LEARN ADOBE PHOTOSHOP: Selections, Masks & Retouching, November 14, 2008

Even the best images benefit from fine-tuning in Photoshop. Learn to optimize your photographs.

Saturday, practice refining your photographs by changing exposure, contrast, color and sharpness in specific parts of your image. Make skies more dramatic, foregrounds brighter, and reds redder. You'll learn about tools and commands to select different areas of your photo; modifying and saving what you select; protecting parts of your picture using masks; and visually blending a selected area into the rest of the photo.

On Sunday, 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 all 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 tools and commands to correct exposure and color, to blur or sharpen specific areas, and to clean up debris.

Pre-registration is required for this two day workshop that runs from 9 to 5 PM on Saturday, November 15th and 9 to 3 PM on Sunday, Novembe 16th. Register and learn about 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.

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