all goes well

So I think about my blog often and that I want to keep up to date with all the new information that I am learning with CS4 and of course Lightroom 2.1. But to no avail.....

Shooting has finally slowed down and I have time to catch up on all my office work, Albums, marketing etc... It was nice to take off a week. I 'm not a overtime kinda of person.

Printing is still going well and my Rock Printing business is doing well (www.rockprinting.com) I continue to print with an Epson but Canon is standing there ground now and I lmost considered buying a canon.

If anyone is interested and living in the Denver area Epson is putting on a workshop:
http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/PrintAcademy/pa_home.jsp

I think I will give it a whirl.

I just attended the Cs4 workshop put on by NAPP in Denver this last month by Dave Cross... I was disappointed with the information that was taught. I knew about 95% of everything that talked about. I am not an expert at Photoshop but there needs to be a way to separate people that have lots of experience and newbies. I will not attend another if it doesn't change. On a positive note NAPP(National Association of Photoshop Professionals) has been the best organization I ever joined!

A quick photoshop tip:

Use 'layer comps" and "smart objects" when laying out an album. It will save you time (and headaches). "Layer comps" will allow you to save multiple layouts of the same page in that file and go back to each one at anytime. I use to have multiple files with different layouts which ate away at my hard drive space! It is similar to "snapshop" but way better.

"Smart objects" are best thing Adobe has ever done in Photoshop. It allows an image to come into Photoshop and lets you resize it as many times as you want without destroying the image (unlike transform.) I know that when I am laying out a wedding album I transform an image multiple times on a page to figure out the best layout and by the time I find what I like the image has been degraded so much that I have to open up the opriginal image, resize it, and then drag iy back into my layout. With an image as a smart object I can skip that step and save time!

If anyone want to know more or needs help with "smart objects" or "layer comps" please email or call and I would be glad to walk you through it!


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