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<h2>Joe Englander Photography Workshops and Photo Tours</h2>
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Digital Darkroom Photography Workshop</h2>
<h3>The Finished Image: Creating Fine Prints with Digital Image Processing</h3><p>All our other programs concentrate on creating images in your camera; this
one concentrates on completing the cycle by getting images out of your camera
and into plain view.</p>
<p>These are intense, at-your-location, one-on-one workshops: no time-sharing
unless you specifically ask for it. They are entirely customized for you. You
will learn how to obtain a finely crafted, expressive black-and-white or color
print—from visualization to presentation—using your own negatives
or transparencies. You will learn how to use creative techniques as an extension
of your personal vision, producing prints that become an effective expression
of that vision.</p>
<p>Unlike almost every other Adobe Photoshop® class, ours are created exclusively
for photographers by photographers. We do not waste time with the graphic arts
capabilities of the program, but rather provide you with techniques to expand
and enhance those used in the traditional wet-darkroom. Because we teach at
your location, your computer system—scanner, monitor, program, and printer—is
checked-out, calibrated, fine-tuned, and customized to your needs as part of
the course. You will receive a handbook and accompanying CD to help you review
all the techniques we teach.</p>
<p>We've divided the course into two parts. By the end of Part One, you'll
be producing fine prints. Part Two offers refinements in techniques and solutions
for special problems. Many will find that Part One offers everything they need
to know; advanced users will want to take advantage of Part Two where they will
learn advanced power techniques and shortcuts as well as advanced selection
techniques, advanced power-masking, channels, alpha channels and inter-channel
mixes, using layers and layer masks for re-editable adjustments, using blending
modes and history, advanced color correction, and special retouching techniques.</p>
<p>If you don't already use Photoshop, you need to learn. It can definitely
help your photography. Our course covers everything you need to know from start
to finish, from calibrating and using a scanner to calibrating and using a printer.
Anyone who has a reasonably new computer can finally take control of his images
and get fine prints. There is no longer any reason to be at the mercy of a photo
lab. By the end of Part One, you'll be making better prints that you ever
got from a custom lab. Right off, We'll give you an introduction to the
terminology and tools of Adobe Photoshop as you learn to master the basics of
navigation, to use basic selection tools, copy and paste functions, cropping,
image adjustment tools, layers, and filters.</p>
<p>Do you already use Photoshop? There's still a lot learn. Did you know
you may have already damaged your files? Did you know that as delivered, right
out of the box, Photoshop begins by truncating your color? If you don't
know how to avoid damaging your files, then you almost certainly are doing so;
you need to learn how to operate without being destructive. When you first used
Photoshop you may have noticed tools with names similar to the techniques you
already used in the darkroom and figured you could go ahead and use them. For
instance, you may have seen that there are tools for burning and dodging. But
did you know those aren't the best tools to use for darkening and lightening
in a digital darkroom? Burn and dodge tools destroy your files. There are better,
faster, and easier techniques. The same goes for spotting and scratch removal.
You see those tools and you think they're the best ones to use, but they
aren't. Simply using software- and even hardware-based scratch and dust
filters will soften your image and create artifacts when you try to regain the
lost sharpness. There are better, faster, and easier techniques. You may have
seen suggestions for eliminating spots using rubber stamp or cloning tools.
This kind of low-end technique frequently appears in magazines. But if you use
rubber stamp cloning for spotting, you're ruining your files. There are
better, faster, and easier techniques.</p>
<p>You'll learn:</p>
<ul>
<li>What Photoshop is and how it can work for you</li>
<li>How to properly get an image into Photoshop</li>
<li>Which techniques of image editing and adjustment to use and when</li>
<li>How and when to use color correction and contrast control</li>
<li>Which Photoshop tools are critical and which are basically toys</li>
<li>How to avoid destroying or damaging your files while you're being creative</li>
<li>How and when to use powerful shortcuts</li>
<li>What can be done about overexposed or underexposed originals</li>
<li>How to use the best methods to achieve proper color balance</li>
<li>What effect hue and saturation manipulations have on your final print</li>
<li>What color spaces are and how they work with correction tools</li>
<li>How to use layers, adjustment layers, and channels</li>
<li>How to use palettes, paths, and selections</li>
<li>How to make masks and then make them work for you</li>
<li>What the quick-mask really does and how to use it to your advantage</li>
<li>What the history palette and history brush can really do for you</li>
<li>How to merge your in-camera exposure-brackets into a single image</li>
<li>How to properly use and calibrate your scanner, monitor, and printer</li>
<li>How to grayscale balance with color printers</li>
<li>How the histogram relates to the zone system</li>
<li>How to make the curves work with your film</li>
<li>How to replace burning and dodging with truly useful techniques</li>
<li>How to control perspective distortions without a pc lens</li>
<li>Whether you should buy plug-ins or make your own</li>
<li>Which filters work for you and which destroy your files</li>
<li>How to control black-and-white tonalities</li>
<li>How to convert color originals to black and white without ruining tonal
balance</li>
<li>Why you should edit in color before converting to black and white</li>
<li>Which software add-ons you really need and which are just hype</li>
<li>Why your monitor is out of color balance and how to fix it</li>
<li>How to optimize images for printing</li>
<li>How to control desktop color printers</li>
<li>How to prepare your work for output to the web or to printers</li>
<li>How to determine if a service bureau is really doing good work</li></ul>
<p>In short, how to create the highest quality master images.
<p>The only requirements for Part One of this course are that you be a photographer,
own a current computer and printer, and have a basic understanding of how to
operate your computer (how to turn it on, use the mouse, open a program, etc.).
For Part Two, you must have completed Part One or pass an entrance exam.</p><hr>
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