Introduction to Photoshop Training Class

Next Class – March 3 & 4, 2022

Taught Live Online using Zoom. Attend the class from anywhere!
Class timing: 10am – 5pm EST

• $545 Early Bird Registration (Before February 21).
• $595 Regular Price (After February 21)

Small group training with an expert instructor. Space is limited!

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Class Description

This Photoshop training class will teach you everything you need to know to get started with Photoshop, including: the interface, the tools, photo corrections, retouching images, layers, masks, channels, cropping and resizing, typography, painting, drawing, and exporting for the web. The class is an intensive, hands-on introduction to Photoshop with a focus on creating real-world projects. You will learn by doing!

In this Photoshop training class, the Web Guru will expertly guide you through the program, from the very beginning all the way up to some intermediate and advanced techniques.  Upon completion of this course you will be able to use Photoshop with confidence in a myriad of real-world situations, to touch up existing artwork or to create your own from scratch.

Some of the real-world projects that you will work on in this Photoshop training class include:

• a postcard
• a magazine cover
• a flyer and marketing poster
• social media graphics
• retouching old family photos
• retouching real estate images
• exporting for web and social media
• much more

Who should take class?

• New Photoshop users
• Photographers, graphic designers, web designers, marketers, content creators, communicators and others who need to use Photoshop with confidence
• No prior experience with Photoshop is necessary, though you should have basic computer skills

What’s Included?

• Instruction from an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) and Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI), who is also an experienced web and graphic designer
• Detailed notes
• Lesson files and hands-on exercises

About the Instructor

The Web Guru, also known as Navin Kulshreshtha, is a published author, Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI), and YouTube creator with over 1 million views. He has taught hundreds of groups and individuals including: NBC/Universal, NASA TV, WKMG News 6, Boeing, Costco and many others.

Detailed Curriculum

Note: The following is the standard curriculum for the class, and is always customized to meet the needs of the students who attend.

1. Getting Started

• Creating a new file
• Using the tools
• Panning and zooming
• Customizing workspace
• Sampling a color
• Undoing actions
• Real-world project: creating a postcard

2. Basic Photo Corrections

• Resolution and image size
• Cropping and straightening image
• Retouching
• Removing dust and scratches
• Histogram
• Levels adjustment
• Color balance
• Repairing areas using Clone Stamp tool
• Using Spot Healing Brush tool
• Sharpening image
• Boosting Saturation
• Real-world project: correcting old family photograph

3. Working with Selections

• Selection tools
• Quick Selection tool
• Magic Wand tool
• Lasso tool
• Magnetic and Polygonal Lasso tool
• Moving and resizing selections
• Refining edge of selection
• Resizing and moving a selection
• Real-world project: create a collage of various shapes

4. Layer Basics

• About layers
• Layers Panel
• Rearranging layers
• Hiding and locking layers
• Applying a gradient to a layer
• Applying a layer style
• Flattening and saving files
• Real-world project: create a marketing poster

5. Fixing Images

• Improving a snapshot
• Red eye removal
• Adjusting facial features with Liquify
• Blurring a background
• Creating a panorama
• Filling empty areas with content aware fill
• Correcting image distortion
• Extending depth of field
• Moving objects with Content-Aware move tool
• Adjusting perspective of image
• Real-world projects: correct various images

6. Painting and Drawing

• Painting with brush tool
• Drawing with pencil tool
• Using the Shape tools: Line, Rectangle, Ellipse, Polygon, Custom Shapes
• Foreground and background colors
• Choosing colors
• Creating and adding gradients
• Adding drop shadow and other effects
• Adding texture
• Custom brushes
• Adjust brush size, rotation, hardness
• Real-world project: create a nature scene from scratch

7. Masks and Channels

• Working with masks and channels
• Creating a quick mask
• Editing a mask
• Viewing channels
• Loading mask as selection
• Applying effects using gradient mask
• Removing background from image
• Inverting a mask
• Using type as a mask

8. Typographic Design

• About type
• Typography basics
• Create clipping mask from type
• Create design elements from type
• Paragraph text
• Warping text
• Add effects
• Real-world project: create a magazine cover

9. Advanced Compositing

• Assembling montage of images
• Applying filters
• Hand coloring
• Applying SmartFilters
• Drop shadows and borders
• Stitching a panorama
• Fading images using layer mask
• Blending modes

10. Exporting for Print and Web

• Exporting for the web and social media
• Comparing web file formats: GIF, JPG, PNG
• Cropping and resizing
• Preparing files for print

Next Class – March 3 & 4, 2022

Taught Live Online using Zoom. Attend the class from anywhere!
Class timing: 10am – 5pm EST

• $545 Early Bird Registration (Before February 21).
• $595 Regular Price (After February 21)

• REGISTER NOW