Free Photo Courses & Discounted Photo Courses

Hi Everyone -

I know it's been a while since I've posted here - it's been a busy few months and all of the new enrollments have kept me pretty busy. I've got some new exciting things planned for the upcoming year with the online photography courses. RoushPhotoOnline will be publishing a few new "eBooks" about photography that will be available soon. I will be posting them on their own site as I don't want to confuse folks signing up for my photo courses. These eBooks will not replace the course materials but will be simpler versions of some of the materials. I'll post the link to view them once we get some of them posted.

I also have a few discount coupons left over from a promotion I did last summer for both the Premium Photography Course and the Standard Photography Course. They range from 5% to 30% off. They are active for another couple of weeks so if you have been thinking of signing up this might be the time. Act quickly and you can use one of these coupons.

I also have one coupon that is for a FREE course. I'll be doing an electronic drawing for this one in ONE month on March 15th, 2010. Drop me an email if you would like to enter this giveaway. So far there are only two entries in the hat. This is a valuable prize so don't delay.

Email me at jeff@roushphotoonline.com asap.

That's all for now - keep checking in. And, thanks for all the comments and emails.

Jeff Roush

Photography Courses

Hi Everyone,

RoushPhotoOnline announces some special discounts on our most popular photography classes. Our two  best online photography courses are now being offered with some hefty discounts through the end of this month.
These are complete digiital photo courses and haven't been watered down in any way.  In fact, they are our two most popular photography courses that we have offered the past few years at Roush Photo Online.
Many people are looking for ways to make extra money, add a few dollars to their income, or start a second home based business; doing portrait photography could be your answer.

Email me or Mitzie  if you want to talk about our digital photography programs and what discounts are avaialable now to those interested.  

Jeff Roush - jroush@roushstudios.com

Mitzie Roush - mitzie@roushstudios.com

We plan to keep these discounted photography courses available through the end of this month.

Jeff Roush

New Courses / Enrollment in Progress

For those of you who have an interest in my Photography Courses now is the time to let me know. I'm in the middle of a graduating group of students right now and spots are opening up for new folks to get registered.

Even if you can't start immediately, please let me know so I can hold a spot for you. Registration fills up fast and I'm not taking as many students this term being my classes at Lambuth University are now starting for this fall/winter semester.

http://roushphotoonline.com is the place to sign up - or drop me an email.

Jeff Roush

Image Quality

Recently, I've had a lot of questions concerning "Image Quality" and different file types of images - jpg / tiff / raw. Here's the techinical lowdown on this topic - taken from one of the tutorials I've written as part of my online photography course.

Maintaining Image Quality - the story on jpgs
For those of you who shoot only jpgs digitally here's a word of caution. First of all we must understand some technical features of image files. ALL jpgs compress when saved every time. The image eliminates un-needed information every time we re-save it to a drive. So, by default a jpg is designmed to loose quality. If you are going to retouch or color correct a jpg, save it as a tiff first, do your retouching on the tiff and then save it back to a jpg again. Tiff files, inherently do not compress and loose information when retouched and re-saved. This is why Tiffs are bigger files than jpgs; they retain ALL the information.

If you do this religiously your jpgs will retain quality. If you don't do this and continually open / retouch / re-save a jpg eventually you'll notice the image quality has been

compromised and has deteriorated. You will not necessarily notice this on your computer screen since digital files retain way to much information for most screens to capture and reproduce, but you will notice it if you try to print it large or provide that image to magazine or publication.

I hope this helps in this controversial topic. These facts are not my opinions. This is technical data that is true of all digital files.

Jeff