DIGITALworkshops

Members: $695 • Non-members: $745
Prerequisites: Imaging Overview or equivalent experience

Description

This workshop will introduce you to the high-end techniques used in Hollywood to enhance the photos of celebrities, models and politicians using Photoshop. The workshop covers color correcting, skin color enhancement, basic skin retouching, age reduction and special skin reconstruction, body contouring and weight reduction, soft focus and diffusion techniques, sharpening, print preparation and other effects.

LEE VARIS has been a photo-illustrator in Hollywood combining photography with digital image manipulation for the last 20 years. Lee is currently the director of digital services at the Icon, a large commercial photo lab in Los Angeles servicing the advertising and entertainment industries. He is also the president of the LADIG (Los Angeles Digital Imaging Group) a non profit educational group devoted to advancing the art of digital imaging and supporting the local digital arts community. His work has been featured on movie posters, video box covers, CD covers, brochures and catalogs. His creative imaging has been featured in National Geographic, Newsweek and Fortune magazines as well as PDN, New Media, Micro Publishing News, PC Photo, Studio Photography, Rangefinder and PEI. Lee has also been involved with consulting and training activities for numerous corporate clients. He did two series of imaging seminars for Apple Computers that took him around the country. Lee’s latest book is Skin: The Complete Guide to Digitally Lighting, Photographing, and Retouching Faces and Bodies, a professional how-to guide to all aspects of digital photography of people offering intermediate and advanced Photoshop techniques.