Master Adobe Photoshop for both digital and print workflows with this comprehensive course. Learn how to enhance photographs and create professional-quality images through a structured approach that covers everything from fundamental corrections to advanced compositing techniques.
Photo Corrections and Enhancement:
Begin with the essential skills needed to improve your images. This section covers retouching damaged or imperfect photographs, removing unwanted elements, and applying sharpening filters to enhance clarity and detail. You'll understand how to evaluate images and apply the right correction techniques for different scenarios.
Quick Fixes and Adjustments:
Learn valuable techniques for rapid image enhancement without complex workflows. This includes creating seamless panoramic images by stitching multiple photographs together, correcting optical imperfections such as lens distortion and vignetting, adding artistic depth-of-field effects to draw attention to your subject, seamlessly repositioning objects within your composition, and adjusting perspective issues that occur when photographing buildings or wide scenes.
Advanced Selection and Masking Techniques:
Discover how to isolate specific areas of your image using sophisticated selection methods and mask creation. Master the process of removing subjects from their original backgrounds while maintaining natural edges, refining selections for precise control, using puppet warp to digitally manipulate objects, and converting selections into permanent alpha channels for future editing sessions.
Complex Compositing and Filters:
Create stunning composite images using advanced layer techniques. Learn how smart filters allow non-destructive editing, apply the liquify filter to reshape image elements, and combine multiple layers seamlessly into unified compositions.
Professional Color Management and Printing:
Understand the critical differences between RGB and CMYK color spaces and how they impact your final output. Learn color management principles that ensure consistent results across devices, and discover the proper steps for preparing and exporting images specifically optimized for professional printing.
Three-Dimensional File Preparation:
Explore Photoshop's three-dimensional capabilities for modern production workflows. Navigate the three-dimensional environment, create and position simple three-dimensional objects, and export three-dimensional files in formats suitable for additive manufacturing and printing.
This course is available for "remote" learning and will be available to anyone with access to an internet device with a microphone (this includes most models of computers, tablets). Classes will take place with a "Live" instructor at the date/times listed below.
Upon registration, the instructor will send along additional information about how to log-on and participate in the class.
