Photoshop Skills for Digital Imaging
Mastery of Photo Shop is essential for getting the ultimate from your photography and your best fine-art images for exhibition, competition or books. What you will learn from this workshop is that Adobe Photoshop is a powerful imaging program which is not hard to use. Soon you will be producing some amazing images from your initial camera capture, regardless of whether you have a point and shoot camera, or a more sophisticated Digital SLR.

This course will introduce you gently to the complex and sometimes baffling array of functions on offer from this digital darkroom and give you a thorough grounding that will allow you to work on your images in ways you never thought possible.

Workshop Outline

• Removing the mystique and learning to enjoy the creativity of Photoshop
• Correct setting up of Photoshop to maximize ease of working, speed and potential
• Managing, opening, closing, saving, re‐sizing files
• File types and their use ….. not very complex at all!
• The power of layers – the basis of Photoshop
• The magic of adjustment layers – quality without the size (or overloaded computers)
• Levels and curves … different or the same outcomes?
• Easy colour corrections ….. seeing it as it is or giving it a new look
• Dodging and burning non‐destructively …. darkroom magic the digital way
• Cropping, straightening and adjusting perspective … simplicity itself with great results
• Clone, patch, healing brush and Content aware …. The ‘secret’ retouching tools used by all Masters
• Using masks …. Reveal the hidden treasures captured, from global and local enhancements
• Saving time with actions …… efficiency with creative flair
• Adobe Camera Raw….advanced options to bring out the tones hiding within your images
• Sharpening …. with finesse and sensitivity including Nick’s favourite plug-ins

THINGS TO KNOW

Light lunch provided and included in price.
If you have any special dietary requirements please email our staff on info@universityclub.uwa.edu.au. Unfortunately we are unable to accommodate any dietary requirements without 48 hour notification.