Saturday, October 25th, 2008, 8 AM to 5 PM
RPS Fall Seminar
Kevin Ames

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Commercial photographer, author and educator, Kevin Ames presents and in depth look at how to shoot photographs for finishing in Adobe Photoshop CS3. Highlights include lighting without lights, and ...

The Professional Photographer’s Guide to Bulletproof Workflow
The program begins with an overview of how to manage digital negatives using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. It covers importing to multiple external hard drives, naming conventions, automatic metadata addition during import, photo enhancement, creating and verifying archives on optical discs. After a break, detailed demonstrations show how to use Lightroom’s powerful import features including renaming and adding metadata while copying photographs from memory card to two hard drives at the same time. Enhancing photographs using Lightroom’s develop module and applying them to multiple images follows. Then you see how to create custom collections and turn them into slideshows, Internet galleries and even prints. Finally you learn how to use a separate Lightroom catalog to verify that created archive discs contain valid data.

Adobe Camera RAW, Photoshop CS3 and Smart Objects
After lunch, the session begins with an understanding of bit depth that digital cameras capture in the RAW format compared to JPEG. That is followed by an in depth look at Adobe Camera Raw 4. You’ll see how ACR 4 works in enhancing multiple digital negatives for color and exposure at the same time, how to use the dust spotting tool, create and refine stunning black and white, correct for chromatic aberrations, as well as making and using presets. Additionally you see how ACR 4 works back and forth with Lightroom. Following the break you'll discover how to harness the power of RAW files placed in Photoshop as Smart Objects, controlling contrast, enhancing lighting, and color as well as how to combine them for the ultimate in creativity and control. The day wraps up with a look into retouching and enhancing beauty including realistic eye enhancements, skin smoothing, body sculpting and digital cosmetic surgery.