Advanced Photoshop Lessons. Do one lesson week for 15 weeks. The class is broken into 4 sections Photoshop for Photographers, Photoshop for artist, Photoshop for web/Print, and Photoshop for Film Video and 3-D. Bring Headphone to class so you can watch videos and work on assignments while I take to Illustrator.
| Photoshop for Photographers |
| Week 1 - Introduction to Class. Basic Photo retouchings |
Resources - Getting started, Practice.
- histogram_explained - PDF
- histogram_explained_advanced - PDF
- making_tonal_adjustments - PDF
- photo_filter_options - PDF
- RGB_Basics - PDF
- RGB_Basics2 - PDF
- sharping_basics - PDF
- auto_adjustment_options - PDF
- color_balance - PDF
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Homework - Read the Handouts for this week. We will review basic Photoshop photo correcting. Also, we will cover Camera Raw.
Homework - Correct this photos using the techniques you know and some new techniques.
Get the Book - Photoshop CS4 Channels and Masks |
| Week 2 - Shoot camera and Adobe Bridge. |
Resources - Basic of Photoshop tools. Demo on using Digital Camera.
- Clouds - Jean Video
- Clouds 2 - Jeans video
More on Retouching of photos
- Good video on Adjustment layers - Video is blurry but good concepts.
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Homework -
Do Page 18 to 34 in Chapter 1 - Yes great way to make duotone.
Heres handout on converting color modes.
Also, you should continue practicing color correction.
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| Week 3 - Making the Pano. |
Resources - Making a Pano. I will demonstrate how to shoot a series of Photoshop to make a Pano.
After you put together your pano you will bee to color correct your final. Watch these video from Jean about color correction.
- video1: autocorrections
- video2: color enhancement 1
- video 3 - color enhancement 2
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Homework -
Heres a group of panos to practice.
- Sample Pano 1
- Sample Pano 2
- Sample Pano 3
- Sample Pano 4
- Sample Pano 5
Do Lesson 2 in book - I would like you to put the glowing wrench example on the server. |
| Week 4 - Making the self portrait. |
Resources:
- http://digital-photography-school.com/10-ways-to-take-stunning-portraits
- http://digital-photography-school.com/tips-portrait-photography
- http://www.portrait-photos.org/repository/
- http://av.adobe.com/russellbrown/SpaTreatment_SM.mov
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Homework -
Do entire Lesson 5 in Book - This will help with your portrait. |
| Week 5 - Making the into poster or maybe a magazine cover, we can discuss thursday. Week of March 1 |
We will review your portrait and how to make into poster.
- Poster examples - how to layout with grid.
- Jean notes on making a portrait.
- Healing Brush notes
- Notes on Environment portrait
Jeff portraits practice with - zip format
Heres some photos we can use for examples
- Boy photo1
- Boy Photo 2
- Person 1
- Mask example
- Notes
- making_tonal_adjustments
- mask_basic
More Mask techniques
- Russell Brown Poster 1
- Russell Brown Poster 2
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Assignment - Create an environmental portrait. Photo of person in there environment. Wine maker in factory, jogger at track. Try to get out and not just do at your house. Plan, plan. Photoshop part will be fixing photo. Making into poster or magazine cover.
This should take 2 weeks. I think be done by March 11. |
| Photoshop for Artist |
| Week 6 - Lesson 6 in book. |
Begin art techniques.
- Art Brush techniques
Photoshop.com web site
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Book Homework - Page 190 to 202 -
Your homework - You will need to blend a logo with your portrait to make a magazine cover.
Video lesson 6 - The 25 blending modes. |
Week 7 - Art and Paintly effects
I will bring a group of photos to class this week. |
Jeans videos for this week
This weeks videos cover line drawing with the pen tool and texture enhancing techniques. These techniques are useful for taking a photographic image and rendering it with more line detail and painterly like texture.
video 1: introduction
video 2: background
video 3: background 2
video 4: line drawing
video 5: line detail |
Book reading - page 203 - 233
Video Lesson 11: Drawing a Path, One Point At a Time. P. 398. Yes this is video from the CD in book.
2 works this week for homework.
1. Use at least 3 photos together using the blending modes learn in book and class. Think of hard, cooled objects under or over warm soft objects.
2. Photoshop drawing, Watch jeans videos on adding lines to images, and or add the artbrush techniques to a final image. |
| Week 8 - Jeff painting technique. March 23. |
Review
- Brush shapes and techniques.
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homework: Finish 2 art techniques examples. After spring break will design icons and web interface.
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| Photoshop for Web and Print. |
After Spring Break we will begin web and interface design. Study icon design.
- Icon design examples
- Icon Design examples 2
- Great tutorials
- Web Design examples
- More Icons
Reseach for i_phone icons
- Here the specs for iPhone icon
- Heres some good reading about apple iPhone applications
- More icon design examples
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Research
- What is SVG
- Heres fun text face tutorial
- Good tutorial for making buttons
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Next week we will cover interface design for web sites.
- Examples of using larger photos for web backgrounds.
April 19 - New training Making we graphics
- web_graphics_Lecture by Jeff
- web_page_graphic1
- web_page_graphic2
- web_page_graphic3
- web_page_graphic4
- web_page_graphic5
- web_page_graphic6
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Homework - You are to make a web face interface in Photoshop. You do not need to slice and place in Dreamweaver like the video shows. Only make a web layout. This should include a Banner, Title, Buttons all wrapped in the correct size for a web site. Do this week to show next week. |
| http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-photoshop-com/getting-started-with-photoshopcom-for-iphone/ |
| There is 3 weeks left. |
Here the final explain. - Proposal due May 11 Final Due May 25 at 9:40 |
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