BetterPhoto.com™, the worldwide leader in online photography education, today announced that wedding photographer and digital wedding album guru Kathy Woodford has joined BetterPhoto to teach a new course, "Digital Wedding Album Design". The course, which is targeted at the serious hobbyist to intermediate photographer, will teach students how to digitally design and produce a wedding album in Photoshop.

"Offering digital albums to clients can be the unique selling proposition that sets you apart from other wedding photographers," Kathy said. The course will include sections on Photoshop skills, as well as principles of graphic art and design. The final result is a coffee table book made up of composite images put together in Adobe Photoshop and then mounted and bound.

Kathy Woodford is the author of The Professional Photographer's Digital Wedding Album Design Guide and founder of Calypsis, a successful wedding photography studio in the Pacific Northwest. Earlier this year, one of her digital albums won Best Wedding Album of the Year in a Seattle Professional Photographers Association competition. Kathy conducts training seminars for professional photographers about digital album design, and has been selected to present a Master Class at the Wedding and Portrait Photographers International convention in Las Vegas in April 2006.

"Wedding photography is a topic a huge portion of our 50,000 members have been asking for," said Jim Miotke, president of BetterPhoto.com. "We're really excited to be able to offer a course on this subject, and so pleased that we have such a highly skilled and extremely approachable person like Kathy to mentor our students."

To see examples of Kathy's digital wedding albums, visit her BetterPhoto Premium Gallery at: http://www.betterphoto.com/gallery/gallery.asp?memberID=131279 .

Kathy joins 22 other seasoned and published professional photographers, including Bryan Peterson, Tony Sweet, Jim Zuckerman, Michael Frye, and Brenda Tharp, who teach over 50 different online courses for BetterPhoto.com. These affordable eight-week photography classes are designed to be accessed online and include helpful lessons, motivating photo assignments, insightful photo critiques and one-on-one mentoring. Autumn quarter courses range from "Photographing Children" with Vik Orenstein to "Photoshop for Photographers" with Kathleen Carr and "Digital Workout #1: Beginning Digital Photography" with Susan and Neil Silverman.

About BetterPhoto.com
BetterPhoto.com™ is the worldwide leader in online photography education, offering an approachable resource for photographers who want to improve their skills, share their photos, and learn more about the art and technique of photography. Headquartered in Redmond, WA, BetterPhoto.com is a fun, approachable community, offering online photography courses led by highly respected and published professional photographers, who act as mentors. BetterPhoto also offers a range of gallery and web hosting options that are easy to use and powerfully customizable, and offers a rich community experience and the best photo contests on the web.

For more information, visit the BetterPhoto website at http://www.betterphoto.com.

Source: EMEDIAWIRE