Photoshop - Advanced

You have familiarised yourself with the basic image editing tools of Adobe Photoshop. Now, you need to explore more advanced features and improve your workflow.

What You'll Learn

You will use Adobe Photoshop tools for painting, retouching and enhancing images. In addition you will work with filters, exploring the brush engine and other advanced features that will help to improve your workflow and streamline the creative process.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Produce advanced face retouching & manipulation techniques
• Use colour in Photoshop effectively
• Maximise the potential of Photoshop Brush engine
• Work with advanced compositions
• Automate their workflow

Course Content

• Working with Tool Presets
• Using Layer Comps for layouts
• Exploring default Preferences
• Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts
• Camera Raw files functionality
• Colour management
• Actions, Droplets & Batch processing

• Face Retouch & Manipulation
• Sharpening with Lab Mode
• Grayscale with Black & White Conversion
• Advanced effects with Gradient map
• Photo Filters
• Creating Panoramic images with Photomerge
• Affect Perspective using Vanishing Point

• Exploring the Brush Engine and creating custom Brushes
• Working with Patterns
• Using Smart Filters
• Liquify Techniques
• Lighting effects and 3D Textures

• Replace colour & Colour Range vs Extract
• Selecting Pixels using Paths
• Advanced Masking with Calculations
• Advanced use of Blending Modes
• Knockouts and Clipping Masks
• Type on a Path

• Animated bitmaps
• Combining Photoshop and Illustrator
• Creating Multipackage
• Getting It Right In Print

Our goal is to make sure your class meets your objectives, not ours. Therefore, all of our outlines are treated as guides to help steer the workshop. We may change or alter course topics to best suit the classroom situation. A certificate will be given on completion of the course and you may also have the opportunity to sit for an accredited exam. Courses may also be customized to fit your exact requirements.