Mexican Riviera February 4th–11th, 2006 ® Photoshop FlingTM 3 TM Escape to the good & MacMania IV life. Allow yourself to be pampered. Unwind. Have fun. Enrich your mind. And do it all aboard a luxurious cruise ship. Speakers Chris Breen Jack Davis Bruce Fraser Janet Hill Andy Ihnatko Leo Laporte Bob LeVitus Deke McClelland Bert Monroy Sal Soghoian Jason Snell Mark Swain Steve Wozniak Photoshop Fling: Essentials • Unsharp Mask and High Pass Photoshop Fling 3 / MacMania 4 Adobe Photoshop CS2 One-on-One • Removing motion blur with Smart Sharpen Sunday the 5th, 8:30am – Noon During our cruise-conference, there will • The wonders of Remove Noise & Effects be four (4) three-day “tracks” offered at the Speaker: Deke McClelland • Gaussian Blur and Median same time: • Creating an Edge Mask Photoshop is a vast and complex program. It The Wow Factor: • Using the Color Range command Photoshop Fling: Essentials & Effects does certain things very, very well, and it does One-Click Solutions in Photoshop • Extracting image elements • others very, very strangely. Using the program Thursday the 9th, 1:30pm – 5pm Photoshop Fling: Photography & Workflow • Blue screen and sky effectively is a matter of knowing which tools • • Full-on Masking Speaker: Jack Davis MacMania: New User work best and when best to use them. Attend • this introductory class and learn how to use Quick and easy ways to use Photoshop’s built-in MacMania: Power User the right features in the right order and save presets (and hundreds of complimentary Wow • The Bold and the New in Photoshop CS2 Attendees may freely move between the yourself a lot of heartache. presets that will be provided in class) to create Thursday the 9th, 8:30am – Noon tracks, at any time. For example, while special effects on-time and on-budget. • What Photoshop can do Photoshop Fling and the Digital Photography Speaker: Deke McClelland • Workspace and navigation • The phenomenal power, flexibility, and Workshop are independent of MacMania, • Basic color management Photoshop CS2 is the most ambitious, exciting, speed of Layers Styles classes here may be counted toward your • Highlights, shadows, and midtones and downright seminal update to Adobe’s flag- • How to create dimensional effects like chrome, MacMania session total. Similarly, Photoshop • Adjusting brightness levels ship image editor in the past five years. Vanish- rock, and glass (and beyond)—instantly and Fling conference attendees may attend any • Fixing a color cast ing Point, envelope-style image warping, float- without filters of the MacMania seminars—at no charge. • Hue and saturation ing-point exposure, and the stand-alone Bridge • One-click framing and tinting techniques Therefore, all attendees may choose • Colorizing a grayscale image all qualify as flat-out great. Then there’s my to tie disparate photographs together— any combination of full-day, half-day, or • Image size and resolution favorite feature, smart objects, which let you separately or as a collage quarter-day seminars—from either • Rotate, crop, and perspective do three things you could never do before: First, • Quick template-based collaging for weddings, MacMania or Photoshop Fling—for a you can apply non-destructive transformations. groups, or editorials total of three (3) days’ worth of sessions. Second, you can replicate a layer and edit all • Single image collages and ghosted Filters and Masks copies simultaneously. And third, you can backgrounds The conference fee is $795 and includes Sunday the 5th, 1:30pm – 5pm adjust the composition of imported camera raw all courses, course materials, five evenings and Illustrator layers long after importing them. of entertainment, and the Bon Voyage Speaker: Deke McClelland If flexibility and power appeal to you, join Deke Creating Special Effects with Photoshop Cocktail Party. Newly enhanced in CS2, corrective filters and learn how to make them yours. Friday the 10th, 8:30am – 5pm rank among the program’s oldest and finest • The new Adobe Bridge Speaker: Bert Monroy capabilities. Besides permitting you to sharpen • The revolutionary Vanishing Point plug-in the contrast of an image, blur away the defects, Creating realistic textures, the effects of lights • Combining multiple exposures into a and remove digital noise and JPEG artifacts, and shadows, and the ability to make an single HDR image they can help you hone in on exactly those image jump off the page will be covered in • Applying free-form distortions with warp details that need help the most. Combined with this session. Filters? There are many of them in and envelope Photoshop’s Masking function, filters make it Photoshop. What happens when you use them • Making a smart object possible to separate even the most complex for other than their intended purpose? What • Non-destructive transformations foreground subject from its background and happens when you put a few of them together? • Creating alias layers, all linked to a single composite that image into a new setting. You will create images that are more realistic original Sound amazing? You have no idea. than a camera could ever achieve. • Placing camera raw and Illustrator artwork • Filtering basics • Modifying placed layers well into the future The ability to bend things on a curve has been • The new filters in Photoshop CS2 one of the most asked-for features, yet it has always been there. Bert will demonstrate the use of the Displace Filter to make controlled, fluid distortions. The Liquify Filter will also be explored for distortion effects. Distorting with the Transform function will be explored for perspective matching and the creation of The Evolution of Digital Art realistic reflections. Speaker: Bert Monroy You will learn: • Working with Filters Bert Monroy embraced the Mac as an artistic • How the first computerized comic • Using the Liquify command medium with the introduction of the Mac book was produced • Light and shadows 128 in 1984. In this evening talk, open to all, • How the Mac has revolutionized the • Reflections Bert will take you on a journey through the graphic arts industry • Integrating Photoshop into other programs evolutionary transformation of the Mac from • How the Mac is used in the motion - After Effects its beginnings with MacPaint to its current picture industry - 3D software status as the preferred tool of graphic artist • Much, much more throughout the world. You will leave this talk, not only with A history lesson mixed with useful production some new found skills, but with the techniques will leave you not only entertained inspiration to explore new avenues you but a little more attuned to the potential that never before considered. lies within our favorite little box. Photoshop Fling: Photography & Workflow Expert Color Management Essential Photo Optimizing— Sunday the 5th, 8:30am – Noon Getting it Right Thursday the 9th, 8:30am – Noon Speaker: Bruce Fraser Speaker: Jack Davis Learn everything you ever wanted to know but were afraid to ask about color management. The experienced user knows there are a million We’ll start with a look at the basic science tools in Photoshop to adjust your images for that underpins color management—don’t maximum impact, but which ones work best, worry, the session is guaranteed equation-free work fastest, and are most “photographer —because doing so helps you understand not friendly”? In this session you will learn all sorts only how color management works, but also of workflow-enhancing techniques including: why it sometimes fails to do so. 101 uses for Auto Levels, how to create non- destructive dodge and burn layers, advanced Next, we’ll look at profiles, and their relation- gray-scale conversions, eyedropper color ship to the devices they represent, with a view correcting, stained teeth whitening, red-eye to developing sound troubleshooting skills. neutralizing, blotchy skin unifying, and the Last but not least, we’ll delve deep into only way to use Photoshop’s healing Photoshop’s color management features, mine brush—all with an emphasis on quality, the mysteries of working spaces, and look at flexibility, and speed. what it takes to build and maintain a complete • Which editing tools are best to use when capture-to-output workflow. fixing images—and which ones to avoid • Quick tone and color adjustments that leave your original image intact Real World Camera Raw • How to quickly fix under and over exposed Sunday the 5th, 1:30pm – 5pm images using Photoshop features like Digital Photography Workshop Speaker: Bruce Fraser Shadow/Highlight • Creating nondestructive, fast, and flexible Speaker: Jack Davis Learn how to: With the advent of Camera Raw 3.0, I look at repair layers for fixing, dodging and burning, Photoshop as a plug-in for Camera Raw, rather Learn the secrets of digital photography on • Tell beautiful, visual stories by capturing and color correcting than the other way around. In this session, our Mexican cruise. In this full-day class you’ll great digital photos • Simplified levels, curves, and sharpening you’ll learn the many benefits of shooting raw. quickly discover how to become a better pho- • Use natural light and flash the right way techniques Then you’ll learn to exploit the vast amount of tographer and tap the benefits of your digital • Use your camera’s menus and functions to • Advanced gray-scale conversions using information raw files contain by making use of camera. This Digital Photography workshop will optimize what your camera can do Channel Mixer Adobe Camera Raw’s powerful features, so that give you the power to capture special moments • Tap the value of a digital camera’s features when your images land in Photoshop, you’ll and preserve precious memories—for snap such as exposure compensation, scene modes, have very little to do to them except press Save and when to shoot RAW Editing Images in Photoshop shots to put in an album or oversized prints and choose a file format.