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photoshop logoAdobe Photoshop Advanced Course: $995 Book Course

Course Description

It is essential that students have at least 6 to 12 months solid experience with Photoshop or have completed the 2 day Adobe Photoshop Essentials course. There is an emphasis on using shortcuts and automation within Adobe Photoshop and setting the right Application preferences. A pre-requisite quiz to ensure students are at a similar level will need to be completed. Please email for further details.

What you will learn

During the 2 day Advanced Photoshop course, the following topics are covered.

  • - Combining Bridge with Photoshop
  • - Advanced Tools & the Options Bar
  • - Sharpening & Blurring
  • - Advanced Layers
  • - Layer Styles & Effects,
  • - Using Layer Masks
  • - Using Vectors & Paths
  • - Actions & Automation
  • - Improving Workflow
  • - Camera Raw 4.0
  • - Understanding Colour Management

 

 

 

 

 

Photoshop Advanced Course Outline

The Bridge

  • - Introducing the Bridge
  • - Managing image thumbnails
  • - Rotations, ratings, and labels
  • - The Filter panel
  • - Moving, copying, and deleting images
  • - Customizing and saving the workspace
  • - Loupe, compare, and stack
  • - Previewing images in the Slideshow mode
  • - Color management and cache

Adobe Camera Raw

  • - What is a raw image?
  • - Touring the Camera Raw interface
  • - Working in the Basic panel
  • - Working in the HSL panels
  • - Other Camera Raw panels
  • - Using the Adjustment Brush tool
  • - Working with multiple files

Selections

  • - Making selections
  • - Modifying selections
  • - Combining selections
  • - Using the Quick Selection tool
  • - Refining selection edges
  • - Using Quick Mask mode
  • - Selecting with Color Range
  • - Saving selections

Layers

  • - Understanding layers
  • - Creating layers
  • - Working in the Layers panel
  • - Locking layers
  • - Working with multiple layers
  • - Merging and flattening layers
  • - Adding a shape layer
  • - Using layer blend modes and opacity

Layer Masks

  • - What is a layer mask?
  • - Painting with black and white
  • - Mask Panel
  • - Adding a layer mask
  • - Editing a layer mask
  • - Hiding a layer mask
  • - Removing a layer mask

Undo and History

  • - Undo and History
  • - History Palette Options
  • - Painting with History States
  • - Snapshots

Photo Adjustments

  • - Using adjustment layers and the Adjustment panel
  • - Limiting adjustments with layer masks
  • - Using masks in the new Masks panel
  • - Adjusting with Levels
  • - Adjusting with Exposure
  • - Adjusting with Shadow/Highlight
  • - Adjusting with Hue/Saturation
  • - Adjusting with Vibrance
  • - Removing a color cast
  • - Using the Black & White adjustment layer
  • - Using the Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools
  • - Adding and Reducing noise
  • - Sharpening

Retouching

  • - One-Click Red Eye Fix
  • - Removing Unwanted Objects
  • - Removing Blemishes with the Healing Brush
  • - Using the Spot Healing Brush and Patch Tools
  • - De-emphasizing Wrinkles
  • - Brightening Teeth
  • - Enhancing Eyes
  • - Push and Pull with Liquify

Sharpening

  • - Using the Unsharpen Mask filter
  • - Smart Sharpen
  • - Color High Pass sharpening
  • - Sharpening and tone

Essential Filters

  • - Gaussian, Surface and Lens Blurs
  • - Radial Blur
  • - Simulating Film Grain with Add Noise
  • - Reducing Noise
  • - Smoothing Skin with Median
  • - Smart Sharpening

Special Effects

  • - Adding a layer style
  • - Customizing a layer style
  • - Copying a layer style
  • - Creating a new style
  • - Using Smart Filters
  • - Working in the Filter Gallery

Automation

  • - Creating an action
  • - Batch processing with an action
  • - Using the Image Processor
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Adobe Photoshop CS5 / CS4
Photoshop Lite 20 20 - 3 10
Photoshop Essentials 6 & 7
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Photoshop Advanced 8 & 9 - 10 & 11 - -
Photoshop Elements 8 - 6 -
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Adobe Photoshop CS5 / CS4
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Adobe Photoshop CS5 / CS4
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