Sheena Wilkie's Photo Talk

Abbotsford Photo Arts Club

Web Design for Photographers (lecture)

Need your own website? Want to update the one you have?

Sheena Wilkie is a former web and graphic designer turned photographer who will share ideas and tips for photographers’ websites with you. She’ll offer many different free and nearly-free options for getting you up and running online, without learning HTML or other painful programming languages.  Learn how to use widgets, plugins, and other items to greatly expand the functionality of your site and attract more visitors  You will also get a crash course in the dos and don’ts of good Web design, information design, search engine optimization, image sizing and other important areas that will help you achieve an effective Web presence.

Photographic Embellishment – Design Tools for Photographers  (lab)

Let Sheena Wilkie introduce you to the world of Photoshop brushes, borders, textures, effects, page edges and typography.

This workshop will introduce the concept of Photoshop as a design tool for photographers. Discover downloadable Web resources and learn how to create your own brushes and textures. Learn which fonts and graphic elements best reinforce the style of your photograph, allowing you to create a classic art piece, suitable for an album or framing. The commercial applications of these skills include album-making, birth announcements, holiday cards, family mementos and wedding portraits.

Add to your creative vision; show others your work in a new light.

We all know we need back up our work, and have backup cameras, lights and assorted shooting equipment but have you thought about a backup computer? And I mean a computer equipped to carry on your business and not skip a beat. More… »