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September 7th, 2005 -- Last season's sold out Just Show Me How Pro tour is back, with new tips, new techniques, and new ideas for your digital photography workflow. World-renowned photographer, author, and teacher, Kevin Ames, will educate and entertain you as he shares the secrets of professional workflow. Kevin is the newest associate of Blue Pixel Digital Experts, leading photographers and consultants committed to teaching digital photography from an unbiased, real world perspective. The tour begins on October 2nd in Miami, and travels to eight U.S. cities through the beginning of December.

This one-day seminar will take professional photographers through what to do with all of those digital files after the photo has been captured. Kevin covers the ins and outs of downloading from memory cards, adding metadata, backing up, image optimization, controlling color, delivering files, and creating bulletproof archives of digital negatives. Attendees will learn how to achieve better results faster through automation, without sacrificing the integrity of their images or the quality of their files. As a highly respected photographer, Photoshop author and instructor, Kevin will also share techniques that are essential to any photographer's creative workflow.

Kevin will show attendees easy ways to:

Transfer thousands of pictures quickly from a stack of memory cards
View, sort, copy, rename and perform other initial photo selection tasks quickly
Edit photos in Photoshop CS2 with a 'best tips and techniques' tutorial, including a special section on retouching portraits
Get the most from the Raw format from various cameras
Create and distribute photos on the Internet, on Compact Disc, or DVD
Control color through the entire workflow, from camera to output
Produce professional-quality prints
Catalog and manage digital files of your photographs so you can easily get to them anytime
At the new Just Show Me How seminar, attendees will have great opportunities to network with colleagues and leading industry experts. They will also gain valuable hands on experience with exceptional photography products.

Schedule:
October 2 - Miami
October 9 - Los Angeles
October 16 - New York
October 30 - San Francisco
November 6 - Boston
November 13 - Chicago
November 20 - Washington, DC
December 4 - Seattle

About Kevin Ames
Kevin Ames is not only a talented digital photographer, he is also a highly respected expert in workflow and digital asset management. Kevin is a Photoshop World Dream Team instructor, a Software Cinema author and presenter at Dean Collins' Photoshop Training Camp Live! events. He has taught classes at art schools and conferences around the world, including Fotographia Orvieto in Orvieto, Italy, Arthouse in Dublin, Ireland, and The Professional Photographers of Canada National Convention in Calgary, Canada. He is the author of Photoshop CS: the Art of Photographing Women from John Wiley & Sons and writes the "Digital Photographer's Notebook" column for Photoshop User Magazine. His articles and reviews have appeared in Studio Photography & Design, Photo Electronic Imaging and Digital Output magazines. He is currently writing Digital Single Lens Reflex Photography with Photoshop CS2 for Dummies, due in stores this fall.

Seminar Registration Details
Interested seminar attendees should visit www.justshowmehowpro.com to register for an upcoming event. The cost to attend is $149 in advance or $169 for day of, walk-in registration.

About the Just Show Me How partners:
Blue Pixel's (www.bluepixel.net) mission is to teach digital photography from an unbiased, real world perspective by leading digital photographers
B & H Photo Video and Pro Audio (www.bhphotovideo.com), the world's leading retailer of imaging products, serves professionals and consumers through a New York City retail store and through direct international delivery
Digital Railroad (www.digitalrailroad.net ) is an application services company that is dedicated to solving the critical technical problems facing the creators and buyers of digital imagery.
Lexar (www.lexar.com) is a leading manufacturer and marketer of high-performance digital media and accessories
Nik Multimedia, Inc. (www.nikmultimedia.com) provides innovative software solutions for the emerging digital imaging, photographic and graphic design markets
Wacom Technology (www.wacom.com) is the leading manufacturer of pen tablets, interactive pen displays and pen input technology for mobile devices

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