Stephen M. Burns
Photoshop Basics and Beyond:
The Blending of Reality, Vision and A.I.
PPA Merited Workshop
Saturday, August 3, 2024
10:00am - 4:30pm
Location: Great American Portraits
207 N Broadway Unit I, Santa Ana, CA 92701
Register in link below:
https://ppoc.org/event-5739478
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How do you keep up in today’s world of Digital
Photography, Photoshop and A.I.?
Come join PPOC and meet Stephen M. Burns, a National Photoshop Educator, who will guide us hands-on into some of the most useful editing tools in Photoshop and how to use them, including the new AI features and new/overlooked features of some Photoshop favorites. Sometimes, we create and come to an end, and sometimes, we have a clear vision of what that end will look like; both have very different paths to the destination.
This full-day PPA Merited class will take us from beginning to end, or from Vision to Finish! You will leave with a better understanding of the tools of Photoshop whether you are a Photoshop beginner, intermediate, or advanced user.
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Technology is changing faster than ever, with pixel counts higher and higher, and new tools are every day. The lines of BEGINNER, INTERMEDIATE, AND ADVANCED whatever no longer have meaning as you can now be an expert in just one part of Photoshop and a novice in another; you can be an Expert Landscape Photographer and a Newby at Headshot photography.
How do you keep up with it all? Do You? Is there a better way?
We will begin the session by talking about what you NEED to know in Photoshop to build a solid foundation from a Retoucher’s/Digital artist's perspective. From there, we will dive into some of the most useful editing tools in Photoshop and how to use them. One of the most overlooked tools is your own personal Vision. Sometimes, we create and come to an end, and sometimes, we have a clear vision of what that end will look like; both have very different paths to the destination. We will even touch on the topic on A.I. and how to BLEND A.I. into your existing work.
BIO:
Stephen Burns (www.chromeallusion.com) is a digital artist and author of books on being creative with your digital tools. He is an Adobe AEL (Adobe Educational Leader) as well as an Adobe Community Expert and has taught digital creativity internationally.
He is an Instructor at Goldenwest College and Santa Monica College and Coast College and Studio Arts of Los Angeles. He worked as a Pro-Artist for WACOM Technologies and he is the president Of Photoshop Users Group (www.sdphotoshopusers.com) which is currently the largest Adobe Photoshop Users group in the country. You can view the Facebook section at https://www.facebook.com/groups/photoshopusersgroup.
He is guest writer for a number of magazines to include the feature article and front cover of Photoshop User Magazine.(http://www.chromeallusion.com/articles_index.htm).
In addition, Stephen is the author of the following books (http://www.chromeallusion.com/books.htm):
1. "3D Photoshop For Creative Professionals"
2. “Photoshop CS5 Trickery & FX”
3. "The Art Of Poser & Photoshop"
4. “Advanced Photoshop CS4 Trickery & FX”
5. "Advanced Photoshop CS3 Trickery & FX"
6. "Advanced Photoshop CS2 Trickery & FX"
7. "Photoshop CS Trickery & FX"
He has discovered the same passion for the digital medium as he has for photography as an art form. His background began as a photographer 28 year ago and in time, progressed toward the digital medium. His artistic influences include the great
Abstractionists & the Surrealists including Jackson Pollock, Wassily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, Mark Tobey, and Lenore Fini, to name a few.
Stephen Burns has been a corporate instructor and lecturer in the application of digital art and design for the past 29 years internationally. He has been exhibiting digital fine art around the world at galleries such as Durban Art Museum in South Africa, Citizens
Gallery in Yokohama, Japan, and CECUT Museum Of Mexico to name a few. Part of his exhibiting won him 1st place in the prestigious Seybold International digital arts contest.
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