Photoshop CS4 Advanced Techniques

This blended learning course brings together a powerful combination of classroom and online learning modules, resulting in the UK’s most comprehensive Advanced Photoshop training program. It is designed for users who have already mastered the basics of Photoshop, and the course provides experienced users with the knowledge and hands-on practice needed to create accurate masks, image effects, retouch images and lots more. You'll further your understanding of isolating image areas by creating and saving masks with specialised tools, commands, modes, and layer elements. Additionally you'll also learn how to use vector paths for a variety of purposes, including masking, clipping paths, and illustration and lots more.

The classroom modules are covered over 2 days and can either be completed at our fully equipped London training centre or at your own facility, whilst the online modules combine high quality flash video presentations backed up with instructor led course discussion forums, exercises files, real world samples, and loads more.

Audience
This course is suitable for anybody who has attended the Photoshop CS4 - Getting Started course or already has equivalent knowledge and wants to develop their Photoshop skills to a more advanced level.

What skills will the delegate gain?
This course will enable delegates to:

• Better use Photoshop CS4 with the rest of the CS4 suite.
• Use Advanced Techniques for Cloning, Masking, Compositing, Filters, Layers and more
• Understand and work with Camera RAW
• Work with Video, Animation and 3D files

Prerequisites
This course is suitable for anybody who has attended the Photoshop CS4 Getting Started course or already has equivalent knowledge and wants to develop their Photoshop skills to a more advanced level. In order to complete this course you will require basic computer skills such as a basic understanding of a computer's operating system, launching an application, creating & saving files, and copying files from CDs & other media.

Summary of Topics Covered

Adobe BridgeTopics including Loupe, Compare, Stacking, Colour Management, Rotations, Ratings and Labels, Batch renaming, Customising, Slideshow, Photoshop scripts within Bridge, Meta-data and your images, Export to PDF, Search and Find, and Preview 3D images and panoramas (created by Photoshop)

Camera Raw 5Topics including Interface, White balance, Saving changes, Exposure, Warnings, Vibrance/Saturation, Tone curve adjustment, HSL controls, Colours to Black and white, jpgs and tiffs

ActionsTopics including Running, Loading, Recording, Editing

Advanced maskingTopics including Background Eraser/Magic Eraser, Extracting, Layer Masks, Masking Shortcuts, QuickMask mode, Refine Edge

Advanced cloningTopics including Clone source, Healing Brush, Spot Healing, Patch, Quick Masking

Editing brightness and contrastTopics including Curves, Brightness + Contrast, Shadow/Highlight, Levels - input and output

Advanced Compositing StacksTopics including Auto Align, Auto Blend (Photomerge), Image stack processing, Creating 360 Panoramas, Extended Depth-of-field

Colour adjustmentTopics including Colour balance, Colour primaries, Colour complements, Hue-Saturation, Hue Adjustment, Refining the colour range

SharpeningTopics including Unsharp mask, Smart sharpen, Advanced layers, Layer Comps, Layer Clipping, Fills, Adjustment layers

Smart Objects and Smart filtersTopics including How to create smart objects, How to use smart objects, Smart filters

Vanishing PointTopics including Planes and perspective, Multiple planes, Gridlines - exporting, Cloning, Healing, Blending, Masking/Shading, Adding type, Swinging planes, Wrapping art, Measuring

Advanced filter techniquesTopics including Displacement maps, Lighting, Patterns

Photoshop Advanced AnimationTopics including Editing Animations, Animating 3D objects, Animating Camera position, Exporting Animations

Photoshop Advanced VideoTopics including Preview/Export audio, Advanced Keyframes, Advanced Editing, Video Effects, Using Filters, Using Styles, Cloning Video, Healing Video, 3D and Video

Photoshop and DevicesTopics including For the WII, For the PSP, For mobiles, Using Device Central

Photoshop and 3DTopics include Paint directly onto 3D models, Convert 2D images/gradient maps into 3D objects, Volume Rendering, Wrap a 2D design onto a 3D object, Use video layers as textures, Presets, Export 3D layers

Photoshop and CS4 Topics include Using Photoshop files with the rest of the CS4 suite, Placing photoshop files into Dreamweaver, Placing photoshop files into InDesign, Placing photoshop files into Illustrator, Placing photoshop files into Flash

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