Advanced Photoshop Tools & Techniques (Face to Face)

Elevate your Photoshop skills and professional output with this hands-on course focusing on advanced features and techniques. You’ll master rapid yet precise object selection, expert-level color correction and tonal adjustments, and apply non-destructive fixes and enhancements using layers and filters. Learn to isolate fine details like hair with Select & Mask, restore images using Levels & Curves, and apply high-level edits with confidence.

Delivery Method:
Face-to-face, onsite classroom instruction.

Course Outline:

1. Customizing Photoshop

• Creating personalized keyboard shortcuts
• Setting up a custom workspace

2. Advanced Tonal Adjustments

• Understanding adjustment commands
• Mastering Levels and Curves
• Using adjustment layers vs. direct adjustments
• Exploring blending modes for tonal work

3. Color Correction & Manipulation

• Reading the Info panel & using the Color Sampler
• Multiple color correction workflows
• Techniques for color enhancement
  • Auto Color
  • Gradient Map
  • Hue & Saturation
• Matching color across images
  • Replace Color
  • Curves
  • Match Color

4. Advanced Selections

• Background Eraser tool
• Blending Sliders for targeted selections
• Luminance and Channel-based selections
• Advanced Masking techniques
• Select & Mask (formerly Refine Edge)
• Layer Masking for non-destructive editing

5. Advanced Retouching

• Retouching and cleanup tools
• Using the Lighten blending mode and Actions panel
• Applying Dust & Scratches and Vanishing Point filters
• Leveraging Content-Aware tools:
  • Scale
  • Move
  • Patch
• Lens Correction filter for optical fixes

6. Professional Sharpening Techniques

• Sharpening review
• Unsharp Mask and High Pass filters
• Edge-specific sharpening
• Emboss filter for texture control

Prerequisite:
Participants should have completed PCCI’s Adobe Photoshop Essentials course or possess equivalent practical experience.

Requirements:
Each student will be provided with a Windows computer pre-installed with all necessary software.

Course Benefits:

• Certificate of Completion
• Lifetime Free Refresher – Retake the course at no additional cost (subject to seat availability)
• Alumni Discount on future courses
• Eligible for L2C (Learning to Certification) programs leading to globally recognized certifications:
  • Adobe Certified Professional (ACP) – Visual Design: Foundations of Design & Print Production
  • Visual Graphic Design NC III certification

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