Advanced Photoshop Tools & Techniques (Full Online)

This course teaches advanced Photoshop features and techniques that will upgrade your knowledge and professional output. You will learn rapid but precise object selection using advanced selection methods, accurate color correction & tonal adjustment, professional-level non-destructive fixes and effects. Topics include Select & Mask to isolate hair edges, Levels & Curves for color & tonal recovery, and image enhancement based on advanced layer techniques and Filters.

Method of teaching

This course provides live instructor-led demonstration and discussions, student engagement and hands on exercises using Zoom, Google Classroom and Adobe Photoshop CC. When necessary, students will complete exercises after-class to be submitted before the next one.

Course Outline

Advanced Tonal Adjustments

• Customizing Photoshop
  • Creating your own keyboard shortcut set
  • Creating your own workspace
• Advanced Tonal Adjustments
  • Adjustment commands
  • Levels & Curves
  • Using adjustment layers vs. adjustment commands
  • Using blending modes

Color Correction & Manipulation

• Color Correction
  • Info panel & Color Sampler
  • Color Correction using different techniques
• Color Enhancement Techniques
  • Auto Color
  • Gradient Map
  • Hue & Saturation
• Matching Color Techniques
  • Auto Color
  • Replace Color
  • Curves
  • Match Color

Advanced Selections

• Background Eraser
• Blending Sliders
• Luminance & Channel
• Masking
• Select & Mask (former Refine Edge)
• Layer Masking

Advanced Retouching

• Advanced Retouching
  • Cleaning & Retouching
  • Lighten blending mode & Actions panel
  • Dust & Scratches filter
  • Vanishing Point filter
• Content-Aware Tools
  • Content-Aware Scale
  • Content-Aware Move tool
  • Content-Aware Patch tool
• Lens Correction filter

Professional Sharpening

• Review of Sharpening
• Unsharp Mask filter
• Edge Sharpening
• High Pass filter
• Emboss filter

Prerequisite:

To gain the most from this workshop, participants should have completed PCCI’s  Adobe Photoshop Essentials or have equivalent experience.

Requirements:

Students must have Adobe Photoshop CC (lower versions are acceptable however maybe restricted), Gmail account (for Google Classroom), Zoom application and stable internet connection.

Benefits

1. Includes e-certificate of completion
2. Lifetime Free Refresher  (You may attend again the same course,  free of charge, on a space-available basis.)
3. Alumni discount
4. Enroll in our L2C (Learning to Certification) programs and get a globally recognized certificate. This course is part of:

• Adobe Certified Professional (ACP) Visual Design: Foundations of Design & Print Production certificate program
• Visual Graphic Design NC III certificate program