WORKSHOP #2
When? February 12 — February 14, 2010
Where? Here, on the blog of this site.
As registered user, you’ll get access to the workshop’s blog posts. The feeds can be accessed by using an unique feed key generated based on the username.
So only if you sign up for the workshop, you’ll be able to access the site and participate in the workshop.
Instructors: April Martinez, Anne Cain, Chris Griffin and Croco Designs
Fee US-$ 25
The Registration Form is now available.
Topics: There’ll be something for everyone: beginner, intermediate, or advanced. Please be aware that most topics will be based upon Adobe Photoshop (7.0 and above), Adobe Photoshop Elements (6.0 and above) and/or Painter.
The Business of Cover Art and Design by April Martinez
Class 1: Getting Work (class on self-promotion)
Class 2: Getting Paid (class on money matters)
Class 3: Getting Things Done (class on workflow)
For artists by Anne Cain
Intro to digital photography—a quick run down of photography basics, including cleaning up red eye in Photoshop, cropping, setting up shots, etc.
Intro to digital painting—(Cris, you’re definitely an expert in this realm)
Getting creative in photoshop—learning how to make (and use) brushes, patterns, and masks.
Photo-montages 2—a tutorial on putting together a montage, but using the photos, brushes and other goodies everyone made in the previous tutorials.
For authors by Anne Cain
Print promo—tutorial on putting together some quick and attractive bookmarks or postcards that can be printed at home or in a local copy center.
Web banner ads—a tutorial on how to set up a 468×60 banner
An article with tips and advice on what authors can do to get the cover of their dreams (or as close to it as possible)
Digital Painting 101 by Cris Griffin
Website Design/Website Graphics by Croco Designs
(1) How to save image files at their best for websites/online usage? Differences between *.jpg, *.gif and *.png files.
(2) Working with Slices—website graphics, roll-over buttons and more… (with references to Java Scripts and HTML code)
(3) Website Backgrounds
If you are interested in advertising on this site or have questions in general, please contact us anytime (see sidebar for Contact page link).
WORKSHOP #1
When? January 30 — February 1, 2009
Where? Here, on the blog of this site.
Instructors: April Martinez, Anne Cain, Chris Griffin and Croco Designs
Topics: There’ll be something for everyone: beginner, intermediate, or advanced. Please be aware that most topics will be based upon Adobe Photoshop and/or Adobe Photoshop Elements.
Photoshop Techniques, digital painting, making promotional items, photomanipping, for example:
- Photoshop-specific techniques on morphing (adding or taking weight from photographed models, shortening and lengthening elements, and other subtle but hard to achieve changes) using the following tools:
- Liquify
- Transform (and its various edit settings)
- Distort (and its various sub filters)
- Cloning/Healing Tool
- Smudge Tool
- Vanishing Point
- Photoshop-specific techniques on masking (knocking out backgrounds, isolating/blending elements, etc.) using the following tools:
- Extract
- KnockOut (PS Plug-in by Corel)
- Pen Tool
- Magnetic Lasso/Magic Wand Tools
- Color Range
- Alpha Masks
- Pimping PS Elements: How to unlock/use hidden features
- The Making Of… a camera-ready (RT/RWR) ad using Photoshop/Photoshop Elements covering the following tools/techniques
- creating your own templates using Rulers & Guides
- converting a flat cover into a 3-dimensional book using the Scale/Skew tool
- working with fonts: the Text tool
- And many more topics…
More details to come soon.
Fee US-$ 5
