Adobe Photoshop - Photo Enhancement Workshop

• Proficiency in computer usage
• Knowledge of the field of digital photography

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to use Adobe Photoshop's photo-enhancement features as they step through a series of hands-on exercises to improve the quality of a set of sample photographs.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Apply Photoshop's photo enhancing features to alter the quality of a photograph
• Adjust the sharpness and blur to bring out the key features of a photograph
• Change the coloring and facial expressions in photographs
• Prepare photographs for printing or development

Audience

• Photography beginners and enthusiasts

Format of the course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Basic Features

• Introduction, overview of the interface
• Basic bitmap graphics, issue resolution raster image building
• Basic functions, resize, resolution, cropping, rotating, handling curves
• File types and extensions graphics
• The basic color correction
• Tools to blur and sharpen

Managing Colors

• Color models, color temperature calibration issue
• Tool selection and their settings, working with selections
• Methods for conversion to grayscale
• Tone correction
• Color correction
• The effects of color, creativity in color
• Prepare an image file for printing or development

Retouching

• Retouch photos, remove unwanted elements and defects
• Glamour Retouch (digital make-up)
• Correction of figures
• Creative Retouch

Filters, effects and bluring

• Using filters, the creative use of
• Styling photos on popular styles
• Using Iris Blur to create shallow depth of field
• Using Dodge, Burn and Sponge to alter the finish of a photo
• Summary and conclusion