Apple sessions at PhotoshopWorld

If you’re a Mac user attending the PhotoshopWorld conference in Los Angeles this weekend, you’ll be interested in the seminars that Apple will have at the show.

The sessions start on Saturday morning at 10:00 am with Studio Artist, A Real Graphics Synthesizer, presented by Jason Sharp, Director of Sales Synthetik Software Inc. Studio Artist is a painting, drawing, image and video manipulation program. A complete hybrid of Raster and Vector, Studio Artist enables the user to combine paint tools, image processing filters, morphing, warping, keyframe animation, 3D paints, and more to create still art or apply these processes to QuickTime movies and automatically make a resolution independent moving art masterpiece.

From 11:30 am to 12:30 pm, Mike Descher from Apple will talk about ways to organize and protect your digital assets in Managing your Digital Assets. In this session you’ll learn how you can manage the assets in your shop, transfer them in a snap, burn them onto CDs and DVDs, and automate the entire process.

Commercial photographer Neil Rickman is up from 1:30 — 2:30 pm in a session called Going Digital — From Film to Digital Pros & Cons. Rickman will talk about the latest digital photography equipment from Kodak and Apple Computer and how his digital workflow has made the transition from film to digital easy.

ColorSync is on center stage from 3:30 — 4:30 pm in a session presented by GreTag MacBeth called How to Make Professional Color Profiles. The day will end with Color specialists Rods and Cones in a session called Can’t We All Get Along? In this session users will learn how to setup the color preferences for Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, and Quark so that they all agree and output color the same way.

Sunday sessions include:

10:00 AM to 11:00 AM Introduction to Color and Profiles Presented by Son Do, Rods and Cones This seminar covers the basics to managing color with ColorSync. What profiles are, where they come from, and how they can be used. Input, monitor, soft-proof, final proof profiles are discussed and samples distributed.

11:30 AM to 12:30 PM Extending the Power of your Wacom Tablet Presented by: Michelle Lindsay, Wacom Technology Wacom and Apple will demonstrate the latest tips and techniques using Wacom’s Intuos Graphics tablets, on Apple Computer’s Power Macintosh G4, showing Adobe Photoshop 6.01 and other popular graphic applications.

1:30 PM to 2:30 PM MacOS X and ColorSync Presented by: Apple and Rods and Cones Learn what is different in Mac OS X, how it is better, and what applications are available.

3:00 PM to 4:00 PM Completing the Loop with ColorSync Presented by Son Do, Rods and Cones It is time to close the loop on color management. In this session you will see a demo of monitor calibration followed by proper setup of Photoshop. Learn how to import scanned and digital camera captures, basic prep and retouching, and setting up an Epson color printer to print with and without profiles. We will also demonstrate how to print using ColorSync profiles to emulate proofing systems such as Kodak Approval or Matchprint.

Apple will also have some Photoshop developers — Gretag MacBeth, Synthetik (Studio Artist), Wacom, Rods and Cones — showing their latest Photoshop solutions on a Power Mac G4 with the Apple Cinema Display as well as the Titanium PowerBook G4.

Stop by Apple’s booth (307) for more information on the sessions.