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Adobe Photoshop

Certification Preparation Course

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Manipulate digital images and assets, create new documents, and learn best practices for creating beautiful and functional designs.

» Program Overview

Are you ready to take your design skills to the next level? Our Adobe Photoshop Course is the perfect choice for anyone looking to create stunning graphics and images. Designed for both beginners and experts, this comprehensive course will teach you the essential skills and techniques needed to create professional-grade designs.

With hands-on learning and expert instruction, you’ll be able to manipulate digital images and assets, create new documents, and learn best practices for creating beautiful and functional designs. Plus, with our focus on preparing you for the Adobe Certified Professional Exam, you’ll have the opportunity to take a practice exam and be thoroughly prepared to become a certified professional in Adobe Photoshop. Enroll in our Adobe Photoshop Course today and take the first step towards creating stunning designs that will impress anyone who sees them.

This course introduces students to the field of digital imaging and photographic editing using Adobe Photoshop. Instruction will focus on developing strong software and digital imaging skills plus reinforcement of design and creative skills. Students will be led through a series of progressively challenging assignments. The class will progressively increase the student’s skills from basic application knowledge to advanced digital image techniques. The assignments will cover digital imagery applicable for both print and screen usage.

» Participant Benefits

Working with Adobe Photoshop will teach students how to create and edit digital imagery. Projects will give students practice and experience in basic to advanced digital imaging and design theory.

  • Understand digital imaging and photographic techniques.
  • Develop skill set needed to edit, correct, and manipulate color.
  • Understand imaging workflow when working with pixels, layers, and resolution.
  • Develop essential skills with creating selections and paths.
  • Develop skill set needed to create composites, effects, and adjustments.
  • Small Class sizes – 15 student max

» Curriculum

Each session is three hours long and offered once per week.

  • Course syllabus and schedule
  • Photoshop settings, workspace and workflow
  • Introduction to selecting and modifying pixels
  • Selection refinement
  • Using the Layers panel
  • Layer masks, adjustments, and grouping
  • Combining elements of several images into one
  • Non-destructively adjusting individual layers in a composite image
  • Modifying opacity and blending modes of layers
  • Different file types and their qualities and purposes
  • Different color modes and their qualities and purposes
  • Using correct settings when images are intended to be viewed on a digital screen
  • Using and modifying pixel dimensions
  • Optimizing files to be the smallest file size and quickest load time on the web, while maintaining optimal quality
  • How to create both timeline and frame animations
  • Exporting animations into the correct file formats
  • Using correct settings when images are intended to be printed
  • Using correct image resolution for print quality
  • Add and manipulate text using typographic settings
  • Working with and editing shapes
  • Creating paths using the Pen tool
  • How to use the healing tools, both destructively and non-destructively
  • Using the Clone Stamp tool in restoration
  • Content-aware healing
  • Tonal adjustments and removing color casts
  • Adjusting color levels, and white and black balances
  • Removing dust and scratches
  • Identify purpose and audience for preparing images
  • Determine type of copyright, permissions, and licensing required for using content
  • Using and creating automated tasks
  • Creating and using vanishing points
  • Warping techniques and options
  • Design and communicate using proper elements and principles of design
  • Paint brush selection, settings, and creation
  • Additional Paint brush tools: Color Replacement, Mixer Brush, History Brush, and Art History Brush
  • Terminology, definitions, and file formats related to digital images
  • Design process, proper workflow
  • Copyright rules and protections

Final Review

Practice Exam

Program Cost

$1,495

LTU ALUMNI, FACULTY, STAFF & STUDENTS PAY:

$1,000

*Students must have Adobe Photoshop, October 2022 release (version 24.0) and later and a computer that can run this software.

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» Document Viewer

Use Your Cell Phone as a Document Camera in Zoom

  • What you will need to have and do
  • Download the mobile Zoom app (either App Store or Google Play)
  • Have your phone plugged in
  • Set up video stand phone holder

From Computer

Log in and start your Zoom session with participants

From Phone

  • Start the Zoom session on your phone app (suggest setting your phone to “Do not disturb” since your phone screen will be seen in Zoom)
  • Type in the Meeting ID and Join
  • Do not use phone audio option to avoid feedback
  • Select “share content” and “screen” to share your cell phone’s screen in your Zoom session
  • Select “start broadcast” from Zoom app. The home screen of your cell phone is now being shared with your participants.

To use your cell phone as a makeshift document camera

  • Open (swipe to switch apps) and select the camera app on your phone
  • Start in photo mode and aim the camera at whatever materials you would like to share
  • This is where you will have to position what you want to share to get the best view – but you will see ‘how you are doing’ in the main Zoom session.