Adobe Photoshop Hands-On Intensive

Learn the essential skills you need to create powerful images with Adobe Photoshop, the industry standard for digital photo editing and graphic design. This class will teach you competent color correcting and enhancing, retouching, compositing, and more.

Because Photoshop is so complex, we'll start by asking what you want to learn and focusing on those aspects of the program. We'll cover the essentials like the tools, interface, and features, dive deeply into layers and selections, and sprinkle the day with easter eggs and power-user techniques. You'll walk away knowing how to use Photoshop effectively.

Tour and tools:

• Using and customizing the Photoshop workspace
• Basic painting and brush tools
• Palettes, menus, and tool options

Image types:

• Raster vs. vector images
• Differences between JPEG, GIF, TIFF and other raster image formats
• Choosing the right format for the media

Layers:

• Using layers to work better and faster
• Showing, hiding, grouping, and merging layers
• Applying cool effects
• Non-destructive editing with masks, adjustments and filters

Masks, filters, and effects:

• What filters do and where, how and why we use them
• Applying filters and effects with subtlety and finesse
• Making good selections for precision control
• The QuickMask feature

Putting it all together:

• Implementing a Photoshop workflow
• Other uses for Photoshop
• Resources for future learning

Presented in Adobe CS6, but most of what is taught will apply to earlier versions of the program.

We recommend students bring their lunch in order to participate in the discussions that will occur during the lunch break.

Tim Meehan

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Optional Payment Plan for Transitions Certificate Programs:

We want to make our training as accessible as possible so we offer a simple payment plan for our Transitions Certificate Programs. Each of the 4 payments is 25% of the total registration fee with no finance charges or other costs. The first payment will be taken when you register and the remaining 3 payments are paid every month for the following 3 months (detailed payment information in the table below). It's easy to take advantage of this option and we encourage you to sign up early since these programs often fill up fast! If you're interested, don't register online. Instead, please contact BDA staff at 303-800-4647 or email us with the name and start date of the program you wish to attend (info@boulderdigitalarts.com) and we'll get you setup, take your first payment, and confirm your registration.

 

Payment Program Details

	BDA Member	Non-Member
Payment 1 Paid at time of registration.	$62.25	$72.25
Payment 2 Due one month after registration.	$62.25	$72.25
Payment 3 Due two months after registration.	$62.25	$72.25
Payment 4 Due three months after registration.	$62.25	$72.25
Note: registrants using the payment plan are not eligible for the early registration discount and always pay the standard registration fee ($249.00 for BDA members and $289.00 for non-members).