Tag Archive for: photoshop

Improving Cruddy Vector and Image Graphics

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Your client or boss just sent you a bunch of images for your marketing campaign… and they’re terrible! Learn how to use the secret powers of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat to improve your graphics.

Topics include:

  • How to improve grainy low light mobile phone images
  • What to do with low resolution and pixelated images
  • Tips for improving poor quality stock photos
  • How to fix stock vector graphics with blend modes that won’t render in InDesign
  • How to match color tones across all assets
  • Choosing the right ICC profiles for image assets

10 Essential Photoshop Productivity Tips

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Join us in this information-packed session where we’ll share our best Photoshop tips and power shortcuts for designers!

In this session, you will learn timesaving techniques, little-know features, and better ways to work with the tools that you already use. This session will leave you saying, “I wish I knew that years ago!”

In this session, you’ll learn:

  • Time-saving techniques
  • Little-know (hidden) Photoshop features
  • How to make blending modes work for you

Retouching Images

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Overwhelmed by Photoshop? Have too many images that need work, and too little time? Learn some quick techniques for retouching, image balancing, and color matching. You’ll be amazed how quickly you can get your files cleaned up and print ready.

Learn how the pros do it in this session with a veteran retoucher and get a fully annotated PDF to keep you on track after the class.

What we’ll cover:

  • Fast clean up methods
  • The key to extending backgrounds quickly
  • Take out objects in a snap
  • Using Frequency Separation (don’t be scared, we’ll make it easy)
  • Color Matching made easy
  • Color Balancing, fast
  • Color Grading in a few short moves

Outrageous: 30 Years of Images

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Take a journey through 30 years of photographs, photocomposites, illustrations, social media, ads, and more! This session is half “how to” and half “how the heck…!”

Join David Blatner as he interviews five amazing digital pioneers and we see their favorite works of the past three decades:

  • Russell Brown: Sr. Creative Director at Adobe Systems, Emmy Award Winner 2008, and much much more
  • Sharon Steuer: Award winning fine artist, award winning author, and creator of The Adobe Illustrator Wow! Book
  • Bert Monroy: Early-adopter Photoshop expert, wrote the first book on Photoshop, fine artist, commercial artist
  • Louis Fishauf: Canadian award-winning graphic designer, art director, and illustrator
  • Katrin Eismann: internationally-known teacher, photographer, retoucher, and author