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Registration Fee
PHP 5,500.00 + VAT per day, inclusive of snacks, lunch, seminar kit.
Who Should Attend
Graphic artists and designers, corporate communicators, digital artists, creative directors, photographers, art directors, web developers and designers, webmasters, programmers, illustrators, AV Producers, publishers, layout artists, print managers, production artists, animators, multimedia specialists, educators, IT Professionals, and those involved in the creative industry.
KEY SEMINAR TOPICS
NEW Photoshop CS6: Powerful Retouching & Manipulation Made Easy
April 01, 2014, Tuesday
09:30am – 12:00nn (half-day)
Resource Speaker: Mario J. Ramirez, Instructor, Philippine Center for Creative Imaging
The session will focus on Photoshop CS6 techniques that you can use when retouching images. The main focus will be on professional retouching and manipulation techniques, showing you the differences between, and individual application of spot healing brush (enhanced by Content-Aware function), clone stamp, healing brush and patch tools, to take full advantage of their capabilities. Also learn to use blending modes and brush techniques to specifically target your retouching work to remove blemishes and spot-imperfections and adjust skin tones. Create backdrops with Content-Aware Fill and combine them with photo elements. Puppet Warp allow for flexible retouching impossible with previous version. More new functions make difficult editing easy with Photoshop CS6.
Audience: This session is a must for photographers and designers who work with photos that need retouching, enhancement and more dramatic effects.
Level: Basic to Intermediate – Participants are expected to already have some understanding of Photoshop fundamentals.
Advanced Photoshop CS6: Essential Color and Tonal Correction
April 01, 2014, Tuesday
1:30pm – 04:30pm (half-day)
Resource Speaker: Mario J. Ramirez, Instructor, Philippine Center for Creative Imaging
Want to ensure the quality of your photographs and images? This session will show you how professionals implement color and tonal correction. The focus is on maintaining and enhancing image tone, contrast and color. Transform flat photographs into images that jump off the printed page. Learn to understand and master curves and levels for reliable color correction. Explore Photoshop’s essential blending modes and adjustment layer masking to locally enhance images. An overview of Color Theory and Color Management will be given. The Color Sampler tool, the Shadows/Highlights command, and how to Neutralize Color Cast using Curves will also be explained.
Audience: Graphic artists and photographers who want to learn professional correction procedures.
Level: Intermediate – Participants are expected to already have a good understanding of Photoshop basics.
LMNTS (Elements) of Design
April 02, 2014, Wednesday
09:30am – 12:00nn (half-day)
Resource Speaker: Tony Bucu, Instructor, Philippine Center for Creative Imaging
Logos, signage, products and labels, and any identity item are made to be seen. With the Adobe Power Cube (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign), this topic covers the design aspects of how element, color and typography can add visual impact and appeal to designs. A design’s shape, size, simplicity or complexity and how it interacts with its surroundings is key to its readability and visibility in a sea of other designs.
Level: Beginner to intermediate.
Advanced Illustrator Techniques
April 02, 2014, Wednesday
1:30pm – 04:30pm (half-day)
Resource Speaker: Tony Bucu, Instructor, Philippine Center for Creative Imaging
Most anything you want to know (or do) with Illustrator. Maximize the use of 3D techniques and other effects in making your illustrations and layouts. This topic also demonstrates the use of Illustrator’s tools in combination with each other and enhancement commands you’ve always wondered about. Discover Adobe Illustrator’s newest and enhanced tools and how they give an already powerful application more punch.
Level: Intermediate to Advanced.
Make Your Own Website With Word Press
April 03, 2014, Thursday
9:30am – 12:30nn (half day)
Resource Speaker: Reynaldo Mendoza, Jr., Web Developer and Educator
Making your website is now easy as advances in technology has made it easier. Even without coding or programming knowledge, anyone can publish a website.
Word Press is a great tool for website creation. It’s free, easy-to-use, powerful and flexible. Without a doubt, a little investment of time learning this tool will go a long way and save you time and money and produce a professional website.
Join us as we tackle the basics of creating a Word Press website. In a few hours, you will be able to publish a site as we will teach you how to locally (on your computer) create a website and publish it later.
For the purposes of this seminar, anyone with USB on a computer/laptop can follow us as we do the techniques as we can provide the local version of a Word Press website.
Responsive Web Design
April 03, 2014, Thursday
1:30pm – 04:30pm (half day)
Resource Speaker: Reynaldo Mendoza, Jr., Web Developer and Educator
Build one website that will adapt to desktop, laptops, mobile phones, ipad , iphones, and android tablets! Responsive web design (often abbreviated to RWD) is a web design approach aimed at building sites that can adapt to any browser or device that renders it, to provide an optimal viewing experience—easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling – creating a website design that always adapt to users needs.
Level: Intermediate to Advanced.
Kinetic Typography And Other Cool Features Of After Effects
April 04, 2014, Friday
9:30am – 12:30nn (half day)
Resource Speaker: Noriel Molenilla, 3D Graphic Designer and Instructor, First Academy of Computer Arts
Motion graphics may probably be the best thing that happened to digital media. With thousand of ads vying for consumer attention, make your ads stand out. Learn how to use kinetic typography to spice up your video projects and see After Effects’ capabilities.
Level: Intermediate to Advanced.
Fusion of HTML5 Canvass and CreateJS: The Ultimate Flash Killer
April 04, 2014, Friday
1:30pm – 4:30pm (half day)
Resource Speaker: Joselito Evangelista, Programmer and Instructor, First Academy of Computer Arts
HTML5 and its open-source technology eclipsed Flash in the web along with the opportunity for Actionscripters alike.but don’t worry. In this seminar, you will learn how to embrace the popular HTML5 technology and utilize the promising canvas element to adapt your thoughts into a new world of possibilities. Mobile app developers will benefit from this session.
Level: Intermediate to Advanced.
Resource Speakers and Experts
Mario J. Ramirez
Mario J. Ramirez
Instructor, Philippine Center for Creative Imaging
ACE, ACI
Mario Ramirez is an experienced instructor and speaker in the field of graphics software applications. He is an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) and Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI) for Photoshop CS6. He teaches Photoshop to designers, photographers, business professionals as well as casual users. He is on the faculty of the Philippine Center for Creative Imaging (PCCI), the only Adobe Authorized Training Center (AATC) in the Philippines. He has taught at the ISO-certified MMLDC training facility and at The Garage: Jescom Creative Technologies, the Ateneo De Manila University in Katipunan.
Aside from teaching at PCCI, he regularly presents at prestigious conventions like the Graphic Expo and DLSU-D Graphic Convention.
Antonio ‘Tony’ Bucu
Antonio ‘Tony’ Bucu
Instructor, Philippine Center for Creative Imaging
Studied electrical engineering at Mapua Institute of Technology, and never thought he would end up as a graphic designer. After college, Tony decided to explore his artistic skills and worked as an artist for a garments factory, designing shirt graphics. He has never looked back since then as he became a designer for the last 15 years. Tony has worked as a freelance consultant/designer for Fiera de Manila, Inc., Bozell, Basic FCB, Campaigns and Grey, and Leo Burnett, and as a full-time designer for Pixel Magic and Gimenez Group. He has art directed photo shoots for BPI and Equitable, and is an experimental photographer in his own right. Tony is an instructor at the Philippine Center for Creative Imaging.
Reynaldo Mendoza, Jr.
Reynaldo Mendoza, Jr.
Web Developer and Educator
Professional Photographer, Web Designer and Educator with clients, such as, Filinvest Land, Cebuana Lhuillier, San Miguel Yamamura, Secosana Bags to name a few.
Rey Mendoza is one of the few pioneer photographers specializing on 360 virtual tours, a 360 degree photography field usually used by real estate companies. He shoots food, products, events, architecture and also teaches photography, computer graphics and 2D animation at Multi-Media Arts of Lyceum Laguna and DLSU-College of St. Benilde on the topics of Photoshop, Web Design and Graphic Design.
He is the Adobe User Group Manager for Philippines which manages the online group and monthly meetings of Adobe users in Manila.
His previous professional positions were Department Head, Senior Webmaster at DLSU Manila, User Experience Designer at Accenture Philippines, Web Consultant at University of Santo Tomas.
Noriel Molenilla
Noriel Molenilla
3D Graphic Designer and Instructor
First Academy of Computer Arts
A passionate Artist and has been in the digital arts industry for 11 years. Worked as a 3D Graphic Artist for Apache Films, Graphic Artist Supervisor for Dingo Systems, and now Senior Graphic Artist and Instructor at First Academy of Computer Arts.
Joselito Evangelista
Joselito Evangelista
Programmer and Instructor
First Academy of Computer Arts
Joselito Evangelista has over 12 years experience in computer information technology and web technologies. He is skilled at developing systems using javascript, MySQ, Linux, and other web based applications. Currently, he is an Instructor at First Academy of Computer Arts.
