This hands-on seminar explains the power of the pen! Everything from how to hold the pen to essential tips and techniques that the pros use to create their images, how to enhance your everyday tools with a pressure-sensitive pen, masking and painting capabilities that have been all but denied to mouse users, and how the tablet itself can improve productivity.

Each camera model has different exposure responses as it performs accurate long exposures or combines exposures for HDR. For optimum results, it is imperative to know your specific camera's sensor response. This presentation explains sensor response, sensor noise, and how to establish the appropriate sensor response for your camera. Topics include:

• How does a camera sensor work?
• What is sensor noise?
• How to evaluate your camera sensor.
• What does sensor noise add to your image exposure?
• How to build an exposure-gain chart for your camera.
• Post noise control.
• Determining image-sensors limitations.

How to creatively integrate 3D models into Photoshop CS5 Extended to create concept art. This session focuses on how to import, texture, and build a mate painting with third-party 3D models in CS5.

ArtRage (owned by Ambient Design) is an easy-to-use, stylish painting package for Windows, Mac OS X, and iPad. This session explains the basics of ArtRage's painting functionality for texturing and art.

Using multiple software suites and tools in 2D and 3D in tandem to quickly create concept illustrations.

This in-depth look at a sculpture created in ZBrush reviews sculpting techniques, methods used to create the character and scene, the steps needed to take this 3D scene and composite it properly as a 2D render in Photoshop, and how to bring the sculpture to life by printing it in 3D.