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"Coming from a position of absolutely no web experience at all, I feel quite confident that I can go away after these 3 days and create the website almost exactly how I would like it to be. Alex was brilliant!!"

Lee, Twyford C of E High School.

"3 days was just the right amount of time - good to have the opportunity to practice and ask questions. More of an HTML/CSS course rather than a Dreamweaver course - but for me that's more beneficial."

Alison, Tectura UK.

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David, Jog Limited.

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21st Century Media - Compleate Adobe PhotoShop (2 Day) - Scheduled Courses

Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator are the industry standard and professionals' choice for image editing and graphic design. With expert training and the right direction the Photoshop user is able to manipulate photographs, create montages and using multiple layers and filters, restore, enhance or obscure image files. We will show you how to bleed or enhance colour, blur and sharpen edges, blend multiple images and much more. Photoshop is widely used by hobbyists, enthusiasts and professionals alike for private and public purposes when creating or manipulating images for use in print production and the web, making this suite the number one priority on any photographer or designers CV.

Attending 21st Century's Complete Adobe Photoshop Training course will arm you with all of the essential skills, know-how and exclusive insider tips and tricks to set you on the way to digitally enhancing your photography and producing professional looking images, ready for the print in no time and with minimal effort. We include only the most relevant, useful and practical information to form this concise, yet comprehensive course.


In a short time you will become accustomed to working with various file formats, image sizes and resolutions, mastering professional airbrush and touch-up techniques and learning how to automate and speed up your work flow; all the methods, shortcuts, and hints used daily by leading photographers and designers. During the course there is time for you to work with personal projects, putting into practice your new found skills and transforming your images and creative ideas into works even the most experienced Photoshop user would be proud to credit.

All of 21st Century New Media's training courses are mentored by industry leading professionals, coaching small groups at a steady pace ensuring that you will benefit from only the best tutelage and practical application. As award winning industry professionals, who have used the products we teach on a daily basis for over a decade, training with us puts you in the ideal environment to learn the most commonly used techniques from those most experienced. The Complete Adobe Photoshop course is geared to assist your personal and professional development from scratch giving you the knowledge and experience of working with this essential piece of software and understanding of the most commercially important aspects.

Duration: 2 days.

Location: 21st Century New Media (Production Offices), Elstree Film Studios, Shenley Road, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire WD6 1JG. [MAP]

Prerequisites: To gain the most from this class, it is essential that you are familiar with Windows, including creating, deleting and moving files and folders and understand how to use the web and basic terminology. It is recommended that delegates familiarize themselves with the Photoshop interface before attending the course, a free trial download can be found here.

About the Tutor:The trainier has been developing award winning websites for 15 years and using his specialist knowledge to train top professionals for over a decade. His more prestigious clients have included the BBC, Lloyds of London and the Ministry of Defence as well as working regularly with universities, councils and leading magazines. With a BTEC First Diploma in design; including Photography, Fine Art, Design and Sculpture, along with his extensive professional design and training experience, Our trainer is the ideal coach to help advance and hone any candidates skills within applications he will use on a daily basis.

COURSE CONTENT

The Interface

• Toolbox
• Context Menus
• Tool Options Bar
• Menu Bar
• Palette Well
• Rulers
• Guides and grid
• Navigating in Photoshop
• Shortcuts
• File Browser

Managing Palettes

• Layers
• Channels
• Paths
• History
• Navigator
• Styles
• Actions
• Info

Working With Photoshop Tools

• Painting
• Selecting
• Editing
• Using Vectors and Paths
• Canvas Size
• Image Size
• Transform
• Rotate Canvas
• Photoshop Filters

Adjusting and Retouching Images Tonality

• Levels Curves
• Auto Levels

Colour

• Complementary Colours
• Colour Balance
• Hue/Saturation
• Desaturate

Focus

• Actual Pixels
• Scaling
• Sharpen
• Sharpen More
• Sharpen Edges

Understanding Digital Colour

• Colour Channels
• Bit Depth
• Additive and Subtractive Colours
• Complementary Colours
• RGB
• CMYK
• Grayscale
• Duotone
• Indexed Colour

Understanding File Properties

• Vector vs. Bitmapped Editing
• File Size, Image Size
• Input and Output Resolution

Saving Files

• PSD
• TIFF
• JPEG
• EPS

Creating a Montage

• Adjusting and Retouching multiple Images
• Using Selection Tools
• Cutting out multiple Images
• Cropping Images
• Managing Layers
• Adjusting and Retouching multiple Images
• Using Selection tools
• Masking Multiple images
• Creating Shape
• Using Content- and Object -Layers
• Using Layer Masks
• Managing Layer Sets

Working With Layers

• Layers and Backgrounds
• Layer Types, Sets and Styles
• Layer Opacity
• Creating Layers
• Duplicating Layers
• Merging Layers
• Deleting Layers
• Photoshop text
• Re-arranging Layers
• Linking Layers
• Photoshop text
• Object layers
• Layer masks
• Layer options
• Layer blending modes
• Adjustment layers
• Gradient layers
• Solid Colour layers
• Pattern layers
• Shape layers
• Type layers

Retouching

• Rubberstamp Tool
• Healing Brush
• Patch Tool
• Non Linear vs. Linear Adjustments
• Colour Editing with Curves
• Unsharp-Masking
• Retouching Techniques
• Blending Modes
• History Brush Retouching

Working with Selections

• Editing Selections
• Using Quickmask
• Transforming Selections
• Saving Selections as Alpha Channels
• Colour Range
• Adding
• Subtracting
• Transforming
• Contracting
• Type selection

Working with Photoshop Filters

• Wave
• Polar Co-ordinates
• Twirl
• Ripple
• 3D Transform
• Colour Halftone
• Lighting Effects
• Displacement Mapping
• Minimum
• Maximum
• Noise
• Solarise
• Creating Custom Textures

Design Techniques and Special Effects

• Mask editing in Photoshop
• Masks for Montages
• Masks for Adjustments
• Image Extraction
• Complex Cutouts
• Selective blurring
• Matting and Defringing
• Levels on Masks
• Selections on Masks

Working with the Action Palette

• Automate
• Batch-Processing
• Droplets
• Recording Actions
• Playing actions
• Editing actions
• Break-Points
• Picture Package
• Resolution dependant actions
• Pre-set actions

Adobe Photoshop Training Courses
Date	Days	Total (Excl VAT)
June 2008
5/6/08	2	500
July 2008
14/7/08	2	500
August 2008
11/8/08	2	500

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