APA/LA Digital Event: Beauty Retouching Secrets with Lisa Carney & Dennis Dunbar

Join APA-LA Saturday, August 15th for Beauty Retouching Secrets with Lisa Carney and Dennis Dunbar.

Lisa Carney is back in Los Angeles for a short stint and will be joining APA's resident digital artist, Dennis Dunbar, as secrets for retouching Beauty images are shared.

Lisa and Dennis will discuss:
* What to work on first
* How to enhance Makeup
* How to achieve "Perfect Skin"
* How to effectively minimize wrinkles
* How to add a nice "Glow" to your model's skin
* Secrets and techniques to color correct like a pro
* How to retouch eyes without making them look fake and "plasticy"

In short, this event is not to be missed as 2 of the industry's best retouchers will share secrets on how to bring out the best of any Beauty and/or Fashion image.

Please note, with so much to share, Lisa and Dennis have agreed to make this session an extended workshop going from 9:30 AM until 3:30 PM allowing more time to cover all the intended material. The workshop will end with a Question and Answer period giving each student a chance to make sure as much information is absorbed and shared as possible.

Lunch will be provided allowing students to stay nourished while keeping close to the action.

Where: Helms Daylight Studio

3221 Hutchison Ave #E
Los Angeles, CA 90034
Note: Please park in the lot on the north side of Helms and Venice

When: Saturday, August 15th, 2009
Doors open at 9am, workshop begins promptly at 930am, and finishes at 330pm
Breakfast and lunch is included.

How Much:
APA Members $20
Students, ASMP, LADIG, members $45
Non Members $55

APA's Membership special continues until August 31st. Save 25% off any membership level!

see APANational.com for more info!

Surreal South America

Richard Radstone and I just finished up an extensive ad campaign involving
lots of composited images, each with it's own set of twists and turns.
The biggest challenge with this one was figuring out how to wrap the
accordion around the palm tree.
Believe it or not, they just don't do that naturally

APA/LA Digital Event: Photoshop Pen, Path and Brush Magic with Dennis Dunbar

APA/LA Digital Event: Photoshop Pen, Path and Brush Magic with Dennis Dunbar
Saturday February 28, 2009
9:30am registration
10:00am - 1:00pm presentation
Helms Daylight Studio
3221 Hutchison Ave, LA CA 90034 *Please Note: Parking is Located on the North Side of Venice Ave and Helms
 

LIMITED SPACES FOR THIS EVENT PRE-REGISTRATION IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED
$25 APA/LA members
$35 ASMP, LADig members
$45 non-members

Clipping Paths, Vector Masks, Scattering controls, Shape Dynamics, Color Dynamics and More.
APA-LA's Digital Workshops series continues on Saturday, February 28th as Dennis Dunbar joins us to discuss Photoshop's Pen and Brush tools.

In this session Dennis will talk about creating clean paths with the Pen Tool, he'll show you what a compound path is and what those "Control Handles" are all about. He'll cover Clipping Paths (including an easy way to make several variations) and how to move paths back and forth from Adobe Illustrator to Photoshop and the power you gain in doing so.

Then Dennis will demonstrate some Photoshop Brush Magic and show you what all those Scattering and Dynamics settings do and how to use them to create your own magic.

You'll learn how to create your own custom brushes and how to use the various controls to make tough jobs easy. Painting fog, smoke and clouds will be a breeze. Creating rough borders will be easy as will adding in extra grass and leaves.

Come join us on Saturday, February 28th for this session on Photoshop Pen, Path and Brush Magic. Doors open at 9:30 am and the class begins at 10 am and will end at 1 pm. See you there.

Los Ojos

Bob Stevens contacted me last December about a personal project he was working on. Bob's vision entailed doing a series of shots of ex-gang members in the Los Angeles area and he wanted the images to have a highly stylized look to them. Since this meant doing some heavy Photoshop work Bob called me to consult with him on creating the "look" and interpreting that look for each of the images.

After meeting in his studio for a couple of hours we had the basic look down, I then took the images back to my studio and finessed it a bit more and once Bob gave the thumbs up I started applying this look to all hero images. With 12 subjects and 4 shots per subject there were 48 images all in all. Here are a couple of samples from the finished images.