Digital Photography – What do you want to see?

Written by Siotha on March 1, 2008 – 4:13 pm -

So what’s on the list to come?Well… it’s growing but here’s a start….

Digital Photography:

  • More of Dr. Brown’s Photoshop Laboratory
  • Mom’s Guide
  • Photoshop for Photographers
  • Wedding Photography
  • Action Sports Photography
  • Family Photography
  • Photograph Retouching
  • Commercial Photography
  • Small Business Photography
  • Glamour Photography
  • Boudoir Photography
  • Masking A-Z for complex images
  • Marketing your Photography
  • Running your own freelance business

These are all Ideas – but what do you really really want to see? Please share them with us at services@xtrain.com – ATTN siotha


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Photo Shop, Photography, Digital Photography, Digital Dark Room, Photo editing

Written by Siotha on November 20, 2007 – 11:24 pm -

Do you have a passion for Photography? How about Photoshop?

xTrain.com is now offering world class training for Digital Photography, Photoshop, Digital SLRs, and all the other tools that a photographer needs to know in order to enhance their craft!

Courses in this trac include:

Photoshop Laboratory Free Classes by Russell Brown

Secrets of the newest version of Photoshop are revealed by scientist, Photoshop enthusiast, Guru, Senior Creative Director of Adobe – I mean – Russell Brown! Each of these courses specialize in new features of Adobe Photoshop CS3, or Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended. Topics such as: 3-D, Black and White, Animation, and Portrait Retouching are all entertaining and valuable lessons offered for free!

Digital Photography & Photoshop for Baby Boomers by Rob Sheppard

Are you new to all things techy? Are you trying to remember what those buttons and gagdets are that your family has said – sure I’ll help you learn to use them… but then it didn’t quite make since what they were talking about? This course is geared for those non-techy who want to improve their digital photography experience including using Adobe’s Photoshop Cs3.

Classes in this course include:

Streamlining Your Photograph Handling and Processing using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom by Rob Sheppard

Do you organize your digital photos as well as you did your traditional films? Well, in this class Rob will show you how to easily and cost effectively streamline your organization. Metafiles, Collections, Non-Destructive multi-image editing are all covered in this indepth course on Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.

Classes in this course include:

Digital Photography Hot Shots by Rick Sammon

A comprehensive A-Z digital photography and work flow course about how to select your equipment, accessories how to plan and prep for a shoot. Along the way featured techniques and tips about how to shoot animals, people and nature are all included in this highly inspirational course. There are 6 classes in this course:

Photoshop CS3: Simplified and Easy by Ben Willmore

Have you mastered Photoshop CS3 yet? Why not? This course is for new and experienced Photoshop CS3 users. Ben’s indepth knowledge and comprehensive explanations of the features new to Photoshop will enhance your Photoshop game!

High Dynamic Range (HDR) Mastery by Ben Willmore

High Dynamic Range Similates what the eye really sees. In this course, Ben will show you how to shoot, process and artistically enhance photo – sur- realistic images. Each of these four classes will enhance your artistic photography skills..

Photoshop for Photographers: Outdoor & Nature Photography by Rob Sheppard

If you only take nature photographs, then you really need to participate in this course. Photoshop can be very intimidating and has many features a nature photographer might not otherwise use. But Rob will guide you through the steps that every digital photographer who specializes in Outdoor or Nature photography need to know in Adobe’s Photoshop software. (Presented on the PC version of Photoshop!)

Classes include:


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GeekBrief.TV #251 Podcast, powered by xTrain Today!

Written by Siotha on November 1, 2007 – 3:22 pm -

Wow! What a great day! Hostess Cali Lewis of GeekBrief.TV joined us in the studio on our live set @ xTrain. It’s a state of the Art Virtual set and to take it to the next level we used the power of Skype video to create 2 cool podcasts! This is a behind the virtual scenes of our state-of-the-art $5.5 Million Dollar Virtual studio and how to use every day accessible software (Skype is FREE!) to create COOL podcasts and stunning video! I like this GeekBrief soo much, I think it’s one of my favorite “behind the scenes with xTrain” it might have to go on my permanent blogroll…

Here’s a couple of awesome pics (courtesy of Giovanni Gallucci):

This picture is of one of our Control Room Monitors. When Cali is on set, she’s on a blue screen.

And for a pic of our Technical Directors….

Have you checked out xTrain.com today?

We specialize in awesome digital photography, graphic design, and digital arts training. But if you really want to see the behind the scenes of what makes studio magic happen you gotta check out Cali’s GeekBrief #251!


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You know you’re a digital photography geek when…

Written by Siotha on October 25, 2007 – 11:04 am -

Last week we were at a conference in NYC. It was fun, it was great, there were a LOT of people. But I’ll have to say of all the people to receive Dr. Brown’s Photoshop Laboratory – There were a few things that stuck out in my mind when we met them… here’s a re-cap…

We were officially with digital photographer geeks
when I found the following to be true @ the conference:

  1. Most people were “camera hams” if there was a flash going off, they wanted to be in front of it too!
  2. Camera Phone pictures had their own category for prizes
  3. Photoshop Elements was a Buzz word
  4. Dr. Brown’s Photoshop Laboratory was so popular 12 people used their cell phones to call someone else at the conference to tell them to meet em at the xTrain booth for their free DVD. Additionally, I took 3 different pictures of people receiving their Dr. Brown’s disk in front of his display signs.
  5. More people took camera phone pictures of the un-paid pigeon roaming the floor than with their D-SLR
    (See my pic of taking a pic of someone taking a pic of the bird)

Bird Photography


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