The Workshops & Classes currently presented
by Chuck Behrman are:
Workshop & Class Schedule
Workshops:
Secrets of Getting from Your Printer What You See on Your Monitor
Now That I’ve Taken My Digital Photograph…What Do I Do?
Conversion From Color To Black & White
Digital Compositing, Part I - Composited Images
Digital Compositing, Part II - Selection Techniques
Half-Day Fine Art Color Printing Workshop
Photoshop Sharpening Techniques
The Bridge, Camera Raw & Automating Photoshop
Panorama Images for Print & QuickTime VR
Creating A Web Presence For Photographers & Artists
A Pragmatic Approach To Photoshop Elements
High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography with Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom: A Photographer's Workflow
Photoshop/Photoshop Elements (Intermediate – Advanced): Create and print Images the way you see them on your monitor through a calibrated and profiled workflow with Chuck Behrman
In this class, Chuck Behrman will teach you, through live, real-time demonstrations, how to get a print on paper that closely matches the image you see on your monitor.
You will learn how to calibrate and profile your monitor, scanner, and printer so that you can reliably predict how your print will look.
You will learn the differences among several fine art papers so that you can choose the one that is closest to your vision of what how your print should look.
In the class, we will create an ICC profile for a fine art paper and create a print using that profile on an Epson 2200 printer.
Photoshop/Photoshop Elements (Basic – Intermediate): The Digital Camera/Computer Workflow – Getting your images into and out of your computer with Chuck Behrman
In this class, you will learn, through live demonstrations:
• How to get your images into your computer
• How and when to back up your images
• Shooting in RAW vs. JPEG formats
• How to correct your images for color, contrast and exposure within Photoshop and Camera Raw
• How to prepare your images for email or printing
• Which color profile to use when printing your images on your desktop printer or when sending them to a lab
• How to Soft-Proof your images before printing.
You will learn how to efficiently get your images into your computer, how to easily name and store them, and how and when to back them up.
We will discuss the benefits and drawbacks of shooting in RAW or JPEG formats, as well as the differences in how to handle an image that will be printed or emailed.
Converting From Color To Black & White
The Secrets of getting the best black & white images from your digital color images and scans
Photoshop/Photoshop Elements (Intermediate – Advanced): A number of ways to convert your color images to beautiful black & white with Chuck Behrman
In this class, Chuck Behrman will teach you, through live, real-time demonstrations, at least nine methods (more keep getting added) of converting your images from color to black & white in Photoshop and, in many cases with Photoshop Elements.
You will learn how both simple and comprehensive methods that will yield black & white images that you could only dream of getting in your darkroom.
In the class, we will discuss and see examples of black & white printing on inkjet printers with various inksets, both color and Piezography (black + multiple gray inks).
Now that I’ve Gone Digital – What Do I Do with All My Old Photos, Negatives and Slides?
Photoshop/Photoshop Elements (Intermediate): The Scanning Workflow -- How to get a great scan with Chuck Behrman
In this class, you will learn, through live demonstrations:
• How to calibrate and profile your scanner
• How to scan a print
• How to scan a transparency (slide)
• How to scan a negative (color and black & white)
• How to quickly correct your images for color, contrast and exposure within Photoshop
• The differences between 8 and 16 bit scans for photographs.
You will learn how to efficiently get your images into your computer, how to easily name and store them, and how and whem to back them up.
We will discuss the benefits and drawbacks of scanning in 8 or 16 bit formats.
Photoshop (Intermediate – Advanced): How to turn your nature images into fine art photographs with Chuck Behrman
In this class, you will learn, through live, real-time demonstrations:
• How to edit and optimize image color, exposure and contrast
• Control the mood of your photograph
• Easily correct tilted horizons and correct perspective
• Make panoramas
• Quickly convert your image to grayscale (black & white).
We will cover the above for both RAW and jpeg images.
You will learn various non-destructive Photoshop techniques such as the use of Adjustment Layers, Layer Masks, Clipping Layers, Consolidation Layers, selective sharpening, non-destructive dodging and burning, and the use of blending modes.
You will also learn how to soft proof your photograph so that you can predict how it will print on your desktop inkjet or at a lab.
You will learn the differences among several fine art papers so that you can choose the one that is closest to your vision of what how your print should look.
In this class, Chuck Behrman will address, through live, real-time demonstrations, the similarities, differences, and characteristics of many of the options available for giclée printing.
You will:
• see examples and learn what media are available for giclée printing.
• see examples and learn the differences among dye based, pigment based, and carbon-based inksets.
• see examples of black & white printing on inkjet printers with various inksets, both color and quadtone.
We will also discuss:
• printers that are currently available for giclée printing.
• archivability for various inkset/media combinations.
• viewing conditions and the effects of metamerism for various inkset/media combinations.
• printing workflow that will yield optimum giclée prints using Photoshop or Photoshop Elements.
• the concepts of system calibration and profiling.
• color workspace and soft proofing.
• how to display your images to maximize archivability.
In this class, Chuck Behrman will teach you, through live, real-time demonstrations, many techniques for combining images in Adobe Photoshop to create new images ranging from collages to mapping textures over existing images.
In creating the images, you will learn both simple and comprehensive methods to use selected portions of several originals, isolate them from their backgrounds, and re-combine them in several ways with other images.
We will cover techniques such as:
• simply dropping one image into another
• replacing an uninteresting sky
• changing selected colors in an image
• creating collages using blending and layer masking
• multiple layered composited images
• mapping a texture on an image
• creating backgrounds for portraits
• working with transparent and translucent images
The overall objective is to make photorealistic compositions from multiple selections.
Photoshop (Intermediate – Advanced): A number of ways to make selections for digital photographic compositions using single and multiple images with Chuck Behrman
Photoshop (Intermediate – Advanced): A number of ways to make digital photographic compositions using single and multiple images with Chuck Behrman
In this class, Chuck Behrman will teach you, through live, real-time demonstrations, many techniques for selecting portions of images in Adobe Photoshop, maintaining transparency and translucency wherever necessary.
In creating the selections, you will learn both simple and comprehensive methods to isolate portions of images from their backgrounds, so that they can be re-combined with other images.
Three types of images will be addressed:
• Solid images with defined edges
• Solid images with “fuzzy” edged (hair)
• Translucent and transparent images
We will cover techniques such as:
• Magic Wand
• Lasso tools
• The Background Eraser tool
• The Pen tool
• Selecting by color
• Using the Quick Mask
• The Extract tool
• Selecting using Channels
• 3rd Party plug-ins
The overall objective is to make photorealistic compositions from multiple selections.
Photoshop (Intermediate – Advanced): Half-day session where we will practice printing workflow and print participants’ images.
In this class, Chuck Behrman will work with each participant, taking them through the printing process for one of their color images. We will make a print of each participant’s image on an Epson 2200 printer using a fine art paper.
The workshop will cover the correct use of color profiles for both soft proofing and printing.
Each participant should bring:
• One digital file for printing
• A few sheets of your favorite fine art paper (matte surface, up to 13x19)
• An icc profile for the paper (if time allows, we will make a custom profile for your paper)
• Lots of questions
The overall objective is to make a high quality fine art print from your image.
Photoshop (Intermediate – Advanced): A number of ways to sharpen your images
In this class, Chuck Behrman will teach you, through live, real-time demonstrations, many techniques for shrpening entire images or portions of images in Adobe Photoshop.
In the various sharpening methods, you will learn both simple and comprehensive ways to make your images more acute without making them look “digital.”
We will cover techniques within Photoshop such as:
• Basic Sharpen, Sharpen More & Sharpen Edges
• Unsharp Mask Techniques
• Smart Sharpening
• Lab Sharpening
• High Pass Sharpening
• Sharpening individual Channels
• Split Sharpening
• Sharpening Luminosity
• Combining the Above Methods
• Selective Sharpening
• Sharpening Colors Ranges
• Sharpening a Portrait
• Creating depth of Field
The overall objective is to make photorealistic images.
Photoshop (Intermediate – Advanced): Using the Bridge (or Browser) to manage your images, importing and adjusting images with Camera Raw, and some automation techniques in Photoshop
In this class, Chuck Behrman will teach you, through live, real-time demonstrations, many techniques for using the Bridge (formerly the Browser) for image management as well as the export of images and creation of web sites, contact sheets, and Photoshop files in various formats. Many of the features of the browser are still applicable and appropriate for the Bridge.
We will address Bridge techniques for:
• Viewing many types of documents
• Designating Favorites
• Varying how The Bridge displays files
• Naming and storing images
• Backing up images
• Converting images to multiple formats
• Flagging, ranking and sorting images
• Adding metadata such as copyright information via the Metadata tab & File Info
• Adding Keywords
• setting Bridge Preferences & Camera Raw Preferences
• Using The Bridge with programs other than Photoshop
• Synchronizing color management over all Adobe’s CS products
• Searching for and retrieving images
• Creating Web Sites, Contact Sheets, & PDF Presentations
In Camera Raw, we will look at the advantages of taking photographs in Raw mode as opposed to jpeg and will address the capabilities of Camera Raw to optimize exposure, contrast, color balance and sharpness – before we even get into Photoshop! We'll operate on single and multiple images. We will also address “Placing” images in Photoshop as well as simply opening images via Camera Raw.
Within Photoshop, we will look at how to make simple automated Actions that will allow us to create a multi-step process that can be executed with a single keystroke. Then we will learn to apply these actions via Batch processing and to create Droplet applications.
Photoshop (Intermediate – Advanced): Using techniques in Photoshop and other software applications to generate panorama images from multiple photographs
In this class, Chuck Behrman will teach you, through live, real-time demonstrations, many techniques for using Photoshop, as well as other applications for Macintosh and Windows computers for assembling panorama images from multiple photographs.
We will go through the entire process in detail including:
• The equipment needed to implement panorama images – this includes custom panorama rigs as well as simple
implementations you can make yourself.
• Setting up the panorama, including finding the nodal point of your lens – being able to rotate your camera
around the point of minimum parallax.
• Exposure and focusing issues for consistency and accuracy.
• Determining the number of images necessary for a panorama.
• Pre-processing Raw images for panoramas with Photoshop and The Bridge.
• Stitching your images together with Photoshop and other applications.
• Linear panoramas (images in a line) and tiled panoramas (multiple rows of linear images) for print.
• Creating 360° cylindrical and 360° x 180° spherical panoramas for print and QTVR movies for presentation
on your computer and the internet.
• Creating image maps and combining them with QTVR panoramas to make self-contained QTVR movies.
• Special considerations and techniques for retouching panorama images.
• Links to panorama and QTVR resources on the internet.
Photoshop (Intermediate – Advanced): Using Photoshop and other software applications to generate web galleries, home pages, and to link the pages together
In this class, Chuck Behrman will teach you, through live, real-time demonstrations, many techniques for using Photoshop for the creation of web galleries and either web programs or supplied templates for simple web sites.
Since Photoshop itself cannot create a complete web site, we will take a look at some other applications as well as some simple templates that can get you started.
The Photoshop web gallery generator simply creates a gallery but does not provide any way to link that gallery to your existing web page. I've created an easily customizable way to do just that -- and you don't have to use any other software (except a text editor) to accomplish the modifications. I'll even provide you with a template to start with.
I also found some free, cross platform software for generating web galleries that I'll be making you aware of.
If you don't have a web page now, we'll address how to create one (I've got a simple template for that too). We'll cover Internet Service Providers (ISP) such as DSL or Cable and getting your own URL and independent web host (like yourname.com).
We'll also discuss how to create the items you might want to put on a page using Photoshop as much as we can - images, logos, text, email links, etc., as well as how to use metadata and internal text to raise your visibility to the search engines
In short, we will address techniques that can enable you to easily:
• Choose an Internet Service Provider (ISP)
• Obtain your own URL
• Choose a web host
• Modify images to maximize efficiency on a web page
• Create Copyright info and Watermark your images
• Determine when to use text or graphics on a web page
• Create a Logo for your site
• Address the creation of a simple home page using a free, customizable template that I will provide
• Use text and metatags to get the search engines to notice you
• Create Web Galleries with Photoshop
• Link the Web Gallery to your home page using a free, customizable template that I will provide
• Upload your site to the web
Photoshop (Intermediate – Advanced):
Learn a number of creative ways to import, edit and distribute your images using Photoshop Elements with Chuck Behrman
In this class, Chuck Behrman will teach you, through live, real-time demonstrations, many techniques for using Photoshop Elements.
This class will cover Photoshop Elements on multiple levels from a basic, one-button quick fix up through intermediate and advanced techniques commonly used in the full version of Photoshop to create beautifully edited images. The class is designed to apply to multiple versions of Elements on both the Mac and Windows platforms.
We will start by covering how to set up Elements to perform efficiently as well as a basic workflow for getting your images from your camera to your computer.
Then we’ll cover the use of Elements’ automatic functions, destructive and non-destructive editing techniques for general images, portraits, black & white conversion, creating panoramas, web galleries, and more.
Next, we’ll cover how to prepare your images for printing with your desktop inkjet or by sending them to an outside lab.
Finally, we’ll address how to best prepare your photos for the internet and for email.
We will address Photoshop Elements techniques for:
• Before You Edit
Setting Up Elements
The Workflow – Getting Your Images Into Elements
Jpeg Processing
RAW Processing
• Quick Fix Editing Mode
• When You Must Go Beyond The Basics of Quick Fix
The Automatic Functions
Destructive And Non-Destructive Editing
Portraits And Head Shots
Conversion To Black & White
Greeting Cards
Panoramas
Creating A Web Gallery
Processing Multiple Files
• Preparing Images For Printing
Desktop Printer
Send To A Photolab
Printing Multiple Images On One Sheet Of Paper
• Preparing Images For The Internet And Email
Photoshop (Intermediate – Advanced):
Learn a number of creative ways to produce HDR images using Photoshop with Chuck Behrman
The workshop will address the types of images that lend themselves well to HDR as well as a few alternative approaches to achieve the HDR effect when the Photoshop processing simply does not work.
We will look at how to shoot HDR using the RAW format of digital capture as well as multiple ways of processing the images to maximize qulity and photographic impact.
Lightroom (Intermediate – Advanced):
Learn about how to use Photoshop Lightroom to manage your images with Chuck Behrman
The Lightroom workshop will show you how to import images from your digital camera, identify, rate and rank the images, and correct color and exposure for individual and groups of images. We’ll see how Lightroom also can enable the you to explore and create different versions of an image without using a lot of valuable hard drive space.
Since Lightroom is based on the newest versions of Camera Raw, the workshop will teach you how to increase the “Clarity” (a new processing function) and how to visually sharpen your images.
Did I mention that you’ll learn how to remove sensor dust on multiple images at one time using Lightroom?
Once you get your images to a point that they are presentable, what can Lightroom do? Well, the workshop will also address how to make a slide show in Lightroom. Then we’ll talk about printing, how to use Lightroom’s built-in print templates to print single or multiple images on a sheet of paper and how to create your own templates, even printing your signature on your images.
If that’s not enough, we’ll also address how to use Lightroom to prepare and publish a web gallery (html or flash) from within the program.
With all that capability, can you throw away Photoshop or Elements? No... we’ll also talk about when you need to use one of the mainstream image editors.
Lightroom (Intermediate – Advanced):
Learn about how to use Photoshop Lightroom to manage your images with Chuck Behrman
In addition to the basic imaging workflow, this workshop will investigate Lightroom 2’s new tools to create and use Collections, the new Library Filters and export functions, the vastly improved Develop Module, with emphasis on the new tools such as the Graduated Filter and the New Brush Tool. The latter actually allows you to modify individual parts of a single image, something that previously required the full version of Photoshop. We’ll look at the new features in the Slide Show module as well as the Print and Web Modules.
Since Lightroom is based on the newest versions of Camera Raw, you’ll learn how to use Adobe’s new Profile Editor (free download) to create a custom profile for your digital camera using only a Macbeth 24 step Color Checker.
Lightroom (Intermediate – Advanced):
Learn about how to use Photoshop Lightroom to create and manage a web site with Chuck Behrman
This workshop will cover the creation of a complete website (not only individual galleries) using only Lightroom 2, any text editor, and some free gallery templates.
IYou will learn how to create basic web galleries using the templates and engines supplied with the program and use other (FREE) templates for additional looks. We will create galleries, complete with headers, that can include slide shows, feedback forms and even PayPal.
Then create a basic web site (including a Home Page, About Page, and a php-based Contact Page).
Finally, we’ll tie it all together and produce a web site that contains the three pages previously mentioned, plus an automatic gallery index with several different galleries in it.
