May 18, 2024
at 9:00am -
6:00pm
with Ty Arthur Swartz, M.Photog.Cr., CPP
This training and certification preparation course will help you learn Photoshop skills by giving you the hands-on experience needed to take the Adobe Certified Professional in Visual Design Using Adobe Photoshop. This course is designed to help beginner and intermediate photographers learn real-world, project-based techniques that cover the basics and more by providing numerous tips, tricks, and techniques to help you become more productive with Adobe Photoshop.You will learn to correct and improve digital images, seamlessly remove backgrounds, repair images, replace skies, explore advanced filters, select subjects quickly and precisely, composite multiple images, and combine them with topography, edit raw images, automate tasks, save and export digital files correctly for web, mobile devices, and print.This is a four-project course that will help prepare you to take the Adobe Certified Professional exam for Photoshop. Images will be provided, but you can bring your own images to incorporate into each project if you desire. Please note that you should have Adobe Photoshop 2023 (24.x) for this course. You will learn all the features of Adobe Creative Cloud, how to install new fonts, manage and customize the workspace, tools and work with properties, color sampling, panels, and panel management. Basic Photo Corrections, Working with Selections, Layer Basics, Quick Fixes, Masks and Channels, Typography Design, Vector Drawing, Advanced Compositing, Painting with the Mixer Brush, Working with Camera RAW, Preparing files for the Web, Producing and printing consistent color, Exploring Neutral Filters.Typically, students have about 150 hours working with Photoshop to prepare themselves for the Certification exam. This course will focus on the Adobe Rubric, which focuses on mastering routine tasks and graphic design principles used to create visual design work. For this course, we will focus on the five main areas needed to prepare for certification 1. Working in the Design Industry, 2. Project Setup and Interface, 3. Organizing Documents, 4. Creating and Modifying Visual Elements, 5. Publishing Digital Media. Attendees will also receive information on how to prepare for a certification exam, what to practice, and the importance of developing a consistent and streamlined workflow. In the past four years, I have educated and trained over 600 students with a 95% certification pass rate. Many photographers taught themselves Photoshop and have developed many bad habits. This course will help you develop the skills needed to pass the certification test while improving your skills, understanding, and efficiency using Adobe Photoshop.
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