Course contents

• The Editing Environment
  To make the best use of its extensive editing capabilities, you must first learn to navigate the work area and how to adapt it to your own workflow. Open and view multiple files, navigate by magnification and panning.
• Acquire, Catalogue and Create
  Understanding the characteristics of digital images is key to successfully deconstructing and editing. Learn how to browse and organise files in Bridge, create new documents and save files.
• Crop, select and mask
  Learning how to select areas of an image is of paramount importance - you must first select what you want to affect and leave your images intact by revealing and concealing rather than deleting with masks. Arrange compositions with layers.
• Retouching
  Learn how to correct capture defects and enhance critical parts of an image with Photoshop's 'airbrushing' tools. Remove unwanted details; organically manipulate parts of your images and scale without distorting.
• Colour and tone
  Photoshop can enhance, repair and correct the colour and tonality in an image. Make images brighter, darker, boost contrast or change the colour of a product. Breath live into your images with powerful Camera Raw editing tools.
• Filters and effects
  Use filters for a wide range of purposes. From sharpening to drop shadows, apply special art effects that give your image the appearance of a sketch or impressionist painting. Insert logos and other artwork in perspective to prototype a concept.
• Output
  Preview, soft proof and hard proof artwork for output to screen device, web and print whilst striking the appropriate balance between file size and image quality every time.

Product: Adobe Photoshop

Level: Introductory

Duration: 2 days

Course contents

• Working with Video
  Use Photoshop to edit quick-time video and image sequence files, add titles and a soundtrack. In this module you will create a short promotional video and rendering options for web output.
  
  • Opening video files/The timeline
  • Creating/Modifying a video layer
  • Adding text to video
  • Splitting a video layer
  • Adding a transition/audio/Animation
  • Export to video
  • Export an animated GIF for Twitter/Social Media
• Filters
  You can use filters for a multitude of tasks. From adding creative blur effects for greater depth of field to adding artwork in a perspective grid.
  
  • Vanishing point/Creating a perspective grid
  • Cloning/Paste in perspective grid
  • Oil Painting
  • Displacement Mapping
  • Blur gallery
  • Lighting effects
• Scripts and Automation
  There are occasions when you are required to apply identical modifications across multiple documents. Save time by recording image edits once and deploy them with Photoshop's automated actions feature with conditional actions that determine which set of edits to apply according to the image characteristics.
  
  • Export Layer Comps
  • Image Processor
  • Batch process
  • Create a actions and action sets
  • Insert a conditional
• Healing and retouching
  We will guide you through some of the best tips and tricks for quick, effective retouching within Photoshop and Camera Raw. Edit organically by liquefying pixels for portrait images and spot retouching.
  
  • Heal & retouch in ACR
  • Liquefy
  • Content Aware technology and panoramas
• Adobe Camera Raw
  Learning how to work with digital negatives and unlock the power of the Camera Raw editing in a non- destructive XMP workflow.
  
  • Camera Raw workflow
  • Processing multiple files/film strip
  • Sharpen/Noise/Tone Curves
  • Adjustment Brush/Radial Filter/Graduated Filter
  • ACR Bird’s Eye View
• Vector Shapes
  Create vector shape layers that contain dynamic, live attributes that allow you to alter their fill, stroke and corner appearance without degrading quality.
  
  • Vector based layers and shapes
  • Shape libraries
  • Define shape fills/Strokes characteristics
  • Add/subtract and merge shapes
  • Dynamic shape properties
• Layer Compositing Techniques
  In this module we take a look at how to remove crowds of people in artwork originally shot at a busy public event. Stitch together panoramic images, and create multiple design revisions in one document with Layer Comps.
  
  • Layer Comps
  • Blend layers with Statistics (remove people)
  • Panoramas
  • Filter layers by type/Name/Attribute/Colour
• HDR
  High Dynamic Range imaging can overcome challenging photographic scenarios where lighting is either too bright or too dark. By combining multiple exposures into one composite image you can achieve real world lighting conditions and enhance image detail.
  
  • HDR Pro multiple images
  • Tone and retouch in Adobe Camera Raw
  • HDR Toning
• Masks with Channels
  Building upon the techniques found in our introduction course, this masking module takes a look at effective techniques for masking/extracting some of the most challenging subject matter from their backdrops.
  
  • Masking hair/edit masks
  • Refine mask
  • Masking layers and groups
  • Paint in a mask
• Creative Cloud integration
  We take a look at how your Adobe desktop apps integrate with online services and mobile devices.
  
  • Create a new guide layout
  • Create and manage artboards
  • Preview Photoshop artwork on a tablet device.
  • Extract Assets
  • Quick export
  • Export layers/Groups/Artboards

Product: Adobe Photoshop

Level: Advanced

Duration: 2 days