Adobe PhotoshopCC 2015

Adobe Photoshop

Beginn: 04.02.2016 09:00
Ende: 05.02.2016 17:00
Vortragende(r): Vera U. Wirth, brainworks Training GmbH
Ort: Seewiesen
Raum: Seminar Room House 4
Gastgeber: IMPRS for Organismal Biology
Kontakt: mhieber@orn.mpg.de

AdobePhotoshop is the focal point of the AdobeCreativeCloud and for many tasks in the creative industry this software is the preferred tool for developing templates, layouts, image-processing etc. This training will give you basic and useful techniques to manage Photoshop: Preferences, Color-Management, file-format for export, working effectively with layers, cropping and masking as basic foundation in using AdobePhotoshop successfully in retouching, image-processing and composing.

Target group: Practitioners in the advertising and creative industries. Ad agencies, Marketing departments, Graphic designers and digital artists.

Requirements: Good PC or Mac skills. This explicitly includes file-management: Creating folders and directories, and opening, saving or moving files.

Topics:

1 Colormanagement

Difference between RGB- and CMYK-color space
Correct settings for pdf-print
Composite workflow
Different export formats for different devices

2 Selections – Cropping & Masking

The different tools for selections –their correct options and application
Masking – and improve edges
Layer-masks
Understanding the Channels-Panel
Working with Alpha-channels

3 Layers & Adjustment-Layers

Knowing the layer-panel
Naming, grouping, copying and exporting layers
Layer-styles and effects
Working with Smart-Objects
Understanding adjustment-layers for non-destructive editing
Blend options

4 Composing & Retouching

General image corrections
Histogram & Info-panel
Correcting exposure: black point, white point
Colorcast, match colours
Tools and their options for retouching, brushes and their possibilities
Replacing image-parts
Replace Colors
Convert to Black & White

5 Working with Colours, Shapes & Text

Colours in Photoshop: Mixing, saving, importing/exporting
Vector-objects in Photoshop: fill and stroke
Transforming, arranging and aligning shapes
Paths in Photoshop: Mastering the Pen-Tool
Working with Text
Text-transform and text-export