Photoshop - Advanced

This course will cover a more in depth look at : - Best practice knowledge with file sizes and designing for different outcomes - Using a variety of selection techniques and performing more complex selections - Exploring high colour, replacing colour and selective colour - Working with photographic effects postproduction. Vignettes, depth of field blur & Colour Grading Techniques - Brushes and Digital Painting and how to create a brush. - Landscapes & Replacing Skies - Non-Destructive Dodge and Burn - Exploring retouching and correcting through the process of Portraiture editing. - Double Exposure effects working with figures and landscape. - Using Blending Modes and Overlays to stack up subtle colour effects - Frequency Separations and High Pass Sharpening on portraits. - Colour Grading effects with Gradient Maps. - Making and applying Actions. - Collage techniques exploring unifying, blending and lighting to achieve high quality composite imagery.

The college uses windows-based systems not apple-based systems. This does not preclude you from using your apple product however please be aware that there can be slight differences in how you approach certain applications that are primarily written by Microsoft for windows.

Please note there are no classes during half term.