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Workshops & Classes
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Palomar College – Photoshop Elements for Digital Photographers, Feb 20
On Saturday, February 20 from 9AM to noon (Pacific Time), I’ll teach a Photoshop Elements (PSE) class via webinar. The class covers the basics extracted from my 6-week PSE webinar. If you’re a PSE novice and want to jumpstart your learning curve, this is the class for you. To paraphrase Sgt Joe Friday, “All you get are the facts.”
You don’t need to be a San Diego County resident to register. All you need is a PC/Mac connected via high-speed Internet, a standard browser (MS IE, FireFox, Safari) and speakers. Click for details
Anza-Borrego Desert Wildflowers, March 20 & 21
The spring desert wildflower display should be spectacular this year with all the rain we’ve had in January and February.
This year, we’ll meet in Anza-Borrego where it’s easier to find nearby lodging and food. You can register for one or both days. Saturday is about flowers in landscapes using regular, non-macro lenses. Sunday is about flower macros using dedicated macro lenses, extension tubes and close-up filters. A macro focusing rail and Gitzo tripod will also be available for student use. Click to register
Flash Photoshoot Workshop, March 27
If, like most people, flash baffles, confuses and aggravates you, this is the class for you. On Saturday, March 27, I’ll conduct my brand new, Flash Photography Workshop at Deer Park Winery in Escondido, CA.
This is a 3 hour “hands-on” workshop that covers the basics of flash photography to help you create photos that look like natural light. We start with a short “chalk talk” to explain some basics than move on to photograph beautiful antique American cars in the winery museum. We’ll have a short session near the end covering flash for portrait photography. Click for more details
Webinar DVDs
Rob Sheppard Photoshop Elements Webinar DVD
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Why You Need RSS and How to Get It
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) won’t help you lose weight, get rich or increase sex appeal but it will make you smarter and more efficient. If the Wikipedia article made your eyes glaze over, not to worry. Just as you don’t need to be an automotive engineer to drive your car to the grocery store, you don’t need to be a geek nerd to put RSS to work for you.
Think of RSS as your own personal newspaper, filled with just the news you want. Even better, the news is delivered as soon as it’s posted, so you never miss a thing. If you’re busy, don’t bother reading it, it’ll still be there when you get around to it later.
To set up your own RSS feed, read the following two articles. The first article shows you step-by-step, how to set up an RSS feed using Google or Yahoo! since most people already have an e-mail account with one or the other.
The second article shows you how to do all this “automagically”. It also shows how to automatically receive e-mail or text notifications so you don’t have to check your G-mail or Yahoo! accounts.
Best of all, once you set up your RSS feed, you can subscribe to any site that offers RSS feeds. Let’s suppose you follow your local newspaper, a macrame site, NASCAR and BollywoodStars.com. Instead of logging into each site to see what’s new, you can simply wait for an e-mail telling you that a site has been updated with new information.
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