Adobe Photoshop

Photoshop teaches a broad spectrum of core skills that are common to many creative fields: working with layers and selections; adjusting, manipulating, and retouching photos; painting; adding text; automating; preparing files for output, and more.

Course Outline

Description

Photoshop has become an indispensible tool for photographers, designers, and all other creative professionals, as well as students. Photoshop teaches a broad spectrum of core skills that are common to many creative fields: working with layers and selections; adjusting, manipulating, and retouching photos; painting; adding text; automating; preparing files for output, advanced selection and layer techniques; and more.

This course is indispensable to those who are new to the application, just learning this version, or expanding their skills.

Outline

Photoshop Overview

• What Photoshop can do
• Overview of workspace and UI

Creating documents / opening documents

• Panning and zooming your image

Selecting Parts of the Photograph

• Mastering the Marquee tool
• Using the Move tool
• Making selections using the Lasso tool
• Working with the Magic Wand and Quick Select tools

Sizing Images

• Resizing images and resolution
• Cropping images
• Transforming and rotating images

Repairing and Color Correcting Images

• Repairing images with the Healing Brush
• Changing colors using the Color Replacement tool
• Fixing images with the Clone tool
• Blurring and sharpening an image
• Enhancing images with the Sponge, Dodge and Burn
• Enhancing and Hand-painting Photographs
• Sampling colors - tools and shortcuts
• Painting with the Brush tool
• Filling selections with the Paint Bucket
• Painting in time with the History Brush
• Erasing pixels - tools and workflows
• Using and customizing gradients

Creating Type and Shapes

• Creating shapes using the Shape tool
• Creating text in your document using the Text tool
• Modifying the text using the Character panel

Color Adjustments

• Picking the right color using the Color Picker
• Adjusting tonal value with Levels
• Using the brightness and contrast adjustments

Creating Composite Images with Layers

• Mastering the Layer panel
• Using blending modes and transparency

Saving Photographs / Choosing File Formats

• Publishing your images to the web as a gallery
• Creating panoramic images using Photomerge
• Saving images for the web, using various compression settings
• Saving images for print

New Features in CS4 or CS5

• Customizing your workspace
• Measuring and counting objects in your image
• Creating rich black and white images
• Using Smart Filters to stack filters
• New Curve features
• New Clone tool features
• Align Layers for composition

Advanced Selection Techniques

• Making selections using the QuickMask mode
• Storing selections using Alpha channels
• Creating paths from selections
• Extracting images from the background
• Using Guides, Snapping and Aligning

Advanced Layer Techniques

• Mastering the Layer Mask
• Clipping layers and grouping

Non - destructive editing with Smart Objects

• Selecting and storing colors, creating custom styles
• Adjustment Layers for non - destructive color correction

Print Projects

• Integrating Photoshop with InDesign and Illustrator

Web Projects

• Integrating Photoshop with Dreamweaver and Flash
• Slicing images for the web
• Animating graphics in Photoshop

Automating Tasks

• Creating multiple layouts using the Layer Comp panel
• Leaving notes in your image using the Annotation tool
• Creating snapshots and using actions

Additional Details

Pre-Requisites

Previous knowledge of this application is not required. Participants should have good Windows operating skills .This includes understanding being able to navigate the Windows hierarchy, as well as being able to open and close files in an application.

Certificates offered

Certificate of Completion

Cancellation Policy

Students are required to give notice if they are unable to attend their class:

2 weeks (10 full business days) or longer prior to training date = full refund
1 to 2 weeks (5 - 9 full business days) prior to training date = 50% of course fee refund
Less than 1 week (4 full business days or fewer) prior to training date = 0% refund

NOTE: You may substitute classes or students at any time.

Map & Reviews

New Era Technology Training
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New Era Technology Centre
#300, 633 - 6th Ave S.W., Ford Tower
Calgary, Alberta
Canada   T2P 2Y5

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It was hard to see the instructors screen. It was a projector that was turned toward a white board.

Reviewed by Arlene R. 2012

   

Jason Hall is fantastic and I look forward to taking another course with him. My last experience at New Era was not great; the instructor did not meet our expectations and the computers were not working when we arrived. But Jason made the day fly by and I felt like I learned not only the set curriculum but gained lots of additional presentation skills.

Reviewed by Maya D. 2012

   

The instructor in this class was EXCELLENT. I would highly recommend her as she really knew what she was doing and her etaching style was great. AWESOME instuctor.

Reviewed by Pamela T. 2012

   

The trainer was very knowledgeable and kept the course moving at a great pace. I wish I could take her home with me, so she could help me teach photoshop at the school I work at.

Reviewed by Michelle . 2012

   

The course was very helpful and the instructor was very knowledgable and made the effort to make sure all class members were understanding the excersizes and were on the same page. My only complaint is that the computers seemed a little worn out. Throughout the day most students in the class ran into some sort of issue with the computer not working the way it should. And during our practice time closer to the end of the day all the computers started crashing.

Reviewed by Lori F. 2012

   

The Instructor was fabulous and is the reason that I truly enjoyed the course.

Reviewed by Michelle F. 2011

   

Alex was extrememly helpful and knowlegeable.

Reviewed by Dawn G. 2011

   

The course was excellent, but I felt a little out of my league. The participants in the course were designers and IT people who had used other versions of SharePoint. While I benefited from their questions and comments during the class, I feel "lost" now that I'm back on my own at the office. Perhaps I was in the wrong coarse, but it did say power "user".

Reviewed by Sharon T. 2011

   

Alex is great!

Reviewed by ellen m. 2011

   

Jane is a wonderful teacher! i will gladly take any class she teaches!

Reviewed by Essante P. 2011

   

Jane is an excellent teacher! She is very knowledgable and is enthusiastic about the course!

Reviewed by Essante P. 2011

   

Very good - presented course material in an engaging way.

Reviewed by Claudine T. 2011

   

The instructor didn't provide a lot of structure to the class, he just skimmed through the material and didn't go into it very deep. As a result, the class finished up 1.5 h early as well. He tried to add material from PMI (which was missing from the course materials) but this sometimes just made things more confusing. The PMI material should really be in the course material to start with. Otherwise, the instructor was helpful, knowledgeable and had a good demeanor.

Reviewed by Laverne R. 2011

   

It was informative

Reviewed by Amanda N. 2011

   

Very good course with a very knowledgeable instructor. Class was at full occupancy and I felt that the class size was too large.

Reviewed by Amanda B. 2011

   

There were only 4 students so it went fast and we finished early. Personally I would have liked to spend more time practicing. Perhaps some reference to the book and if there were any practice exercises in there that we could use to gain more experience with Visio.

Reviewed by Denise T. 2011

   

The course started 40 minutes late because they did not have the correct computers set up for the program. It's like they were not even expecting us. I found it very disorganized. For the price I paid for this course, I expected a more professional presentation.

Reviewed by Karyn J. 2011

   

Instructor was very soft spoken did not have all the answres but did get answers later in the class.

Reviewed by Thomas H. 2011