Digital Painting In Photoshop CS5

This fall, I have been teaching an advanced Photoshop Class at the Art Institute of Atlanta as a guest instructor along with my wife Helene Glassman, www.imagerybyhelene.com and photographer Keith Roland, www.krdigitalphotography.com. It has been a long time since I gave up my photography instructor position there in the eighties for doing programs at conferences and schools around the country. The students in this class have some real talent and it has been fun for us to work with them. This week was the last session, and I decided to do the digital painting class like this weeks onOne Software webinar. www.ononesoftware.com/webinars With only a quick 30 minute demo on the painting technique, the class produced dozens of cool painting for their final assignment. I would like to share some of them with you so you can see how cool this can be in taking existing images to the next level in creativity. For more information on this technique, you can visit the archived webinar that will be posted soon on the onOne Software webinar site, and you can also download the tutorial PDF at http://www.divitalephotography.com/digital_painting.zip

Creative Edge In Photoshop & OnOne Plug-ins Webinar

This Thursday at 2:pm EST (11:am PST) I will be doing another webinar hosted by OnOne Software. It is free to register for and I would like to invite you to attend. I will be demonstrating my techniques for creating fine art digital paintings from photographic files using Adobe PhotoshopCS5 and OnOne Software's PhotoTools and PhotoFrame. Hope you can tune in. You can register at: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/442088384

Digital Imaging Institute Yosemite Workshop

Last weekend ended our first three day Yosemite Imaging in Ophthalmology Workshop. With expert speakers in both digital imaging and ophthalmology, attendees had a great time both learning in class and going out on morning and afternoon shoots in the incredible Yosemite National park. Organized by DII president Mark Maio, this workshop was an experience for both speakers and attendees alike. This was my first trip to the park and I was just blown away with the landscape there... We had a nice reception at the Ansel Adams Gallery getting to view many of his different masterpieces. This was just the first in what we hope will be many workshops in different specialties within science and medicine that we will be putting on through the DII. A special treat for the group were programs with Capture Integration http://www.captureintegration.com and the quarter of a million dollars worth of high-end digital cameras they brought for everyone to try out. Helene did portraits of all the attendees so everyone could go home with a great headshot to be used in their future business needs. For more info on our association and to see our digital magazine, visit the website at http://www.digitalimaginginstitute.com.

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Photography In Paradise

Want to mix having a great vacation while attending a photography conference? One that you might consider planning ahead for is The Maui Photo Festival. http://www.mauiphotofestival.com Helene and I had a great time there this year and are looking forward to teaching at the next one on August 25th-28th 2011. There are lots of opportunities to go and learn photography these days, so the big question now is which ones to attend. You obviously can’t see them all, so you have to be a little picky. One thing I get to do a lot more than most photographers is attend photography conferences. Working as an instructor for NAPP, PPA, Canon, and Adobe, I am very fortunate that I get to work at most of the major digital imaging shows. You start to kind of rate them on speaker knowledge and how efficiently they are run. They all start to have their good points about them and there won’t ever be the perfect conference, but this gathering in Maui is a pretty good environment to learn in. Held at the Hyatt in Kaanapali, Maui, you might as well take a trip to paradise if you got to learn photography. Great speakers and a relaxed atmosphere lead to learning at a very high level. I am amazed every time I get to go there at how much imagery there is to take in. I just wanted to share a few more images from my last experience there. Look forward to seeing you there next year… Aloha

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New On-Line Commercial Photography Training Course At Kelbytraining.com

Kelbytraining.com has just released my new commercial photography training course on line. These digital capture and Photoshop workflow tutorials cover start to finish sessions on setting up color management, studio product photography, working with tilt/shift lenses, tethered camera workflow with the Canon 1Ds MarkIII, and final file enhancements in Photoshop CS5. Recorded down at NAPP headquarters in Scott Kelby’s photography studio facilities, these new lessons hopefully will help photographers streamline their studio photography process and give some creative options in their work. I look forward to any feedback from Kelbytraining.com subscribers who watch them. To find our more info, watch a preview, or view any of The Kelby Media tutorials, check it out at http://www.kelbytraining.com/