This 2-day course provides a thorough overview for experienced users who wish to further their effectiveness on Photoshop. This class is aimed at the Photoshop professional who needs to enhance their knowledge to work with web and video images more effectively. This course is an ideal combination of instructor-led demonstration and hands-on practice.
Who Should Attend
- Those involved in any area of digital media, including desktop publishing, multimedia design, web design, digital video editing, and other disciplines for which Photoshop is the industry standard
- Photographers and artists who work with photographs
Prerequisites
- Practical working knowledge of Mac OS X or Windows
- Photoshop Fundamentals: An Introduction to Photoshop class or equivalent experience is recommended.
Course Outline:
Note: The curricula below comprise activities typically covered in a class at this skill level. The instructor may, at his/her discretion, adjust the lesson plan to meet the needs of the class.
- Understanding RGB and CMYK color models
- Image size vs. Resolution – What’s the difference?
- Pixel Aspect Ratio – Are all pixels square?
- Bits per Channel – What does that mean?
- Alpha Channel – Why is this important to us?
- Working with Adobe Bridge
- Workspace
- Viewing and managing files
- Metadata and keywords
- Collections: Collection vs Smart Collection
- Running automated tasks
- About camera raw files
- Processing files in Camera Raw
- Applying advanced color correction
- Arranging layers
- Using Smart Filters
- Painting a layer
- Adding a background
- Using the History Panel to undo tasks
- Upscaling a low-resolution image
- 16-bit & 32-bit color space
- Creating High Dynamic Range (HDR) files
- Correcting digital photographs in Photoshop
- Correcting image distortion
- Adding depth of field
- Content-aware scaling
- Content-aware fill
- Healing tools
- Stamp tools
- About the Timeline panel
- Creating a new video project
- Animating text with keyframes
- Creating effects
- Adding transitions
- Adding audio
- Muting unwanted audio
- Rendering video
- Using layer groups to create button graphics
- Automating a multistep task
- Designing with artboards
- Understanding animation
- Frame-based animation
- Timeline-based animation
- Animating a layer
- Animating a layer style
- Exporting your animation
- Setting up a Vanishing Point grid
- Placing imported artwork
- Healing in perspective
- Copying in perspective
- Adding artwork in perspective
- Placing the side panel artwork using Vanishing Point
- Understanding Actions
- Using Actions
- Creating Actions
- Batch Processing
- Using Scripts
- Script Event Manager to use actions and scripts together
- Creating a 3D shape from a layer
- Manipulating 3D objects
- Adding 3D objects
- Merging 3D layers to share the same 3D space
- Positioning objects in a scene
- Applying materials to 3D objects
- Lighting a 3D scene
- Rendering a 3D scene
- Getting started
- Understanding the 3D environment
- Positioning 3D elements
- Printing a 3D file
- Previewing video images in Photoshop
- Broadcast legal colors
- Action safe & title safe guides
- Photoshop in AfterEffect, Motion, Premiere, – Final Cut and Avid
- Tips and tricks from the instructor
