Basic PhotoShop
5 week Course
November 5th-December 10th (no class on Thanksgiving) 6:00pm-7:00pm
In this 5 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 computer. 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 briefly 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, image adjustments, basic retouching, and other basic features of Photoshop to get you started using 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
- Opening Up Files in Photoshop
- Crop, 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 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.
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.
Photos On The Vine is a local photography studio which also holds various types of photography classes from beginner classes to studio lighting.
