Photoshop Training

1. Adobe Photoshop CS3 - $795 (2 days - instructor-led)

2. Advanced Adobe Photoshop CS3 - $395 (1 day - instructor-led)

Adobe Photoshop CS3 is a hands-on course that will teach you how to master Photoshop. This course is suitable for students new to Photoshop or those that have been using the program without any formal training.

• Retouching and Repairing Images
• Compositing Images into Artistic Montages
• Processing Digital Photography
• Color and Lighting Effects
• Masking and Channels
• Adjustments to Contrast and Color Balance
• Exporting for Print and Web
• Vector Drawing Techniques
• Advanced Layer Techniques
• Advanced Compositing
• Techniques for Producing and Printing consistent Color

• Starting to Work in Photoshop
• Using the Tools
• Using the Tool Bar and Palettes
• Customising the Workspace
• Adobe ImageReady
• Using Photoshop Help

• Viewing and Editing Files in Adobe Bridge
• Viewing Information for Easy Identification
• Searching with Adobe Bridge
• Using Favorites and Collections
• Automating Routine Tasks
• Acquiring Stock Photography

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

• Repairing areas with the Clone Stamp tool
• Using the Spot Healing Brush tool
• Using the Healing Brush and Patch tools
• Retouching on a separate layer

• About selecting and selection tools
• Selecting with the Magic Wand tool
• Using the Magic Wand with other selections
• Working with oval and circular selections
• Selecting with the lasso tools
• Rotating a selected
• Selecting with the Magnetic Lasso tool
• Cropping an image and erasing within a selection

• About Layers
• Using the Layers palette
• Rearranging layers
• Applying a layer style
• Flattening and saving files

• Working with masks and channels
• Creating a quick mask
• Editing a quick mask
• Saving a selection as a mask
• Editing a mask
• Loading a mask as a selection and applying an adjustment
• Extracting an image
• Applying a filter effect to a masked selection
• Creating a gradient mask
• Applying effects using a gradient mask

• About camera raw
• Processing camera raw files
• Correcting digital photographs
• Editing images with a vanishing-point perspective
• Correcting image distortion
• Creating a PDF portfolio

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

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

• Creating paths to clip a layer
• Creating layer sets
• Creating an adjustment layer
• Creating a knockout gradient layer
• Importing a layer from another file
• Applying layer styles
• Duplicating and clipping a layer
• Liquifying a layer
• Creating a border layer
• Flattening a layered image

• Automating a multistep task
• Setting up a four-image montage
• Hand-coloring selections on a layer
• Changing the color balance
• Applying filters

• Reproducing Color
• Specifying color-management
• Proofing an image
• Identifying out-of-gamut colors
• Adjusting an image and printing a proof
• Saving the image as a separation
• Printing