Photoshop is the industry standard software that has been created to provide the ultimate solution for digital editing. Retouch and create superior images using the sophisticated tools and workflow of the software.
In our 4 day course, learn the basics of what photoshop is and how it works before moving onto our level 2 with the more advanced and complicated features of this software. Tweak a picture with adjustment layers and mask selection as well as learn how to blend and correct colors. This course offers participants all the knowledge they need to produce an industry standard picture and learn much more from our course.
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- Ministry of Education
Level 1 - Foundation
Introduction to Photoshop
- Workspace and Tools
- Panel Settings
- Mini Bridge
- Customizing Settings
Introduction to digital images
- Image size and resolution
- Layers and transparency
- Raster and Vector
- Free Transformations
Introduction to color management
- Color space LAB
- RGB and CMYK
- Assign profiles
- Gamut warnings
Introduction to color cast
- Understanding and spotting color cast
- Correcting color cast in theory
- Good color cast / bad color cast
- The extremely quick color cast removal
Auto Correction
- "One-shot" auto correction
- Auto Tone (formerly known as Auto Levels)
- Auto Color
- Auto Contrast
Histogram
- Understanding histogram in digital image
- Channels
- Levels adjustment
The importance of adjustment layers
- Advantages of using Adjustment layers
- Hue and Saturation
Levels
- Shadows and highlights in the Input panel
- Gamma
- Channels
- Flexible Auto corrections
- Clipping
Basic brush theory
- Brush size
- Opacity and flow
- Free hand drawing
Adjustment layers, Layer masks and Selections
- The layer mask rules
- Hide and show with a brush
- Spot corrections
- Magic Wand
- Pen Tool for accurate selections
File format
- Which formats support layers?
- Which formats support transparency?
- Which formats for print?
- Which formats for the web?
Photoretouch And Digital Make-up
Advanced colour correction
- Levels (recap)
- Curves
- Shadow / Highlight
- Hue / Saturation vs Vibrancy
Blending Modes
- Multiply
- Screen
- Overlay
- Darken
- Lighten
- Soft Light
- Hard Light
- Add
- Dodge
- Burn
- Difference
- Color
- Luminosity
- Fading blending modes with Blending Options
Sharpen and Microcontrast
- Unsharpen mask
- High pass + Overlay
- Filter > Custom
Pen tool for accurate selections
- Pathing raster elements
- Transform vector path in raster selections
- Combining multiple paths in single selections
- Saving paths
- Loading paths as raster selections
- Apply multiple layer masks through groups
Photo retouch (touch up)
- Clone stamp advanced features
- Healing brush from sampled source
- Healing brush from saved pattern
- Spot Healing brush
- Body reconstruction
Shadows and lights localized enhancement
- Dodge tool
- Burn tool
- Sponge tool
- Preserving original tones
- Non-destructive technique for localized enhancement
Colour replacement
- Hue/Saturation adjustment layer with Layer Mask
- Colour re-construction
- Adding noise to simulate real photo grain (for example skin)
- Sampling elements from other sources
- Adjustment Layer Levels to uniform main light source
Specific photo-retouch
- Retouching landscapes
- Retouching models
- Retouching products
- Retouching eyes
- Retouching lips
- Retouching hair
Filters overview
- Artistic filters
- Sharpen filters
- Blur filters
- Other filters

