Course Aims:

This course is for new users of Photoshop, or experienced users who want to refresh their knowledge in CS4. It's hard to keep up with all the improvements in this amazing application, but if you don't, you are missing out on some huge timesaving features.

The Photoshop Level 1 course works through all the fundamentals of the software but doesn't take the more advanced features lightly either. After completion, you'll be really using the features instead of feeling like you're missing out. To take things further, tae a look at our Level 2 Advanced Photoshop course.

Curriculum Outline:

• File management using Adobe Bridge
  
• Introduction to pixel based editing
  
• Selections
  • Properties of shape based selections
    
  • Colour and contrast based selections
    
  • Manipulating selections
• Photoshops GPU based features
  
• Blending images in realistically
  
• Correcting perspective
  
• Customising the Photoshop workspace
  
• Working with Brushes
• Free painting techniques
  
• Pixel & path based shapes
  
• Principles of masking
  
• Focal and tonal based editing
• Modes and compositing
  • Introduction to picture modes
    
  • Layer compositing, stacking and blending
    
• Effects
  • text effects
    
  • style effects
    
• The power of opacity masks
  • Opacity mask effects
    
• Working with the Photoshop canvas setting
• Retouching, repair and restoration
  
  • Using the clone tool to retouch imperfections in photos
    
  • Portrait repair techniques
    
  • Retouching in 3d Perspective
    
• Vector based paths
  
• Colour
  • Creating and sampling colour in Photoshop
    
  • Analysing colour in photographs
    
  • Adjusting colour and tone
    
• File Management
  • File formats
    
• Understanding resolution and quality
  
• Print preparation
  
• Change tracking
  
• Saving your document
  
• Photoshop links

Course Aims:

The Advanced Photoshop course takes your workflow to a new level, looking at all the timesaving and creatively exciting features you might not know about in Photoshop.

Curriculum Outline:

• Managing files using Bridge
  
• Healing and patching techniques
  
• Vanishing point perspective retouching
  
• Typographic design &smart objects
  
• Working with Illustrator files Photoshop
  
• Layer masks, refining & channels
• Gradient masks
  
• Complex composites
  
• Clipping groups
  
• Vector masks & shapes
  
• Advanced layer techniques
  
• Colour montages
  
• Hand colouring
  
• Bump map effects
  
• Resolution & image size
  
• Adjustment layers
  
• Using the history brush
  
• Strategy for retouching
  
• Colour casts
  
• Brightness and contrast
  
• Choosing hilites & shadows
  
• Using levels
  
• Arbitrary curve maps
  
• Image extraction
  
• Colour management process
  
• Channel masking for hair
  
• Luminence masking
  
• Masking glass objects
  
• Using blend modes
  
• Mixing with channels
  
• Displacement maps
  
• Building actions
  
• Photoshop extended features

We also run specialist Photoshop courses to requirements, such as:

• Photoshop for Medical Professionals
• Repro & Print Publishing
• Design for Non - Designers

Get in contact for more details - 031 312 85 60