Digital Workflow with Bridge and Camera Raw :

Digital Workflow with Bridge and Camera Raw

Pro Photographer Chris Alvanas will show you the powers worth discovering with Adobe Bridge and Camera RAW (ACR) applications. Students will learn how to capture images and directly import them into bridge where they can be managed and viewed as they are edited and developed.

Course Objectives

• Learn an alternative way to import, manage, edit and develop images
• Use Camera RAW to process RAW, JPEG and TIFF files (Students will get this exposure whether or not they are shooting in RAW file format)
• Create different workspaces for the best experience possible while developing images
• Automated features of Bridge including: contact sheet, picture packages, panoramas and the image processor
• Color space and monitor calibration

Itinerary

DAY 1: 9am-6pm

• The Bridge User Interface and Customizing it
• Importing with the Photo Downloader
• Where the Files Live and How to get to them
• Label, Rate, Editing and Stacking
• The Powers of the Filter
• Metadata and Key wording
• Making a Metadata Template
• Selecting Multiple Files and Louping Previews
• Making Collections
• Slide Shows using Bridge
• Batch Processing Images in Bridge
• Using Automated Functions in Bridge~ Contact Sheet, Image Processor, Picture Pack-ages, PDF’s

DAY 2: 9am-6 pm

• Adobe Camera RAW Interface
• Opening Images into ACR with Bridge or PS
• The Camera RAW Interface
• White Balance and Correcting Color Casts
• The Tools: Crop, Straighten, Red Eye, Rotate, Clone, etc
• Setting Workflow Options
• 8bit vs. 16bit
• What is a Smart Object
• Setting a Color Space and Interpolating
• The Histogram: How It Works and Previewing Clipping Areas
• The Basic Adjustments and Tone Curve
• The Detail Tab and Color Tab Adjustments
• Black and Whites and Split Toning
• Lens Corrections and Camera Calibrations
• Using and Setting Presets

Studio

Bathhouse Studios
540 East 11th Street
New York, NY 10009

Directions

Subway

• Cross-town(8th Av/Williamsburg area): L Train to 1st Ave. stop. You’ll be on14th St. & 1st Ave. Walk East one block to Ave. A and hang a right. Walk down A ‘till you hit 11th St. Take a left down 11th & we are on the South (right) side closer to Avenue B.
• North/South : N, R Train (Brooklyn/Queens), 4, 5, 6 Train (Brooklyn/Bronx) To 14th St & Union Sq (East) stop. Walk east on 14th St. to Ave A. Take right on A (south) till you hit 11th St. Take left on 11th . We are on the
  South (right) side closer to Avenue B.

Parking

• Nice, LLC – 212.475.5262
  311 E 11th St btw 1st & 2nd Aves
  New York, NY (Please call for pricing)

Cost per person

$1999 per person

Limited to: 20 participants

Terms and Conditions

Included:

• Quest workshop fee
• Reviews
• All lectures
• Lunch

Not included:

• Flights for out-of-state attendees
• Any required hardware or software
• Lodging

Chris Alvanas

Chris Alvanas is a digital photographer and photoshop maven. He is a gifted and sought after post-production artist for high-end beauty retouching. As a photographer, Chris is known for his commercial quirky kids images. His fine art side delves into the worlds of jazz and dance by illustrating the musician’s relationship with the instrument, as well as the motion of dance: his images are anything but static. Chris believes every-thing starts with perspective, and the beauty of the shot lives on the fringe of awkwardness: a pleasantly alarming place.

Chris’s images have appeared in Nikon World Magazine, PopularPhotography, Nikon Product Guide, Nikon Pro Website, and in the 2007and 2008 Nikon Calendars. His clients include: Nikon, Kodak, Procter & Gamble, Safilo Eyewear-Italy, Armadani Jewelers, Bob’s Store, Samsonite, Newport International Polo, American Photo Magazine, Popular Photography Magazine, Rubberball and Getty Images.

As a retoucher, Chris is a regular contributor to Layers Magazine and is included in the 2008 Layers Magazine best of the year compilation DVD.

He is currently working with Katrin Eismann on the second edition of her book “Masking and Compositing”, due to be released in Fall 2008. Chris is a faculty member at the Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University and previous owner of Hope Gallery in Bristol, RI. www.lightyearimaging.com

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Gear to Bring

The following is required for the class, except as indicated:

• Laptop Computer
• Wacom Tablet (optional)
• Storage Media and Reader
• Portable Hard Drive (at least 40-80GB)
• Software: AdobePhotoshop CS3