Kelby Training Instructors

Lesa Snider King

Lesa Snider King is on a mission to teach the world to create and use better graphics. She's a stock photographer and chief evangelist for iStockphoto.com, founder of the creative tutorial site GraphicReporter.com and author of Photoshop: The Missing Manual (O'Reilly, 2008). She writes regularly for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, Macworld, Elements Techniques, and Layers magazines. Lesa is also a corporate trainer and teaches at many industry conferences including Photoshop World, Macworld Expo, Mac Mania Geek Cruises, and the esteemed Santa Fe Workshops. You can catch her graphics tip of the week live each Wednesday night on YourMacLifeShow.com, which she co-hosts with husband Shawn King.

Online Classes by Lesa Snider King

  • Photoshop ElementsPractical Photoshop Elements
  • In this class, Lesa leads you on a journey through the most practical and non-destructive editing techniques in Photoshop Elements. Learn the truth about resolution, how to resize images without quality loss, discover the basics of layers and layer masks, how to create gorgeous grayscales, delicious duotones, festive frames, how to zap backgrounds, fix stubborn red-eye, and more!

    Lesson 01 What is Resolution? AKA Brown Sugar (4:19)
    Lesson 02 Resizing An Image For Print (5:56)
    Lesson 03 Resizing An Image For Email Or Posting On The Web (5:19)
    Lesson 04 Cropping and Resizing (3:40)
    Lesson 05 Resizing a Web Image For Print (6:20)
    Lesson 06 Classic Black Photo Border (5:00)
    Lesson 07 Layers 101: Building a Stacked Paper Background (10:33)
    Lesson 08 Layer Masks 101: Placing Text Behind An Object (8:12)
    Lesson 09 Placing A Photo Within Text (4:52)
    Lesson 10 Fading One Image Into Another (8:58)
    Lesson 11 Portrait Popper (1:50)
    Lesson 12 Rounding The Edges Of A Photo (7:42)
    Lesson 13 Changing The Color Of An Object (4:38)
    Lesson 14 Erasing The Background Of An Image (15:03)
    Lesson 15 Isolating Frizzy Hair (6:01)
    Lesson 16 Converting A Color Photo To Black And White (5:52)
    Lesson 17 Partial Color (8:15)
    Lesson 18 Colorizing Grayscale (5:53)
    Lesson 19 Adding A Color Tint (5:38)
    Lesson 20 Color Correction and Casts (4:52)
    Lesson 21 Fixing Stubborn Red-Eye (4:55)
    Lesson 22 Festive Frames (4:48)
    Lesson 23 Conclusion (0:42)

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  • PhotoshopFrom Photo to Graphic Art
  • Lesa will show you how to quickly and easily turn ordinary photos into unique pieces of graphic art.

    Lesson 01 Introduction (0:44)
    Lesson 02 Partial Color Effect (6:46)
    Lesson 03 Faded Color Effect (3:51)
    Lesson 04 Colorizing a Black and White Photo (7:57)
    Lesson 05 Sepia-tone With Burned Edges (3:22)
    Lesson 06 Blurring the Background (7:05)
    Lesson 07 From Photo to Pencil Sketch (7:40)
    Lesson 08 Realistic Reflections (5:57)
    Lesson 09 Ornamental Vector Photo Frame (8:49)
    Lesson 10 Filtered and Painted Edges (13:11)
    Lesson 11 Real World Picture Frames (10:07)
    Lesson 12 Combining Images, Part 1 (7:19)
    Lesson 13 Combining Images, Part 2 (6:25)
    Lesson 14 Combining Images, Part 3 (6:34)
    Lesson 15 Combining Images, Part 4 (9:06)
    Lesson 16 Turning a Photo Into Stone (6:52)
    Lesson 17 High Contrast, Part 1 (5:47)
    Lesson 18 High Contrast, Part 2 Warhol-Style Portrait (8:02)
    Lesson 19 Warhol-Style Portrait - continued (7:37)
    Lesson 20 Breaking a Photo Into Pieces (7:22)
    Lesson 21 Aging a Photo (9:22)
    Lesson 22 Eyes of the Otherworld (4:58)
    Lesson 23 Conclusion (0:42)

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