Sept 10, 2006  1  Sunday daytime  class	DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY FOR BEGINNERS - Level 1	Surrey Art Gallery Surrey BC.   Full Day 9:30am-4pm  $52	Surrey Art Gallery  604-501-5100 Course No 462441
Sept 14/21, 2006 2  Thur. evening  classes	DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY FOR BEGINNERS	Ferry Building, West Vancouver, BC  2 eve. course $55 7-9:30pm	West Van City Hall  604-925-7270  Course No. 339817
Oct 19/26, 2006  2  Thur. evening  classes	INTERMEDIATE DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY	Ferry Building, West Vancouver, BC   2 eve. course $55 7-9:30pm	West Van City Hall  604-925-7270  Course No 339819
October 29, 2006 1 Sunday daytime  class	EDITING & SHOWING YOUR DIGITAL IMAGES	Surrey Art Gallery Surrey BC.   Full Day 9:30am-4pm  $52	Surrey Art Gallery  604-501-5100 Course No. 462442
October 21, 2006	a) WHAT'S NEW IN DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY  b) 15 WAYS TO SHARE YOUR DIGITAL IMAGES	Annual APAC Seminar     2 x 1 Hour Guest Lecturer Talks	Contact: Abbotsford Photo Arts Club  www.apac.bc.ca
Nov 2/9, 2006  2 Thur. evening classes	EDITING & SHOWING YOUR DIGITAL  IMAGES	Ferry Building, West Vancouver, BC  2 eve. course $55 7-9:30pm	West Van City Hall  604-925-7270  Course No. 339821
Nov 14/16, 2006  2 Thur. evening classes	HANDS ON DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY	Ferry Building, West Vancouver, BC  2 eve. course $55 7-9:30pm	West Van City Hall  604-925-7270  Course No 340367
Nov  26, 2006  1  Sunday daytime  class	INTERMEDIATE DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY/IMAGE EDITING - Level 2	Surrey Art Gallery Surrey BC.   Full Day 9:30am-4pm  $52	Surrey Art Gallery  604-501-5100 Course No. 462444

We are available for private and small group training or custom tutoring sessions at your location, at our Gastown, downtown Vancouver studio or at our digital darkroom studio in West Vancouver, BC.  Need help in learning and using your digital camera?  Organizing image workflow? Setting up studio lighting systems?  Moving from amateur to pro Photographer?  Stock Photography?  Photoshop techniques? Producing multimedia slide shows?  Photo planning for a trip?  Help is at hand!!  Contact us

Need a Guest Speaker?   Our talks on digital and travel photography include multimedia presentations that inform, entertain and inspire all audiences. Private, travel industry, camera club and association enquiries welcome.  Contact us 

PHOTOGRAPHY EDUCATION PRODUCTS

AUTOMATE REPETITIVE TASKS IN PHOTOSHOP WITH ACTIONS

An action is a series of commands that you play back on a single file or a batch of files. Introduced in Photoshop version 4, actions can save time and increase productivity by automating repetitive tasks. They can also be used for reproducing repetitive workflow steps and editing effects that can be shared with other Photoshop users. The ability to record commands and tool operations in real-time and to save them in a script or 'action'  to be played on a selection of images means saving time while applying changes consistently. Adobe Bridge in Photoshop CS2 provides an easy to use workflow system that includes applying a select action. In Photoshop Elements 1, 2 and 3, actions can also be accessed through the Styles and Effects palette and via 3rd party add-ons. Actions are NOT a Adobe PS Elements 4.0 product feature.  

Photoshop comes with a sample set of actions, you can program your own, upload free actions developed by others (Google search "Photoshop Actions" and you will find tons of freebees, some are questionable, some are good) or purchase action collections from experienced pros who have developed sets of actions for image size and format workflow, special effects, lighting, skin tone effects, text effects and many more. Copy the action (as a *.atn file) to the Presets/Photoshop Action subdirectory.

Kevin Kubota, an Oregon based pro photographer and international photography instructor has developed an excellent collection of actions and other image tools. Click on the link below to see for yourself.