Photoshop Training | Chicago & Los Angeles

Adobe Photoshop Class Photoshop CS4 Level 2: Advanced

Beef up your skills.

This Photoshop course is aimed at existing Photoshop users who need to improve their workflow by learning the more advanced features. Over 6 hands-on real world projects, you will cover topics including Camera Raw, Advanced Image Enhancing, Advanced Composites, Color Correcting for Skin Tones, Building a Movie Poster, Press Kit & Merchandise and Automating Photoshop. Training offered on both Mac and Pc.

Students should have already completed our Photoshop CS4 Level 1: Essential Skills course or have the equivalent experience prior to attending this course.

This is the only Photoshop course in Chicago and Los Angeles that comes with a 100% Money Back Guarantee.

Photoshop Class Timetable

Chicago	Apr 1 - 2	Register
Los Angeles	Apr 29 - 30 !	Register
Chicago	Jun 10 - 11 !	Register
Los Angeles	Jul 15 - 16	Register

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Photoshop Course Summary

Project 1

Working with RAW Images & Adobe Bridge
Work with a number of Camera RAW files to enhance their color, remove flaws and recompose them in the RAW interface. Apply RAW settings to multiple images shot in the same conditions. Save and archive RAW files and manage content more efficiently through Adobe Bridge.

Developing RAW files
Synchronizing RAW files
Using the Adjustment Brush & Graduated Filter
Applying Post Crop Vignetting
Archiving RAW Files & Working with RAW files in Photoshop
Using the different views in Bridge
Organizing and searching files

Project 2

Realistic Enhancing: Real Estate and Outdoor Images & Product Shot

Fix an image using subtle tinting techniques, similar to hand-tinted slides - make a brown, dead lawn at a property appear healthy and recently watered for a real estate listing; make a drab sky look like a colorful dusk evening; make red grapes look like green grapes for a product advertisement.

Creating Custom Gradients
Non-Desctructive Tinting/Color Enhancing with Blending Modes
Shifting color hues

Project 3

"International Cats" Composite

Composite a couple of "lap cats" and a sleeping cat onto a statue at the Palace of Versailles taking into consideration their position, scale, brightness & contrast, color balance, lighting and depth of field to make them appear realistic in an artificially created environment. Learning compositing DO's & DON'Ts (no pixels are erased) and using Power Shortcuts.

Working with layers, selections, masks & channels
Editing in Quick Mask mode
Working with Smart Objects & Transformations
Clipping color adjustments to layers
Converting Effects to Layers
The "Reality Test" of composited images

Project 4

Color Correcting for Skin Tones

Using the numeric value of colors to correct flesh tones.

Using Color Targets
Info Panel
Using Curves to balance individual color channels

Project 5

Killer Ants: Movie Poster, Press Kit & Merchandise

Create a movie poster and t-shirt for a film. Also work on images which will be included in a press kit and a CD mockup.

Creating a composite image using Depth of Field
Creating a Custom Brush & editing Presets
Saving and Loading Brush Sets
Defining patterns and applying them as an Effect
Using Displacement Maps
Merging images into a Panorama
Auto-aligning layers
Vanishing Point

Project 6

Automating Photoshop

Create actions to automate applying different profiles to simulate various outputs, sharpen images, resize them and save them to different destinations.