CMUG - February: Exploring Photoshop CS4 with Mark Fitzgerald February 26, 2009

Join us for an evening withMark Fitzgerald,
Adobe Certified Photoshop Expert and author of
“Photoshop CS4 After the Shoot”,
as we Delve into the recently released PhotoshopCS4.
Our exploration will begin with
Photoshop’s redesigned user interface.
Mark will also demonstrate some of the new and improved features, including:

• The new Adobe Kuler panel that allows
you to explore, create, and share color
themes with an online community.
• Two new panels - the Adjustments panel
for quickly creating adjustment layers, and
the new Masks panel that allows you to
painlessly create and manage layer masks
in ways never possible on previous
versions of Photoshop.
• The cool new Content Aware Scaling
feature lets you to protect parts of an
image as you scale its size.
• The Auto Blending feature that allows
you to selectively choose tones, colors,
and focal point from a range of images as they’re
merged into a single image.
• New soft-proofing feature for the color-blind
individuals using Color Universal Design
Organization profiles.
• Updated print dialog that provides superior color
management and the ability to preview out-ofgamut
areas of the image in the print dialog.

Mark will also give us a tour of the new and faster
Adobe Bridge CS4, and show us a few secrets to
speeding up the workflow using some of the nifty
tools buried in the menus.
We’ll also be looking at Adobe Camera Raw 5
and some of its new tools, including the localized
corrections and post-crop vignetting.
If you’re already using Photoshop CS4, this
presentation will point out many of the new
features that you may not have seen yet. If you
haven’t seen CS4, this will be your chance to get a
close look at what all of the excitement is about.

Mark Fitzgerald is a Photoshop consultant and
author living in Portland. He helps professional
photographers gain control of their workflows through
workshops and private training.

Mark is the author of :
“Photoshop CS3 Restoration and RetouchingBible”,
“Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Photoshop Workflow Bible”,
“Adobe Photoshop CS4 After the Shoot”.
To learn more about Mark, visit his website at
www.ddroom.com.

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