Photoshop Training | Chicago & Los Angeles

Adobe Photoshop Class 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

Project 1

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

Project 2

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

Project 3

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

Project 4

Menu Image Correction

Fix a variety of images for a restaurant menu incorporating a number of color correction and restoration techniques. Adobe Photoshop Class project 4

Retouching Damaged Images
Correcting Lighting Problems
Correcting Color Problems
Preparing Images for Print

Project 5

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

Project 6

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

Project 7

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

Project 9

"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

Project 10

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.