Adobe Photoshop (CS6) is following Lightroom, the youngest Digital Imaging product by Adobe !!!

This week Adobe has released Public Beta of Creative Suite 6 and folks have started sharing views on top new features in Adobe Photoshop CS6. The very first and basic feature enhancement is in CROP. And you will be able to appreciate it better at this point of time, if you have ever tried Lightroom Crop. I am huge fan of Lightroom and happy to see that Photoshop is learning from it's younger friend in Digital Imaging Space. If you haven't tried CROP of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, then I would recommend to try it now and compare the experience with CS5 Photoshop.

WORKSHOP ATTENDED on "Fashion Photography Redefined with Photoshop and Lightroom"

Fashion Photography Redefined with Photoshop and Lightroom 

This workshop was conducted by a delhi based organization. In was a two days workshop focusing on Studio Set-up & Photographing Models on first day and processing these Photographs in Lightroom/Photoshop on second Day. I participated on second day of this workshop. Here was overall agenda for second day:

1.    - Meaning of retouching for the commercial fashion photography Stages and logic of retouching. Not "how to do", but "what, when and why" to do.

2.    - Basic tools and using of them

3.    - Composition (framing and horizon correction)

4.    - Brightness and contrast

5.    - Basic filters

6.    - Work with a human portrait: shape, plastic, basics of anatomy, filters "plastic" and shadow/highlights

7.    - Work with skin: what to do before shoot, during a shoot, cooperation with make-up artist, correction in Photoshop

8.    - Color correction - different ways

9.    - Adjustment layers as a basic instrument of retouching

10. - Some other filters and using of them

11. - Texture layers

Trainers were from a well known Academy who trains Fashion Photographers in India and Europe !!!

Take-Away:

1.    Get to know about the workflow they follow to edit a Fashion Photograph

a.    Adjusting Lighting/Colors/White-Balance and Lens Distortions in Lightroom.

b.    Enter into Photoshop for specific editing using Layers, Masks and various Filters.

*** They had very little knowledge of Lightroom and Photoshop is main tool for them

3.    Popular tools of Photoshop used for Fashion Photo enhancements

a.    Sharpen Brush

b.    Blur Brush

c.    Spot Healing

d.    Gaussian Blur

e.    Adjustment Layers (HSL, Levels, Brightness/Contrast)

4.    There are different folks who do the editing. Photographers just shoot and pass the photographs to main editor. These Editors have good knowledge of specific tools which are used in their workflows. They are not Photoshop Experts and have fixed pattern to get best results!

THIS WORKSHOP GAVE ME A PERSPECTIVE HOW THESE PROFESSIONALS WORK !!! AND ANY CREATIVE PERSON WHO KNOW THESE TOOLS WELL, CAN DO FAR BETTER THAN TRAINERS I MET !!!

I was really disappointed when they were giving wrong theories about sRGB and AdobeRGB !

Now I know many of the folks who run workshops in Delhi and know about the quality of workshops they organize. In case you are planning to join any of the workshop in delhi, leave me a comment and I can try to find out if its worth for you or not... I don't want folks to waste money on such useless and over-hyped workshops !!! Sometimes they partner with big names like Nikon, Canon or Olympus... And have nice pages on Facebook !!!

So do proper research before enrolling for any Workshop