The Advanced Photoshop Course
Course
In London and Manchester
Description
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Type
Intensive workshop
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Level
Advanced
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Class hours
8h
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Duration
2 Days
This two day Advanced Photoshop Training Course lets you build on your existing skills and explore all of the more advanced techniques available when working with this increasingly powerful software package.
The course uses the latest Creative Cloud version of Photoshop and covers all that is new in that version, so is suitable as an overview of the changes in Photoshop CC as well as being a course where you can learn a lot more about using Photoshop if you are already pretty experienced with it.
The Advanced Photoshop Course covers a great deal and should leave you feeling like an real pro.
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About this course
- Recap, Making Selections
- Layers
- Content Aware tools and options
- Painting modes and layer Blend modes
- Masks, Shapes
- Montages and vignettes
- Video
- History Panel
- Sharpening, blurring and resizing techniques
- Automation and Scripts in Photoshop and Bridge
- Best practices.
This course is suitable for people with good Photoshop experience who want to gain extensive knowledge of the software.
Students should have the following prerequisite knowledge prior to attending the course:
- Knowledge of OS X and basic computer navigation
- A comprehensive knowledge of Photoshop, preferably you have taken our Adobe Photoshop Intermediate course.
Whilst there is no Adobe certification for this course, our trainers are industry-experienced Adobe Certified Instructors and Soho Editors is an Authorised Adobe Training Partner. Additionally, the course is based upon Adobe’s CIAB guidelines, so you will receive a certificate from Soho Editors upon completion of the course.
Firstly, we are long established as part of the post-production industry, and therefore have an excellent understanding of the market, and the skills that post-production staff need to have. We are not purely a training company, with other divisions of the group having a huge presence in the industry.
Secondly, unlike a lot of our competitors that provide training to the post-production industry, many of the courses we run are fully approved and certified, and will give you a recognised qualification if you pass the exam (more on this later).
We do not do general training – our courses are all industry specific, and we are experts in this field.
Thirdly, we're situated in the heart of London's post-production district – where better place to train on post-production technology?
Fourthly, the team here is friendly, helpful, efficient, understanding, flexible and approachable, and the trainers, as well as being all of the above, are fully qualified and certified, and all have significant industry experience and kudos as editors / talent in their own right.
The professional courses we run are usually Manufacturer Certified - the ones that aren't are still Industry Approved. This means that you will get certification or experience with the relevant manufacturer or software and proving your level of expertise if you pass the exam.
You can be assured of training to the highest possible standard, with your trainer being a qualified expert with significant current experience both professionally and as a trainer.
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Subjects
- Photoshop
- Advanced
Teachers and trainers (1)
John Williams
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Course programme
Lesson 1 Recap and Consolidation
- Recap and consolidation of material covered on the Photoshop Fundamentals and Intermediate courses to make sure there is nothing you have missed!
Lesson 2 Selection
- Improved selection and editing techniques, covering new and revised CC tools and functions
Lesson 3 Layers
- Duplicating layers
- Vector Layers. Video layers and animation.
- Video Layers and animation
- Preserve transparency and locking layers
- Grouping
- Adjustment layers and adjustment layer masks
- Layer comps
- Preserve transparency and locking layers
- Using layer auto alignment and blending
- Using Layer search (new to CS6)
- Smart objects
- Detailed use of 3D layers including live 3D edit and texture editing (including new CC features such as the revised 3D workspace)
- Using Puppet Warp
Lesson 4 Content Aware functions
- Using Content Aware Fill and options
Lesson 5 Painting modes and Layer Blend modes
- Using and understanding blend modes
- Painting with other modes
- Working smarter with the brushes
Lesson 6 Masks
- Clipping masks
- Alpha Channels
- Layer masks
- Clipping paths to create selected areas
- Using displacement maps with type to create special effects
Lesson 7 Shapes
- Using the Pen Tool to select and paint
- Working with and editing shapes
- Creating and importing custom shapes, e.g. logos for re-use
- Saving in shapes panel
Lesson 8 Montages and vignettes
- Creating realistic photo montages to include reflections on various surface types (eg metal, water etc) and custom shadows
- Using the Masks panel for creating editable, feathered, density-controlled masks
- Using, adjusting and creating textures
Lesson 9 Video
- Pixel types, anamorphic aspect ratios
- Creating, importing, editing and outputting movies and animations
- Video painting, cloning and text on multiple frames
Lesson 10 History panel
- Reverting to snapshots
- Using the history brush for effects
Lesson 11 Sharpening, blurring and resizing techniques
- Sharpening and blurring
- Blurring with layers
- ïnterpolation modes for size changes and cropping
Lesson 12 Automation and Scripts in Photoshop and Bridge
- PDF presentation
- Actions
- Automated Batch processing
- Droplets
- Photomerge
- Web Gallery
- SEO metatags and keywords
- Using Adobe Kuler for creating and sharing colour schemes
- Batch-processing several files
Lesson 13 Best practices
- File formats
- Preferences
- Faster and smarter techniques to use
- Creative Cloud functionality and synchronising
- Mobile devices
Additional information
The further in advance you book, the higher the savings.
0-29 days in advance: 0%
30-59 days in advance: 10%
60-89 days in advance: 20%
90+ days in advance: 30%
The Advanced Photoshop Course