Adobe
Photoshop Advanced

This Photoshop Advanced Course is ideal for anyone either with experience gained in the workplace as a follow on from one of the other Photoshop courses. It can either be delivered as an onsite training course or remotely via the web and is perfect for both 121 sessions and closed company groups.

Color Grading using Levels

Levels offer greater control than Brightness/Contrast and Color Balance. In this exercise you will fix several photo's color and contrast using Levels.

• Color Correction with Adjustments Layers vs Adjustment Filters
• What is Tone?
• What is a Histogram?
• Levels Adjustment Explained
• Practical Work with Levels
• Repairing Photos
• Channel Manipulations with Levels
• Preset Levels

Color Grading Using Curves

Use the most powerful color and tonal correction tool in Photoshop to repair, correct and stylize images and graphics.

• The Curves Tool Explained
• Setting White, Black, and Gray Points
• Setting Midpoints
• Saving and Loading Curves Presets
• Correcting Tone & Color
• Setting White, Black, and Gray Points
• Channel Manipulations with Curves

Retouching Techniques Part I

Retouch any image by removing blemishes such as acne, scarring and more. Go into the settings of popular healing tools and tweak the features to optimize your retouching workflow.

• Understanding Healing & Awareness
• Using the Clone Stamp Tool
• Using the Spot Healing Tool
• Using the Healing Brush Tool
• Using the Patch Tool
• Removing Blemishes & Stray Hairs

Retouching Techniques Part 2

Take retouching to the next level by using tools and professional techniques to remove blemishes, smooth out skin tone and replace skin texture.

• The Power of Frequency Separation In Theory and Practice
• Creating High and Low Frequency Layers
• Isolating Skin Texture
• Isolating Skin Tone
• Re-combining Layers
• Using Masks & Brushes for Airbrush Effect

Retouching: Liquify

Radically manipulate pixels using one of Photoshop's most powerful distortion tools. Become a digital plastic surgeon!

• An Overview of the Liquify Panel
• Brush Tool Options
• Using the Liquify Filter: Bloat, Pucker, Forward Warp, Restoration Tools
• Artistic Retouching of Facial Features
• Having fun with Face-Aware
• Freezing and Unfreezing
• Creating Your Own Alien
• Losing weight without a diet

Displacement Effects

Use the Displacement Filter to map one image over another.

• What is Displacement?
• How Displacement is used Professionally
• Displacement Workflow
• Creating a Displacement Map
• Working with Displacement Filter
• Improving the Distortions

Blending Modes & Effects

Blending Modes are one of the most powerful secret weapons in graphic design. They allow you to blend one layer with another in various ways to creatively composite your images together.

• About Blending Modes
• Experimenting with different Blend Modes (Screen, Multiply, Overlay)
• Using the Color Blending Mode to Tint an Image
• Mask Blending
• Adding Scars and Blood

Working In Perspective

Learn how to use Photoshop to map images accurately in perspective.

• Manually putting in perspective
• Manually Editing Perspective
• Using Perspective Filters
• Troubleshooting perspective issues
• Selecting In Perspective
• Healing In Perspective

Compositing: Matching Color

Learn methods to match or compliment one image’s color to another - making them look as if they belong in the same scene.

• A Over B
• It’s All About Selections
• Lighting & Shadow
• Backlight Technique
• Matching Color
• Curves Color Channels
• Contrast Matching
• Clipping Masks
• Matching Noise/Grain

Working with Lighting Effects

From Jedi sabers to Bar Signs - these Photoshop Effects will have you creating some amazing effects art.

• Compositing Lighting Effects
• Creating & Working with Flares
• Creating A Neon Sign
• Techniques for Sabers

Organic Text

Learn to make text look more organic with these mapping techniques and filters.

• Endless Possibilities of Organic Text
• Text Out of Grass
• Working with Smoke

Advanced Selection Techniques

Use one of the most advanced techniques to make highly complex selections.

• Select & Mask Review
• Going off-road with Procedurals
• It’s All About Channels
• Working with Levels to create contrast maps
• Configuring your Selection Brushes to isolate edges
• Selecting Hair - No Easy Thing
• Employing the Burn and Dodge Tool

Working with Brushes

Learn the power of Photoshop Brushes and Patterns through the newly updated and enhanced preset panels.

• How to use and access both new and legacy brushes
• Create and customize brushes and brush settings
• Brush across paths
• Working with organic brushes
• How patterns and brushes work together

Working with Camera Raw

High-end digital cameras can save images in the RAW format, which contains extra data obtained for the camera's sensor. Adobe Camera Raw helps you process these higher quality RAW images.

• Opening & Editing Raw Files
• Camera Raw Panels
• Editing Color and Tone
• Fixing Exposure Issues
• Selective Corrections
• Applying Grades to Multiple Photos
• Removing Noise
• DeHaze Images
• Saving Settings and Versions
• Opening Images in Photoshop