Dan Margulis in Boston next week
rutt
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both at Photoshop World and a talk at M.I.T.
At Photoshop World, you can still sign up for his classes on The Magic of LAB 4-6:15 pm on Thursday and The Art of the Blend 10:45am-1:45pm on Friday. If I had time, I'd try attend this last. There is a sold out Curves class on Tuesday. Kelby fans will find him on the schedule as well. Here is the full schedule.
Dan will also be speaking at M.I.T. on Wednesday morning. Personally, I think this has the potential to be the start of something very very exciting. He is the guest of the graphics group in CSAIL, the Computer Science department. Last year I audited the Advanced Computational Photography class given by Fredo Durand and Bill Freeman in this department. Dan and these people both know a lot about the same things, but they most definitely don't know the same things. So I think this will be great fun. Below is the announcement:
At Photoshop World, you can still sign up for his classes on The Magic of LAB 4-6:15 pm on Thursday and The Art of the Blend 10:45am-1:45pm on Friday. If I had time, I'd try attend this last. There is a sold out Curves class on Tuesday. Kelby fans will find him on the schedule as well. Here is the full schedule.
Dan will also be speaking at M.I.T. on Wednesday morning. Personally, I think this has the potential to be the start of something very very exciting. He is the guest of the graphics group in CSAIL, the Computer Science department. Last year I audited the Advanced Computational Photography class given by Fredo Durand and Bill Freeman in this department. Dan and these people both know a lot about the same things, but they most definitely don't know the same things. So I think this will be great fun. Below is the announcement:
MIT CSAIL Announcement wrote:What Makes a Photograph Look Better?
Speaker: Dan Margulis
Host: Frédo Durand
Host Affiliation: MIT - CSAIL - Computer Graphics Group
Date: 4-4-2007
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Refreshments: 10:45 AM
Location: 32-D507
The evaluation of image quality is notoriously subjective. Nevertheless,
professional retouchers know techniques that make the pictures "better"
in the eyes of all observers, even if the quality of "better" cannot be
defined or measured. Some of these techniques succeed for reasons well
known to science; others rely on features of the human visual system
that are not widely understood. The speaker is, in addition to being an
expert retoucher, an authority on what makes people prefer one version
of an image as opposed to another. Using real-world photographic
examples, we will discuss some of these preferences, some of the more
unusual ways correction techniques cater to them, and the ramifications
for spectrophotometry, HDR, and image sharpness.
Dan Margulis, according to the National Association of Photoshop
Professionals, is "the father of digital prepress...[his] ability to
reduce complicated concepts to words that users can understand and his
insistence on dealing with real-world relevance have made him today's
most influential voice in color reproduction". His _Professional
Photoshop_, currently in its fifth edition, is the standard
color-correction text. His 2005 book _Photoshop LAB Color_, became the
top seller in the entire computing field despite the apparent opacity of
the topic. In 2001, he was one of the first three persons, and the only
writer, to be named as a member of the Photoshop Hall of Fame.
Relevant URL(S): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Margulis For more information
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The MIT thing is going to be nerd heaven. The PS World things are a great bargain compared to Dan's classes.