4 week Basic PhotoShop Course
February 1st- February 22nd. Monday nights 6:30pm-8:30pm
In this 4 week Basic PhotoShop Class, we will begin by learning the basics of LightRoom. Lightroom is a program that will be included with your subscription purchase of PhotoShop through Adobe Creative Cloud. I highly encourage students to download both of these programs with their $10/month subscription. Lightroom is a very powerful program to help you learn proper workflow from camera to jpeg. We will use LightRoom to adjust our images for exposure in photos, create black and whites, sepia, and other easy effects for our photographs. Lightroom will only be covered the first night. This is not a Lightroom Course, but having a brief introduction is helpful before using PhotoShop.
Then, we will quickly move on to PhotoShop to cover the basics of sharpening, cropping for printing, advanced color/ image adjustments, basic retouching, and using layers to create photo collective designs. This 4 week course will get you up and using Lightroom and PhotoShop to easily edit your photographs and get them ready for printing.
- Importing Your Files from a Card Reader
- Creating Unique Folders and Saving on an External Hard Drive
- Importing images into Lightroom
- Basic Adjustments such as Exposure, Cropping, Vignetting in Lightroom
- Exporting to Photoshop and saving images as a .jpeg
- Learning Photoshop workspace and toolbars
- Cropping for Printing, Advanced Exposure Adjustments, Sharpening
- Basic Editing Such as Retouching Wrinkles and Smoothing Out Skin
- Removing or Adding Items to your Photographs
- Getting Started with Layers to do more with your images.
What You Will Need:
- Your computer already loaded with Lightroom and Photoshop. If you are paying the monthly subscription fee for Photoshop *$10 a month, then Lightroom is included in that bundle. Please download these programs before the night of the Class. Open these programs up, and make sure you know where to find these programs on your computer. We will not have time to download any programs during class. Please be ready to open the program and get started on Night One of Class.
This will be a hands on class and we will be working individually and together to learn how to take the images from a RAW state and the workflow designed to edit, and prepare the file to ultimately present to a client, or print.
Audience
This is a basic photo editing class designed for the photographer who would like to learn how to manage and edit their photographs.
This class needs a minimum number of students to enroll before the class can “make”. If the minimum enrollment has not been met 2 business days before the class date, the class will be canceled or rescheduled for a later start date. All students who have enrolled in the class, will be notified by telephone or email and may transfer to a different class or be issued a refund. We encourage all students to enroll as soon as registration begins.
Photos On The Vine is a local photography studio which also holds various types of photography classes from beginner classes to studio lighting.
