Morning Session – $50 AAF-FS Members / $65 Non-Members / $20 Students

Afternoon Session – $65 AAF-FS Members / $80 Non-Members / $30 Students

Full Day (all three sessions) – $130 Members / $170 Non-Members / $55 Students

To register send name, company, email, and phone number to info@aaffs.org by Wednesday, November 16, 2011. Preregistration and prepayment is required.

This seminar is aimed at the intermediate Photoshop user, but even less-experienced users as well as power users wil find many tips and tricks to make the time spent worthwhile. In order to cover as much information as possible, sessions will consist of hands-off, demonstration style seminar, though participants are welcome to bring their computers and test skills during breaks.

Morning Session 9:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
In this session you’ll learn the basics – and some of the finer points – of digital imaging, such as Common Color Modes (RGB, CMYK, Lab, Indexed, and also when to use each), Channels (What are they, why does it matter, and why don’t they seem to make sense in RGB?), and Vector vs. Raster/Pixel-based graphics (What are they, when to use which). You’ll also start on the basics of Photoshop Program.

Afternoon Session 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
For the more advanced user, this session will focus on aspects such as adjusting images (How to obtain greater control and adjust brightness and contrast using levels and curves), how to make better, quicker selections to be more efficient and using layers to create special effects (Putting images into type and other shapes, composing several images, etc).

Evening 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
(You must have attended either the morning or afternoon session)
Hands-on time to try out some of the techniques you have learned with the guidance of the instructor.

This seminar is NOT recommended for anyone who has not been using Photoshop for at least six months.

Created: Oct 22^nd, 2011

Client: UAFS Student Work

Purpose: Explore Historic Artistic Styles

Medium: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

Description:

The main goal of this particular piece was to explore an artistic style from the past and use the ideas and theories from that style to create a new design with a modern feel. The main challenge was putting a new spin on an old style to make a design that was not only new and original, but also reminiscent of the past.

The style I decided to explore was Cubism, a style made famous by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. The main goal of Cubism in the past (from what I understand) was to display objects in multiple and often times abstract perspectives. I used this principle in my own design but decided to use typography rather than object based imagery as my main twist in the style (a decision not found in cubism examples from the past). The image depicts the word “Cubism” in strange and contradicting perspectives.

I’ve also added a three-word tag line into the design, which can be a challenge to find.