Photoshop CS3 Training: Advanced

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Hands-on Adobe Photoshop CS4 Training: Advanced

This 2-day intensive hands-on Photoshop training will take your Photoshop expertise to the next level with all kinds of tips and techniques to improve workflow and expand your creative options. Learn to use channel calculations and image modes to create striking improvements in your images. Streamline the production process with Batch Processing, Actions and Droplets. Create custom styles, patterns and brushes for specialized and repeatable effects. And of course, there’s so much more.

Review of basic concepts
Advanced color correction
Deep dive into 3D

Duotones & colorization
Stunning color with LAB
Professional image enhancement

adobe course curriculum

Streamlining the production Workflow

Time-saving tool presets

The tool presets palette
Using the tool preset manager
Saving, loading and replacing tool presets

Scan settings for optimal output: resolution issues & answers

Advanced image correction & effects

Eliminating dust & scratches
Eliminating moire patterns
Selecting hair & other impossibilities
Plumping lips & shrinking hips; digital cosmetic surgery
Smoothing skin tones
Matching color between images
Rich contrast and range with HDR
Building perfect panoramas
Vibrant color and realistic skin tone
Selective color replacement
Building depth & highlighting your subject
Removing lens distortion
Batch correction with Camera Raw
Channel blending

Special effects with masks & adjustment layers

Masks for content aware scaling
Using filters for non-destructive pattern and styling
Sculpting curves for the ultimate result
Auto color: setting color algorithms for perfect corrections

Printing and color

Making color-to-grayscale conversions pop
Painting by number: optimizing your correction results
Working with spot color and spot channels
Preparing images for two-color printing
Duotones
Achieve dazzling color with CIELAB

Power up with Photoshop automation

Creating picture packages, contact sheets and web galleries
Using actions, droplets and batch processing
Batch renaming and file type conversion
Outputting layer comps to individual files

Creating custom brushes & styles

The sharper image: expert level sharpening techniques

Really understanding unsharp mask
Sharpening channel by channel
Luminance-based sharpening
Sharpening skin tones
Sharpening CMYK images
High pass sharpening
Local sharpening with layers and masks
Sharpening with blur

Deep dive into Photoshop 3D

Lights, camera, action; it's in there
Photoshop 3D for 2D artists
Understanding textures
Changing perspective
3D postcard and built in 3D shapes
Painting in 3D
Simple 3D animation

Understanding color management ICC profiles

The key to color profiles
Print, web or both, how to keep consistently vibrant color

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Adobe authorized training

Mira Images

Adobe Photoshop Training Advanced

Hands-on Adobe Photoshop CS4 Adobe Certified Training: Advanced

2 day class, cost: $749

Students receive a course text as a resource for post-training reference and practice.

All Mira Images Adobe authorized training is provided by certified instructors at our location or yours. Because we know your time is valuable,

We will never cancel your class.

The Mira Images Classroom is located just outside of Philadelphia, PA and is convenient to Harrisburg, PA; New York, NY; New Jersey; Baltimore, MD; Wilmington, DE; and Washington DC.