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We offer a comprehensive Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Training course
Traditionally software for digital imaging serves two purposes:
- applications for cataloging and organizing your photos
- powerful applications for editing individual images.
Photoshop Lightroom does both, it is a powerful way to organize, export, print and develop RAW images – the default file format for most modern DLSR cameras.
Photographers use the RAW file format to capture image data in its least processed form. Most consumer cameras compress or slightly tweak a photo as soon as it’s shot, and RAW skips this step. The file sizes of RAW images are larger and the photos don’t look as “finished,” but working with RAW files also offers more control over the final product.
Lightroom is designed to make it easy to quickly organize all your image files, RAW or otherwise, highlighting, ranking and tagging the ones you like. You can also apply enhancements and corrections to the photo before exporting it to another application or directly to the web or print.
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Posted by Heather Buckley in Photoshop on April 17th, 2009 | No Comments »
Learn a range of tips to improve your images on our Photoshop Course.
This is an easy, quick and effective technique to get rid of any red eye you may encounter whilst working in photoshop:
Next to the dodge and burn tools there is a button called the sponge tool,
Firstly select this option and then set the desaturation level to about 50% or, if you prefer, another percentage, although 50 is the safest.
What you then need to do is to select the correct sized brush, this should be about as large as your figure’s pupil, but make sure that it is no bigger.
Then, after you have done this, all that remains to be done is to simply click on the pupil of your subject until you are satisfied that the red eye is sufficiently gone.
And there you have it, a simple and easy way to reduce red eye.
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Posted by Heather Buckley in Photoshop on March 25th, 2009 | No Comments »
Upgrading Photoshop is expensive and some may wonder if it is worth upgrading to Adobe Photoshop CS4. If you’ve been trying to determine whether to upgrade to Photoshop CS4 look first at the new features listed on the official adobe Photoshop site. One great new feature the use GPU and OpenGL acceleration (to ordinary people this means Photoshop should be much quicker). A GPU is dedicated to calculations needed for graphics. OpenGL tells your GPU what it is working with and how to manipulate it. It will make your Graphics Card do some of the work your central processing system used to do.
To make use of the new GPU accelerations, your graphics card must have a minimum of 128 MB of memory and support OpenGL 2.0 along with something called Shader Model 3.0. If you’re not sure if you’ve got all these, Photoshop CS4 can tell you.
- Go to Edit >> Preferences >> Performance and look for the check box for “GPU Settings.”
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- If your GPU qualifies, the model will be listed and the box will be checked.
- If this area is blank, Photoshop doesn’t think your system has what it takes.
- If you think you do have a GPU that is up to the task, make sure your video driver is updated.
With GPU acceleration enabled, the experience of using Photoshop is greatly improved. Now when you zoom in and out, the size of everything changes evenly smoothly and, the view remains sharp at all magnification ratios. When you zoom above 500% you can now turn on a pixel grid view that outlines single pixels so you can see what you are editing.
If you hold down the H key (active the hand tool) then left mouse click on your image you can activate the “Bird’s Eye View” feature to show you where you are at. The view will zoom out to display you the total image and a bounding box appears centered where you clicked, move your mouse around and the box will follow. Let go and the image will zoom back into the scale you were at previously but at the new location. These tools are smooth and fast.
Holding down the space bar allows you to “flick” scroll the image with your mouse, by clicking and dragging in the direction you want to scroll and the image.
If you’re already using Photoshop and wish to upgrade to CS4 and your graphics card doesn’t support this feature, get a new graphics card.
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Posted by Heather Buckley in Photoshop on February 24th, 2009 | No Comments »
The eyedropper is an important basic tool in Photoshop. The Eyedropper can be used to pick out colour in an image, change foreground and background colours. Learn how to use all the Photoshop tools on our Photoshop Course.
Shaped like a pipette, it is an excellent tool for colour matching purposes when you have difficulty in finding the right colour, the eye-dropper tool allows you to alter the prominent colour so that it has a shade that is identical to colour on the canvas.
To change the foreground color, click with the eyedropper on the desired colour anywhere in the current image, or in any other open image, active or not. To change the background color, Alt-click, with the eyedropper, on the desired colour in any open window.
The keyboard shortcut for the eyedropper tool is I.
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Posted by Heather Buckley in Photoshop on February 27th, 2007 | No Comments »
People often wonder what is the best method of teaching, which is debatable and many prefer different strategies, one commonly accepted point is that you have to have the right teaching and learning environment to start with. Creating the right learning evironment is part of our Train the Trainer training course.
To create a good learning environment is all about attaining the correct balance between respect/obedience and a creative and thought provoking atmosphere. The students must be allowed to express their opinion and feel comfortable doing so whilst still abiding by the instructions you give and the rules you set out.
There should be a friendly atmosphere within the class and people shouldn’t have to worry about having there head bitten off if they answer a question wrongly or don’t understand. You want to be understanding and put the students at ease so they in turn can reach their full potential. There should never be a situation where someone doesn’t ask for help even though they dearly need it because they are too embarrassed or scared.
Without the correct environment to teach and to learn in you efforts at teaching or training will be pointless, it is sometimes hard to find the correct balance and it is true that every class is different but its benefits are well worth the effort.
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Posted by Heather Buckley in Train the Trainer on May 6th, 2009 | No Comments »
Don’t think of yourself as a trainer… since that puts the focus on what YOU do.
Remember:
It’s not about what YOU do… it’s about how your learners feel about what THEY can do as a result of the learning experience you created and helped to deliver.
Rather than think of yourself as a teacher or trainer, try getting used to thinking of yourself as “a person who creates learning experiences… a person who helps others learn.” In other words, put a lot more emphasis on the learning and a lot less emphasis on the teaching.
Learn to create the learning experience on our comprehensive Train the Trainer course.
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Posted by Heather Buckley in Train the Trainer on February 16th, 2009 | No Comments »
Learn to understand the importance of Non-Verbal Communication on our Train the Trainer course.
When we talk we will almost undoubtedly be gesturing as we do so. This seems perfectly natural, and indeed it is, however the significance of these gestures is often vastly underestimated. Recent studies have shown that gestures can often reveal the subtle and unspoken emotions behind what a person is actually saying. From a training point of view proper untilisation of this fact can greatly help a trainer convey their message to their pupils, and help the students gain an easier understanding of that method or subject etc.
However there is also a downside, as improper or “mismatched” gestures will make the learning process difficult for the students, and they will be confused by any obscure or misleading gestures given to them by the teacher. This is perhaps more common than you would have thought as studies have shown that most teachers will use misleading or confusing hand gestures about 20% of the time when they are teaching.
Teachers on average will make some sort of non verbal communication, every ten to twelve seconds, and 50% of these will be gestures that illustrate a concept. So it is easy to see just how vital making proper use of these gestures can be to a teacher, and, on the reverse side, just how confusing and misleading it can be if used incorrectly. It is the recognition and utilisation of this fact that will really allow you to get through to your students.
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Posted by Heather Buckley in Train the Trainer on March 23rd, 2009 | No Comments »
There are many ways to teach or train someone or a group of people and many of them can be learnt on our Train the Trainer training course. One of the methods most commonly used is that of the group or class discussion. This could mean that you set an open forum at the centre of the classroom so that everyone can offer questions and opinions or you could have divided the class into smaller groups so that they can discuss it amongst themselves.
Either way this technique can be very effective at helping to involve people and give others a chance to get involved who otherwise would not have. One of the main theories behind having a class discuss an issue or project is that people will learn more if they are more involved and feel that they have come to the correct conclusion on their own. This not only helps people to understand what you are talking about but also it helps to generate enthusiasm.
However there are some drawbacks. For one it can take a long time to describe what you want to happen and to then set it up, especially if you have chosen to split the class up into smaller groups. The process itself is also time consuming, as it might take a while for people to come to the right conclusions and although this can be sped up by giving them assistance it can still sometimes take a while.
With discussions it can also be difficult to monitor and maintain order, as it is easy for people to get distracted when left to their own devices. So when you do set up a discussion group keep an eye out that they are keeping their eyes on the ball. It is also worth noting that a few people can often dominate the discussion alienating others who might wish to be more involved and causing the debate or discussion to become very one sided. It is your job as the trainer or teacher to try and maintain the balance in a discussion and try to involve as many people as you can.
Discussions can be a powerful tool to train with, however in order for them to be so you must make sure that they are done correctly.
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Posted by Heather Buckley in Train the Trainer on May 1st, 2009 | No Comments »
