Photoshop Photo Montage and Photo Retouching
Adobe Photoshop Course

Intermediate and advanced Photoshop montage and photo retouching course for Adobe Photoshop in Birmingham, Midlands and UK.
Learn photo editing, colour adjustment, photo retouching, manipulation, photo montage and compositing with this custom Adobe Photoshop course.

This photo montage and photo editing course is for current Photoshop users who wish to cover photo retouching and photo manipulation, photo montage and compositing techniques in some detail. It is probably most useful for photographers and anyone who wants to produce high quality photographs and images for marketing materials.

It is a custom course and is intended to be based around working with some of your own projects and designs. There will be a lot of emphasis given to non-destructive image editing and getting the best image quality.

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Adobe Photoshop course summary

Course duration: 2 days (or 1 day selective course)
Level: intermediate and advanced
Software: Adobe Photoshop CS4, CS3, CS2, CS, Photoshop 7
Numbers: One to one or small groups of up to 4
Trainees in a group should have the same skill level and the same requirements.
Locations:
1) At client's site in Birmingham, this course may be available in other UK areas.
2) For one or two trainees, here in South Birmingham (CS3, CS2, 7)
Requirements:
You should have good basic knowledge of Photoshop, including the main tools, resizing and resolution, basic colour correction, basic use of layers.

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Photoshop photo montage course & photo retouching course outline

This is a typical course outline, but may vary depending on your specific requirements.

Colours and Image Improvement:

Using Levels, Curves, Colour Balance, Hue Saturation, Selective Colour, etc to improve images:

Adjusting the brightness and contrast of an image
Removing a colour cast
Using Adjustment Layers to make non-destructive colour changes to images

Selectively lightening or darkening areas of the photograph
Selectively adjusting the colour for part of the image or for a certain range of colours
(e.g. removing redness from skin tones, making the sky more blue, making grass less yellow)

Producing a tinted photograph e.g. a sepia toned effect from a colour or B&W photograph
Creating a good quality greyscale image from a colour photograph

Producing an image with both colour and B&W areas from a colour photo
Using the colour adjustment tools to create artistic colour changes

Photograph Retouching

Using Clone Stamp tool, selection tools, masks, layers, painting tools, blending modes and colour adjustment tools to retouch and modify images:

Removing red eye from a photograph taken with flash
Changing the colour of an area of the image (e.g. change the a flower from pink to blue)
Selectively lightening or darkening areas of the photograph with dodge and burn tools
Selectively colouring areas of a photograph to resemble a hand tinted B&W photograph

Retouching a damaged photograph - removing scratches and tears
Restoring damaged areas of the photograph, where areas are missing or damaged
Retouching out unwanted areas of a photo

Changing the colour of a background - e.g. changing the colour of the sky in a photograph
De-focusing the background of an image, e.g. blurring the background of a portrait

Using the History Brush to restore parts of an image after making changes

Compositing, montage and advanced retouching

Removing unwanted items from a photo
Adding items to photographs
Using Layers, Layer Masks and Adjustment layers

Replacing the background of an image with another background (e.g. add a different sky)

Stitch together 2 or more images, e.g.
• create a panoramic image
• or take 2 people from different photographs and place into one photograph
   - Select and cut out or mask image elements
   - Bring together into one image
   - Clean up and retouch problem areas and modify masks

Create a photographic design / montage
   - Select and cut out or mask image elements
   - Bring images together into one image
   - Add text or Illustrator artwork if required
   - Blend together images and graphics with different blend modes and opacities

Coping with images of different brightness when compositing
Using adjustment layers to adjust colours of individual layers in the montage

Using a copy of a colour channel to create an image mask or a selection of a difficult area

Various

Creating textures and patterns for backgrounds

Creating a line art effect from a photograph
Using lighting effects and motion blur filters to add depth to an image

Creating vignettes and artistic borders around photographs

System requirements for working with high resolution images

+ any areas required from other Photoshop course outlines may be included if required

Main features used:
Colour Adjustments and Adjustment Layers
Dodge and Burn tools
Clone stamp tool & painting tools
Layers and Layer Masks
Opacity and Blend Modes
Selection tools
Channels
History Brush

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This Photoshop course is available on-site in Birmingham and Midlands areas, including Redditch, Bromsgrove and Solihull.
Adobe Photoshop training is available for one or two people at our premises in South Birmingham.
Similar Adobe Photoshop courses may be arranged with trainers around the UK.

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