Make the Magic in Photoshop

Don Emmerich, PPA Certified, M. Photog., Cr., F-ASP

Don Emmerich, PPA Certified,

M. Photog., Cr., F-ASP

Bio of Don Emmerich Don Emmerich, M.Photog, M.Art, M.EI, Cr, API, CPP, F-ASP

PPA Certified, Master of Photography, Master Artist, Master of Electronic Imaging, Photographic Craftsman, Approved Photographic Instructor and Fellow ASP

Don Emmerich helped pioneer the integration of digital imaging with conventional photography. For the past several years, he has traveled the world advocating and teaching these technologies to various companies and individuals. His teaching has taken him to twenty-seven countries on four continents and has earned him such foreign honors as the Master of Photography degree from China.

Don has earned all four degrees from the Professional Photographer's Association. He has a fellowship in the American Society of Photographers and a membership in the Camera Craftsmen of America, which is composed of the country’s top-forty portrait photographers. He currently serves as Technical Editor for the Professional Photographer magazine and is a board member for the Professional Photographers of America, the American Society of Photographers, and the Colorado Institute of Art.

Don lives in Oklahoma City, where he runs Studio Art Photography with Nancy Mickle.

You’ll definitely need a bigger creative tool box!

Spend four days with Don Emmerich and learn the newest ways to reinvent your images. Your creative tool box will need a lot more room to hold all the great new visual possibilities you’ll take home from this experience.

This workshop is targeted at the intermediate-to-advanced student. Its purpose is to give you a new artistic freedom and enlightenment and to have a great educational experience while gaining it.

What about Photoshop?

This is your opportunity to learn this great software from a great instructor. Photoshop is indisputably the world standard photographic image-editing package. It contains a powerful but complex array of tools which can be rather confusing and frustrating. But—with the proper guidance, it’s certainly the most exciting tool for photography to evolve in our lifetime. Don will clearly impart a working knowledge of Photoshop to you speaking “photographer to photographer.” Multiply your creative options as you learn digital retouching, print enhancement, image compositing and more.

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Soon you will have more control over your images than ever before. You will learn to create unique Templates and set up Actions to make your work flow easier, three down and dirty ways of retouching, getting great B&W’s, creating soft focus images, digital workflow, how to get proper digital exposure, how to color balance your camera for beautiful portraits, simple color management for your computer and printer.

Your digital imaging skills will be enhanced by exploiting the full potential of the inkjet printer. The astounding quality of today’s inkjets presents the photographer with new profit opportunities and the ability to expand your range of client services by producing low-volume runs of photographic-quality outputs such as proofs, prints, posters, promotional brochures, and watercolor greeting cards. The combination of digital imaging and the inkjet printer will extend the flexibility and control you demand on the image-creation side of photography to the finished product side.

We will spend time exploring the pros and cons of digital cameras and how to get ideal digital exposures every time. You will learn how to interpret and rely on histograms for accurate exposures. While most of the time will be at your computer station, time is allotted for photographing and learning a bit on dealing with digital workflow.

Do I bring my own equipment?

You must provide your own equipment. Laptops and monitors are both fine if fast enough with the proper amount of memory and drive space. No dual monitors, please! Photoshop 8.0 - CS should be loaded and operating. The class teaching disk is based on Photoshop CS so consider an upgrade. It will be worth it! A good working knowledge of your equipment leaves your brain cells plenty of room for other phenomenal tasks that are much more exciting. This is not a computer fundamentals class. Nor is there time during class for computer repair. All our time is geared to creativity.

Besides getting my computer up to snuff, what can I do to be the star student?

Buy and install extra memory. It’s cheap! Go through the Photoshop tutorial. Learn to identify the tools. Try a couple of projects. A personal project is the best motivation for learning! We’ll have the star waiting for you.

Can I come early to get my gear all set up?

You bet! The classroom will be open Monday morning, August 8th from 7:00 am for set up. The class will get off to a roaring start at 9:00 am.

Anything else I should know?

Yes, you’ll see a vast array of award winning work and learn step-by-step just how to do it. This is definitely a hands on experience. A CD containing all the class illustrations along with a notebook is included in the tuition price. With these tools are valuable references, you’ll go home thrilled ready to make Photoshop your own.

All images on this page are © by Don Emmerich