I met Christine Wolfe at a Photoshop Glamour Retouching Course earlier this year.  The course she taught was a great class!  She taught principles and steps that applied to an image will produce amazing results. She also teaches how to quickly edit an image in a way that brings out maximum results in the quickest amount of time. As a photographer, speed is critical. Income comes from shooting, not editing. So learning easy photoshop steps that can be applied quickly maximizes results and revenues.

In the course, Christine walks through the steps in photoshop at a pace that matched the experience level of the photographers in the class. The class size was limited to a small group of photographers to ensure understanding of the concepts and the atmosphere was very casual and relaxed.

The glamour retouching class that she offers focuses on:

• achieving smooth skin without blurring (we must have pores!)
• glamour skin “gleam”
• liquifying/body contouring
• muscle definition
• dodging and burning
• glamour touches for eyes, hair, lashes
• strategic sharpening
• vignettes
• color adjustment
• contrast
• brightening
• strategic lighting
• color correction (make your pictures POP!)
• background clean-up
• object removal
• hair wisps
• tricks with layers
• and more

During the class, Christine demonstrates using many of the images you see in her portfolio and provides plenty of time for Q&A.

At the class, you receive a booklet full of Photoshop tips and tricks as well as all of the step-by-step techniques and Photoshop tool settings taught in the class. This leaves you able to watch and absorb the concepts rather than scribbling furious notes during the class. The booklet is accompanied by a disc of the Superstar action set which will help make your images pop with just the press of a button.

You can also submit your own images that Christine will retouch using the techniques taught in the class live in front of the class participants.

The techniques she teaches render beautiful results with ease and speed and without sacrificing quality. She teaches a start to finish workflow that anyone can learn and immediately put to use.

I have kept in touch with Christine and she is always very friendly and willing to help answer questions and is also available as a glamour retouch specialist if you have work needing to be done.

Christine has learned and mastered these techniques over the years that she worked and trained some of the best in the industry at Playboy and other companies. She specializes in digital enhancement with a focus on achieving realistic results quickly. Her resume includes education ranging from private lessons, to sold out international seminars, to a guest teaching spot at a prestigious University in Philadelphia. Christine is also a recognized member of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals and her company, CRWmedia is accredited by the Better Business Bureau.

The CRWmedia seminar series began in 2008 and has reached hundreds of people throughout the United States and Canada.  The seminar is currently taught in 25+ cities each year with online classes available and DVD instruction releasing in 2011.

Photoincome.com is a proud partner (and customer) of CRWmedia and has been able to partner with Christine to offer a $30 discount to attend one of her popular live seminars taught in a city near you.  Simply add the coupon code “IMAGE30″ to save $30 when registering online www.crwmedia.com.

Check out www.crwmedia.com for more information, a list of upcoming Seminar locations and dates, and view some amazing before and after photos that demonstrate the techniques taught in her classes.

This is a must attend seminar for any photographer interested in glamour photography and making your images amazing!

It is also a must attend seminar for any photographer that is interested in improving their retouching skills to improve their final product whether it be for portrait, stock, family pictures, or even product and landscape photos.  It is really that good.

Consider the eBay opportunity. The pictures are what sells on eBay. Especially eBay Motors. If you look on eBay Motors, a typical car will have 5-20 pictures on it. Many do not help the seller auction off the car because they are so bad. The pictures are often blurry and dark.

The difference between good pictures and bad pictures might make hundreds of dollars of difference on a car auction because the buyer can actually see what they are bidding on.

You might offer to teach a class or seminar at your local community center, library or in your studio on how to shoot pictures of products to sell on eBay. You could show examples of what is good and what is bad. There are plenty out there to choose from – mostly bad.

Some of the eBay Photography tips that you could teach about during your class or seminar:

• Limit what is in your image to what is for sale
• Try to eliminate the carpet background that sits behind so many of the products that are for sale on eBay. Instead, use a clean background that contrasts with the product to really show it off
• Don’t forget the tripod. Having a small tripod will ensure crystal clear images for posting on eBay
• Shoot from different angles to make the product seem more interesting and appealing
• Make sure that you have enough light on the product to “show it off”
• Shoot more than just the product sitting front and center. Shoot from the corner, turn it over, change directions, shoot from above, shoot from below, etc.
• If you are selling a lot of product on eBay, you might consider a small product studio lighting kit that provides the ability to have diffused light on the subject.

You might also offer eBay Photography services from your website or on your business card, although with the number of digital cameras available today, I don’t think you will get a ton of business from this.

Being recognized in your local community as an expert will always helps future business!