Adobe Photoshop CS Advanced 

Duration: 2 days 9.30am - 4.30pm

Fee: £395 + VAT per delegate

Course Content:

• Module 1 – Selections & Masking

  • Feather on a selection

  • Creating temporary masks in quick mask mode

  • Creating and loading alpha channels

  • Creating and editing paths with the pen tool

  • Converting paths to selections

  • Using the extract filter

• Module 2 – Colour Adjustments

  • Colour adjustment layers

  • Creating RGB Greyscale image

  • Creating CMYK Greyscale image

  • Using the histogram tool, define levels and curves

  • Working with the channel mixer

  • Working with hue and saturation

  • Duotones, Tritones, Quadtones for commercial printing

• Module 3 – Work Effectively with the Airbrush Tools

  • Clone tool

  • Patch tool

  • Healing brush

  • Smudge tool

  • Focus tool

  • Toning tool

  • Sponge tool

• Module 4 – Special Effects & Filters

  • Noise filters

  • Sharpen images with sharpen filters

  • Lighting effects

  • Blur and movement filters

• Module 5 – Pictures Taken with the Digital Camera

  • Best practices for digital photography

  • Understanding mega pixels

  • Refining a digital image

  • Removing red eye

  • Scaling a digital image

  • Digital printing

  • Preparing a digital image for press

• Module 6 – Images for Commercial Printing

  • CMYK and colour separations

  • Pantone spot colours

  • DPI requirements

  • Embedding a printer profile

• Module 7 – Monitor and Printer Profiles

  • Understanding the embedded profile

  • Adding a profile for screen output

  • Adding a profile for print output

• Module 8 – Scripts and Batch File Processing