Photoshop Training | Chicago & Los Angeles
Photoshop CS4 Training: Bootcamp
Beef up your skills.
Our most comprehensive Photoshop course, taking you from Photoshop beginner to Photoshop master in 5 days. Consisting of 12 real world projects, designed to teach you all the essential tools and techniques to perfect photo manipulation. This bootcamp will take you from "Zero to Hero".
The trainer will show you step-by-step how Professional Graphic Designers use Photoshop on a range of different photo editing jobs. This approach not only teaches you proper workflow techniques but is also a proven training method for those looking to master Photoshop.
This Photoshop training is ideal for designers, marketers and anyone who is pursuing a career in graphic design. Training available on both Mac and Pc. No prior experience of Photoshop is needed.
This is the only Photoshop course in Chicago and Los Angeles that comes with a 100% Money Back Guarantee.

Photoshop Class Timetable
| Chicago | Mar 29 - Apr 2 | Register |
| Los Angeles | Apr 26 - 30 ! | Register |
| Chicago | Jun 7 - 11 | Register |
| Los Angeles | Jul 12 - 16 | Register |
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Photoshop Course Summary
Four-Color Movie Ad
Set up a workspace to better organize image editing in Photoshop. Create a "Forefathers" movie poster file by bringing in a variety of photographic elements and organizing them into a collage.

- Setting up the Workspace
- Compositing Images and Artwork
- Creating Silhouettes
- Managing Multiple Layers
- Saving Photoshop Files for Print
African Wildlife Map
Design a map of Africa with images of native species composited into the outline of the continent and create original textures for the water.

- Setting Up the Workspace
- Compositing with Smart Objects
- Using Filters and Adjustments
- Creating an Artistic Background
- Creating Variations
Moonscapes Book Cover
Design a press quality jacket for the "Moonscapes"book, combining a background, various images and type.

- Setting Up the Workspace
- Working with Text
- Editing Layers for Visual Impact
- Outputting Files
Menu Image Correction
Fix a variety of images for a restaurant menu incorporating a number of color correction and restoration techniques. 
- Retouching Damaged Images
- Correcting Lighting Problems
- Correcting Color Problems
- Preparing Images for Print
Catalog Cover
Create a cover for a "Back To School" catalog utilizing a large photo of a child, a school bus and various type elements for the promotional messaging.

- Creating a Complex Selection
- Compositing Complex Selections
- Working with Spot Channels
Advertising Samples
Creative a series of mockups showing outdoor advertising for a local news channel with examples posted on a building, water tank and hot air ballon.

- Cleaning and Adjusting Images
- Working in Perspective
- Working with Lighting
- Working in Three Dimensions
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 8
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

"International Cats" Composite
Composite a couple of "lap cats" and a sleeping cat unto 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 & DONT's (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

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 11
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 12
Automating Photoshop
Create actions to automate applying different profiles to simulate various outputs, sharpen images, resize them and save them to different destinations.
- Working with Color Profiles
- Sharpening Images
- Resizing images for different outputs
- Recording Actions to automate repetitive processes in Photoshop
Photoshop Detailed Course Outline
To view the detailed course outline please click on the following links:
Photoshop CS4 Bootcamp: Part A PDF
Photoshop CS4 Bootcamp: Part B PDF
What's included
Adobe Photoshop Training Manual
Adobe Certificate of Course Completion
6 Months FREE Repeat Policy
2 AMC Movie Vouchers
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