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Day 2 Pre-Show Banter

Hello, Internet. Welcome to creative lie. We are starting Day two with Ben Wilmore's photography Photoshopped Photographers. My name is Susan Roderick, and this is my co host kind of Klosterman. Good morning, everyone. How are you today? Can I am great to see you. I'm ready to have my brain blown away. Once again. Men also, folks, this is our pre show banter. We're checking our sound and our video just to make sure everything's running smoothly. So if you are having any difficulties, please let us know in the chat rooms. And Ben? Mr. Wilmore, how are you today? I'm doing all right today. My throats a little bit, uh, different. So you'll see me drinking a little more today, but otherwise good. Okay. Here. And how is our in studio audience today? Well, what we love to do is find out how you guys were doing during the workshop. So if you guys want to introduce yourself again to the folks at home and then maybe let everyone know something that you learn yesterday or a non ha moment or some...

thing that maybe has changed your focus, start with you. Yeah. Um, I'm Michael Weber. My twitter handle is in May. Weber to four. Um, I think that I don't know. There's a lot of ah ha moments, but the one that was really enjoyed your just your basic understanding of the history and the way you laid it out made more sense. Like I had a I had an inkling of what it was that you kind of cleared the fog on it. So I really appreciated that. Hi, I'm a friend. My twitter handles at aussi au triple Z I e in terms of ah ha moment was thinking about it. And I think the entire day for me was like a big ah ha my parents, because after the workshop, I seriously felt like my brain was fried and I just couldn't absorb any more information. I'm just a simplicity in the teaching, but such depths I'm really, really excited for today. Hi, I'm Iris. Twitter is at Iris Dimock ir. I asked D u M u K in my ah ha moment yesterday was the luminosity mode for layers because yeah, when you have just the curves, sometimes colors go crazy and just changing that to luminosity mode, and it just does the brightness, and it's also never knew that I'm Melissa. My Twitter handle is at pure whimsy photo and my ah ha moment from yesterday was I admittedly, unfortunately, is one of those people that just kind of grabbed the curves and pulled and so really light learning about the two points and adjusting that and having an understanding of how if you go backwards, it's getting the inverse. But also the thing that really stuck with me was the pull straight up because otherwise why didn't you just grab it over here if you want to adjust that color than you grab it on this side? So I went home and played with a really old photo and was able to make it look awesome was great. Hi, I'm Nina Harvick. Um, my Twitter handle is Nina Hardwick. So it's a J R W I C K. Um, my website is just my name as well, uh dot com and my ah ha moment is I didn't really know about Dylan's correction, the chromatic aberration button and disrupt my world. So we've asked folks online what their ah ha moments were, and one of my favorite so far is ax man who is a regular has been with us for a long time. Who says my ah ha moment was the origin of the command symbol on the back? A booth. So if you missed that, that was in Iceland. Correct. What else have we got? Season, Denise said. Luminosity. That's wrong moment, and they're starting to come in. And dimmer switches is what Js. Beal said. Cat Tankersley, photography says she's from Plano, Texas. She downloaded the CIA six trial yesterday, and I love the new interface, so I'm really happy to have learned about it. And, Banana said, Definitely the deep explanation of curves. I like this 12 from pro line picks, says my ah ha moment. Realizing spending $79 would be my best investment since the five D Mark three and quite a small investment versus the five D mark three. And that is actually something that we talk about. Hair Creativelive often is if you think about whether you're in business or a hobbyist. If you think about the amount of money that you do already put into your business or your cameras, your gear, the output, the images is really what it's all about. And so why not spend $79 Teoh able to actually know how to make those images the best that they can be? So thank you for that comment. Also, just streamlining it, making your images the best. They could be in the least amount of time, right? Right. Which is what photo shopped for photographers really will do for us. Right, Ben? You hear? Comes up. So where else are people joining us from? All right, well, let's see. Let's see, we have photo. Pinto says Hello, Bannon Creativelive, um from Israel. And we have MK MK Trev in Westchester, New York, saying the goal of a good teacher is to take the complex and make it simple enough to understand. Then is a master teacher. We have, ah say Sha. In Wisconsin, we have seen a Burba, Birmingham, Cedar Falls, Iowa, uh, England's Puerto Rico. We have V photo seven. Who is from Rancho Cucamonga, California And let's see. Oh, Denise is from South Mississippi. Cool. So I would love to ask the Internet if you have any just kind of fun questions for band. We still have about six minutes of banter. Then maybe What? What are you thinking about as your next travels your next trip? Well, right now, my next trip is a little different than usual. Usually we're just trying to decide what part of the country were in. And where's the weather slash temperature gonna be appropriate and what we want to see. But I have a project that is starting out near Eugene, Oregon, and that's gonna make it. So we're going to spend a good amount of time there for a few months. I have, ah, vintage bus that I'm having restored and that I eventually live on. And if you ever saw the movie RV with Robin Williams in that movie was a red and white vintage bus. And it's the same type of buses that if anybody wants to see information about that, you can shut down my website by visiting creative cruiser dot com would have details about that, but the interior is gonna be done in Eugene, and that's gonna make it or near Eugene. So that's gonna make it. So we're gonna spend a good amount time there. If we have any free time around that I would like to head over Teoh Glacier National Park. And in general there, my fiancee, Karen, hasn't been to certain states. I don't think she spent Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and I'd like to take her through those areas because I love the West in general. It's fantastic. I want to give it. Oh, no, I'm just checking out the Creative cruiser. Really cool. So today and yesterday I'm chatting with a guy named Kevin, who is who is from Marie Tia's. I'm not really sure how to say that, but it is an island off the coast of Madagascar which I would like would love to go there. It's just so it's so far away and he's watching creative life. It's very cool. I mean, Madagascar itself is, like, pretty remote. And then there's a little tiny island off of that. It's very cool. So hello, Kevin. Welcome to Creativelive, Mauritius. Mauritius, is it? That is what, uh, jail br. One thing is, I think somebody mentioned we might want to bring up a few details about the actions during the beginning. If you want todo if you purchase the course along with the course, you get a set of actions. And if you're not used to using actions that could be a little bit confusing when you get them. If you get action files, you can, at least on a Mac I'm not certain on Windows, but I'm assuming it would work the same. Just double click on the files to install them in photo shop. But when you do that, all Photoshopped does is come to the front. It doesn't like being and say, Hey, you just loaded something. Uh, And so you have to go to the window menu at the top of your screen and choose actions in order to get the actions panel to appear. And that's where you'll find your newly installed actions. The actions are stored in various folders. If you expand the folders by clicking on the triangle that would be next to them. You can see the individual actions click on name of Inaction and hit the play button at the bottom of the actions panel and to use them. And But the main thing is, if you're not having used actions much before, it condone, be rather typical toe load your actions about eight times because you double click on the photo shop comes to the front. You're like that didn't work. You try it again, and each time you're loading them, it just doesn't tell you that you load them and it doesn't automatically open the actions panel. So go to the window menu to find it. So thank you for that. That answers a lot of people's questions. Yes, about that. And I love this question from Bob Dell. Have you ever thought about writing about life on the road and living with minimal possessions? Uh, kind of, but not really. I don't know. I'm just not sure how many people would buy that story, as far as that goes, compared to the amount of time it would take to put into telling it in. So instead, what we do right now is they update our blawg once a week every Sunday night. Monday morning, there's a new post about what we've been up to for the week on. Medication will give details about that kind of thing, and that's what we're doing right now. But who knows? One day question from, uh, we're just gonna start asking you questions. Questions from Ron Jon in India. It's fun question have been Do you see the photo shop interface when you close your eyes? Uh, no. But sometimes that might fall asleep will be in in front of, uh, but I've been using photo shops for over 20 years. So, you know, it's it's like using your toaster or something. You know, it's it's, uh it's just something you use in your toaster. Michael, I've been speaking at a conference for many years called Photoshopped World, and she'd been attending that for many years and we didn't know of each other, But I mean, she knew of me because you see me speak. But in Karen friended me on Facebook and she had questions about living a mobile lifestyle. She wanted to pull an Airstream trailer behind a Mini Cooper, though in a Mini Cooper can't pull anything as far as weight goes. And 70 late, we got more, more serious about talking about mobile lifestyle and met up in another photo shop world, have dinner and drinks with a group and then hung out for a week. Actually that see if we connected because they seem toe have a lot of things in common, and we did and, uh, she's great, so yeah, Okay, been one more question Before we get started, Icon studios says, Do you mind telling us what type of actions are in the package? Uh, I have to look because I don't think of it, but let me see if I have them loaded yet. I'm not certain here. Somebody else has been loading actions on this machine. Wow, lots of them. I might want to do that another time, because right now Thea owns Panel is so full of actions that other people have loaded from previous seminars that it's hard to find. My But I could just tell you in general there are actions for certain adjustments, like creative ones would be. Let's make the image black and white everything but green everything but read everything but yellow kind of thing so that you just hit a button and all you can see is the green in your picture. The rest of the images, black and white or another action is going to make it look like your photograph is more like a printed photos sitting on a table, and it's curled a little bit with a drop shadow underneath it. Eso If you wanted to look not just like a flat photo on your website or something. You could apply that action. Um, but I'd have to look to see the others. They're just a bunch of them.