Wacom Cintiq for Photographers

As any photographer worth their salt knows, a Wacom pen tablet is a must-have tool for image enhancement and finishing. Wacom’s Cintiq interactive pen displays take the creative process a step further by enabling photographer’s to work directly on screen, making the editing process more intuitive than ever!

In this webinar, Wes Maggio, Wacom’s Tablet Guru, will show you how to increase your efficiency and creativity using the Cintiq’s pressure sensitive pen. Use the pen to apply tonal adjustments, remove unwanted elements and apply stylized effects to your images almost effortlessly! Wes will educate you on the many ways to take advantage of the Cintiq’s functions, such as ExpressKeys to automate multi-keystroke commands and operations. Finally, he will show you how to improve your use of applications like Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom through the Wacom Tablet Properties.

• Learn how to finish images more efficiently and easily with a Wacom Cintiq.
• Pick up some tips on retouching photos.
• See how to customize a tablet so that it is just right for you!

All this and more will be covered in this FREE Wacom webinar. And perhaps best of all, you’ll have the opportunity to get your burning tablet questions answered LIVE! (If not by Wes, by his fellow Tablet Guru, Tech-man Joe who will be hiding behind the curtain. : )

Digital Painting Techniques in Photoshop with Patrick LaMontagne

Back by popular demand, Wacom is pleased to bring you, special guest, Patrick LaMontagne for an hour of digital painting tips and techniques!

Patrick LaMontagne is a full-time syndicated cartoonist, illustrator, and digital painter whose work appears regularly in newspapers and magazines across North America, despite having never received any formal art training. His award-winning digital paintings are sold in a number of galleries and his whimsical way of painting animals has become his most recognizable signature style.

While his work has often been mistaken for traditional media, Patrick has always been a digital artist, and his medium of choice is Photoshop and a Wacom pen tablet.

In this informative webinar, Patrick will share with you a sampling of his painted work. He will discuss the various tablets that he uses, and give a behind the scenes look at how customizing his tablet settings allow him the freedom to paint the way he likes. He will show painting techniques to achieve natural looking hair, fur, and skin textures by using default and custom Photoshop brushes. No photos will be manipulated or harmed in this presentation, as Patrick’s work is done entirely with digital brushstrokes.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn and share in your love of painting with this award winning artist.