News, news, news..

We’re getting the band back together and hitting the road again. The Epson Print Academy is going to Atlanta this Saturday, November 8th at the Renaissance Atlanta Hotel Downtown.

Featuring Andrew Rodney (The Digital Dog), Jeff Schewe, Greg Gorman, Mac Holbert and John Paul Caponigro, the new EPson Print Academy is headed to Atlanta for the first of a 15 city tour. We’re dragging along one of the new Epson Stylus® Pro 7900 printers with UltraChrome® HDR inks and we’ll be teaching how to get the most out of that, or any fine art ink jet printer. In fact, attendees are registered to win one of the 7900 printers (given out next June) or a change to win one of 15 3800 printers (one will be given away at each venue). For more information, check out the web site at Epson Print Academy.

• Science of Color Management
• Calibration, Characterization
• Advanced Custom Profiling
• Color Spaces, Gamut, Bit Depth and L*a*b
• Advanced Driver Settings

• Advanced Photoshop CS4 Camera Raw 5 Settings
• In-Depth Understanding of the Lightroom 2 Develop Module
• Non-Destructive Workflow
• Smart Objects
• Working and Printing in 16 bit
• Editing in Photoshop CS4 with Lightroom 2 Managed Files
• Printing From Lightroom 2 with Files Edited in Photoshop CS4

• Developing a Strategy for Image Enhancement
• Creating a Sense of Dimensionality
• Working With an Exit Strategy
• Drawing with Light
• Mastering Selections
• Gradient, Contour and Luminous Masking
• Managing Midtone Contrast
• New Techniques with Photoshop CS4
• Advanced Burning and Dodging
• Evaluating and Employing Advanced Black and White Conversion Methods
• Working With Microporous and Cotton Fiber Media
• Printing to an Epson Stylus Pro 7900 with Ultrachrome HDR Ink

Original post by Jeff Schewe

Photoshop World Conference & Expo - September 4-6, 2008 - Las Vegas, NV

Sponsored by Adobe Systems Incorporated and produced by the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP), this extraordinary conference - now in its tenth year - offers graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, Web developers, retouchers, video pros, and Photoshop users of all skill levels and interests the absolute latest in digital imaging and design education.

A $100 advance registration discount is available now through August 1, 2008, keeping the total cost of this amazing event only $499 for NAPP members and $599 for the public - an incredible price for three days of world-class training by the best in the creative industry lead by Scott Kelby, technical chair, NAPP president, and the world’s bestselling computer and technology book author.

This year’s conference offers the biggest and most comprehensive conference schedule. Attendees will choose from 100 classes taught by 40 of the best and most creative industry experts and instructors, including Julieanne Kost, Jay Maisel, George Lepp, Dan Margulis, and more. A complete list of instructors can be viewed at http://www.photoshopworld.com/instructors.html.

Held annually on the east and west coasts, Photoshop World is the official convention of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. For more details, visit www.photoshopworld.com.

NAPP is the largest digital imaging and design association worldwide with more than 70,000 members in 105 countries. It is the leading resource for Adobe Photoshop training, education and news. For more information, visit www.photoshopuser.com.

Original post by PSN Editorial Staff

You Suck At Photoshop, the trials and tribulations of Donnie, has won a People’s Voice Award in the 12th annual Webby Awards Comedy: Long Form or Series category. You Suck also won a People’s Voice Award in the “How To” category.

The creators of You Suck were recently revealed to be Troy Hitch and Matt Bledsoe, two ad agency refugees from Covington, Kentucky. See this PSN story: THE PHOTOSHOP GUYS REVEALED!.

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Press Release: ALYS BEACH, Fla., May 6 /PRNewswire/ — A Florida beach resort town will host a unique festival on Labor Day weekend.

“Digital Graffiti at Alys Beach” was created to celebrate and promote the world’s most talented and innovative digital artists. But the event has a very unusual twist.

“We’re inviting digital artists from around the world to project their original artwork onto our town’s famous white walls,” said Kelli Arnold, Alys Beach’s Events Coordinator. “Our entire town will literally become their blank canvas.”

Sometimes referred to as “Photon Bombing,” “Guerilla Projection,” “Projection Bombing” or “Urban Projection,” underground artists around the globe have already been using the latest design, animation and projection technologies to cast their images onto skyscrapers and other urban structures, as a means of artistic expression.

“Some of the talent that we’re finding is truly stunning,” said Arnold.

To help lure that talent, Alys Beach has announced numerous award categories and over $5,000 in cash prizes, including a $2,500 “Best of Show” award. A certain number of qualified artists may also be eligible for cash stipends to help them attend the event.

The festival will be hosted by several celebrity and industry expert judges, including Alan Hunter — MTV’s very first “VeeJay,” co-host of the “Big 80’s” channel on Sirius Satellite Radio, and co-founder of the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival, and Warren Heaton, an award-winning digital media artist and UCLA professor, whose film, video and interactive media projects include such clients as Adobe, Aquantive Microsoft, Concorde-New Horizons, DirecTV, Motor Entertainment and Walt Disney Imagineering.

Artists are encouraged to submit their original works of digital art for consideration as soon as possible. Entries may include new or existing abstract digital imagery, short films, photography, VJ sets, animations, YouTube videos, Adobe PhotoShop creations or entirely new interactive concepts. All subject matter is eligible for the festival, although a special $1,000 prize will be awarded to the best entry with a “green” or environmental theme. The deadline for all submissions is Friday, July 11, 2008. The festival will be held on the evening of Saturday, August 30, 2008.

Alys Beach is located in Florida’s panhandle on Scenic Highway 30A, between Destin and Panama City Beach, along what The New York Times said “may be the best beach in the continental U.S.” In April, Forbes.com named Alys Beach America’s “Best Spot for the Design-Savvy.”

For more information about Digital Graffiti at Alys Beach, visit www.alysbeach.com/DG , call toll-free 1-866-481-8387, or email events@alysbeach.com .

ABOUT ALYS BEACH

One of the most beautiful new towns in the world, Alys Beach’s extraordinary architectural vision drew inspirations from both Bermuda and the family courtyard homes of Antigua, Guatemala. When complete, the town will be home to over 600 villas, rowhouses, courtyard homes and family compound retreats, as well as numerous restaurants, parks and shops. All homes in Alys Beach are built to Fortified … For Safer Living® building standards, as certified by the Institute for Business & Home Safety, and are also built to the Green Home Designation Standard of the Florida Green Building Coalition.

“Alys Beach may be the most truly innovative community under construction in the United States today, and it will eventually be imitated everywhere,” said Andres Duany, who was ranked one of the Top 5 most influential people in home building by Builder magazine.

For sales or rental information, please call 866-481-8387 or visit www.alysbeach.com .

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No, I’m not going to Disney World…but I am in Orlando getting ready for the kick-off of this year’s Photoshop World.

The theme this year is THE EVOLUTION (probably because of the “evolution” of Photoshop) and rumor has it that Scott Kelby will be dressed as Captain Kirk and the staff will be the crew of the Starship Enterprise.

I’ve already run into Scott (not literally-I just saw him walking by on crutches). Seems Scott had a little accident. It’s either a 1)-a skiing accident while in the Swiss Alps, 2)-a kick boxing accident when delivering a vicious round kick or 3)-an unfortunate treadmill incident. We’ll investigate and report back so stay tuned…

Just found this story from Scott’s blog: I’m Heading to Photoshop World today. On Crutches!

Original post by PSN Editorial Staff

Looking for a place to show off your top work?
The NBA and Midway are looking for YOUR Chosen One entries. It’s time to fire up Photoshop, get creative, and get ready to compete with NBA Fans around the world.

Showcase your CHOSEN ONE now through April! The top three entries will win eternal glory and cool prizes. For more info, see the web site: http://www.nba.com/nbaballers/

The Chosen One Contest Design Checklist:

Originality
Create an image design that we’ve never seen before (using Photoshop or another type of designing software that you own or have rights to use). Your “Chosen One” can depict a current player, a fictional basketball character, or even a depiction of yourself. It’s up to you on who you want to be your Chosen One.
We’re looking for unique submissions!

Visual Appeal
Please make sure the design you submit focuses on the Chosen One, but is also balanced with cool background designs and artwork, taglines, etc.

Chosen One Player/Character
Make sure you include a player/character (whether fictional or real) in your design.

No Obscenities
All submissions that are uploaded will be monitored by our staff before they are posted live to ensure the Chosen One designs don’t include any obscene or negative
messaging or imagery.

Original post by PSN Editorial Staff

Photo op by Peter Kennard

The camera never lies – or does it? Peter Kennard and Alexander Rodchenko have both manipulated images to undermine those in power. The results are subversive and unsettling, says Tom Lubbock

Source: The Independent

What is the power of images? Take this one. It shows Tony Blair, in shirt and tie, facing more or less front, and grinning hard, as he takes his own photo. But behind him the scene is entirely filled with the smoke and fire of a massive explosion, blowing the desert apart. Its detonation seems to be simultaneous with Blair’s snap.

Obviously it’s a composite image. It’s entitled Photo-Op and it was made a couple of years ago by our leading exponent of photomontage, Peter Kennard. The figure of a self-snapping Blair was extracted from a news photo (originally, what he had behind him was a group of children and naval cadets). It’s then been superimposed on a bit of shock-and-awe from Iraq.

The picture is a great coup. It catches Blair at his most Blairite – the casually contemporary guy, the publicity narcissist, in full grimace. And the whole scene is very nearly believable. It’s the kind of thing that Blair, in his boyish gung-ho silliness, could almost have done – gleefully snap himself, with his own war as a souvenir-backdrop. The composite is so seamlessly realistic that the eye can’t unpick it. This is no cut-and-paste collage. Photo-Op is made on Photoshop.

So what’s the power of this image? Well, it delivers a brilliant insult, in the way that it manages to condense a lot of suspicions about Blair’s character and priorities. And it plays a neat pictorial practical joke (which even a viewer who didn’t share those suspicions might enjoy). But for all that it’s morally apposite and visually clinching, Photo-Op doesn’t actually prove anything. For what can a montage prove?

Kennard has been taking images apart and fitting them together for almost 40 years. If you go to his retrospective at the Pump House Gallery in Battersea Park, you can see work going back to the early 1970s. There are attacks on the government of Edward Heath, illustrations for the Workers Press, old bits of artwork coming slightly unstuck. The causes may be fading history, but Kennard’s grim wit and graphic impact are already clear.

Read entire article

Show info:

Peter Kennard – Uncertified Documents, Pump House Gallery
London SW11 (020-7350 0523), to 30 March

Original post by PSN Editorial Staff

Scott Kelby wrote last week of Photoshop User TV’s premier on “real TV” but there seems to have been, uh, well, a technical glitch? However, today on his blog (Photoshop Insider) he posted “I somewhat hesitate to say this, but tonight, there is a more than a reasonable chance that at 1:30 am (same time in each time zone), Photoshop User TV will make it’s “real” television debut on Fox Business channel.”

So, if you’re up late tonite working on that last minute Photoshop project (or you have TiVo) you might check the listings and see if, as Scott says “you’ll be treated to either “The Photoshop Guys” or an informercial for “The Juicer” (which is what ran in our spot last week).”

Original post by PSN Editorial Staff

Photoshop World Conference & Expo – April 2-4, 2008 – Orlando, Fl

TAMPA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP), today announced a call for nominations for its third annual Dean Collins Educational Scholarship for 2008. The Dean Collins Educational Scholarship is awarded annually to one high school or college educator nominated by his/her student(s) to provide the recipient an opportunity to attend NAPP’s annual convention – Photoshop World Conference & Expo. The scholarship also includes round-trip airfare, hotel accommodations, a one-year NAPP membership, and subscription to Photoshop User magazine.

The deadline to submit nominations for the Dean Collins Educational Scholarship is Friday, Feb. 29, 2008. A nomination form can be downloaded off the Photoshop World website.

The Dean Collins Educational Scholarship was established in 2005 by Scott Kelby, president of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, to honor the legacy of Dean Collins – a passionate and gifted teacher who left behind a lifetime of contributions to the worldwide Photoshop community.

Sponsored annually by Adobe Systems Incorporated, Photoshop World is the largest educational event worldwide for Photoshop users, photographers, graphic and Web designer, and digital artists. It is scheduled for April 2-4, 2008 at the Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, FL.

About NAPP

The National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) is a dynamic trade association, and the world’s leading resource for Adobe® Photoshop® training, news, and education. An award-winning team of Photoshop experts, authors, consultants, and trainers lead the association keeping its members on the cutting edge of Adobe Photoshop techniques and technology. Visit http://www.photoshopuser.com for more information.

Adobe and Photoshop are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

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Receive $100 Off Registration to the World’s Largest Adobe Photoshop Educational Event

Press Release: TAMPA, Fla. — Advance registration for the world’s largest educational event for graphic artists, photographers, graphic and Web designers, and Photoshop users of all skill levels — Photoshop World Conference & Expo - is underway with a $100 discount at www.photoshopworld.com or calling 800-738-8513 by Friday, Feb. 29. Sponsored by Adobe Systems Incorporated and produced by the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP). Photoshop World will be held April 2-4 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL.

This year’s conference features more than 100 in-depth classes taught by 40 top industry experts, including Scott Kelby, Dave Cross, Katrin Eismann, Bert Monroy, Fay Sirkis, Joe McNally, Dan Margulis, Jeff Schewe, David Ziser, and more. Class sessions are dedicated to Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, Photoshop Extended, and Web development applications, as well as commercial design, outdoor and wedding photography, motion graphics and video, scripting, HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography, and much more. Additionally, Photoshop World will feature a three-day Tech Expo showcasing the latest cutting-edge digital imaging and graphic design related products, professional portfolio reviews, 12 pre-conference workshops, and exciting after-hours social events. For a full schedule or to download a conference brochure, visit www.photoshopworld.com.

Photoshop World Conference & Expo advance registration is $599US by Feb. 29 for the general public and $699US after; NAPP member advance registration is only $499US before Feb. 29 and $599US after. Special pricing is also available for students, educators, and alumni of Photoshop World. Register at www.photoshopworld.com or call toll free at 800-738-8513, Monday-Friday, 8:30am-7:00pm EST.

About NAPP

The National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) is a dynamic trade association, and the world’s leading resource for Adobe Photoshop training, news, and education. An award-winning team of Photoshop experts, authors, consultants, and trainers lead the association keeping its members on the cutting edge of Adobe Photoshop techniques and technology. Visit http://www.photoshopuser.com for more information.

Adobe, Photoshop, and Lightroom are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.