Today I went to a Photoshop Masterclass at Darling Harbour.
I drew this palm tree from the balcony of the convention centre during the break. The speaker was Julieanne Kost who classes herself as photographer, although I would call her an artist. If you are familiar with Daniel Giordano’s work, in his books “The Art of Photoshop,” her composite images are similar in construction, I think.
First she demonstrated Adobe Lightroom, which is a database program, suitable for professional photographers, to help them keep track of their images. Then she did PhotoshopCS3 Extended (which I have). She introduced a lot of new features – very fast – but I took notes, and at least I know these things exist so I can look them up. She said ’set yourself projects’, and it’s great advice, that I will take. So my next project will be book art using Photoshop. I just have to think of a theme.
