Epson Print Shop Academy

pathfinder

Adobe Photoshop has to be one of the most complicated pieces of software to learn - I began with Photoshop 5 in 1999 and it took me almost a year to even begin to make sense of it - I was not trained in art or graphics and found PS almost agonizing - I wanted to edit images and most of the books back then were for graphic artists and web designers. What I did not do is go to a formal training prgram and I should have. Epson is now offering on ONLINE training program for editing and printing with Adobe Photoshop - I finished the first three days this week -- Wow - What a great learning experience. Like Scott Kelby's books - no vague theory - just cut to the chase - and devoted to digital photographers not graphic artists.

I encourage anyone with a serious interest in digtal photgraphy who uses Photoshop to go to http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/PrintAcademy/pa_landing.jsp and investigate the online tutorial they are selling. $29 or $39 dollars - cheap - for what it offers. It may make Fish break down and pony up for CS.......

wxwax

Not until it's fashionable.

Personally, I have a hard time finding the time and the self-discipline.

pathfinder

wxwax wrote:

Not until it's fashionable.

Personally, I have a hard time finding the time and the self-discipline.

The lessons are structured so that they only take a few minutes a day - Epson says 5 minutes to view - but there is so much to try that it is more like 10 or 15 minutes - but I have already learned more about creating nice B&W pictures than I ever learned anywhere else......

wxwax

Please stop, you're going to talk me into signing up.

pathfinder

wxwax wrote:

Please stop, you're going to talk me into signing up.

Jay Maisel is one of the featured speakers...........

wxwax

Luckily, I have no idea who he is.

pathfinder

wxwax wrote:

Luckily, I have no idea who he is.

But I am sure you have seen his work - either in TV or advertising or whatever................

wxwax

You're not only gonna make me sign up, now you're goonna make me Google this guy. Slavemaster. :whip

wxwax

Here's a great pic from his book on New York.

pathfinder

wxwax wrote:

You're not only gonna make me sign up, now you're goonna make me Google this guy. Slavemaster. :whip

His client list is here.....

http://www.jaymaisel.com/html/clientlist.html

pathfinder

pathfinder wrote:

His client list is here.....

http://www.jaymaisel.com/html/clientlist.html

In one of the videos he has a print in his studio of the cab with the driver in his underware that must be three or four feet long...

wxwax

:stfu I can't hear you....