Have a pro at your side - online, all the time
In this exciting 4-week course, photographer-author Ellen Anon will teach you some of her most sought-after Photoshop tricks. You'll learn how to combine images to contend with contrasty lighting, replaces skies, and make adjustments to even out exposures. Then impress your friends and make it look as though you matted and framed your images when you email them or post them to the Web.
Key Features
- Combining Images to Increase Exposure Latitude
- Non-Destructive Dodging and Burning, and Creating a Customized Virtual Split Neutral Density Filter
- Replacing a Sky
- Creating a Virtual Mat and Frame
- Great for serious hobbyists through professionals.
- Learn some of the most useful Photoshop tricks to make your images look more professional.
- Learn to make your images look the way your eyes saw the scene but the camera couldn’t capture in a single shot.
What You Get
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Benefits:
You get direct feedback on your photos from world-acclaimed, professional photographers. You can learn photography in this way from anywhere in the world.
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- Learn at your pace, with structure.
- Be guided by a real pro instructor.
- Get your photos critiqued every week.
- Join students from around the world.
- Go far beyond any book or DVD.
- Make great pictures, again and again!
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Instructor
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Ellen AnonEllen Anon is the co-author of the popular books
Photoshop CS3 for Nature Photographers: A Workshop in a Book (Sybex, 2007) and
Aperture Exposed: The Mac Photographers Guide to Taming the Workflow (Sybex, 2006). She has also written an easy to read pdf detailing the digital workflow from downloading CF cards to presenting the images to others, that is available from her Web site, www.sunbearphoto.com
Ellen’s articles and/or images have been published in numerous publications including Shutterbug, eDigital Photo, Nature’s Best Magazine, Apogee,.naturescapes.net and Sierra Club’s book, Mother Earth and Photoworkshop.com, and various calendars, billboards, and more. Her fine-art images are in private collections in both the US and Europe.
Ellen is passionate about photography and the digital darkroom and enjoys sharing her expertise both by teaching and by writing. She has been fortunate to colead photography workshops with Arthur Morris, Photoshop workshops for Joe and Mary Ann McDonald, and her own Photoshop-in-the-Field workshops. (See www.sunbearphoto.com for upcoming courses.) She also presents seminars in various locations and is an instructor for the high school scholarship programs at the North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA) summits. Recently, she was honored to be one of the Apple VIP Pro Photographers.
A Couple of Photos by the Instructor
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Course Outline
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Lesson 1: Combining Images to Increase Exposure Latitude
We’ll start by learning several different ways to combine two or more images that were either shot with different exposures or have been converted with different exposures in order to create an image that reflects what our eyes can see, but today’s camera’s can’t capture in a single shot.
Assignment: Using either RAW files converted differently or two identical shots differing only in their exposures, or a series of RAW shots, create two final images with increased exposure latitude.
Lesson 2: Non-Destructive Dodging and Burning, and Creating a Customized Virtual Split Neutral Density Filter
This lesson will focus on a variety of ways to selectively darken and lighten portions of an image and to fix some common exposure problems that occur. We’ll create a virtual neutral density filter customized for your image as well as a forgiving, safe way to dodge and burn.
Assignment: Use the Dodge and Burn technique on one image and a customized split neutral density filter on another to even out the exposure and create images you didn’t think were possible!
Lesson 3: Replacing a Sky
This lesson will teach you an easy way to replace a sky (or other background), along with the tricks you need to know to make it look natural. This is without a doubt one of my most often requested “tricks.”
Assignment: Replace the sky (or background) in two images to create a believable result.
Lesson 4: Creating a Virtual Mat and Frame Properly matted and framed images have more impact than plain prints. This lesson will teach you how to impressively finish off your images that you post to the web or in an email to make it look as if you matted and framed them.
Assignment: Create virtual mats and frames for two images.
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Requirements
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- Adobe Photoshop CS2 or CS3 (but CS OK), or Adobe Elements 4.0 or later.
- Familiarity with the basics of Photoshop or Elements.
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FAQ
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Is this course intended for advanced photographers or can beginning photographers participate as well?
This course is open to anyone interested in learning how to improve their images using some specific techniques in Photoshop or Elements.
Do you have to be an expert at using Photoshop or Elements to take this course?
You’ll need to be familiar with some of the basics of the program you’re using, whether it’s Photoshop or Elements, because this course won’t cover all the basics. However, it will clearly explain how to do each of the techniques described each week.
Do the techniques covered in this course pertain to any type of photography?
The techniques covered in this course can be applied to most types of photography.
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Do I have to be online at any specific time?
No, you do not need to be online at any specific time. The lessons are sent to your email and you are also provided the Campus Square - where you interact with your classmates and instructor. This is also where you upload your photos to be critiqued by your instructor. The instructors are very punctual and respond quickly.
Will I have access to the instructor to ask questions during the photo course?
Absolutely! Students can ask questions in the special Q&A forum set up in the course's Campus Square, or can ask the instructor via email.
Do you offer a money back guarantee?
Yes. We are confident that you will fully enjoy our courses. All the same, for our 8-week classes, we offer a 100% money-back guarantee before the Wednesday that Lesson #3 is sent out. If for any reason, you are not satisfied and let us know that you would like to withdraw before the Wednesday that Lesson #3 is sent, you will be promptly refunded.
For our 4-week courses, we offer a 100% money back guarantee before the Wednesday that Lesson #2 is sent out from BetterPhoto. If for any reason you are not satisfied and you let the ordering department know that you would like to withdraw before the Wednesday that Lesson #2 is sent, you will be refunded within 7 days. After the second lesson has been sent out, no refunds will be given.
If you have further questions about this course, feel free to contact us via the Contact link below.
Only $198.00 USD
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