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Training Course Summary:

Photoshop CS3 Level 2: Advanced and New CS3 Features is for those who want to take their Photoshop skills to the next level. Alpha channels, professional retouching techniques, nondestructive filtering and more will be covered. In addition, we will cover the new features of Photoshop CS3, such as Device Central, Zoomify, Refine Edge, and more.

Pre-Requisites:

This is an Advanced Photoshop course for people who have all ready learned from the Intro course and feel confident that they know the all of its course content.

Who Should Attend:

For people who want to advance their skills and learn greater control from not only tools within the application but also how to use the tools ion combination and the methods needed to achieve the best results. You will be experienced with Layers and Masks and have professional experience of working with Photoshop.

Training Course Overview/Content:

Using Bridge and Device Central
Incorporating Metadata that transcends across all Adobe CS2 applications

Using the Bridge Center to buy stock photos & saving files in a group

Use stacks to organize multiple versions of the same file, group related files, or gather files to send to Photoshop CS3 or Illustrator CS3 for batch processing.

Zooming in on images with the new CS3 Loupe tool

Preview, test, and optimize your designs, including Flash Lite applications, for numberous mobile devices
New CS3 Features: Layers, Selections, Zoomify and Device Central
Using Smart Objects for nondestructive Smart Filtering

Allowing the new CS3 Quick Selection tool to effortless make selections that the Quick Selection tool finishes

Using the new CS3 Refine Edge feature to visually expand, contract and feather existing selections

Applying Auto Align Layers to automatically aligning multiple Photoshop layers or images based on similar content

Publish high resolution images to the web with the new CS3 Zoomify

Viewing images in Device Central CS3 to preview how images will look on mobile devices
Image Correction
Working extensively with the new Healing Brush, Spot Healing Brush and Patch tools

Using the new CS3 Clone Source palette to rotate, align, and create up to 5 Clone sources

Advanced Adjustment Layer techniques

Using an Adjustment Layer to affect only a portion of the image with a Layer Mask

Using Hue/Saturation to colorize a layer or part of an image

Adjusting images with the new CS3 Black and White feature to visually decrease the tonal range of a specific color area

Eliminating red eye in a photograph with the new Red Eye tool

Correcting the tonal range of a washed-out, too dark or too light image

Using Threshold to determining highlight & shadow for color casts

Image correction with Curves & how they differ from Levels

Color correction by the numbers: Using the Info palette to get rid of color casts

Working with Duotone Curves
Image Manipulation
Increasing the sharpness of a scan using Unsharp Mask & the new Smart Sharpen as opposed to Sharpen or Sharpen More

Using the Match Color feature to make two images have the same lighting

Viewing Live Histograms as you work

Using the History Brush

Working with the History Brush to go back in time to revert a portion of your image
Bézier Curves and Vector Masks
The Pen Tool, Shape Layers, & Vector Layer Masks

Making selections with the Pen tool

Examining how the Shape Tool creates Vector Layer Masks automatically

Using the Vector Layer Mask to hide portions of an image without deleting pixels

Working with Clipping Paths for print output

Making complex selections by subtraction and intersection in the Make Selection window
Advanced Layer Masks and Vector Layer Masks
When to use the Layer Mask vs. the Vector Layer Mask

Creating collages with images merging into each other

Hair exercise: Masking out wispy hair