The Photoshop conference for professional Photoshop users. If you're a creative professional (and use Photoshop), you rely on pixels -- those building blocks of every Photoshop image. Isn't it time you learn how to harness the power of pixels? The PIXEL conference is about real world pixel-control: From industrial-strength tonal and color correction to preparing your images for both print and Web output.
Photoshop LIVE is all about harnessing the true power of Adobe Photoshop. Focusing on in-depth core functionality and industrial-strength techniques, creative professionals will learn to produce consistent and reliable results within print, web, and video workflows. Whether you use Photoshop or Photoshop Extended, Photoshop LIVE has it covered.

The Creative Suite Conference is the premiere event for designers using Adobe Creative Suite. World-renowned experts will deliver in-depth sessions covering print-based, web, and mobile workflows, as well as XML and cross-media solutions. Whether you’re looking to create reliable PDF documents or deliver interactive Flash or AJAX enabled websites, this is the place to be.
Masking is the art of defining highly accurate, photo-realistically credible selections in Photoshop. Classic masking scenario: Take a model shot against one background and place that person against another. With masking, any environment is possible, any effect is achievable.
Adobe Photoshop is what's generally called a pixel-based (or raster-based) paint program. A raster is a matrix of dots, called pixels, that form to make a picture or an image. The number of pixels in a raster image defines the resolution of that image. The resolution is usually specified as dpi (dots per inch) or ppi (pixels per inch); you've probably heard of images being described as 300dpi, for example. This means that for every inch in the raster image, there are 300 pixels or dots. Think of it as a level of detail: To fit 300 pixels in 1 inch, you have to make them a lot smaller than the size of pixels you would need to fit 72 pixels in an inch. Having more and smaller pixels gives you better detail. That's why when you hear people talk about professional-quality images, they refer to them as high-resolution images.