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Photoshop CS4 Photographer’s Handbook – Wk 9

Creative Edits & Effects, pt. 2 » in 10 days, 9 hours, 13 minutes

Creative Edits & Effects, pt. 2

This week everything comes out of the tool box – compositing, filtering, layer effects, transparency modes. Steve shows us why “Photoshop” has become a verb. It’s too much for just one session!

Date: Monday, March 29, 2010
Time: 11am Pacific (Seattle) [Other Time Zones]
Duration: 90-120 Minutes

The LIVE classes are FREE to attend!

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Seattle Classroom: 1944 First Ave South, Seattle WA

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You can also purchase the entire 10-week course of downloadable files in HD and iPod resolutions for $50 until Feb. 28, 2010. After that, the price increases weekly up to $99.

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Photoshop CS4 Photographer’s Handbook – Wk 8

Creative Edits & Effects » 10 days, 14 hours, 46 minutes ago

Cleanup & Retouching

This week everything comes out of the tool box – compositing, filtering, layer effects, transparency modes. Steve shows us why “Photoshop” has become a verb. It’s too much for just one session!

Date: Monday, March 8, 2010
Time: 11am Pacific (Seattle) [Other Time Zones]
Duration: 90-120 Minutes

Purchase the Downloads

You can also purchase the entire 10-week course of downloadable files in HD and iPod resolutions for $50 until Feb. 28, 2010. After that, the price increases weekly up to $99.

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Photoshop CS4 Photographer’s Handbook – Wk 7

Cleanup & Retouching » 17 days, 14 hours, 46 minutes ago

Cleanup & Retouching

You’ve taken a good photo. Mostly. This week Steve demonstrates the little individual things you can do in Photoshop to clean up, make corrections and add that extra spark to your image.

Date: Monday, March 01, 2010
Time: 11am Pacific (Seattle) [Other Time Zones]
Duration: 90-120 Minutes
Cost: The LIVE classes are FREE to attend! You can also purchase the complete 10-week course of downloadable files in HD and iPod resolutions, with exercise files, for $50 up until Feb. 28, 2010 or $99 after.

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Photoshop CS4 Photographer’s Handbook – Wk 6

Local Adjustments, Pt. 2 » 24 days, 14 hours, 46 minutes ago

Local Adjustments 2

Part two of Steve’s two-part series on making local adjustments. This concluding session will focus on Photoshop selections and masks applied to adjustments.

Date: Monday, February 22, 2010
Time: 11am Pacific (Seattle) [Other Time Zones]
Duration: 90-120 Minutes
Cost: The LIVE classes are FREE to attend! You can also purchase the complete 10-week course of downloadable files in HD and iPod resolutions, with exercise files, for $50 up until Feb. 28, 2010 or $99 after.

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Photoshop CS4 Photographer’s Handbook – Wk 5

Local Adjustments, Pt. 1 » 1 month, 3 days, 14 hours, 46 minutes ago

Part one of Steve’s two part series on making local adjustments. This first week his focus is on LR and Camera Raw, demonstrating the use of masks to make painterly and graduated changes and corrections.

Date: Monday, February 15, 2010
Time: 11am Pacific (Seattle) [Other Time Zones]
Duration: 90-120 Minutes
Cost: The LIVE classes are FREE to attend! You can also purchase the complete 10-week course of downloadable files in HD and iPod resolutions, with exercise files, for $50 up until Feb. 28, 2010 or $99 after.

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Photoshop CS4 Photographer’s Handbook – Wk 4

Global Adjustments, Pt. 2 » 1 month, 10 days, 14 hours, 46 minutes ago

This week Steve continues and completes the discussion on making large scale adjustments to your images.

Date: Monday, February 8, 2010
Time: 11am Pacific (Seattle) [Other Time Zones]
Duration: 90-120 Minutes
Cost: The LIVE classes are FREE to attend! You can also purchase the complete 10-week course of downloadable files in HD and iPod resolutions, with exercise files, for $50 up until Feb. 28, 2010 or $99 after.

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Photoshop CS4 Photographer’s Handbook – Wk 3

Global Adjustments, Pt. 1 » 1 month, 17 days, 14 hours, 46 minutes ago

Beauty may be in the details but it’s pointless to focus on the little things if there are major problems that need to be taken care of first. This week Steve begins a discussion on making large scale adjustments to your images.

Date: Monday, February 1, 2010
Time: 11am Pacific (Seattle) [Other Time Zones]
Duration: 90-120 Minutes
Cost: The LIVE classes are FREE to attend! You can also purchase the complete 10-week course of downloadable files in HD and iPod resolutions, with exercise files, for $50 up until Feb. 28, 2010 or $99 after.

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Photoshop CS4 Photographer’s Handbook – Wk 2

Organize & Archive » 1 month, 24 days, 14 hours, 46 minutes ago

Once you’ve taken your photos how to do you keep track of them? How do you find them again? This week Steve gives discusses keywording, metadata, grouping photos into albums and manipulating catalogs. So you can find your stuff!

Date: Monday, January 25, 2010
Time: 11am Pacific (Seattle) [Other Time Zones]
Duration: 90-120 Minutes
Cost: The LIVE classes are FREE to attend! You can also purchase the complete 10-week course of downloadable files in HD and iPod resolutions, with exercise files, for $50 up until Feb. 28, 2010 or $99 after.

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Photoshop CS4 Photographer’s Handbook – Wk 1

Capture & Import » 2 months, 0 days, 14 hours, 46 minutes ago

Steve Laskevitch shares his technical advice on how to capture great photos. He covers how to read histrograms and how to prep for HDR and panoramic images. Then he shows us how import those wonderful pictures you’ve shot onboard your computer and get to work using Bridge, Adobe Photo Downloader, Lightroom, and Digital Negative Converter for converting RAW images.

Date: Monday, January 18, 2010
Duration: 90-120 Minutes
Cost: The LIVE classes are FREE to attend! You can also purchase the complete 10-week course of downloadable files in HD and iPod resolutions, with exercise files, for $50 up until Feb. 28, 2010 or $99 after.

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Photoshop CS4 Photographer’s Handbook – Overview

Week 9 » in 10 days, 9 hours, 13 minutes

Many photographers feel overwhelmed when first starting with Photoshop. In this special 10-week course drawn on his book of the same name, Steve Laskevitch shares a unique step-by-step workflow for editing photographs in Photoshop CS4 as well as Bridge, Camera Raw, and Lightroom.

The LIVE Classes are FREE!

FREE ENROLLMENT: Photoshop CS4 Photographer’s Handbook

By enrolling in this course, you are subscribing to an email list. We send email reminders and links an hour before the start of each week’s class.

Course Details

Overview: Monday, January 4, 2010
Class Dates: Mondays, Jan 18 – Apr 5, 2010 (with a break Mar 11-28)
Time: 11am Pacific (Seattle) [Other Time Zones]
Duration: 90-120 Minutes
Cost: The LIVE classes are FREE to attend!

Purchase the Course

You can also purchase the entire 10-week course of downloadable files in HD and iPod resolutions for $50 until Feb. 28, 2010. After that the price increases weekly until up to $99.


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Lightroom 10-Week Course

This course has been completed.

Instructor Steve Laskevitch leads us through a complete tour of Lightroom’s importing, catalogging, image editing, and output capabilities.

Duration: 90-120 minutes per class.
Cost: $75 for the course or $15 per individual class.


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Lightroom Wk 10 – Photoshop Roundtrippin’

We’ve just added a 12 minute excerpt from Steve’s final class in the Lightroom 10-Wk Course. This video will not expire.

As powerful as Lightroom is, it can’t do everything for your images. When it’s time to send your files to Photoshop, Steve Laskevitch shows us the best way to it.


Lightroom Wk 9 – Output Modules


We’ve posted a 9-minute excerpt of Lightroom Wk 9 – Output Modules.

Do you want to print your photos in packages? How about create a slideshow? A web page? Steve Laskevitch outputs his images for sharing.

Enroll: Lightroom Course


Lightroom Wk 8 – Juggling Catalogs


We’ve just posted a free 23 minute video from Steve’s latest class. This video will not expire.

How can you manage multiple catalogs on multiple computers? Steve Laskevitch shows how to break-up, recombine, and otherwise juggle catalogs in Lightroom.

Enroll in this class: 10-Week Lightroom Course


Lightroom Wk 7 – Exporting


We’ve just posted a free 27 minute video from Steve’s latest class. This video will not expire.

Steve Laskevitch guides us through exporting options and presets. – Wait a minute! What’s this? Lightroom 3 Beta!? – In this excerpt, Steve gives us a whirlwind preview tour of the upcoming Lightroom 3 based on the exciting free beta available now from Adobe. Do not try this at home! (Or at least, don’t put it into your production workflow just yet.)

Enroll in this class: 10-Week Lightroom Course


Lightroom Wk 6 – Develop Module pt2



We’ve just posted a free 10 minute video from Steve’s latest class on the Lightroom Develop module. This video will not expire.

This week, in the second of 2 parts, Steve Laskevitch picks up where he left off in the Lightroom develop module. He covers cropping, gradient filters, retouching, color manipulation, and converting color photos to black and white.

Enroll in this class: 10-Week Lightroom Course


Lightroom Wk 5 – Develop Module pt1



We’ve just posted a free 16 minute video from Steve’s latest class on the Lightroom Develop module. This video will not expire.

This week, in the first of 2 parts, Steve Laskevitch shows us how to use the Lightroom develop module. He reveals the secrets of Exposure, Tonal Curves, Brightness, Sharpening, Clarity, and more.

Enroll in this class: 10-Week Lightroom Course


Lightroom Wk 4 – Library Module pt2



We’ve just posted a free 12 minute video from Steve’s latest class on keywording in Lightroom. This video will not expire.

This week Steve Laskevitch continues our look at the Lightroom Library module with a look at keywording.

Enroll in this class: 10-Week Lightroom Course


Lightroom Wk 3 – Library Module pt1



Spread the word. We want as many people as possible to experience the unique worldwide classroom we are building. With a limit of 1,000 people for our online classroom, we’re posting a recording of each class for one week after the live event. Help spread the word.

This week Steve Laskevitch starts us down an extended look at the Lightroom Library module. We’ll quickly browse through your collections of images, use flags and star ratings to help sort images. And we’ll explore the many ways Lightroom’s interface allows you to interact with your images. All in preparation for a deep look at keywording in part 2!

Enroll in this class: 10-Week Lightroom Course


Lightroom Wk 2 – Importing



Spread the word. We want as many people as possible to experience the unique worldwide classroom we are building. With a limit of 1,000 people for our online classroom, we’re posting a recording of each class for one week after the live event. Help spread the word.

Lightroom wouldn’t be much good to you if you couldn’t import your photos. In this second week, Steve Laskevitch digs into the powerful import capabilities of Lightroom. Plus we’ll get a look at the underlying database that makes this powerful image management tool work.

Enroll in this class: 10-Week Lightroom Course


Lightroom Wk 1 – Overflight



This video will be available until September 21. We want as many people as possible to experience the unique worldwide classroom we are building. With a limit of 1,000 people for our online classroom, we’re posting a recording of each class for one week after the live event. Help spread the word.

Steve Laskevitch kicks off his new 10-week course with a facinating overview of Lightroom.

Enroll in this class: 10-Week Lightroom Course

Important Note About the FREE Video: We need more people enrolled in Steve’s online class in order to continue making these weekly videos available on the web. We can only make these videos freely available if we’re reaching a lot of people. We don’t want to discontinue the free videos of this particular class, so help spread the word with photographers and Lightroom user groups.