JD Photo Imaging will hold a “Raw Image Processing and Adobe Lightroom” workshop Monday, August 2nd from 10am until 2pm at JD Photo Imaging on Corunna Road in Flint. Cost is $59 per person preregistration or $79 on the day of the workshop, which includes a catered lunch and $20 lab credit to test what you’ve learned. You can pre-pay by credit card or charge your lab account by calling 810-239-8671.

If you’ve ever wondered how to get the best color from your camera, or if you’re considering changing over to a RAW workflow, this class is for you.

During the class we will cover:

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Bob Winkler from LumaPix presented the “Building Books with LumaPix” class Tuesday, April 13 to a room filled with interested professional photographers.

During this class, Bob focused on the Yearbook Fusion product because of its capability to match a database of names with images in order to create multi-page products like yearbooks and church directories.

“After looking at all the alternatives, I believe Yearbook Fusion is the most efficent way to quickly lay out a yearbook or church directory,” said John Hicks, President of JD School Pictures. “Our goal is to make this our recommended solution to all our customers.”

Links to the ROES, LabPrints, and ImageQuix training videos are now available on the training center page on our website.

These 3-5 minutes videos teach you all the basics you need to know to get up and running with the software.

Over the next few months, we will be releasing additional videos recorded from our training classes that will teach more in-depth topics.

During his “Earn $100,000 a Year from Portrait Directories” workshop, Chris Wunder recommended LumaPix FotoFusion Extreme to quickly and easily create church directories or any book that combines images and data.

Several photographers asked if we would hold a followup FotoFusion class, so here it is.

Bob Winkler from LumaPix will present a “Building Books with LumaPix” workshop Tuesday, April 13 from 9am until 4pm at JD Photo Imaging on Corunna Road in Flint. Cost is $20 per person or $30 per studio, which includes a catered lunch and snacks. You can pre-pay by credit card or charge your lab account by calling 810-239-8671.

During this class, Bob will cover:

• Installation & features
• Products you can make (directories, books, albums, pages, etc.)
• How to quickly lay out a page (templates or freehand)
• How to easily build a book with text and images

By the end of the class, you will be able to create an entire photo book with images and data ready to send to JD for printing. Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops to the class.

Bob Winkler is a professional trainer for LumaPix, so you can be sure this will be a information-packed day of training. Even if you didn’t attend Chris Wunder’s class, if you need a tool to quickly and easily create page layouts, you cannot afford to miss it.

With the huge growth in high-speed Internet connections, there are now virtually thousands of free on-line tutorials to teach Photoshop. After having reviewed several of them, below are some recommendations:

-If you are brand new to Photoshop, you should start with a class that starts with the basics like menu options and keyboard shortcuts and builds step-by-step into using Photoshop for everyday tasks. A good example of this training can be found at www.lynda.com. They have hundreds of Photoshop training videos broken into 5-7 minute downloads. Many of the basic videos are free – if you want to see videos that are more advanced, a membership ($25 per month) is required.

-A slightly more expensive alternative is to use Adobe’s official online training at adobe.elementk.com. For $129 you get a year’s worth of access to over 30 courses in Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and GoLive. Adobe has partnered with ElementK (the top supplier of online education to Fortune 500 companies) to produce these videos, so you can be assured of their quality.

-If you already know your way around Photoshop and are looking for a specific advanced technique, go to www.tutorialized.com or www.pslover.com. Both of these sites are collections of thousands of free tutorials submitted by Photoshop professionals. These sites assume you have a good working knowledge of Photoshop and are just looking for a “trick” to accomplish a specific special effect.

UPDATE: Siyab over at listfied.com created a list of 75+ advanced techniques for Adobe PhotoShop and Adobe Illustrator. Check them out. If their is anything here you’ve always wanted to do, click on the technique an in 5 minutes you’ll have a new skill.