Upcoming Classes

Adobe® & Digital Classes

Adobe Lightroom Bootcamp Starts Saturday, March 20, 2010

Adobe Lightroom has become the application of choice for many professional photographers. This 2-day hands-on class demonstrates how to use Lightroom's five distinct modules to organize and adjust images, then output them as slideshows, web sites, prints, or files.  View Details

Adobe Photoshop Bootcamp Starts Saturday, April 10, 2010

In just one weekend this class will take you from a Photoshop beginner to a veteran. You will optimize the appearance of your images using Camera Raw, remove distractions with the Healing Brush or Clone Tool, size and sharpen the images, then print them on the Photo Center’s wide format inkjet printers.  View Details

Working with Raw Images Starts Thursday, March 18, 2010

Camera Raw has become the primary tool for adjusting digital images. Learn how to use it to make global changes, and then use its new Adjustment Brush, introduced in Photoshop CS4, to easily make localized adjustments. Skills learned are directly applicable to both Photoshop CS4 and Lightroom 2.0.  View Details

Alternative Processes Classes

Antique Photo Processes: Tintype Starts Saturday, March 13, 2010

Tintypes were the “poor man’s” Daguerreotype. Popularized in the 1860s, tintypes were relatively inexpensive to make, and were often taken using a camera with 6 or 8 lenses and then cut apart. The resulting small plates were given to friends - the original photobooth.  View Details

Tom Arndt Spring/Summer Workshops

Cinco de Mayo with Tom Arndt Starts Saturday, May 8, 2010

Join Tom Arndt, noted Minnesota photographer, for this home grown photographic and cultural adventure as he covers Cinco de Mayo.  View Details

May Day Parade with Tom Arndt Starts Sunday, May 2, 2010

Join Tom Arndt, noted Minnesota photographer, for this home grown photographic and cultural adventure as he covers the May Day Parade.  View Details

Northeast Parade with Tom Arndt Starts Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Join Tom Arndt, noted Minnesota photographer, for this home grown photographic and cultural adventure as he covers the Northeast Parade.  View Details

Rondo Days with Tom Arndt Starts Saturday, July 17, 2010

Join Tom Arndt, noted Minnesota photographer, for this home grown photographic and cultural adventure as he covers Rondo Days.  View Details

Lighting Classes

Lighting Boot Camp Starts Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Lighting Boot Camp is a comprehensive course of four 2½ hour sessions in studio and location lighting and its application to product, editorial, fashion and portrait photography.  View Details

Other Classes

72 Hours with Layne Kennedy Starts Saturday, May 29, 2010

Participants will embark on a photograph journey detailing their visual experiences of Minneapolis through the eyes of their cameras.  View Details

An Approach to Seeing: Urban Views Starts Saturday, April 17, 2010

In this workshop we’ll go out as a group to various urban locations and do exercises in re-interpretation, with the aim of shifting our perceptions of a particular scene to generating new ways of seeing.  View Details

Animals Are the Best People I Know Starts Saturday, April 10, 2010

This class is for both beginning and working photographers that would like to learn how to take better pictures of pets. Students will gain a better understanding of photographing pets and people with their pets. Bring your pets(s) both days.  View Details

Beginning Digital Photography - An Introduction to Digital SLR Photography Starts Saturday, April 3, 2010

Are you intimidated by your new digital SLR camera? Confused by all its modes? Do you shoot in RAW mode? Should you? This class will take you through the process of taking photos and then optimizing them with software tools.  View Details

Stock Photography 101 Answers with Paul Henning Starts Saturday, April 24, 2010

An intensive, highly concentrated overview of the basic knowledge that sthose interested in stock photography must have.  View Details

Stock Photography 102 Answers with Paul Henning Starts Saturday, April 24, 2010

An intensive, highly concentrated overview of the basic knowledge that sthose interested in stock photography must have.  View Details