Photoshop-ho

Photoshop World starts on Monday in San Francisco. It’s a huge three-day serious teaching forum/conference where there is usually more than one session you want to attend concurrently, so they prepare an 800-page “booklet” for you to lug around that gives you all the information about all the other sessions you couldn’t get to.

I’m going to attend, even though I just started a new job. I consider myself an intermediate Photoshop user; I can tweak images enough for publication. By Wednesday evening I hope to be an Advanced Photoshop User, able to do this tweaking far more effectively and above all EFFICIENTLY.

My former job had me doing four or five publications a year (writing and/or editing and design, prepress). Now I’m going to be doing four or five a quarter, and there are lots of images coming my way, images I’m going to have to get a handle on pretty quickly.

I’ll be taking the train down through the Suisun marsh; it will be interesting to see what it looks like with all this water we’ve had in the past week. And yes, I’ll have a digital camera with me…