a solid foundation in Photoshop.
If your skills are rusty, or you are not sure, it might be best to take Course #1005: Beginning Photoshop for Photographers before taking this course. Though some of it would be review, it is not an overview class. Read the list of skills for the beginning class to see if you feel confident with the concepts listed.
Participants are allotted 15 hours of open lab time for no additional charge during the duration of this course in MCP's Digital Lab, for class related work only. Ink and paper fees still apply.
Students will need to provide their own jump drive or portable hard drive to bring images to and from class. Storage of student images is not provided on MCP computers at this time.
Instructor
Steve Bye is an Adobe Certified Instructor of Photoshop. He has used it extensively since the release of version 4 over ten years ago.
After shutting down his wet darkroom many years ago, Bye's interest in photography was rekindled when the very first photo inkjet printers became available. Though their quality at the time was poor, digital photography using inkjet printers seemed worth investigating. Now, ten years later, he has worked extensively with over seven models of Epson printers, using Photoshop to optimize images for printing on fine art papers and new media that simulate silver gelatin papers.
Bye's strength as a teacher is in explaining difficult concepts in easily understandable terms, a skill learned while at Hewlett-Packard as a trainer, engineer, and manager.
