November 20: Embracing Your Creative Side Hands-On Intensive (November 20: Embracing Your Creativ...

In the spirit of Mark Johnson's educational coffee-table book, Botanical Dreaming, this interactive class encourages you to embrace new creative ideas and explore your outer limits. Join Mark on a thrill-ride into Photoshop's artistic realm. Students are invited to purchase a copy of Mark's phenomenal eBook, The Photographer's Photoshop CS4 Companion, at a discounted rate of $30 (25% off the retail price). What You'll Learn How to use blending modes to create ethereal, soft-glow montages The secrets behind multi-image montage A method for creating geometric shapes and patterns through rotated and flipped montage How to simulate the look of multiple-exposure rotated and zoomed montages A simple way to blend an owl into a forested background How to use Photoshop's impressive new Auto-Align feature to blend two photographs Advanced blending techniques for adding a worn look to text and for bringing a water lily magically to the foreground How to move a transparent wine glass from one location to another The secret to creating breathtaking multi-panel panoramas How to paint with light to add drama to a scene About BDA Hands-On Intensive Training: Boulder Digital Arts Hands-On Intensives have been carefully designed to be the most comprehensive and focused training available. Over the course of two full days of instruction you will learn from the best. Our instructors are all well-known professionals in their field as well as amazing presenters and many have published books on their subjects. Each class is a combination of lecture and structured hands-on learning during which every student will have access to a new, state-of-the-art Intel-based 20" iMac computer. For maximum impact and student experience all intensives are limited to only five participants. Prerequisites: A sound understanding of basic computer operation. The class will be presented in Macintosh OS X.