Week 3 Main Links ---Photoshop for Photographers

Subjects

1. Setting up Photoshop and Photoshop Elements
2. How Photoshop Works
3. Selections
4. Layers
5. Masks

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• Home
• Week 3 Outline
• PhotoShop Settings
• Mask-Merging
• What's New --Content Aware Fill

Objectives

Setting up Photoshop for best performance

Learning the Work Environment, The canvas, tools, tool bar options and the dialogue panels.

The "power" in Photoshop is: Adjustment Layers, Selections and Masks

Homework

Besides Practice, practice, practice it's time to share your before and after photos….  post a sample of your work to the class photo share site. You'll be getting an e-mail shortly

 

Next up:  Layer Tips and non-destructive editing...

Week 4 Review --Class schedule for November-December

Week 4 Outline

Editing in Photoshop

Subjects

1. Color Management
2. The Adjustment Panel
3. Levels And Curves
4. Non destructive editing in Photoshop
   • The Healing Brush and Spot Healing Tool
   • Spot content Aware Fill
5. Key Board Short Cut of the Day
   • To make a Flattened copy of visible layers
     • Mac (Command + Option + Shift + E)
     • PC (Control + Alt + Shift + E)

Links to Tutorials

• Home
• Week 4 Outline
• Settings
• Levels and Curves
• The Spot Healing Brush
• Studio Print -Action

Objectives

1. Color Management -Two PDF's (right Click Downloads)
   • Color Management - Simplified
   • Color Management - The Details
2. The Adjustment Panel
3. Levels And Curves
4. Non destructive editing in Photoshop

Class Schedule PS4P Part 2

Just a reminder for you to mark your calendar...

• 2 weeks off ---classes resume on...
  • 11/19/2011
  • 11/26/2011 No Class Thanksgiving weekend
  • 12/03/2011
  • 12/10/2011
  • 12/17/2011

Homework

Practice, practice, practice and post a sample of your work to the class photo share site.

Photoshop4Photographers --Week 1 Links

Week 1 Outline

Settings

Subjects

1. Bridge/Organizer
2. Photoshop Layout and Settings
3. Camera Raw Settings
4. Content Aware Fill

 

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The links below will take you to the class web site and material covering most of what was covered in class!

• Home
• Week 1
• Settings
• Acquiring the Photographs
• What's New --Content Aware Fill

Objectives

• The Monitor
• Install the latest updates
• Learn The layout
  • Bridge
    • Make a Meta Data file
    • Set Camera Raw Prefs
  • Camera Raw Settings
    • Space, size, depth and resolution
  • Photoshop Settings
    • Preferences, Scratch Disk, Undo's, etc.
    • Color Management
    • Sampling
• Something New

Materials

The PS4P I CD

Homework

Apply the "settings" for Bridge/Photoshop and Camera Raw on your personal computer