Photoshop Sessions

Capture. Enhance. Manage. Deliver. These four words form the themes that make up the content of our Photoshop Conference. If you are a professional photographer, a graphic designer, a production specialist or someone who just enjoys working with digital images, chances are Photoshop is the product you love spending time with. If that describes you, then this is the conference you want to attend. Join us in San Francisco for three days of high-octane, how-to instruction from the best Photoshop teachers in the world.

The Best of Photoshop CS: It’s the Little Things...
John Nack
February 18, 10:15 a.m.
Sure, there are some great new features in Photoshop CS that will get a lot of attention and coverage throughout the conference. This session will focus an all of those little updates that might otherwise be overlooked. The ones the engineering team has adjusted, tweaked, honed and shuffled just to make Photoshop the incredible program that it is while simultaneously making our digital imaging lives so much easier. They may not be flashy, but they are sure to make you smile as you realize how much time and effort they’ll save you.

Digital Imaging Essentials
Michael Ninness
February 18, 11:30 a.m.
When working with digital images, you often have to deal with the same four problems — the images are the wrong resolution, too dark, too soft or have a color cast. The session will show you how to make the most of your pixels, whether you started with a traditional scan or captured an image with a digital camera. Whether you are going to print or the Web, you will learn how to put your best image forward.

Managing Images with the New File Browser
Martin Evening
February 18, 1:15 p.m.
Why “Open” images when you can “Browse”? Keeping track of your growing number of digital images can be confusing and time consuming. In Photoshop CS, the File Browser has become your personal digital light box. With flags, keywords and editable metadata, you can now use the File Browser to quickly organize and locate the image assets you need.

Camera Raw in Photoshop CS
Jeff Schewe
February 18, 2:30 p.m.
The second generation of the ground-breaking Camera Raw plug-in is now incorporated within Photoshop CS, allowing direct manipulation of the raw data captured by most professional-grade digital cameras. If you are not “shooting Raw” yet, or your camera doesn’t capture Raw files, this session could convince you that now is the time to switch to a camera that does.

Get it Sharp!
Jeff Schewe
February 18, 3:45 p.m.
Different capture mechanisms — film formats and digital cameras — have their own signature combinations of detail and noise. The challenge is to sharpen the detail without also exaggerating the noise, so successful sharpening needs to take into account the relationship between image detail and the noise signature of the image source, whether it's film grain or a digital camera filter mosaic. Incorrect sharpening makes the grain or noise more rather than less obvious, and sometimes even obscures the detail instead of enhancing it. Learn the tools and the techniques the pros use to get optimally sharp results every time.

Professional Inkjet Printing
Mac Holbert
February 18, 5 p.m.
We’ve all seen stunning inkjet prints in exhibits and at tradeshows and sadly, most of us have also been disappointed with the results that our own inkjet printers produce. So how do the pros get such stellar results? Learn how to make the best decisions regarding paper, inks, color management, and print drivers to get the results you see in your mind onto the paper.

The CS Digital Darkroom: Advanced Image Correction Techniques
Katrin Eismann
February 19, 10:15 a.m.
Photoshop CS is loaded with new tools for tonal and color correction or adjustment so you can always produce the highest quality images. This session will show you how to work more efficiently with always-on histograms and new features to trim steps from many editing tasks including matching color across images and quickly correcting over or under exposed images.

Professional Fashion Retouching Techniques
Martin Evening
February 19, 11:30 a.m.
The whole point of retouching an image is to make it look convincing enough that it doesn’t look retouched at all. As anyone who has used the rubber stamp tool in Photoshop can tell you, it’s pretty easy to mistakenly make your image look like it was retouched with a hammer. During this session, one of the world’s best fashion photographers and retouchers will show you how to seamlessly remove blemishes, wrinkles and other imperfections from your portraits. Even your mother won’t be able to tell!

Image Restoration
Katrin Eismann
February 19, 1:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Katrin will take you through numerous step-by-step examples that highlight the tools and techniques used by professional digital artists to restore valuable antique images. She will show you how to transform faded, damaged photographs into beautiful images that are as clear and crisp as the day they were taken.

Real World Masking & Compositing
Katrin Eismann
February 19, 2:45 p.m. -4:00 p.m.
Creating precise selections and accurate masks for images with translucent objects, complex subjects and fine hair can drive you to tear out your own. This session will help prevent premature baldness while teaching you the same selection and masking secrets and techniques that the pros use. With the many selection tools available in Photoshop, it can be hard to determine which one to use for a particular task. You will see advanced selection techniques to speed up silhouetting, selection and masking tasks while learning which tools are best for the job at hand.

Special Effects
Michael Ninness
February 19, 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Sometimes you actually have time to play in Photoshop but don¹t know where to start to make something look cool. This session answers some of those "how'd they do that?" questions. You will be walked through how to make textures, text effects, image distortions, custom layer styles and more! Discover the newest features used to create cool images quickly, effectively, and creatively.

The Best of ImageReady CS
John Nack
February 20, 10:15 a.m.
While many folks keep wondering why ImageReady is still a separate product from Photoshop proper, this separation allows Adobe to specifically tweak and fine-tune the user interface for the specific needs of the Web professional. This session will show you how to use the best new features to prepare Web graphics more quickly, easily and efficiently.

Size Matters: Power Optimization Techniques
Michael Ninness
February 20, 11:30 a.m.
Learn the essential parameters of designing Web graphics that look great, load fast, and encourage return visitors. See how Photoshop and ImageReady combine to combat the evils of bloated graphics. This session will reveal the hidden optimization tools and techniques to squeeze out every extra byte while retaining image quality.

Photoshop & Flash: Optimizing Pixels and Workflow
Michael Ninness
February 20, 1:15 p.m.
Getting a layered Photoshop document into Flash used to be a time consuming and labor intensive process of saving out each layer in the Photoshop document as a separate .PNG file, importing each .PNG into Flash independently, converting it into a Symbol, creating a layer, placing each Symbol on its own layer, and then repositioning all the elements to match the original layered layout as it was in Photoshop. With the Export to Flash (.SWF) feature in the new ImageReady CS, this headache finally goes away. This session will also cover how Flash handles embedded bitmap files and how you can control the optimization of each bitmap independently.

Color Management: In Plain English Please
Andrew Rodney
February 20, 2:30 p.m.
ICC Profiles, working spaces, calibration — argh! All you want is for the image you print to look the same as the one you see on your screen. Is that so hard?! No, it doesn’t have to be. This session will walk you through WHAT you need TO DO to get your images to output the way you expect them to.

Automation: Photoshop for Lazy People
Michael Ninness
February 20, 3:45 p.m.
Any time you find yourself doing the same thing over and over again in Photoshop, you should stop and tell yourself to create an Action or a Droplet and reduce your risk of carpal tunnel syndrome. And for the power geek, Photoshop CS is now completely scriptable via AppleScript, Visual Basic and JavaScript. This session is all about making Photoshop and ImageReady do the work for you and is guaranteed to save you time.

From Photoshop to DVD
Daniel Brown
February 20, 5 p.m.
Behind every DVD you’ve watched recently, there is someone with a copy of Photoshop designing the interface. But DVDs can be much more than that — they can serve as a powerful and simple delivery system for your client proposal or portfolio. Imagine creating a visual presentation complete with voiceovers or just background music, motion menus, and animated transitions. Think a potential client would take notice? This session will tour the features built right into Photoshop for working with video & DVDs. No matter what your video experience level, this session is bound to inspire you to look at DVD in a whole new light.