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Advanced Photoshop Training

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This Advanced Adobe Photoshop training course teaches participants the techniques necessary to create, manipulate and edit professional quality images with skill and precision. This Photoshop training course is suitable for designers and photographers who have working experience of Photoshop.

Advanced Photoshop Training Course Objectives

Areas often overlooked by everyday use of Photoshop are examined and explained both in theoretical discussion and by practical example on this Advanced Photoshop training course.

On completion of this Advanced Photoshop training course, delegates will discover the depth that Photoshop has to offer and learn a range of techniques that speed up and improve workflow.

Advanced Photoshop Training Course Content

Morning Recap

Image navigation

• Power shortcuts in navigating the image
• Importance of pixel view

Cutting out / isolating areas of an image

• Using navigation techniques to facilitate cutouts
• Edges softening and smoothing
• Offsetting problems created by softening

Layer masks

• Advantages of use / importance of isolating image areas
• Masks from selections
• Masks made using freehand techniques
• Combining the two
• Floating selections to make masks across the layer stack
• Useful things to know about the wand and marquee tools

Adjustment layers

• Advantages of use in retaining image quality
• Use in conjunction with masks
• Common darkroom techniques applied through layer masks
• Using the histogram
• Using levels to ensure correct tonal range
• Common colour correction problems
• Changing the feel of an image through colour correction
• Effects of image saturation

Advanced Section

Selections

• Alpha channels and masks
• Using the alpha channel palette
• Creating a complex cutout using the alpha channels as a mask
• Precise control of image edges after feathering/ mask blurring
• Using colour range and layer modes to make a complex selection involving hair
• Making a complex mask using filters and image duplication

Image quality

• Digital image limitations
• The importance of bit depth in image manipulation
• Effects of bit depth on the image histogram
• Common bit depths and what they mean
• Maintaining image Quality with Smart Objects
• Using Smart Objects
• Transforming and resizing Smart Objects
• Saving Smart Objects as a separate file

Tonal manipulation

• Using curves – the ‘s’ curve – what it does and how it can be used
• Modifying the ‘s’ curve
• Using curves with the image histogram instead of levels
• The reasons behind difficult colour balance problems and some solutions

Black and white from colour

• Appreciating the issues in changing to monochrome
• Differences between conversion methods
• Using the channel mixer

Colour management

• The need for colour management
• Configuring default working colour spaces
• Choosing an image profile
• Generic cmyk – does it really exist
• Monitor calibration
• Printing to a desktop printer using colour management
• Sending work out using colour management
• Soft proofing
• Effect of ‘intent’ on conversion between colour profiles.

Hardware requirements to run Photoshop efficiently

• Configuring memory and scratchpad

Automated actions

• Creating an action
• Editing an action
• Running a batch command

Advanced Photoshop Course Prerequisites

• Our Introduction to Photoshop training course or equivalent experience.

Book this Advanced Photoshop Training Course one to one for £895 + vat

What our clients think of our Advanced Photoshop Training

The advanced course in photoshop enabled me to better understand the background dynamics of the programme.... I was impressed by the tutor who was extremely clear and responded exhaustively all to the different queries that were raised. Finally the training environment was very comfortable and friendly which made me feel relaxed and at my ease.

Rein Skullerud - World Food Programme

Photoshop Training Recommended Reading

Adobe Photoshop CS2 (Classroom in a Book S.) - Adobe Creative Team, Anita Dennis – buy from amazon
Photoshop CS 2 for Windows – buy from amazon

Site dedicated to Adobe Photoshop CS2.

Download course outline as pdf.