When working with Photoshop it is important to be sure that you are doing the right things to your images at the right time. In this two-hour session Mark Fitzgerald will take you through the creation of a safe and efficient workflow from uploading and organizing your images to printing them at home or at a lab. After this class you will be ready to start editing your images with confidence.

What you will learn:

• Getting organized so that you can find your photos
• The best way to correct brightness and contrast
• Color settings and color correction
• Resolution explained
• Sizing and cropping
• Red-eye removal
• Basic retouching
• The correct printer settings
• and More…

Prerequisites:
This two hour presentation is intended for beginner digital photographers who are using Photoshop. No laptop is needed for this class. You will receive a great handout to take home for future reference.

Class size:
Registration is limited to 15 students.

Length of presentation:
2 hours

Photoshop has long been the industry standard for anyone working with digital photographs. With the comprehensive toolsent in Photoshop it is possible to address just about any digitial imaging issue. However, Photoshop CS2’s massive set of tools can be hard to understand and even more difficult to manage. Photographers new to Photoshop often have difficulty knowing which tools to use and what order to use them in. That’s why Adobe created the newly released Photoshop Lightroom.

Lightroom is a workflow package that allows photographers to organize, edit, and output their images in an intuitive and efficient manner. One of the key features is that all image editing is non-destructive weather it’s done to RAW or JPG files. That means that any image adjustments that are done in Lightroom can be easily undone at a later date. What’s even more exciting is that the adjustments made to one image can be quickly applied to other images. If you need to adjust several similar images, you can fix one and then share it’s settings with the rest of the images.

With features like this Lightroom is already changing the way photographers work. This class is your chance to get in on the ground floor with this amazing software and start using it right away.

There are five production modules in lightroom: Library, Develop, Slideshow, Print, and Web. This class will focus on the Library and Develop modules - the heart of the Lightroom software. We will briefly take a look at the other three modules.

Topics to be covered:

• Asset Management - Getting Organized
• Importing and uploading Files
• The lightroom landscape
• Working with Keywords and Metadata
• Advanced sorting with labels and stars
• The image editing workflow
• Adjusting tone and contrast
• Black and white conversions
• Cropping and sizing
• Basic retouching and tools
• Sharing image adjustments and settings
• Saving presets
• Exporting files for the lab
• and more..

Class size:
This presentation is limited to 12 students.

Length of workshop:
2 hours

If you are new to digital photography and you still don’t know what to do with those photos you have been collecting in your camera, then this presentation is for you. See how easy it is to go digital as you get the low-down on Photoshop’s little brother. Photoshop Elements. Let Mark Fitzgerald show you how to easily organize your digital photos so that you can find them when you want them. Mark will also demonstrate a step-by-step process for quickly optimizing your favorite images so that they will be ready to print at home or at your favorite lab.

What you will learn about:

• Getting Organized so that you can find your photos
• The best way to correct brightness and contrast
• Color settings and color correction
• Resolution explained
• Sizing and cropping
• Red-eye removal
• Basic retouching
• The correct printer settings
• and more…

Prerequisites:
This presentation is intended for beginner digital photographers who are using Photoshop Elements 3 and 4. No laptop is required for this class. You will receive a great handout to take home for future reference.

Class Size:
Registration is limited to 15 students for this presentation.

Length of presentation:
2 hours

Spend an evening with Mark Fitzgerald and get some insight into the mysteries of Photoshop. Mark will be sharing his experience to help you avoid some of the pitfalls he encountered along the way to becoming and Adobe Certified Photoshop Expert. Learn the secrets behind creating a safe digital workflow that protects your important images so that you can return to them as your Photoshop skills improve.

What you will learn about:

• Staying organized
• Working with color
• The correct way to use levels
• The advantages of shooting in RAW
• The importance of adjustment layers
• Using a mask instead of the eraser
• The correct way to burn and dodge
• How to improve your over and under exposures
• Resolution demystified
• Image sharpening ABC’s

Prerequisites:
This presentation is intended for beginning and intermediate digital photographers who are using Photoshop 7, CS, and CS2. No laptop is needed for this class. You will receive a great handout to take home for future reference.

Class size:
Registration is limited to 15 students for this session.

Length of class:
2 hours

RAW files are considered the “Digital Negative” of digital photography. Working with them allows you to be more flexible and creative. You can do things with a RAW file that you could never do with a JPG file.

In this presentation you’ll learn the theory behind RAW and why you should know about it. Then you will see how to convert RAW files os that you can take advantage of the huge amount of data they contain. Also get some tips on saving time by working with lots of files at the same time. If you have been considering RAW, this class is a must.

What you will learn about:

• The Theory behind RAW
• Painless RAW conversion
• Working with multiple files
• Creative Techniques
• The advantage of using Photoshop CS2 over CS
• CS2’s new Image Processor
• Using an exposure target to simplify color correction
• and More…

Prerequisites:
A working knowledge of Photoshop CS or CS2 will be helpful. This class is a demonstration so no laptop is needed. You will receive a great handout to take home for future reference.

Length of class:
2 hours