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Join creativeLIVE for a five-day immersion into the lighting theory, techniques, and methods essential to creating jaw-dropping, beautiful photographs. True photographic talent is illuminated through the use of light and lighting techniques. Taught by award-winning, world-renowned photographers, this series of courses will give you a skill set for finding (or creating) the perfect light in any environment. You’ll learn about studio lighting, quick location lighting, off-camera flash, natural and ambient light control, and lighting modifiers.

There are so many options when it comes to speedlighting — how do you know which model to choose? Award-winning photographer Roberto Valenzuela will answer all of these questions and equip you with “go to” settings for any shoot, no matter the location.

Join world-renowned photojournalist Rick Friedman for an introduction on how to optimize normal light to create stunning, dynamic images.

Join award-winning photographer Lindsay Adler for an introduction to the essentials of creating high-impact studio lighting with minimal fuss or expense.

Learn how to retouch any image, whether it be the simplest problem or the most complex and seemingly impossible task. Understand the difference between all the retouching tools and then learn how to supplement them with other Photoshop features. See how multiple images can be combined into a seamless composite that is much more than the sum of its parts.

Forget the 90?s Glamour trend, because Sue is reinventing the category. Sue Bryce is the Australian Portrait Photographer of the year for 2011. She built a portrait business from zero to $25,000 per week as a single woman in her home garage.

Want to learn how to find models, how to build your portfolio, and about the business of fashion photography? Fashion photographer Matthew Jordan Smith returns to the creativeLIVE studios for a 3-day workshop teaching photographers how to work with models! Matthew and fashion model Yoanna House from America's Next Top Model will take you through the model-photographer relationship from both sides, showing what sort of direction is helpful and what is confusing, how to cast for a photoshoot, and what you should look for in a model. Matthew will share his insights on how you get the look you need from a model and how to build relationships with models to get the best possible results.

Join Matthew Jordan Smith for a LIVE ONLINE workshop as he delves into three days dedicated to fashion and beauty photography. Matthew starts off with an in-depth discussion on the differences in fashion and beauty as he teaches us how to prepare for a series of live photoshoots on the following days with a focus on capturing beautiful photography and telling a story with your images

Lesa Snider returns to creativeLIVE for an intensive look at the newly released Adobe Photoshop CS6. Whether you've already upgraded or are still deciding, you'll learn practical yet non-destructive editing techniques you can use every day. This 3-day course is a perfect companion to Lesa's previous CS5 class on creativeLIVE. Lesa will go further in-depth into advanced filters such as Puppet Warp, Liquify, and Lighting Effects, which all take advantage of the new processing power of CS6. Lesa will spend a full day covering Photoshop's brand new video features.

You know how to focus your camera, NOW focus your business. Professional photographers today have greater marketing capabilities and reach than at any time in the history of photography, but a winning strategy has to be aligned across all aspects of your business. Skip Cohen will take you through a complete analysis of your business and give you tools for growth. Skip will focus on the art of a successful website, developing PR campaigns, planning your promotional calendar, networking, branding and time management, just to name a few.

Explore the world's most powerful creative software package with award-winning instructors. Starting June 3rd, creativeLIVE will broadcast an in-depth course for each of the major Adobe apps — InDesign, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Photoshop, and After Effects. Whether you're interested in learning about motion graphics, vector graphics or hoping to get a simple understanding of digital photo editing, this week is the perfect opportunity to start from square one and build a strong skill set that you can use to make unique works of art.

Join author and Adobe pro Jeff Foster for an in-depth tour of the industry leading program for creating motion graphics and animation - Adobe After Effects. During this course, Jeff will teach you how to import your images from Photoshop, create engaging motion graphics and export them so that you can share your work with the world.
Adobe After Effects software lets you deliver cinematic visual effects and motion graphics within minutes. Plus it allows you to extend your creativity with built-in text and shape extrusion, mask feathering options, and a fast, easy-to-use 3D Camera Tracker

Take control of the most powerful creative tool ever — Adobe Photoshop. During this course, best-selling Photoshop author Lesa Snider will cover all the essentials you need to start editing photos like a pro. As you explore fundamental Photoshop and image editing skills, you’ll work with layers, adjust color, isolate using selection tools, change resolution, and more. You’ll learn essential tricks and tools that will take your Photoshop skills to the next level, including resizing images without losing resolution, editing non-destructively with layers and smart filters, creating touch selections around hair or fur, and more.

Photoshop might be the most commonly used Adobe software tool, but Illustrator is quite possibly your most powerful ally. One major plus? Illustrator allows you to make vector graphics, meaning you can create and resize images, logos, website buttons and more without worrying about a blurry end result.

There's a reason Dreamweaver is the most popular and user-friendly program for creating custom websites throughout the world. Millions of people have used it to create the face of their business online. However, creating amazing web pages always involves some basic HTML and CSS knowledge — even when using this one-of-a-kind program. This course, taught by "techy Translator" Janine Warner, will teach you all the basics you need to know to start building beautiful websites tomorrow.

Learn how to make a variety of world-class documents with InDesign. This is THE tool that will showcase your creativity on any project — be it a business report, photo album, PDF, book, or magazine.

Join Photography veteran Jack Davis for the what, why and how of visual communication, taking you through the entire creative process from brainstorming to final product.