Retouching and Other Digital Skills

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You've gotten the image, the pose is good, the exposure is spot on, now, how to you take it up a notch and have it be a great portrait? In this class, taught by professional portrait photographer Bob Blanken at his studio in Bethesda, MD, he will demonstrate how to handle the subtleties of digital retouching Come join us for three-hour session on how to:

• Best crop images and improve compositions
• Use Portrait Professional software
• Use layers in Photoshop
• Select and mask areas
• Adjust noise and sharpen the images using Nik software
• When and how to apply filters
• Improve tone, contrast, color and brightness

Bring a jump drive with a few images that we can use to demonstrate techniques and a laptop.

Robert N. 'Bob' Blanken, CPP, Cr. Photog. is a Faculty member of both the Washington Photo Safari and the Panasonic Digital Photography Academy. He also leads local classes for the Professional Photographers of America. Bob is currently president of The Professional Photographers Society of Greater Washington and a past president of the Maryland Professional Photographers Association. He is the 2006 and 2002 (ISES) Capital Award Winner for Best Social Photographer and the 2003 ISES Capital Award Winner for Best Corporate Photographer. Bob has been nominated 19 times as Best Photographer by the Greater Washington Chapter of the International Special Events Society and three times by the International Society.