Thursday & Friday, January 29-30, 2009

Layered Look in Photoshop

Instructor: Ctein

Every serious photographer should be using layers; this 2-day workshop will teach participants how to get the most out of using layers. Layers are for much more than doing up composites. Layers let photographers work creatively but nondestructively on their photographs. They are the key to performing really professional and sophisticated dodging and burning in and making local color correction. Layers allow selective sharpening of fine detail and smoothing out of noise and grain. They can be used for hand tinting and airbrushing photographs, and for making fine corrections to photographs to optimize print quality on different printers. Layers can even be used as "magnifying glasses" to make it easier to evaluate image manipulations. The workshop will provide instruction and practice in using layers like a pro.