Photoshop Intermediate.

Course Aims

The aim of this course is to give participants that have already attended the Level 1 course a range of additional techniques in image editing and to introduce them to some of the more advanced tools and techniques used in editing, selecting, compositing and transforming images and creating graphics.

Course Brief

Advanced Selection Tools and Techniques

•   Using the Lasso tool for cut-outs and specific selections
•   Magic Wand Options
•   Saving Selections
•   Inverting and growing selections

Transformation and Perspective
•   Work with the free form transformation
•   Distort, skew, warp, rotate, scale and perspective
•   Transform a selection

More about Layers

•   Blending Options – Bevel and Emboss, Satin
•   Working with Layer Masks
•   Shape Layers
•   Fill and Adjustment Layers
•   Grouping and organising Layers

Further Text Options

• Paragraph and Character formatting
• Warping Text

Colour Tools

• Working with the Swatches palette
• Creating, saving and editing Gradients

Filters

•   Using Filters to improve quality.
•   Artistic filters
•   Filters that distort or effect

Workshops

During the course we will complete mini workshops to allow participants the opportunity to practice the techniques demonstrated and the functionalities learnt.

Workshop 1: Healing and Patching a photograph

Workshop 2: Creating a Poster from an Image

Workshop 3: Partial Recolouring
Workshop 4: Selection Compositing

Workshop 5: Colouring a Black & White Photo

Workshop 6: Using Filters