Photoshop Workshops with Sean Duggan

Photoshop: Retouching & Restoration Essentials            

Date: Thursday, April 14

Time: 9:00am-4:00pm

Explore some of the essential skills and techniques for retouching images and restoring damaged photographs. Topics include correcting extreme exposure errors; fixing blown-out skies; object removal; repair and restoration of antique images, including fixing cracks, torn areas, and missing portions; and portrait retouching, including reducing wrinkles, removing blemishes, and enhancing eyes and lips.           

Sean Duggan is a photographer, digital artist, and educator with extensive digital imaging experience grounded in a traditional fine art photographic background. He is the co-author of The Creative Digital Darkroom (O'Reilly Media, 2008), Photoshop Artistry (New Riders, 2006), and Real World Digital Photography (Peach Pit, 2004). An Adobe Certified Photoshop expert, his Photoshop for Photographers tutorial column can be seen regularly in Layers magazine. In addition to teaching online Photoshop for Photographers classes at San Francisco's Academy of Art University, Duggan also leads workshops at venues across the country. His web site is www.seanduggan.com.

Adobe Photoshop: Selections and Masking           

Date: Friday, April 15

Time: 9:00am-4:00pm

Focus on essential Photoshop concepts and techniques for creating accurate selections, alpha channels, and layer masks for precision control in the modification of photographs. Masks can be used in a variety of situations for many different tasks including contrast and color correction masks for photographs and intricate masks for compositing multiple images together. In many cases, the beginnings of a mask are already present in your photograph; you just need to know where to look for it and how to modify it to suit your purposes.  This class is an excellent companion to Duggan's Creative Collage workshop.           

Creative Collage with Photoshop           

Date: Saturday, Sunday, April 16-17

Time: 9:00am-4:00pm

Explore the art of the photographic composite with Adobe Photoshop CS5. Explorations range from simple collages to the creation of surreal, photo-realistic flights of fancy. Topics include masking and knockout techniques; layers and layer groups; simple collages based on image overlays, blend modes, and opacity; precision collage control with layer masks; image transformation tools including free transform and warp; using smart objects to preserve flexibility of transformed elements; creating a collage from different source photos; multi-exposure composites to control contrast; and matching color and lighting between images.           

 For more information go to www.outreach.hawaii.edu/pnm or call 956-8400 to register.