This one-day course presented by David Harradine covers the core basics of Photoshop and assumes no prior knowledge. Photoshop Level 1 gets you up running with the key concepts like selection and layers and basic retouching. It is the perfect foundation upon which to build a solid, professional workflow and feeds perfectly into the Photoshop Level 2 class.
Photoshop is designed for highly complex manipulations and reconstructions of single images or small groups of images. If you are looking to make heavy alterations and manipulations then Photoshop is the industry standard application.
Topics covered:
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Interface and Orientation with Photoshop and Bridge
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Paint and Brush tools - Getting a feel for it
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Selections and Layers - The fun really begins
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File Formats and Resolution - What, when and why?
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Tonal Adjustment - Controlling brightness and contrast
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Colour Adjustment - Correcting and enhancing the colours in your images
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Adjustment Layers – To give you total flexibility
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Cloning and Healing - The key retouching tools
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Panoramic Stitching
Cost: $395
The class is conducted on iMac computers, includes detailed illustrated notes and is limited to a maximum of six participants.