Photoshop 101 – Adobe Photoshop Essentials

Class Description

Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Photoshop know the best way to learn is with structured hands-on instructor-led training at an Adobe authorized Photoshop training center using official Adobe courseware and lesson files.

In the 2-day Adobe-authorized Photoshop class, you will learn the fundamentals of Photoshop CC, the foundational tool for most creative projects. The class begins by teaching the Photoshop interface and how to properly set up a system for professional quality image editing. You’ll then dive into real-world workflows that pros use for efficient photo retouching, repair, and publishing. You will learn to work with layers, masks, channels, and typography and gain all the skills you need to create amazing image effects.

Photoshop is a complex program and it is easy to develop habits that are not the best/easiest way of doing things. Our instructors are Photoshop professionals with years of experience and will translate that expertise into real-world guidance on best practices and efficient workflows.

Course Benefits

Learn to professionally create top notch imagery
Photoshop proficiency is one of today’s most sought after skills
Leave with industry best practices, tips and tricks
Leverage this powerful tool to produce high-quality content for video, print and web
Gain the foundational skills needed to advance to other applications in Adobe Creative Cloud

Who Should Attend

This class is appropriate for novice to intermediate level users of Photoshop as well as more advanced users who’d like to make sure their foundational skills are complete. It is designed for anyone in digital imaging, digital publishing, or design environments. Typical attendees are responsible for digital asset management, production, and execution of projects in the fields of (but not limited to): photographic art, advertising design, photojournalism, news and media production, social media, mobile, video, web, and 3-D.

Suggested Prerequisites

It is recommended that you have access to the Adobe Photoshop software before starting the class. You can purchase the software or obtain a trial version of it from the Adobe website.

Course Outline

Customizing the Photoshop work environment (workspaces, menus, palettes, presets)
Organizing individual Photoshop files using best practices for layer organizations (layer sets, naming of layers)
Organizing images and image data for easy retrieval
Working With Selections
Mask and channels
Quick fixes
Placing, reshaping and transforming smart objects
Using layers, layer comps, layer effects, layer styles and layer clipping masks
Applying local image editing global tonal and color corrections and retouching to images
Using pixel and vector-based tools
Using Creative Cloud libraries, Photoshop mobile apps and Adobe services
Photo retouching and editing including filters and image effects
Selections, masks and channels
Using Camera RAW and Adobe Bridge
Typographic design and text in Photoshop
Analyzing file formats and determining optimal resolution needed based on intent (Web, video, offset press, etc.)
Understanding color management
Working with camera RAW
Typographic design
Printing 3D Files
New features in Photoshop such as Photoshop search, Face-Aware liquify and more

Related Classes

Our goal is to make sure your class meets your objectives, not ours. Therefore, all of our outlines are treated as guides to help steer the workshop. This outline does not guarantee that all the topics listed will be covered in the time allowed. The amount of material covered is based on the skill level of the student audience. We may change or alter course topics to best suit the classroom situation.

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