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2012 photography courses with les walkling
at centre for contemporary photography

Advancing Photoshop™

02–03 June 2012
10–11 November 2012

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This advanced course showcases sophisticated Photoshop™ editing techniques, production strategies and visual problem solving. It is designed for professional photographers, artists and advanced nonprofessionals who want to extend their appreciation, understanding, and imaginative application of Photoshop™ to profoundly enhance their imaging outcomes. The aim is to inspire creative, innovative, productive and efficient image editing solutions. Topics covered include:

Independent Tone and Colour Correction

  • RGB colour: Editing errors and curves that don't work
  • The advantages and problems of working in CIE LAB
  • Dividing and conquering Photoshop™
  • Separating luminosity and chromaticity solutions
  • Minimising quantisation errors

Blending Mode Power Editing

  • Understanding Photoshop's™ Blending Modes
  • Intensification and reduction—Lighten, Darken, Screen, Multiply
  • Editing tone and colour—Color, Hue, Saturation, Luminosity
  • Variable contrast controls—Soft Light, Overlay, Hard Light
  • Layer stacking and alignment—Difference, Subtract, Add

Creative Image Editing

  • Making it believable—illusions and lies
  • Photorealistic—image capture and extraction
  • Advanced selection and processing techniques
  • Advanced sharpening—darken/lighten, hi pass, and deconvolution
  • Real time editing of large image files via low resolution proxies

Advanced Compositing and Masking

  • Luminosity and chromaticity masks—fine detail masking
  • Layer Styles masks—split luminosity masking
  • Blending Mode masks—tone equalization masking
  • Photographic masks—subtractive and additive masking
  • Calculations/Apply Image masks—colour contrast masking

The course is presented through a series of practical applications, analytical demonstrations and critical observations of Photoshop™ techniques and processes. Therefore a working knowledge of Photoshop™ is assumed. While the course focuses on the production advantages of the most recent version of Photoshop™, the knowledge, techniques and distinctions can also be successfully applied to earlier versions. Detailed course notes are provided.

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