photoshop advanced
Duration: 2 Days
This course is designed for those who are already familiar with the fundamentals of Photoshop but wish to advance to the next level of PhotoShops skills.
In addition to Photoshop CS4's more advanced features, the course covers tone and colour correction, using adjustment layers and layer masks, advanced retouching techniques, automating tasks, working with shapes and brushes and using powerful layering and filtering techniques.
Course Outline
- Setting up the Workflow
- Power users keyboard shortcuts
- Customising the interface
- Setting colour profiles for screen and print
- The power of Adjustment Layers
- Using the new Adjustments Panel
- Colour manipulation with Curves
- Colour manipulation with Levels
- Assessing colour casts by RGB value
- Making Gamma corrections
- The Channel Mixer command
- Photo Filters as correction tools
- Using Blend modes to manipulate tone and colour
- Advanced Exposure and Brightness Control
- Analysing and understanding Curves
- Work-through of industry standard curves
- Advanced use of Levels to control highlight, shadow and midtone
- Using the new Adjustments Panel
- The Channel Mixer command
- Using Blend modes to manipulate tone and colour
- Advanced Selection techniques
- Working with Alpha channels
- Selections in Alpha channels
- Building selections from Colour Channels
- Combining Alpha Channels using image calculations
- Using Alpha Channels as Layer Masks
- Creating an edge mask in channels
- Accurate use of the pen tool
- Focus and Perspective Control
- Advanced techniques for sharpening images
- Selective blurring techniques for depth of field
- Selective blurring techniques for motion
- Wrapping artwork and images around objects