On day 3, we spend quite a bit of time reviewing & retouching of Whidbey Island Images and using the tools within Photoshop CS3 (many that some didn’t know were there).  It was a very helpful session, on how to use the tools without making the pictures look over-done or air brushed.  Here are some shots of the gorgeous area around Whidbey Island…

The afternoon session was all regarding the business side of things an excellent 2 hour session on enhancing the client experience (which Tim and I believe is the most important part of any service provider!). Keep watching for more shots from the workshop.

Stay tuned.  (Yes, my brain is FULL )

Wednesday was a day of “Photoshopping”.  We were  critiqued on album layouts of our Wedding photos yesterday from Downtown Seattle that we designed, mine went well, suggestions were made by all the other professionals which (in my case) really improved and fine-tuned the spread.  There is a lot of truth in having “an extra set of eyes” to look at things.  I am getting some one on one with Jim today on Photoshop, which I am looking forward to.  I also enjoyed learning some advanced tips and tricks with layering and blending that will really proved to be helpful.  

At 6pm to Dark, we had our Evening Photo Shoot Workshop, then at 10pm, a Fireside Dinner & Dessert right on the beach.  What a day!  I’ll add some of the Evening Photo Shoot shots with tomorrow’s post. 

I have to tell you that this beach house where Jim is hosting this private workshop is just outside of Seattle on Puget Sound and it is beautiful. It has 130 feet of low bank waterfront and is walking distance from the beautiful Deception Pass Bridge and State Park.  Westerly views from the house are of the Olympic Mountain Range and San Juan Islands. You can see it is a gorgeous place by taking a photo tour here -  www.surfcrestbeachhouse.com . 

Today has just been loaded with tons of information, with Jim’s wife Katarina also teaching on her part of the business, so needless to say it’s been busy and lots of fun! This is a total luxury, 1st class workshop and just a great experience all the way around.  I highly recommend it.

Stay tuned for those Evening Photo Shoot photo’s and more from Day 3 tomorrow!

In the news recently, I was reading about onOne’s having acquired the PhotoTune image editing software (which includes the color-correction plug-ins 20/20 Color MD 2.0 and Skin-Tune 2.0).  I have seen PhotoTune, and they do claim to effectively make the tedious and time-consuming task of image color correction simple and straightforward.  During the ’simple’ PhotoTune process (which is actually six-steps), users see two side-by-side preview images that have been altered in different ways.  onOne says in just one-click you get your best looking image updated taking less than 15 seconds per digital image.

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We use Photoshop CS3 for all our image corrections and editing.  How about you?   Any of you tried PhotoTune yet?  How do you like it compared to CS3?