Created four DVD series on Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter: Available are:
Pro Studio Retouching -
Photoshop CS2
- Intro to artistic image control and high end retouching
- Artistic Image Adjustmens
- Contouring the face and body
- Colors for impact
- Filling in hair
- Natural Eye Enhancements
- Fine Art Eye Enhancements
- Soft Focus Filters
- Retouching the Adult Face
- Working on a Beard
- Masculine Enhancements
- Glares on Glasses
- Braces
- Vignettes
- Opening Eyes
- Special Effects With Plugins
Fundamental and Advanced Facial Retouching and Enhancement -
Photoshop CS
- Basic Principles
- Workspace Set Up + load Jane's special brushes
- The Five Lights of Nature
- Retouching Tools and Techniques / beginner project
- Retouching Acne
- Retouching Character + whiten teeth and retouch beard
- Retouching Age + glares on glasses
- Heirloom Portrait and Enhancement + eye enhancements
- Fashion Retouching Techniques + soft focus filters and eyes
Digital Painting for Photographers Using
Photoshop and Painter
- Basic Principles
- Workspace Set Up + Janes special brushes
- Preparing an image for fine art painting
- Tinting Techniques
- Watercolors + glazing and blending techniques
- Oils + creative use of clone sources and detail painting
- Chalk + textures and layering
- Abstract + distortions and specialty brushes
Pro Techniques in
Photoshop Elements
- Setting up the workspace
- Making selections
- Image adjustment
- Making black and white images from color
- Hand tinting techniques
- Facial retouching
- Soft focus filters
- Head and eye swaps
- Sharpening
- Moving a person from one image to another
- Eye enhancement
- Making borders
- Adding type
Owns and operates the
Galleria d'Arte in Ormnd Beach, Florida. Featuring contemporary artists of primarily technology and photography mediums, scupture, jewelry, chocolate and fine art gifts, the Galleria is also a permanent home for Jane's Digital Arts School and a training center for digital capture, work flow, Photoshop, Painter and photographic and fine art printing.
Designed the first
21st Century Studio demonstration at the Professional Photographers of America International Convention, 1998. Art Leather in cooperation with Canon. Image capture, Photoshop retouching and direct output to folios and frames in the Canon booth, image transfer to Art Leather booth via Ethernet for thumbnail presentation in digital slide show, Montage album design and desktop printing of "storyboard", contact sheets and customer invoiving.
Created the
Rainbow Digital Imaging videotape; an educational piece on traditional and modern photographic arts. Also, an introduction to and selling tool for the Burrell Professional Labs Rainbow Digital Imaging Center. Wrote the script, designed the beginning and ending special effects, presented the material, and aided in editing.
Editor of Express Art, a technical newsletter for photographic artists.
Presents community interest programs on art and photography. In 1995, at the Northern Indiana Association of the Arts, and St. Anthony's hospital.
Owned and operated
Jane Conner-ziser Photographic Art Services, Edgewood, Kentucky. Specialized in custom art services for exhibition photography. 1984 - 1985
Designed and implemented the first retouching department in a color laboratory in New Zealand; Chromatek Color Lab. Hired and trained the artists, promoted the new services with a series of hands on workshops and an impressive booth design at the New Zealand National Convention, Auckland. 1984
Independent consultant to the professional portrait studio industry. Advised on developing the studios' styles and standards of portraiture and designed efficient systems of work flow. Provided education on how to sell retouching and special studio services. 1982 - 1984
Owned and operated Jane Conner Retouching Services, Little Gasparilla Island, Florida. Offered freelance custom art services to portrait studios - Competition retouching, oil paintings, restorations. 1982 - 1984
Taught Intermediate Drawing at Florida Southern College, Lakeland, Florida, in their Extended Education Program. Also team facilitated a painting workshop. 1978 - 1981
Personal assistant to Veronica Cass at the Veronica Cass National School of Retouching, Hudson, Florida. Taught seminars on Negative Retouching, Print Retouching, Copy and Restoration, and Airbrushing. Designed the airbrush course. Assisted in planning, promoting and booking the seminars. Maintained the school's color lab. Filled in as staff photographer and color/bw printer. Represented the school at numerous trade shows across the United States. 1979 - 1982
Owned and operated Jane Conner Retouching Services in Winter Haven, Florida. Offered freelance photographic and graphic art services. 1976 - 1979
Worked with Bill Potthast, Photographer, Winter Haven, Florida. Duties included color/bw processing and printing, sales, production work, portrait/ wedding assistant, and staff photographer for school sports groups, passports, etc.. 1973 - 1976
Freelance photographer, New Orleans, Louisiana. Specialized in b/w, selectively toned and tinted candid portraits and landscapes. 1972
