PhotoShop lessons

[evilgerbil]

I've been using PhotoShop for a long time, about 12 years. I know is pretty much inside and out. Not to mention that I have a bachelor of science in graphic design from Art Institute and a certificate in digital imaging from Cal State Fullerton extension. Those are my qualifications. I take lots of bad snapshots and make them better, like this:

http://www.arosenblum.com/retouching/index2.html

Lots of people have asked me to help them with PhotoShop, or otherwise have expressed frustration that they just don't get it. I can totally help. Some of the biggies are layers, retouching using stamp and healing brush, layer masks, blending modes, creating clipping layers, using adjustment layers (curves, levels, selective color). Then there is a combination of these things, like using adjustment layers in different blending modes. I could cover things like how to extract a person or object from a background, how to do magazine quality retouching, converting a color photograph into black and white (DO NOT just change color modes!), and intelligent use of dodge and burn.

So who's in? I wouldn't charge anything. If I could find a projector I could just use my laptop and some people could gather.