Newbies (and maybe not so newbies) Photoshop session????

[arthur.daley]

Hi All

Photoshop seems to come up quite often as a source of general anguish and frustration - especially for some of the newer members here.

I mentioned this in another thread and thought I should really put it up as a thread of its own.

I can offer facilities in Cambridge - 2 minutes off J13 of the M11. We have ample free parking. A lecture room with tables and chairs we can rearrange to suit a group of 2 to 40. Big and bright overhead projector so everyone can see whats going on. Tea and coffee could be arranged and if you want lunch, well there are plenty of dial a pizza/curry outlets that would be happy to take an order or two.

I was thinking along the lines of an informal session one Sunday - could be as long or short as required. You just pitch up with your laptop and we could run through the basics of photoshop that seem to cause so much trouble - resizing images, file sizes and formats, cutting holes in templates so that you can place your customers image behind it, making your own templates, maybe touch on the benefits of an off the shelf ICC profile over Powerdriver maybe print a few images and press them if I can sort the logistics.

I suspect there are quite a few DSF forumites who would be interested but whether they can face the journey from wherever home is to Cambridge is the $64,000,000 question.

Anyone interested??

A DSF educational session at P&P would be brilliant but I can't see anyone lending us some space for say an hour to hold it (



Arthur

[Paul]

very good idea. aim sure it would be helpful to learn how to set photoshop, create basic templates etc..

[James990]

Sadly Sunday might be out for me, but a great idea!

[pisquee]

I would say part of the session should be setting up colour management in PS, including where to put the printer ICC and setting the working space profile etc, along with working in SoftProofing mode.

[GoonerGary]

I used to teach photography, I might actually still have an entire basic photoshop course lying around for you.

[arthur.daley]

I used to teach photography, I might actually still have an entire basic photoshop course lying around for you.

if this did ever get off the ground you could be talking yourself into revitalising your teaching career for an afternoon ;o)


Arthur

[guarddog14]

id love something like this

[galerion]

Its a nice idea but wouldn't it be more effective to do a series of youtube tutorials.

[arthur.daley]

Its a nice idea but wouldn't it be more effective to do a series of youtube tutorials.

it would but that requires a lot more input at my end and its hard to ask questions when you are watching a You Tube movie.

[Paul]

you can do live stream now via youtube where watcher can ask questions etc...