Photshop World 2009

After western Maryland and DC I set off to Las Vegas, where the big annual convention of Photoshop users is taking place.

This is sort of hard to explain, but the theme for these Photoshop conferences has always been “NFL Football” — so all of the materials and publicity and big opening keynote are styled like a professional football game. It’s hard to believe there’s that much overlap between art-school graduates and people who were QB’s in highschool, but there you go:

Most of what we were doing during the convention was sitting in darkened rooms looking at color correction techniques, which ironically aren’t very photogenic. So instead here are some pictures from a photo walk on foot around the Strip:

The highlight of the trip for me was winning a copy of Jeff Schewe’s new edition of Real World Image Sharpening with Camera Raw, which I got by being the first person to shout out Photoshop author Thomas Knoll’s home town (Ann Arbor, in case anybody attends next year.)