Dental CE Course: Photography, Shade Taking, Photoshop, and PowerPoint

Photography, Shade Taking, Photoshop, and PowerPoint for Communication and Dental Esthetics Friday, February 4, 2011 8:00 am – 6:00 pm 9 CE Credits - Hands-On Only $350 The objective of the course is three-fold: (1) to learn the use of digital photography for dental esthetics, photography for shade communication and portrait photography. Secondly, to learn and use digital shade taking technology, and master the skills of visual shade taking. Third, how to import images into Photoshop and how to optimize the images and import them into a customized PowerPoint presentation. The course will also cover the use of photography as it relates to dentist-ceramist communication relative to shade analysis. Also covered will be the AACD accreditation series of images. All of the above topics will be covered in a lecture and demonstration format. The participants will then divide up into teams and will take visual and computerized shades on each other. Then the teams will take the demonstrated dental and portrait images on each other. Lastly, the participants will import their images into Photoshop to optimize the images, which will then be exported to a PowerPoint presentation. All shade taking and photographic equipment will be supplied. The participants will need to bring a lap top computer configured with Photoshop and PowerPoint. We will have a few computers available but not enough for every participant Course Objectives: 1.To learn the fundamental principals of general photography and how to operate a digital SLR camera. 2.To learn macro-photography (close-up photography) used in documenting a case involving esthetic dental restorations. 3.Learn the basics of “Portrait” photography 4.How to use dental photography to diagnose and treatment plan esthetic dental restorations. 5.To learn the use of the “EASYSHADE” digital shade taking computer 6.Learn how to visualize natural teeth and take shades visually 7.To learn how to use Photoshop to enhance exposure, composition, and color balance of the dental images. 8.To learn how to use PowerPoint or Keynote to organize and edit the dental images into a format for presentations. 9.Digital smile design techniques using Photoshop