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Adobe Photoshop CS4 Introduction Masterclass - London

From beginner to Photoshop master in just 4 days! This scheduled Photoshop Masterclass will take you through a complete introduction to the powerful set of tools available in Photoshop CS4 and within the course of 4 days will develop your image manipulation skills right up to an advanced level. You will learn about the real-life capabilities of Adobe Photoshop CS4 and will understand the features for painting, retouching and enhancing images with selections and layers to produce professional quality images for print, web and mobile devices. More advanced skill areas will all be incorporated into the course to further you understanding of isolating image areas by creating and saving masks with specialised tools, commands, mode and layer elements.

Upon successful completion of this course delegates will be able to:
-Enhance an image by removing colour cast, compensate for flash lightning and red eyes
-Increase/Decrease the contrast and brightness of your artwork
-Create simple compositions by blending images together or selecting only parts of an image
-Create type and produce simple adverts
-Output an artwork for web
-Produce advanced face retouching & manipulation techniques
-Use colour in Photoshop effectively
-Maximise the potential of Photoshop Brush engine
-Work with advanced compositions
-Automate your workflow

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Adobe Photoshop CS4 training at XChangeTraining
 

Price:

£750
 

Duration:

4 Days
 

Course Location:

Central London
 

Course Dates:

 
13 Feb - 16 Apr XChange Training Promotional Offer
Early 2012 Discount
Special offer £650!
 
26 Mar - 29 Mar
 
8 May - 11 May
 
18 Jun - 21 Jun
 

 

  A copy of this quality manual is available to all attendees of this course:
 
 

Adobe Photoshop CS4: Visual Quick Start Guide

  Price listed is per delegate and excludes VAT.
 

XChange Training limit class size (4-8 delegates max) to ensure an excellent quality of training is provided so courses can fill up quickly. Please book up early to guarantee your place.
 

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Adobe Photoshop CS4 Introduction Masterclass - London Outline

The following is a general outline. The range of topics covered during your training is dependent upon student level, time available and preferences of your course booking.

Managing the Adobe Photoshop CS4 Environment
-Exploring default Workspace & Bridge
-Introduction to the Toolbar
-Palette management & Screen real estate
-History Palette & Undoing Actions
-Navigation shortcuts

Working with Selections
-Creating Selections using Magic Wand
-Adjusting Selections
-Quick Selection and Lasso tools
-Combining Selection tools for complex objects
-Saving and Reloading a Selection

Enhancing an Image
-Using Levels and Curves
-Compensate for flash with Shadow & Highlight
-Variations to quickly decide about a colour cast
-Hue & Saturation controls
-Blurring and sharpening using Filters

Painting and Retouching Images
-Digital darkroom techniques
-Clone Stamp and Heal tools
-Creating, saving and loading custom colours
-Painting with Paintbrush, Pencil or Paint Bucket tool
-Introduction to Gradients and painting with Gradients
-Working with Quick Mask mode & Layer Masks

Working with Layers
-Importing images, Layers and Selections
-Transforming Layer Objects & using the Smart Objects
-Starting to build layered compositions
-Applying Transparency
-Basic Blending Modes
-Other goodies as Text Layers, Adjustment Layers and Layer Styles

Outputting your artwork
-Colour modes, Resolution and Image Size
-Cropping an image vs Extending the Canvas
-File formats & optimising artwork for Web

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Advanced Management of the Adobe Photoshop CS4 Environment
-Working with Tool Presets
-Using Layer Comps for layouts
-Exploring default Preferences
-Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts
-Camera Raw files functionality
-Colour management
-Actions, Droplets & Batch processing

Advanced Image Adjustments
-Face Retouch & Manipulation
-Sharpening with Lab Mode
-Grayscale with Black & White Conversion
-Advanced effects with Gradient map
-Photo Filters
-Creating Panoramic images with Photomerge
-Affect Perspective using Vanishing Point

Advanced Painting & Retouching
-Exploring the Brush Engine and creating custom Brushes
-Working with Patterns
-Using Smart Filters
-Liquify Techniques
-Lighting effects and 3D Textures

Advanced Layer Compositions
-Replace colour & Colour Range vs Extract
-Selecting Pixels using Paths
-Advanced Masking with Calculations
-Advanced use of Blending Modes
-Knockouts and Clipping Masks
-Type on a Path

Advanced Outputting features
-Animated bitmaps
-Combining Photoshop and Illustrator
-Creating Multipackage
-Getting It Right In Print


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Course Target Audience and delegate prerequisites

This Photoshop course is suitable for the professional who wants to the knowledge to create and manipulate graphics using Adobe Photoshop for final print, web and mobile output. This course will take delegates from an introduction to Photoshop CS4 right through to an advanced level.

Ahead of taking this course the trainee must have basic PC or Mac skills, including a fundamental understanding of a computer's operating system, how to launch an application and create and save files, as well as how to copy files from CDs and other media.


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Location information for this scheduled course

This course will be offered at the main XChange Training London training centre at:

5 St John’s Lane
Clerkenwell
London
EC1M 4BH

St John’s Lane is located in the heart of Clerkenwell close to the junction of Farringdon and Clerkenwell Road. Farringdon tube & train station is a few minutes away and the office can also be accessed from Chancery Lane and Barbican tubes in about 10 minutes.

Courses are run between 10am and 5pm with an hour break for lunch and both mid morning and mid-afternoon refreshment breaks.

 

Training Centre address
Central London

Tel: 0845 363 1130
Email: info@xchangetraining.co.uk

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Advantages of learning Adobe Photoshop CS4 with XChange Training

-XChange Training is an Adobe Certified Training Centre
-Our Photoshop CS4 trainers are experienced print and design professionals with excellent knowledge of all aspects of print workflows from creating artwork to guaranteeing successful output.
-XChange training focuses on real tasks that reflect how the software is used in professional situations.
-Free Course manual provided for each trainee as excellent post-course reference material.
-Free email support service for 6 months after course included in the price.
-We get consistently good feedback from our clients.

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