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We offer a range of Social Media training courses, have some superb summer offers on at the moment see our summer pick and mix. We also offer Photoshop Training , Advanced Photoshop Courses and Project Management Training.
Yesterday evening I attended Keven Meredith’s (aka @lomokev) book launch for 52 Photographic Projects at Add The Colour Cafe, North road, Brighton .
All the usual suspects were there from the Brighton photographic community, which is a testament to Kevin’s popularity as a photographer. Now it’s not just that Kevin is a lovable character, or that he is the judge for our current photographic competition that closed today, but I genuinely think this is one the best photographic books I have ever seen! I have been taking pictures on and off for decades (you can see some of my images on my facebook page – become a fan!) and still there are so many new ideas and ways of thinking between the covers of this book.
I showed it to someone this morning who has been thinking of taking up photography for some time. She has no experience in photography yet she was getting quite excited about the book, she could see that she could do it, that photography was more of a journey and an experience than a science. I defy any photographer vintage or newbie not to find something interesting or inspiring in this book.
Well done Kevin, that’s quite an achievement. If you would like to buy a copy you can order it through his website.
For those who are interested I took these images with my new Sony Cybershot with Sweep Panorama, and yes this is my friend photographer Anthony Hunt trying to appear three times in the same shot!
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Silicon Beach Training offer a range of Social Media training courses, we have some superb summer offers on at the moment see our summer pick and mix. We also offer Photoshop Training, Advanced Photoshop Courses and Project Management Training.
Posted by Heather Buckley in Brighton, Photography, Photoshop, Social Media on July 16th, 2010| 1 Comment »
Book Adobe Training Courses together at discounted rates
Adobe recently launched Creative Suite 5 (CS5), including newly updated editions of all of its industry standard design packages Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver and Flash.
All Silicon Beach Training’s Adobe Courses are now available on Adobe CS5 (with CS4 still available if preferred).
The Adobe Creative Suite packages are designed to be used together, with Adobe Bridge enabling easy transfer of design elements between them.
What’s more – we’re now offering some great package deals on Adobe CS5 Courses to help you get the most from Creative Suite 5. Packages include:
For more information or to make bookings call us on 01273 622272 or e-mail bookings@siliconbeachtraining.co.uk
You can also learn more about the new features in Photoshop CS5 and new features in Flash CS5 elsewhere in the blog.
Posted by Colin Welch in News, Offers, Photoshop on June 16th, 2010| 1 Comment »
Silicon Beach Training offer creative software courses including Adobe Photoshop Training and Indesign Training, we also offer a range of Social Media courses and SEO training.
Lesson 1 – Build a relationship with your subject
Portrait photography is an intimate process, it is essential to build a relationship with your subject. Communicate with your model as you shoot, as well as before you shoot. Rapport is vital to a good portrait photograph. Even when you are taking pictures of strangers, as in street photography, the more you talk to people the easier it gets and the more fun you’ll have. On the other hand……when doing street photography somtimes you don’t want people to notice you, so there are no hard and fast rules. If the person you are taking a photograph of knows you are taking the photograph get talking.
“A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people”
Annie Leibovitz
Don’t be shy about recommending a different pose, or changing the lighting, position or location slightly.
Read the rest of "Photographing People – 10 steps towards stunning portraits"
Posted by Heather Buckley in New Free Resources, Photography, Photoshop on May 24th, 2010| 4 Comments »
Photo editing software you can download for free
They may not be as snazzy as Adobe’s Photoshop CS5, but here’s our list of free photo-editing software that make great substitutes to Photoshop if you’re not yet ready to splash out. They can also be a great choice for those who photograph or blog on the go and need a quick and easy way to edit images.
If you want to learn more about how to start using Photoshop, check out our Photoshop Training courses for Beginners, Advanced and Web Graphics. Also see this post on What’s new in Photoshop CS5 and our many free Photoshop resources.
Read the rest of "Free Photo Editing Software: who needs Photoshop CS5!"
Posted by Faye Binfield in New Free Resources, Photoshop on May 19th, 2010| 3 Comments »
The best Photoshop blogs to inform and inspire you…
Blogging is all the rage these days and we are even running Blogging Training as of the 24th May – if your business isn’t blogging, it should be!
For fellow Photoshop fans we’ve scoured the web to bring you our favorite Photoshop blogs for either informative Photoshop Training news and tips or for inspiring Photoshop feats (if you’re looking for the best Photoshop tutorial websites try this list). There are a lot of blogs out there, so read on to find the ones we thought most stood out…
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Posted by Natasha Stone in Photoshop on May 14th, 2010| 2 Comments »
Why has Adobe CS5 ditched the Web Standard Suite?
By Hawken King
Adobe CS5 is due out at any moment, with mid-May the expected release date – find out what’s new in Photoshop CS5 and what’s new in Flash CS5. But there’s one big change on the cards for web designers: Adobe is no longer offering their popular and accessible Web Standard suite, although Design Standard will still be available. New HTML5 Training courses now available.
New to Web Design? We offer a wide range of beginner and advanced Web Design Training and Photoshop Training courses, including our popular Web Design Training week. We now offer a great HTML5 training course for those who need to update thier existing development skills.
“Adobe Creative Suite 5 Web Premium” is up and coming, ready to pre-order by tomorrow – but it’s no more for Web Standard Suite… You won’t find much information about this on Adobe’s website and they would justify their change as a similar suite is still available. But will people pay more? If not the established web design combo of Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash could be about to change (compare the Adobe Suites here or see Wikipedia on Adobe Creative Suites).
If you’re buying Adobe Web Premium new instead of upgrading from your current version, expect to pay a whopping £1679.08 inc VAT in the UK. Of course Adobe Web Premium will include Flash Catalyst, Illustrator and Photoshop Extended, but will the bigger price tag put off new users? For starters, many HTML/CSS web designers don’t wish to dabble in Flash. What’s more, Adobe risk putting off new users who wonder how to fit these tools into the picture when Fireworks already does the job with web graphics.
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Posted by Natasha Stone in News, Photography, Photoshop, Web Design on April 28th, 2010| 7 Comments »
We’ve been running Photoshop courses here at Silicon Beach Training since 1999, and through a combination of great facilities, expert instructors and continually improving the courses we’ve become a recognised leader in the field (even if we do say so ourselves!)
Over the years we’ve added quite a few Photoshop workshops to our portfolio, so we thought it was high time they had their own section!
You can now find all of the Photoshop courses in one place at www.siliconbeachtraining.co.uk/photoshop-training/
What could be easier!
The Photoshop Courses we run are:
If you’d like to learn more about any of these or would like to make a booking, call our office on 01273 622272 or e-mail us at info@siliconbeachtraining.co.uk
Posted by Colin Welch in News, Photography, Photoshop, Web Design on March 19th, 2010| No Comments »
Nadine was delighted to win our Twitter Re-Tweet competition!
At the end of last year we had a fantastic response to our Twitter Re-Tweet competition – the prize was a free place on any of our public training courses.
Our lucky winner was Nadine Burzler (@NadineBurzler) who works at Cactus Language Worldwide.
Nadine was delighted to win the competition and has chosen a free place on our 2-day Dreamweaver course as her prize. She also chose to extend this to come on the whole Web Design Week package, which includes our Web Design training and Web Graphics Photoshop Course.
When she told us why, we realised that there couldn’t have been a more worthy winner…
Read the rest of "Twitter Competition – A Fairytale Winner!"
Posted by Colin Welch in Competitions, News on January 7th, 2010| No Comments »
