We will be addressing the following:
1. Photoshop setup
a. General
b. Units and rulers
c. Plugins and scratch disks
d. Memory and image cache
2. Colour space - SRGB vs. Adobe RGB
3. Understanding dpi and megapixels
4. A brief look at raw file handling
5. Locating white and black
6. Basic colour management and colour casts removal
7. Channels - Red for smooth
8. Glamour techniques
a. Soft focus
b. Magazine cover glamour skin
9. Sharpening
a. Unsharp mask
b. Highpass sharpening
c. Lab sharpening
d. Smart sharpening
10. Managing lighting conditions
a. Making a white overexposed sky blue again
b. Getting rid of 'flat' lighting conditions
c. Removing hotspots from people's faces
d. Correct exposure from generally over-and underexposed images
e. Creating HDR (high dynamic range) manually - and better than Photoshop's HDR command
11. Other techniques
a. Creating actions
b. Layers - The grimm tale
c. Editing in perspective
d. Opening eyes and matching skin tones

If you are new to Photoshop, you need to complete the beginners course before attending the advanced course, as I expect the students to know the basic tools of Photoshop by then.

Venue

Date: 22 November 2008 to 29 November 2008
Location: St. Alban's College, Pretoria, Pretoria
Cost: R1,100.00

Contact: Johan
Company name: Teach Me Photoshop
Telephone number: +27 84 880 0055
Email address info@teachmephotoshop.co.za