ROYAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY WORKSHOPS - Tel: 01225 325 733    Email: reception@rps.org

Still Getting to Grips with PhotoShop?

The Royal Photographic Society practical photography workshops are limited to 10 participants to ensure that individual attention from the tutor is possible. You also have your own computer to work on so as you learn you can put it straight into practice.   The next workshop is on the 15th & 16th July 2006 at a cost of £145.00.

Please find below further details on what we cover on this course.

Beginners PhotoShop

During this two day course you will learn different aspects of PhotoShop CS2 from an introduction to Adobe Bridge and Adobe Camera Raw, through to PhotoShop. Using both your own images and specifically chosen lesson related images (provided by your tutor) you will learn commonly used procedures and techniques.

Day 1
Digital Raw - Learn the advantages of using Camera Raw format when taking images.

Adobe Bridge and Camera Raw
€  Using Bridge to enhance your workflow
€  Mastering Camera Raw
€  View and edit Metadata: The smarter image
€  Exploiting automation using Adobe Bridge

Intro to PhotoShop
€  Getting images into Photoshop
€   Understanding your work area
€  Rotating, resizing and cropping
€   Understanding file formats for print or web
€ Navigation in a document
€  Undoing and history
€  Saving your image
€  Jpegs, tiffs and PSD file formats explained
€  Basic automation

Day 2
Image Editing
€  Standard brush tools
€  Focus, toning, smudge tools
€  Retouching images
€  Clone stamp
€  Healing brush

Selections
€  Creating and modifying selections
€  Marquee and lasso tools
€  Magic wand tool
€  Selecting a colour range
€  Transforming
€  Feathering

Basic layers
€  Creating and using layers
€  Managing layers
€  Levels, curves, hue/saturation, colour balance and colour/contrast layers

Type
€  Adding type
€  Type on a path

Filters
€  Using filters
€  Gaussian and lens blurs
€  Unsharp mask

Printing
€  Setting up your monitor for colour management
€  Colour modes
€  How to print on your home printer

Course Requirements

This course is suitable for those with no or little experience of Photoshop. Design skills are not essential, but knowledge of the basic functions of your camera and computer skills are.