Janice Wendt

Janice Wendt

"Re-Capture Your Vision"

Ever wonder why your captured images do not live up to your expectations. The exposure was right, the lighting was right, and most important, the framing was right. But the image did not live up to what you envision. Learn re-touching techniques that bring back the “alive” feeling, the mood, and all that inspired you when you committed to capture the image.

Techniques that will be taught in a hands-on class, will removing the need for tedious selections and endless numbers of steps. These lessons are developed in such a way to save countless hours in front of your computer screen. Janice will teach how to get the most out of your workflow, optimizing raw images, noise reduction techniques, global adjustments vs. targeted adjustments, selective enhancements, bringing out detail, applying traditional techniques, black and white images from color capture and creating a style with your retouching.

Janice’s teaching technique is designed to energize and inspire the students to see what is possible in the final steps of image preparation. Tools to be used include: Photoshop CS5 and the full suite of Nik Software products and include the New HDR Efex Pro program.

At Nik Software Inc. in San Diego, California, Janice Wendt has a variety of responsibilities. As Channel Sales Manager she is the link between Nik Software and the entire U.S. distribution channel for product sales. In addition, she has become one of the industry’s most respected and leading retouch and image enhancement artists, often “training the trainers” on numerous techniques related to digital imaging.

Janice spends much of her time working on educational issues for Nik Software and educates professionals nationally in subjects related to the digital capture process, digital workflow and offers a practical view of retouching featuring alternative, time saving techniques for both the professional and beginning photographer.

Nik Software is well known for it's innovative and time saving software. Their U-Point technology has received wide acclaim and is found in all of Nik Software's programs, including Nik Color Efex Pro, Nik Sharpener Pro, Viveza, Silver Efex, and Nikon Capture NX2. Janice will help you get the most out of these programs and streamline your workflow in no time.

Janice is an experienced commercial and portrait photographer with over 25 years of experience working in film photography and is a highly accomplished practitioner of digital imaging and photographic retouching.

Janice Wendt can also be found working closely within the educational community giving lectures and seminars to college and university students and professors regularly.

Before joining Nik Software, Inc., Janice worked as a photographic product manager for Omega Satter managing a broad range of products in their photographic product distribution division from cameras to paper products.