Advanced Photoshop Course in Delhi entered the manipulation of digital images through image preparation, image editing, and image creation. You will learn how to create a new idea, crop, transform, retouch, paint, enhance, resize and add artistic touches. Selection methods and working with layers are also dealt with.

This course is for beginners to advance You do not need any previous knowledge of Photoshop, photography or design. We will start right at the beginning and work our way through step by step.

You will learn Photoshop’s secret sauce’ whereby we will magically enhance our background and remove people from images when necessary.

There are exercise files available to download so that you can follow along with me in the videos. There are lots of assignments I will set so that you can practice the skills you have learned.

Audience

Anyone needing to use Photoshop to manipulate images or those wanting to know the basics with a view to using it with other applications e.g. Pagemaker or In Design.

Course Objectives

Advanced Photoshop Course in Delhi
At the end of this course, delegates will be able to:

• Use tools/palettes effectively and understand the terminology
• Select images using a variety of ways and Crop and Transform them
• Resize images, change resolution, retouch and repair photos
• Understand and work with Layers, Masks and Channels
• Optimise graphics for printing and use with the web

Course Contents

Essentials

• The Photoshop Screen
• Getting to know the Tools & Palettes
• Using guides, grids and rulers
• Navigation and Zoom shortcuts

Selections

• Why use Selections?
• Creating selections using Marquee tools

The Lasso tools

• The Magic Wand and Quick Selection tools
• Adding or Deleting from selections
• Saving and Loading selections
• Controlling Tonal Values
• Creating Toned and Tinted Images
• Selecting by colour range
• Feathering selections
• Quick Mask mode

Correcting an Image

• Using the Histogram palette
• Fixing colour with variations
• Using Levels and Curves to fix tone & contrast
• Colour balance and variations
• Hue and saturation controls
• The Vibrance command
• Re-Touching Techniques
• Custom colours
• Dodge and burn tools
• Crop and rotate artwork
• Sharpen and Blur filters

Focus tools

• The Clone & Heal tools
• The Healing Brush tools
• The Colour Replace tool
• Red-eye reduction
• Digital darkroom techniques
• Creating and editing gradients
• Filters, Painting and Drawing
• Using Filters and Plug-ins
• Using the Unsharp Mask

Cloning Images

• Using the Burn/Dodge/Sponge Tool
• Mixing and applying paint and fill colours
• Print and web-safe colours
• Using the Airbrush, Pencil, Paintbrush and Eyedropper tools
• Using the Paint Bucket tool

Drawing shapes

• Creating vector shape layers
• Polygon
• line and custom shape tools
• The add, subtract and intersect commands
• Editing vector shapes using the pen tools
• Adding colour fills, gradients and patterns working with Layers

Layer groups

• Applying and editing type
• Rasterizing shape and text layers
• Saving and flattening layered files
• Merging layers
• Applying transparency
• Basic layer blending modes
• Text layers
• Adjustment layers
• Special effects
• Drop shadows, glows and embossing
• Layer masks

Working with Text

• New Features
• Creating a Text Layer
• Text Paragraphs
• Adding Text Effects
• Painting Text
• Text anti-aliasing
• Special Effects
• Using Photoshop filters
• Working with the Filter Gallery
• Fading the effects of filters
• Saving Files

File formats

• Choosing the right colour mode
• Adjusting resolution and image size
• Cropping or enlarging the canvas
• Printing and Optimising Documents
• Colour modes, resolution & image size
• Printing from Photoshop
• Printing from other applications
• The Save for web command
• Creating transparent GIF files

Inteligenes will provide each delegate with a workbook and other helpful reference materials where applicable.

Inteligenes reserves the right to modify course content and materials as required in the interests of continuous course improvement, at any time, without notification.