Learn Adobe Photoshop CS-4, #2: Selections, Masks & Retouching April 3, 2009

Even the best images benefit from fine-tuning in Photoshop. Learn to optimize yours in this two-day workshop.

On Friday, refine your photographs by changing exposure, contrast, color and sharpness in specific parts of your image. Make skies more dramatic, foregrounds brighter, and reds redder. Learn about selecting different areas of your photo using the most efficient tools and commands; modifying and saving what you have selected; protecting parts of your picture using masks; and visually blending a selected area into the rest of the photo.

On Saturday, you'll rescue photos you thought were destined for the trash. Learn to straighten tilting pictures, balance uneven exposures, and clear up colorcasts created by using the wrong white balance. Make your friends and family look good with simple portrait retouching techniques for enhancing eyes, teeth and skin. Get rid of sensor dust, telephone wires, litter and other unwanted objects in your images. Finish up your work with advanced sharpening techniques. Learn about the tools and commands used to correct exposure and color, to blur or sharpen specific areas, and to clean up debris. You will be able to duplicate the techniques later, thanks to Kathy's detailed book that is custom-written for this class.

To get the full benefit of this class, you should know how to operate your digital camera; understand how to use the operating system on your computer and have Adobe Photoshop CS-4 installed and ready to use in class. Be sure to update your copy of Photoshop and Adobe Camera Raw prior to class. If you need assistance with installing a trial version of Photoshop or updating your copy, please set up a time for us to help you with this step before class starts.

Graduates of this workshop have said it's well worth the investment in studying with Kathy, even for photographers who think they already know their way around Photoshop. Kathy gives clear step-by-step guidance through the creative process from visualizing to realizing a successful digital image. Join in for two productive days of small group, hands-on learning.

Take your Photoshop skill set to the next level with Kathy’s expert guidance. There are lots of Photoshop classes available, but few taught by truly skilled instructors. Join in Friday and Saturday, March 27th and 28th. The class meets from 9 to 5 PM on Friday and from 9 to 3 PM on Saturday. Pre-registration is required. Register and learn about this and other F-11 workshops when you stop by the store at 16 East Main in historic downtown Bozeman, visit www.f11photo.com or call 406-586-3281