During this three-day, hands-on course, you will learn the fundamentals of a digital workflow. RAW capture, importing and cataloging with Lightroom/Bridge, RAW adjustments, editing in Photoshop, and digital printing and web publishing. This course is aimed at the serious hobbyists and serious amateur photographers who want to learn “best practices” for editing and managing their digital photography libraries....

Develop the technical "know how" to create pleasing photographs. Begin the process of seeing and thinking like a photographer and develop the technical skills to capture the images you visualize digitally.

Using digital cameras to produce exciting black and white photographs is an unique challenge. This workshop focuses on the thought process of capturing a black and white photograph. Turning your vision into a reality, through a series of technical "tricks", we will create stunning black and white digital images from pixels to prints.

Lightroom has evolved again! The latest version, 2.0, will arrive this autumn. Be prepared to use the latest features and see how the current features have improved. See the program perform, use its powerful features, and compare them to what's coming this autumn...

A practical course for the novice user of Photoshop; learn the basic steps to prepare a file for printing. Students study fundamental digital terminology and the traditional photography methods of weaving contrast, sharpness, color, and composition together within the limitations of computer technology.

This workshop is for the photographer who wants to discover the magic of light, both natural and studio lighting. We will demonstrate the setup and use studio lighting. We will use light to create unique still life, portrait, and nude figure photographs. Explore the elements of light and understand white balance, color temperature, and light quality.

Wake-up and begin the process of seeing and producing long exposure night photographs. Capture the images you visualize. Use techniques to produce interesting and compelling night time photographs. Digital photography equipment has expanded the light sensitivity beyond the perceptible range and into an area for of innovative experimentation. You will be creating stunning images and learn the skills to capture night photos while everyone else is sleeping.

This hands-on workshop packs a ton of valuable information in a fun, fast-paced, technically informative event, guiding you through the basics while opening up new possibilities for artists and photographers of all levels.

This extremely popular 3-day workshop provides everything you need to know to make the finest digital prints from your color transparencies, negatives or digital files. Conducted by two of the most accomplished photographers and technical minds in the country this three day workshop is a wealth of information and experience. The student will come away from this workshop with a 20x24 Lightjet print of their own work and a raft of new skills...More details and dates... or see New Alumni session of this workshop...

Alumni Print-Making "Intensive" Session! June 20-22, 2008· Fee: $1195 plus Lab fee of $75 · Limited to 14 · Same meeting times as above · Includes discussions and demonstrations of handling problem images, with majority of class time devoted to helping students optimize and fine-tune their own images, with extra time on the Lightjet. Prerequisite: Having attended any of Charlie and Bill's, or Charlie's previous classes.

The ability to make accurate selections and masks is one of the keys to doing good work in Photoshop, especially if you need to make a composite image. This 2-day hands-on class will focus on core Photoshop concepts that relate to selections, channels, alpha channels and layer masks.

Masks can be used in a variety of situations for many different types of digital darkroom work, including contrast and color correction masks for photographs and intricate masks for compositing multiple images together. In many cases, there is a mask, or the beginnings of one, already present in your photograph. You just need to know where to look for it and how to modify it to suit your purposes.

I'm a minimalist when it comes to equipment and software. I'm always looking for the most efficient method I can find to produce the results I want. With the release of Adobe's Photoshop CS3, I've found a panorama process that works for me and doesn't require me to purchase any additional Photoshop plug-ins or panorama adapters for my tripod. Now I'm ready to share this process with you.

This is a technical workshop and is designed to immerse the adventurous photographer into digital photography using mid-level Photoshop techniques. You already know the digital photography basics.

See and photograph the world in panoramic format. This comprehensive workshop covers all the steps involved in creating panoramas with regular digital cameras, image capture techniques, aesthetic considerations, processing, stitching and editing your image, and finally presenting the images for the web and print. Get a hands-on introduction to the tools, methods and advanced techniques that change the way one visualizes, shoots and presents compelling and creative panoramic photographs of both outdoor natural subjects and interiors.

This three day workshop is designed around the basics of photography. Suitable for the beginning photographer who is just learning as well as the the seasoned photographer wanting to refresh the basics. The workshop contains both in classroom lecture where the "how-to" of photography is explained in no nonsense terms and in-field photography sessions. The classroom portion is covered in two 4-hour sessions and covers such topics as: Camera Systems, Exposure, Metering, Lenses (how they work and which to use for what), Other Support Equipment, Capture Media (Film and Digital), Lighting, and Composition. The in-field photography sessions are spread over 1 and 1/2 days and will include exercises at regular intervals that directly illustrate the topics covered in the lecture. The majority of the time during the in-field sessions is reserved for participants to photograph and to have technical as well as artistic questions answered on the spot. Working side by side with the participants will allow for examples to be shown and questions to be answered promptly as they come up. Finally a minimum of 4 hours will be spent on image review and critique in the classroom setting again. Nothing improves ones photography better than sharing images and receiving sincere and thoughtful critic of ones work.

This imagination based course is designed to develop your creative eye with lessons that blend technical knowledge with visual elements of design. Learn how many of the basic functions of the digital camera will produce beautiful images. Something magical happens when we look through a camera lens. Regardless of our theme, the subject matter takes on a different feel. The resulting photograph differs from the actual view. The subject is represented in the image the way the photographer chooses to represent it, through the filter of the photographer's eye.

Travel and Stock Photography go hand in hand. If you're into travel, you need to build your stock photo business. If you're into stock photography, you need to apply the business development skills used by assignment photographers. But today's world isn't like it was, where the supply of images was controlled in large part by photographers and agencies. Today, more semi-pros and amateurs alike are contributing an infinite supply of images into the marketplace, turning the photo industry into a free-for-all. We'll cover the of highly competitive real-world of the photography business where your competition or your clients may not necessarily play nice or fair. Whether you're a beginner looking to enter the business and compete with the pros, or a veteran looking to protect yourself from the hungry newbies coming fast and furious, this workshop will help you adapt well to the 21st century..

Workshop participants will be involved in a real-life travel assignment for the city of Santa Cruz, who will be using selected images for their 2008 set of promotional materials. The class will cover all aspects of managing this assignment, from initial pitch to the client, all the way to final delivery of product...

This class teaches the essential Photoshop Techniques for all photographers. During the 8 hours course, students will be learning how to correct common problems with their images, learn techniques like burning and dodging, failsafe sharpening, getting control over your shadows, using camera raw and bridge and a whole lot more.

• Improve your photographic skills, from capture to print-making
• Work professionally in the field to get beautiful landscape and wildlife photographs
• Develop your personal style
• Access remote and photogenic natural landmarks
• Streamline your photo editing workflow by improving Color Management understanding and implementation
• Learn how to hand craft beautiful and vibrant fine-art prints

This class provides practical advice on selecting equipment, deciding what to bring and how to prepare, and choosing how to share your images once you return home. You don't need to own a digital camera to benefit from this class. In fact, you will see a variety of cameras during the class, so you'll also have more information about the different models and features of these cameras, which can make the purchase of your next camera easier.

Take another major step in your digital workflow: learn the techniques that will take the image in your mind to its best expression on photo paper. Before printing a single image, we will consider options that affect the outcome of our print, dividing these considerations into technical and aesthetic choices. Using Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom as our tools, we'll explore the following options, and see the results of our decisions: