I’ll present Image Editing in Photoshop for Artists on Saturday, March 16. The beginning class starts at 10:30am and ends at noon, intermediate begins at 1:00 pm and ends at 3:00 pm. We’ll meet in the Computer Lab (Room 108) at RCC, where there are a number of computers we can use if you don’t have a laptop. They have Photoshop installed, so you’ll have everything you need for hands-on practice of the image editing tasks you’ll learn. Except the images! Please bring images of your art you’d like to work with on a thumb drive or CD-RW (so you can re-burn the disc with your edited images).

We will go step by step through a number of common editing tasks artist need to know how to do when preparing their images for the web and to submit to festivals and art shows, some of which are frequently done incorrectly and others that are hard to figure out how to do. Come with a list of questions, art images with problems you can’t figure out how to fix and specific things you’d like to learn so I can tailor the presentation to your current needs.

Meanwhile, I spent the weekend working on a logo design for a startup company in Southern Oregon and anticipate beginning their new website shortly. Mostly under wraps until they’re ready to begin promoting it, but I’ll post links as soon as they are.

I also put up a one-page site for Southern Oregon music label Revelation Cafe, representing Lazar and Tribal Frequencies. Lazar was quite the sensation when he first debuted earlier this year, and he joined up with JT Witness to form Tribal Frequencies. There’s an iTunes preview module in the page – take a listen and tell us what you think when sharing on your favorite network so we can report back to them! This was fun. We’ll be adding more to this site in the future…

A note on Hosting:

The web hosting provider I usually refer clients to is IPOWER, who I’ve hosted my own sites with since 2003. As part of the research I’ve done for the wine site, I just added another host to the list, DreamHost. If you’re looking for a place to host your website, either one of these is a good choice. Both have been around for 10 years or more, proudly feature green hosting (IPOWER’S is the best on this front, but both are earth-conscious) and provide a selection of hosting options. Take a look and see which one works best for you: