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Adobe Photoshop Level II

Take your Adobe Photoshop skills to the next level with this advanced class at Manhattan Edit Workshop. Discover typographic design, vector drawing tools, advanced layers techniques, compositing, and more. Perfect for producers, editors, assistant editors, and motion graphic artists looking to expand their Photoshop knowledge.

  • Advanced
  • 18 and older
  • $1,095
  • Virtual Class room
  • 16 hours over 2 sessions
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What you'll learn in this photoshop class:

This two-day advanced class will help you go beyond the basics offered in our Photoshop Level 1 class.

This course offers Photoshop and typographic design, vector drawing tools & techniques , advanced layers techniques, compositing , ImageReady, and color management.

Prerequisite: 

  • Photoshop level I (or comparable experience).

Audience: 

  • Producers
  • Editors
  • Assistant Editors
  • Motion Graphic Artists interested in getting beyond the basics of Adobe Photoshop.

Note: Each student gets their own workstation.

Adobe Photoshop II: Advanced Techniques with Photoshop – Course Outline – (2-Days)

Understanding How Digital Images Work

  • Understanding RGB and CMYK color models (additive and Subtractive)
  • Image size Vs. Resolution - What’s the difference?
  • Pixel Aspect Ratio - Are all pixels square?
  • Bits per channel - What does that mean?
  • Alpha Channel - Why is this important to us?

Adobe Bridge

  • Working with Adobe Bridge
  • Workspace
  • Viewing and managing files
  • Running automated tasks
  • Metadata and keywords
  • Mini Bridge

Camera RAW

  • About camera raw files
  • Applying advanced color correction
  • Understanding Camera RAW
  • Processing Camera RAW files
  • Cropping, straightening and White Balancing
  • Exposure and advanced color correction
  • Open RAW as a Smart Object
  • Synchronize adjustments
  • Export as DNG
  • Open in Photoshop

Advanced Compositing

  • Arranging layers
  • Using Smart Filters
  • Painting a layer
  • Adding a background
  • Using the History Panel to undo tasks
  • Upscaling a low-resolution image HDR
  • 16-bit & 32-bit color space
  • Creating High Dynamic Range (HDR) files

Lesson 7: Correcting Images

  • Correcting digital photographs in Photoshop
  • Correcting image distortion
  • Adding depth of field
  • Auto-align layers
  • Content-aware scaling
  • Content-aware fill

Smart Objects

  • What is a Smart object
  • Copying vs. placing
  • What can I do with a Smart Object?
  • Convert to Smart Object
  • New Smart Object Via Copy
  • Editing the Smart object
  • Export Contents
  • Replace Contents
  • Stacking
  • Introduction to Smart Filters
  • Rasterizing

Vanishing Point

  • Setting up a Vanishing Point grid
  • Placing imported artwork
  • Healing in perspective
  • Copying in perspective
  • Adding artwork in perspective
  • Placing the side panel artwork using Vanishing Point

Adjustment Layers & Filters

  • Working with Adjustment Layers
  • Working with some Filters
  • The filter Gallery
  • Working with Smart Filters
  • Adding an adjustment layer
  • Working with layer comps
  • Modes for groups
  • Layer and Vector Masks for Groups

Layer Comps

  • Understanding Layer Comps
  • Using Layer Comps
  • Exporting Layer Comps

Actions & Scripts

  • Understanding Actions
  • Using Actions
  • Creating Actions
  • Batch Processing
  • Using the Bridge to create web galleries & PDF presentations
  • Using Scripts
  • Script Event Manager to use actions and scripts together
  • Exporting layered files to desktop publishing applications

Painting with the Mixer Brush

  • Selecting brush settings
  • Mixing colors
  • Creating a custom brush preset
  • Mixing colors with a photograph

Producing and Printing Consistent Color

  • About color management
  • CMYK, RGB & LAB
  • Preparing files for printing
  • Getting started
  • Performing a “zoom test”
  • Identifying out-of-gamut colors
  • Adjusting an image
  • Converting an image to CMYK
  • About color management
  • Specifying color-management settings
  • Proofing an image
  • Saving the image as a CMYK EPS file
  • Printing a CMYK image from Photoshop

Note: 

The curricula above comprise activities typically covered in a class at this skill level. The instructor may, at his/her discretion, adjust the lesson plan to meet the needs of the class.

Remote Learning

This course is available for "remote" learning and will be available to anyone with access to an internet device with a microphone (this includes most models of computers, tablets). Classes will take place with a "Live" instructor at the date/times listed below.

Upon registration, the instructor will send along additional information about how to log-on and participate in the class.

School Notes:

Once you have signed up for this class, please email [email protected] if you are signing up for personal improvement or for business and if the company will be paying for your tuition.

Refund Policy

Any transfers and cancellations require written notification to [email protected]

Rescheduling Policy:

  • Bookings transferred by the customer more than 15 business days before the commencement date of the course will incur no transfer fee.
  • Bookings rescheduled by the customer within 1 to 15 business days of the commencement date of the course will incur a $150 transfer fee.

All transferred courses must be completed within 3 months of the commencement date of the original class.

Cancellation/Exclusion Policy:

  • Cancellations by customers made more than 22 business days before course commencement will incur 5% cancellation fee.
  • Cancellations within 9 to 22 business days of course commencement will incur a 50% cancellation fee
  • Cancellations between 1 and 8 business days will incur a 100% cancellation fee.
  • In the event that a customer cancels a booking for which a transfer has taken place, this will incur a minimum 50% cancellation fee.

All refunds for the Six Week Intensive may take a minimum of 10 business days to process regardless of when the cancellation occurs.

Exclusion of a Student by the school may occur if the student displays behavior deemed inappropriate and/or disruptive to other students and/or school faculty. Student will receive 1 (one) written warning regarding behavior. If the behavior in question is repeated, the Student will be removed from the class with a written explanation of their exclusion. In the event that a Student is removed due to the above-mentioned repetitive and/or disruptive behavior, no tuition fees will be refunded.

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

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