Introduction

The following individuals and institutions offer tuition on iView software as part of their professional training portfolio.
If you run a class and would like your event listed here please contact us.

Peter Krogh (US)

Professional photographer, author and trainer Peter Krogh is a well known figure to iView users. His digital asset management workshops are designed for professional digital photographers looking to implement iView MediaPro in their photography workflow.

Workshops cover all aspects of using MediaPro in a professional photography environment, focusing on how to best use the application's powerful feature set to streamline your workflow.

About Peter
Peter is a professional photographer, iView Affiliate, co-creator of DAM Useful software such as the Rank and File script for Adobe Bridge and iView MediaPro, and author of The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers. He is on the national Board of Directors of the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) where he founded the Digital Standards and Practices Committee.

For more on Peter's workshops visit www.peterkrogh.com.

Kevin Ames (US)

Kevin's workshops cover the full spectrum of professional digital photography from the ins and outs of quickly and safely downloading hundreds of photographs from memory cards to naming files, adding metadata, optimizing and color balancing images, right through to creating bulletproof archives of digital negatives. Workshop participants learn techniques that are essential to any serious photographer's creative workflow including automation, non-destructive image editing in Photoshop, distribution of proofs—on the Internet, through email and how to make large, color managed, personalized proofs for their clients with inkjet printers.

About Kevin
Kevin Ames is not only a talented digital photographer, he's also a highly respected expert in digital photographic workflow and digital asset management. Kevin is a Photoshop World Dream Team instructor, a Software Cinema author and presenter at the National Association of Broadcasters, the Consumer Electornics Show, PhotoPlus Expo, Fotographia Orvieto in Orvieto, Italy, Arthouse in Dublin, Ireland, and the Professional Photographers of Canada National Convention in Clagary are a small sampling of photography schools and conferences around the world where Kevin has taught. He writes the "Digital Photographer's Notebook" column for Photoshop User Magazine. His articles and reviews have appeared in several popular magazines including Studio Photography & Design, Photo Electronic Imaging, Digital Output and Professional Photographer.

Kevin is the author of the acclaimed book Adobe Photoshop CS: The Art of Photographing Women. He also wrote Digital SLR Photography with Photoshop CS2 for Dummies. His third book, Photoshop CS2: The Art of Photographing Women hits stores this August followed by his fourth, the Digital Photographer's Notebook in September.

Geo Perdis (Canada)

Geo Perdis' seminars cover a lot of ground pro photographers need advice on. Everything is covered from a suitable workflow, right through from annotation to archiving.
Using his SPEED (Shoot, Process, Edit, Enhance, Deliver) photo workflow process, Geo demonstrates a range of tools, techniques and best practices in digital workflow that he has developed over more than 20 years of working with electronic and digital imaging and photography. iView MediaPro is central to the SPEED workflow process.

About Geo
Geo Perdis is a mediamaker, photographer and educator with more than 20 years of experience working with electronic and digital imaging as well as film-based photography. He helps individuals and organization to understand and effectively use digital media in the creative industry, business communication and marketing, progressive education and training, consumer entertainment and learning.

Geo edits mediaworks.ca, a Web site which tracks how digital technologies and online media are changing the nature of communication for those who make their living as media and creative professionals or digital mediamakers. For more information see his Flickr profile.

Bob Sacha (US)

Learning how to store, edit and caption images in the field, how to transport, transmit and share you images with friends, clients and editors is now not only easier, faster and safer-it is mandatory for every working photographer.

Bob offers a practical (and fun) approach from a working photographer's point of view of the digital photographic process.

About Bob
Bob Sacha (iView Affiliate) is an award-winning photojournalist who has produced more than a dozen photo essays on assignment for National Geographic Magazine; four of the most recent stories won major photojournalism prizes. Bob also regularly photographs for a variety of magazines and corporations (both domestic and international), non-profits organizations and makes digital video documentaries. Bob has received the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography, Picture of the Year and NPPA awards. He teaches a graduate seminar at the International Center of Photography, weekly workshops at the Maine Photographic Workshop and the Tuscany Photographic Workshop and lectures internationally. He began his storied career at Life magazine and the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper.

To see more of Bob's work, visit his website.

Future Light Digital Workshops: Brad Polt-Jones (US)

Once you've gone digital you'll find it's easy to amass thousands of images. Without a clear and reliable system in place, chaos and frustration ensue. Make the most of your digital images by putting into place an asset management system. Brad's workshops go over the options commercially for Mac and PC users, setting up your files, creating an easy to use naming system, and integrating asset management into your workflow, using iView MediaPro and Adobe Photoshop.

Future Light Digital Workshops demonstrate how once your system is in place, you can quickly find files to put together a Website, book or other special project. You'll go home ready to bring order back to your digital darkroom.

About Brad
Future Light Digital Workshops are primarily taught by Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop Brad Polt-Jones, MFA. Brad is the owner and lead instructor at Future Light and has more than 20 years experience as a pro photographer and 10 years as a digital media artist. In addition to developing the Future Light workshops, Brad continues to teach digital photography classes for UCLA Extension and San Francisco City College.

"My philosophy is simple; I am passionate about the future of art and photography and want to bring the power and elegance of a new generation of tools to a wider audience. Digital photography allows everyone to participate in the image making process with an unprecedented ease of use and with total control."

Check out the Future Light Website for further details or see their upcoming workshop schedule.

Dan Burkholder (US)

Covering iView MediaPro, Adobe Photoshop CS2, Adobe Camera Raw and Bridge Dan's training style leaves no stone unturned. Whether you're just starting the transition from traditional photography to digital or you simply want to push your digital darkroom skills to the next level, you will leave Dan's workshops with tons of new digital techniques under your belt.

About Dan
Dan Burkholder, iView Affiliate, was one of the first photographic artists to embrace digital technology in the early 1990's. True to his love of the traditional photograph, Dan uses digital technology to build images that still look and feel like real photographs, not like something from a graphic designer's portfolio. Melding his unique vision with mastery of both the wet and digital darkrooms, his platinum prints are now included in many museum and private collections. Dan has taught classes and workshops at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the lnternational Center of Photography in New York, the University of Texas at San Antonio, the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego and others. For more information visit www.danburkholder.com.

Robert Edwards (Australia)

Photographer and iView Affiliate Robert Edwards focuses on DAM (digital asset management) and some of the ways that individual photographers can address this important aspect of your day-to-day workflow. Robert is an experienced photographer and is on the team that developed the APDIG (Australian Photographic Digital Imaging Guidelines). Robert has an excellent understanding of software on the market specifically designed for DAM.

About Robert
Robert is a commercial photographer based in Sydney, Australia. He is head of photography at the International College of Creative Arts (Sydney campus), a member of the Australian Institute of Professional Photography and the Association of Australian Commercial & Media Photographers, chief author of the Australian Photographic Digital Imaging Guidelines and a contributor to the Universal Photographic Digital Imaging Guidelines.

Visit www.damsimple.com for further information.

Gerry Sheehy (UK)

With digital photography there is a new bottleneck in your business process — getting all those files through the system and out to the client — and an optimised workflow could save up to a day's work every week for a busy photographer. Gerry Sheehy's training involves discussing your current working practices and requirements and then tailoring a training program to suit you.

About Gerry
Hailing from the IT world where he was originally a consultant for Compaq and HP, Gerry is now both a professional photographer, digital assistant and iView Affiliate based in London, UK. During a typical week he may shoot an editorial portrait session, a wedding and assist a fashion photographer or two. That produces a huge number of files to handle which require editing, processing and cataloguing. As a result he's tried just about every piece of imaging software on the market to assist in providing a fast, robust and reliable workflow. Each client and job requires a different emphasis in the workflow chain, whether its the ability to rate, edit or batch process images. Gerry can advise you on the optimum workflow and software combination for your particular needs.

Rochester Institute of Technology (US)

The school of Photographic Arts and Sciences (SPAS) offers a rich and extraordinarily diverse environment in which to develop the creative possibilities afforded by the study of photography, from both the scientific and the fine art perspectives.

Every day, over 800 undergraduate and graduate students immerse themselves in new photographic imaging technologies, exploring disciplines ranging from traditional silver halide to cutting- edge digital and electronic manipulation.

Known for focusing on career-oriented education, RIT and the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences have gained a national reputation for excellence in programs that fully explore the art and technology of photography.

The School of Photographic Arts and Sciences is one of six schools within the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

For more information about The school of Photographic Arts and Sciences please see their Web site.