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Please read this through completely as it contains information on how to participate in the class. Links to class materials will be added to the bottom of this page at the beginning of each week. How to Enroll This class is for owners of Windows Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. Some of the class assignments require masking, contrast pinning, and other features of Curvemeister 3. If you have not purchased Curvemeister 3, you may take the class using the Curvemeister demo. You may install the demo along side of your existing version of Curvemeister. To enroll, go to the Curvemeister Forum, scroll down to the Curvemeister Class area, and post a note to the enrollment board for the month you want. After class begins, the class's discussion group will be available only to members of the class. Accessing Class Materials At the beginning of each session, we will add the materials for each session to the bottom of this page. These materials are the minimum material you need to do to cover the concepts presented by the class. we will provide extra exercises in the form of challenge images during the week, and you and your classmates are welcome as well to post images that you think may be of general interest. Instructions are in web page format. There is also a downloadable PDF file for those who prefer to work from a printed output. Use the Adobe Reader free version from Adobe to access and print the pdf files. Normally there is one image for each example. Working copies of iimages are downloaded by clicking on the [download] link within each example. Do not use the small web page copy of the image for your work. |
For convenience, the full-sized images are also provided as zip files, which may be unpacked directly in Windows XP. For earlier versions of windows, use the free demo version of the WinZip shareware, or the freeware from 7-zip. Turning in Your Work As part of your introduction to the class, you may have already posted an image along with a few words about yourself. Use this same method to post each of your images to the class forum, along with any comments or questions you may have about the exercise. Keep in mind that, for posting your work, you will need to get the size below 180K bytes. Usually this means resizing your image to be somewhat smaller - 1024 pixels maximum dimension, and a jpeg quality of 3 or so. To make it easier for us to comment separately on each of your images, create a new subject for each image. Comment and ask questions about other people's images. Your participation in the class discussions is as important as the images that you send in. Lurking Although it is possible to learn a lot by lurking: reading the examples, and seeing what others do, you will learn much more by actually performing each example yourself. As with driving a car or riding a bicycle, many of the operations involved in making curves are physical ones, where you need to try the operation out to really discover for yourself how to do it. Curvemeister has an online manual. You may access it at any time by pressing the F1 key while running curvemeister. There is also an unofficial pdf version of the Curvemeister manual. Happy curving, Mike Russell and Greg Groess
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Finished already? check out the extra challenge images, and share your results with the rest of the class.
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