Vanvouver Photo Workshops proudly presents a series of exclusive Photoshop seminars with Photoshop Hall of Famer Dave Cross.

For close to 25 years, Dave Cross has been helping photographers and creative professionals get the most out of their software. Starting with Adobe Illustrator classes in 1987, Dave has taught Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign to thousands of users around the world.

Dave is well-known for his engaging style, his humor and his ability to make complex topics easy to understand. In 2009 Dave was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame.

While in Vancouver, Dave will be teaching the following 2 Seminars. Please click on each seminar title to open a more detailed description of each event.

Work Smart with Photoshop Eveing Seminar:

This seminar will focus on ways to let Photoshop do most of the work for you, using built-in automation features, actions and some “hidden” productivity tricks. We’ll also look at one of the most powerful techniques to work efficiently and with flexibility: Smart Objects. By the end of this 3 hour session you’ll walk away with a ton of ways to enhance your productivity and your creativity

Photoshopotography: Photography, Photoshop, Efficiency and Creativity

This full day seminar will cover a range of topics that share one common goal: to help you work more efficiently, more accurately and with more flexibility.

The day will be divided up into 5 one hour sessions:

Customizing Photoshop
Learn how to make Photoshop look and act the way you want, using Presets, Workspaces, Custom Brushes and Shapes, Custom menus and keyboard shortcuts and more.

Automating
See how to work more efficiently by taking advantage of built-in automated commands, actions, content aware fill, the blend if sliders and some “hidden” productivity tricks.

Selection and Compositing Secrets
In this session we’ll look at some key techniques for making selections and compositing onto new backgrounds. You’ll see plenty of ideas for making more “believable” composite images

Mastering Smart Objects
Starting from the ground up, learn the incredible advantages that Smart Objects offer, from non-destructive editing, to creativity, to problem solving to creating easily reusable templates.

Finishing Touches
This session is also about finishing off your work with frames, edge effects, textured overlays and more, all done in ways that can easily be reused and edited over and over again.

"Thanks again for the course...tons of very useful info for a newbie like me. Well worth the time and money!!!"

"When my friends looked at my photographs they couldn't believe that I really was the one who took them - I told them that VPW could help them achieve the same outstanding results as well! Thank you for an excellent class!"

"Finally a workshop that teaches the creative aspects as much as the technical necessities."

For close to 25 years, Dave Cross has been helping photographers and creative professionals get the most out of their software. Starting with Adobe Illustrator classes in 1987, Dave has taught Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign to thousands of users around the world. He has a Bachelor of Education, is an Adobe Certified Instructor in Photoshop CS5 and is a Certified Technical Trainer. Dave has taught at Photoshop World (20 times), written numerous articles and several books, co-hosts Photoshop User TV and has appeared in many DVDs and online courses for Kelby Training. Dave has a weekly podcast called Ask Dave where he answers Photoshop questions. He is the Lead Instructor for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, and runs his own studio/workshop space in Tampa, FL.

Dave is a Wescott Endorsed Pro and is part of the onOne Software Masters program.

Over the last 12 years, Dave has taught Photoshop in every state in the United States, throughout Canada and in Europe, consistently earning rave reviews. Dave is well-known for his engaging style, his humor and his ability to make complex topics easy to understand. In 2009 Dave was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame.

 

For more information about Dave Cross please visit:

http://www.dcross.com/