Well I'm back from Columbus and the "Adobe Photoshop CS2 for Photographers" seminar tour.
Short version: Don't spend the money unless you're a relative Photoshop beginner. It's mostly quite basic stuff. Not than I didn't learn a few things, but not nearly enough to justify $79 (much less the $99 you pay if you're not an NAPP member). The program is clearly geared towards people with only modest Photoshop experience. If you use the curves tool regularly and confidently then you're past the point this seminar went to. The presenter was very good, I must say. If you *do* want to really get a handle on making the fullest use of the curves tool (including its use for color correction) I'd recommend this program. I ended up sitting next to a very successful Columbus wedding photographer named Randy Rosen (www.photo-images.biz). He is a *very* outgoing person but not obnoxious. Been in business a long time and clearly very good at it. A lot of fun to hang out with. We ended with an overview of some of the new stuff in CS3. Some of it *very* impressive. I think they'll take a big bite out of the third-party panorama-stitching program market. Photoshop CS3 seems to do it *very* well. And it will do image convolution so that you can layer two slightly different shots of the same scene (like you get when hand-holding) and merge then with frightening realism. Really amazing. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
