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Photoshop cs or CS 2 Essentials (2 day) and
Comprehensive (3 day)


If there is a single program that almost every graphic artist needs to know, it is Adobe Photoshop. Few artists, however, ever get past using the cloning tool or the auto levels tool. In order for Photoshop to become a true extension of your imagination, you need a thorough understanding of the basic power that the program can deliver.


Join us for a two or three day excursion into the myriad of menus that Photoshop provides and explore the power of this invaluable program. Among the many topics covered are:

Getting to know the Work Are

  • manipulating palettes
  • choosing, uniting, nesting, saving custom set

Retouching

  • straightening and cropping
  • removing a color cast
  • color replacement

Tonal range-automatic vs manual adjustments

  • dodge and sponge tool to brighten and saturate
  • unsharp mask
  • getting ready for 4 color printing

Selections

  • magic wand
  • lasso
  • rotating a selection
  • erasing within a selection

Layer Opacity

  • working with type
  • layer effects

Masks and channels

  • creating an editing a quick mask
  • saving a selection
  • loading a mask or selection

the Extract filter

Filters

Photo repair/retouching

  • clone stamp, pattern stamp
  • healing brush
  • why retouch on a separate layer?

Pen tool techniques

  • creating paths and selections and why...

A look at some special touch up and editing problems

Optional: The File Browser

The 3 day Essentials class expands on the above topics and includes more advanced techniques pertinent to those using Photoshop on a more frequent basis.

After completion of this course, you will have the confidence to properly
prepare images for reproduction, correct images that don’t quite meet your expectations, and repair images that previously would have been unusable.

The 2 day Basics class is $645 per person. Discounts of 5 to 20% for 2-6 participants from the same company attending the same class.

The 3 day Essentials class is $845 per person. Discounts of 5 to 20% for 2-6 participants from the same company attending the same class.

All training is hands-on and instructor-led, with a one-to-one student to computer ratio.

Call 414.258.1646 about special pricing and to register.

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