PS Advanced Workshop with Miele and Otnes

You’re already good at Photoshop. You’ve attended workshops. You’ve mastered the basics of layers and masks. You work in Photoshop all the time. What you need now is the opportunity to explore areas of the program you have not yet mastered. This advanced workshop offers you expert help, and uninterrupted time, to work on:

• Limiting the effect of adjustment layers - through arrangement, masking, clipping, blending modes, and advanced blending options
• Working with layer groups - masking groups, and using blending modes to limit adjustments
• Vector masks for borders and silhouetting
• The relationship between Masks/Alpha Channels/Selections/Paths/Quickmasks
• Using Smart Objects and Smart Filters for non-destructive editing
• Retouching & adding filters as separate layers (noise, lighting effects, etc.)
• Creating and using actions to streamline workflow
• Masking with the gradient tool; combining gradients
• Luminosity Masks

Let us challenge you to go beyond what you already know about working in Photoshop. Give yourself the gift of learning something new - in the supportive company of people who love Photoshop as much as you do – and with expert help.

Prerequisite: This course is not for beginners. Participants should be entirely comfortable in Adobe Photoshop. If you’re not sure if you’re “advanced,” call us!

The facility will only allow 15 participants, so enroll today to reach the next level in Photoshop. Please send an e-mail to mail@palotnes.com, or call Pål on (+47) 41 14 66 06 for more information and enrollment. The workshop-fee is 4.900 NOK.
Participants must bring their own computer with Adobe Photoshop CS2, CS3 or CS4 installed. A trial-version can be downloaded at www.adobe.com. The workshop will be held in english.

Jean Miele (46) is an American artist who uses photography to create moments of “perfection.” Based in New York City, his photographs have been widely exhibited, including a 2007 show at Fotografiens Hus in Oslo, and his original prints are in numerous collections. Miele is also internationally recognized as an educator whose workshops and seminars demystify digital. He has taught for: Adobe Systems; the International Center for Photography (ICP) in New York; Apple Computer; Fuji USA; Advertising Photographers of America (APA); American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP); the Maine Media Workshops; the Santa Fe Workshops; the Norwegian Fotografiakademiet; and many others.

Pål Otnes (35) is working as a writer, graphic designer and photographer in Oslo. He contributes articles and writes a monthly Photoshop “how-to” column for to the national Fotografi magazine. In addition to his commercial work, Otnes’ fine-art photographs have been exhibited in Hamningberg Church in Finnmark, Skogmuseet in Elverum, Volumfestivalen in Elverum, Varangerfestivalen in Vadsø, Fotofestivalen in Vågå and Rådhusgalleriet in Oslo.

Pål Otnes and Jean Miele have presented nine highly successful digital workshops in Norway since 2003.

For more information and pictures please visit: www.jeanmiele.com and www.palotnes.com.