Quality photos capture piercing looks, toothy smiles, and elusive dodo sightings much more efficiently then papier-mâché sculptures. Put down the paste and pick up a camera with today's Groupon: for $65, you get an Adobe Photoshop I class at Cole/Marr Photography Workshops (a $125 value). Cole/Marr Photography Workshops teaches traditional photography principles and new digital-imaging technologies before putting those skills to use. The Adobe Photoshop I class sends photographic explorers spelunking through the intricacies of programs including Photoshop Elements, Lightroom, and Adobe CS 3 or 4. Within virtual darkrooms, students master basic photo touch-up techniques, adjusting light and color to banish red eye or save a family portrait from the photobombing ghost of Warren G. Harding. Instructors also cover the concrete world of hardware and the ethereal realm of photographic intangibles, teaching lessons in monitor calibration and media storage alongside instruction on workflow management. Encased in a red-brick industrial exterior, Cole/Marr welcomes customers into its lofted, timber-outfitted workshop. Inside the studio, photographers have access to three darkrooms, multiple shooting areas, student and instructor galleries, and digital workstations. Cole/Marr also boasts an on-site coffeehouse featuring espressos and daily delivered foods from local bakeries.
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The Groupon Guide to: Barbecue Secrets
Every barbecue joint boasts a secret ingredient or technique that makes its sauce unlike any other. Since most barbecue chefs have taken these secrets to the grave, here's a new list of public-domain barbecue secrets for the aspiring grillsman:
- Throw recipe thieves off your trail by filling your sauce with decoy ingredients such as talc, water, and heaping spoonfuls of rival sauces.
- Age your sauce in an oak cask for 15 years—it doesn't do anything, but you'll sure be hungry by then.
- Go bananas—add bananas to your sauce!
- BBQ is short for B.B. Queen—the wife of legendary bluesman B.B. King—and real barbecue sauce must contain exactly one of her soulful tears.
- As with success in any field, the real secret ingredient is confidence —except in barbecue sauces, in which it is horseradish.
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