Adobe Photoshop for Photographers

Adobe Photoshop for Photographers

With the rise of the digital camera, mastering the skills required to control your images with Adobe Photoshop gives you the ability to gain the most out of the image that you have captured.

Course Material
Course material is provided on an USB memory drive which is compatible with both Apple OSX 10.3 and above and Microsoft® Windows XP® and Windows Vista®.
- Instructional videos,
- Course notes,
- Sample files,
- Completed files,
- A certificate of completion.

Course Duration
Courses start at 9:30 and run until 16:30 with an hour for lunch. Refreshments are provide before the start of the course plus mid morning and mid afternoon.

Follow on courses
The natural progression once this course has been completed is the Digital Asset Management course

Course Syllabus :

Basic Concepts

• Photoshop workspace
• Image resolution, pixels, colour depth, colour space
• Colour modes
• Adobe bridge
• Setting preferences

Colour management and Workflow

• Colour spaces
• Colour profiles
• Printing

Introduction to Digital Asset Management

• Introduction to Adobe Bridge
• Workspaces
• File management
• Meta Data

Transforming Images

• Image cropping
• Scaling, Rotations and Distortions
• Canvass size
• Image resolutions

Tonal and colour Adjustments

• Info palette
• Selective adjustments
• Level and Curves
• HIstograms and samplers
• Converting to black and white
• Photo filters and channel mixer
• Camera Raw

Introduction to Digital Imaging

• Colour modes
• Colour depths
• Resolution
• file types
• Compression
• Workflow\

Selections

• Marquee tools
• Lasso tools
• Magic Wand tool
• Quick selection
• Refining edges
• Quick mask Selection
• Altering selections
• Pen tool selections
• Saving selections

Layers and Composition

• Introduction to layers- Blending modes and opacity
• Transformations
• Colour fills
• Creating a montage with layers and masks

Filters

• Selective Focus Effects
• Create and matching grain
• Sharpening images

Automation

• Automating repetitive tasks
• Contact sheets
• Web galleries