Duration: 21 hours
Conducted By:
Roy Seah - professional Adobe Certified Photoshop Expert.
Coverage
- Equipment
- What to look for in a digital camera
- Scanner considerations
- Photo or ordinary colour printer
- Setting up Photoshop
- The Image Cache & Scratch Disks
- History States
- Saving a workspace
- Colour Settings
- Monitor calibration
- Preferences for RGB, CMYK & Greyscale images
- Setting ICC profiles
- Adobe Bridge – the improved File Browser
- What’s new & improved
- File info, Keywords & Metadata
- Working with Images
- File types – PSD, TIFF, PDF, PNG, JPEG & GIF
- Large Document format(s)
- 8-bit vs. 16-bit images
- Working with Camera RAW
- Resolution - Resizing vs. Resampling
- Resolution - Image resolution & pixel dimensions
- Resolution - Selecting Algorithms
- Converting to Black-and-White
- Layers
- Working with layers
- Blending options & modes
- Adjustment layers
- Masking
- Compositing images through masks
- Working with Quick mask
- Matting
- Working with Alpha Channels
- Corrections
- Distortions - Rotate, Crop, Trim
- Distortions - Crop & Straighten
- Distortions - Using the Lens Distortion filter (CS2 onwards)
- Tonal Adjustments
- Understanding & using the Histograms
- Levels, Curves & Color Balance
- Shadow and Highlight
- Using Match Color
- The Channel mixer
- Retouching
- Brush options & blending modes
- Clone stamp, Healing Brush, Patch Tool
- Dodge & Burn, Colour replacement tool
- Using layer techniques
- Strategies for red-eye removal
- Enhancement
- Setting Depth-of-field
- Simulating graduated filters
- Filters
- Blur & Sharpen, Noise, Dust & Scratches
- Lens Blur
- Using Liquefy
- Working with the Filter Gallery
- Panoramas
- Using Photomerge
- Hand-stitching techniques
- Grading panoramas
- Automation
- Using Auto Align & Auto Blend
- Picture package
- Contact Sheet
- Web Gallery
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