Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop CS3

This instructor-led course in Adobe Photoshop is ideal for beginning or intermediate users who want to learn key Photoshop concepts and techniques. Project-based lessons take students through the creation of a specific project, with each lesson building on growing knowledge and skills. Photoshop, long the industry standard for digital imaging software, offers plenty of new features and enhancements for creative professionals and digital photographers alike.

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Course Outline | Adobe Photoshop — Introduction

Getting to Know the Work Area

  • Using the tools
  • Using the options bar and other panels
  • Undoing actions in Photoshop
  • Customizing the workspace
  • Finding resources for using Photoshop
  • Checking for updates

Basic Photo Correction

  • Strategy for retouching
  • Resolution and image size
  • Straightening and cropping an image
  • Making automatic adjustments
  • Removing a color cast
  • Manually adjusting the tonal range
  • Replacing colors in an image
  • Adjusting lightness with the Dodge tool
  • Adjusting saturation with the Sponge tool
  • Comparing automatic and manual results
  • Repairing areas with the Clone Stamp tool
  • Using the Spot Healing Brush Tool
  • Using the Healing Brush and Patch tools
  • Applying the Unsharp Mask filter
  • Saving the image for four-color printing

Working with Selections

  • About selecting and selection tools
  • Using the Quick Selection tool
  • Moving a selected area
  • Manipulating selections
  • Using the Magic Wand tool
  • Selecting with the lasso tools
  • Rotating a selection
  • Selecting with the Magnetic Lasso tool
  • Cropping an image and erasing within a selection
  • Refining the edge of a selection

Layer Basics

  • About layers
  • Using the Layers panel
  • Rearranging layers
  • Applying a gradient to a layer
  • Applying a layer style
  • Flattening and saving files

Masks and Channels

  • Working with masks and channels
  • Creating a quick mask
  • Editing a mask
  • Viewing channels
  • Adjusting individual channels
  • Loading a mask as a selection
  • Applying filters to a mask
  • Applying effects using a gradient mask
  • Resizing the canvas
  • Removing the background from an image
  • Moving layers between documents
  • Colorizing with an adjustment layer
  • Grouping and clipping layers
  • Inverting a mask
  • Using type as a mask

Correcting and Enhancing Digital Photographs

  • About camera raw
  • Processing files in Camera Raw
  • Correcting digital photographs in Photoshop
  • Editing images with a vanishing-point perspective
  • Correcting image distortion
  • Adding depth of field
  • Creating a PDF image gallery

Typographic Design

  • About type
  • Creating a clipping mask from type
  • Creating a design element from type
  • Using interactive formatting controls
  • Warping point type
  • Designing a paragraph of type
  • Warping a layer

Vector Drawing Techniques

  • About bitmap images and vector graphics
  • About paths and the Pen tool
  • Using paths with artwork
  • Creating vector objects for the background
  • Woring with defined custom shapes
  • Importing a Smart Object

Course Outline | Adobe Photoshop — Advanced

Advanced Editing

  • Clipping a layer to a shape
  • Setting up a Vanishing Point grid
  • Creating your own keyboard shortcuts
  • Placing imported artwork
  • Adding artwork in perspective
  • Adding a layer style
  • Placing the side panel artwork
  • Adding more artwork in perspective
  • Adding an adjustment layer
  • Working with layer comps
  • Managing layers
  • Flattening a layered image
  • Merging layers and layer groups
  • Stamping layers

Advanced Compositing

  • Assembling a montage of images
  • Applying filters
  • Hand-coloring selections on a layer
  • Applying Smart Filters
  • Adding drop shadows and a border
  • Matching color schemes across images
  • Automating a multistep task
  • Stitching a Panorama

Preparing Files for the Web

  • Selecting a web design workspace
  • Creating slices
  • Adding animation
  • Animating a layer style
  • Exporting HTML and images
  • Using the Zoomify feature
  • Creating a web gallery

Producing and Printing Consistent Color

  • About color management
  • Specifying color-management settings
  • Proofing an image
  • Identifying out-of-gamut colors
  • Adjusting an image and printing a proof
  • Saving the image as a CMYK EPS file
  • Printing

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Adobe Photoshop CS4 - Intro and Adv
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Date
3/22/10 - 3/26/10
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Course Details

Introduction

Name
Adobe Photoshop CS4 Intro
Price
$995
Date
3/22/10 - 3/24/10
Length
3 days
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Advanced

Name
Adobe Photoshop CS4 Advanced
Price
$695
Date
3/25/10 - 3/26/10
Length
2 days
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What's Included?

Included In The Cost Of The Course: Course Book, Breakfast And Lunch!

Instructor

Rich Baim

An Adobe Certified Instructor for Adobe Premiere Pro with over twenty years of video editing experience. Rich has a Master of Science degree in Instructional Media and was one of the beta testers for Premiere Pro 1.5. He currently works in the eLearning department at a technology center and specializes in streaming media for health education. Rich emphasizes real-world problem solving and provides "hands-on" experiences for students.

Brian Culp

Brian Culp is both an Adobe and Apple Certified trainer. He is a graduate of Kansas State University, where he was an Academic All American. After four years playing professional baseball, Brian graduated from the Vancouver Film School, where he learned to edit using film, tape-to-tape decks, and Avid editing stations. Since his time in film school, he has authored over dozen books and training courses for the Virtual Training Company and other publishers such as McGraw Hill, O’Reilly, and APress. When not teaching or writing, he is part of the producing team of Bean Lake Entertainment, where he has edited a wide variety of projects using Final Cut and Premiere Pro. The company recently completed its first feature film project and is working on its next. Brian lives in Kansas City.

Rob Daniels

Rob Daniels is President and Owner of Tech Wyze, Inc., in Kansas City, a computer consulting and training company. Rob began his career in professional digital photography in the early 1990s and found himself supporting his employer's computer imaging systems. After making a transition into the IT world, he became network manager of a publishing company and spent four years training graphics professionals across North America. Later, Rob established his own IT company to support such clients as Hallmark Cards, Kansas City Power & Light, and many more. Rob is a CompTia Certified Technical Trainer +, Apple Certified Trainer, and Adobe Certified Instructor. He holds numerous other IT certifications.

Margaret A. Gaeddert

Margaret "Margee" Gaeddert, is a certified professional designer and owner of G Art & Design in Oklahoma City. A 30 year career in design as an art director, graphic designer, illustrator, and web designer has awarded her regional, national and international awards. She has worked with Fortune 500 and 1000 corporations such as AOL, Avon, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co, Sony Music, CNBC.com and Gucci. Local corporations include American Fidelity, KOCO Television, Metropolitan Library Association and Sperry Van Ness. She teaches design at the University of Central Oklahoma. Gaeddert enjoys serving on the board of the Oklahoma Watercolor Association, and two design advisory boards supporting education in Oklahoma. She holds a bachelor's of fine arts degree and is an accomplished award winning fine artist in watercolor media, calligraphy and caricature art.

Jason Gaines

Mr. Gaines is a certified professional in both Logic Pro 8 and Soundtrack 2. He is currently in demand as an instructor of both applications. Current projects include independent film work and collaboration on the television series, LA Ink. Jason Gaines is a New York City based trumpeter, composer and arranger. He has performed and recorded with some of the most influential performers in the jazz idiom including Arturo Sandoval, Roy Hargrove, Joshua Redman, Freddie Hubbard, Jackie McLean, Gerald Wilson and others. He holds degrees from Manhattan School of Music, New York University and Teachers College, Columbia University.

Foster Johnson

Foster Johnson is the Owner and Lead Creative for Foster Johnson Studios. He has 10 years of professional creative development and leadership experience in interactive, print and advertising, executing creative direction, art direction and team strategy. An architect of numerous web based commerce and database connectivity solutions, as well as e-commerce, telecoms, entertainment, advertising, publishing, photography and video for broadband. Johnson is an Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI) with expert level application skills in Adobe Creative Suite 3, including: Flash using ActionScript 3.0, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects Pro, InDesign, Acrobat Pro, Captivate 3.0, LiveCycle ES as well as QuarkXPress and web application development using advanced CSS, SQL, AJAX, XML, RSS, Google AdSense and AdWords.

Rick Allen Lippert

Rick Allen Lippert is president of Lippert Media in Oklahoma City with 30 years experience on both sides of the camera. Specializing in industrial production, he has won numerous awards for his writing, producing, and directing for clients such as the Oklahoma Arts Institute, Oklahoma City University, the City of Oklahoma City, the University of Central Oklahoma, the U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration.His commercial clients include CompSource Oklahoma and Dane Design. Rick has been using Final Cut Pro since version 1.25. As an adjunct instructor, he teaches video production at Oklahoma City Community College and media writing at the University of Oklahoma.

Kiri Roberts

Kiri Christopher Roberts is the creative director of One Media USA, a media production house located in Albany, NY. Born in Zimbabwe, Kiri migrated to the UK where he received a Masters in Audio Production from the University of Westminster in London. With a diverse international experience he has worked on music production, TV commercials, documentary films, music videos and currently ‘Frozen River’ the movie. Kiri is also a contributing writer for the Edit-Well magazine whose editor is Larry Jordan of LA. Kiri balances his time between his business and as a trainer for Apple Pro Apps. He is an Apple Certified end user and trainer for Motion 3, FCP6, STP2 & Logic 8.

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