Photoshop CS6 for the Digital Photographer II
Description
About This CourseAdobe's Photoshop CS6 is a powerful software solution that
provides support and specialized editing tools for digital
photographers and graphic artists. If you know the basics of this
powerful program, you're ready to master advanced techniques,
including building collages, doing detailed editing, and restoring
old photos. This class is perfect for you if you're already
familiar with cropping, printing, and color adjustments, as well as
the use of selection tools, and you want to learn how to add
special effects and take your photo-editing skills to the next
level.
In these lessons, you'll explore a wide range of options, including
portrait editing, image distortion, and f…
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Adobe's Photoshop CS6 is a powerful software solution that
provides support and specialized editing tools for digital
photographers and graphic artists. If you know the basics of this
powerful program, you're ready to master advanced techniques,
including building collages, doing detailed editing, and restoring
old photos. This class is perfect for you if you're already
familiar with cropping, printing, and color adjustments, as well as
the use of selection tools, and you want to learn how to add
special effects and take your photo-editing skills to the next
level.
In these lessons, you'll explore a wide range of options, including
portrait editing, image distortion, and filters. In addition,
you'll learn how to make the most of Adobe's award-winning layers
option by combining images with layers and combining layered work
with CS6's tabbed windows feature—a great tool for multi-image
work.
You'll also see how and when to use raw images, and you'll discover
when to use JPEGs for outstanding prints and projects. You'll be
amazed by the new HDR options and the dynamic results.
If you haven't fully unlocked the mysteries of Photoshop CS6,
you'll find all the answers you need in this course. By the time
you complete these fun, easy-to-follow lessons and hands-on
activities, you'll be a true Photoshop guru.
Note: For students who have taken Photoshop for the Digital Photographer with CS3 or CS4
As of January 2011, our Photoshop for the Digital
Photographer course has been substantially expanded, rewritten,
and updated, and classes for CS5 and CS6 are now offered in a
two-course format. If you've previously taken Photoshop for the
Digital Photographer, here are some things to keep in mind if
you're considering the new CS6 courses.
Photoshop CS6 for the Digital Photographer I will be
a review for most of you. It's updated and expanded and includes
CS6-specific content, covering some subjects in more detail, but
overall the basic information doesn't change that much from version
to version. You will find these additions to the first course:
- More detail on sizing, shaping, and image resolution
- More extensive coverage of raw files and using the Camera Raw tool
- More information on using Histogram
Photoshop CS6 for the Digital Photographer II builds on the first course and is a mix of some material from previous versions of the course and completely new topics, along with the new CS6 features. This material will be primarily new for returning students.
So, which class to take? If you've taken one of my Photoshop for the Digital Photographer courses and feel comfortable with Photoshop and CS6 for basic work, you'll do well the second course. If you'd like a refresher with updated material for CS6 and some expanded coverage, you may want to start with the first course. And, of course, students new to Photoshop should start with Photoshop CS6 for the Digital Photographer I.
About The InstructorThis course includes a knowledgeable and caring instructor who will guide you through your lessons, facilitate discussions, and answer your questions. The instructor for this course will be Beverly Schulz.
Beverly Schulz is a homeschool mom and a leader in her homeschool support group. She teaches many online classes and enjoys working from home while educating her children. Her experience as a faculty member with a number of colleges gives her a good perspective in preparing students for the college experience. She also enjoys helping parents develop their own homeschools focused around the needs of individual children.
SyllabusA new section of each course starts monthly. If enrolling in a series of two or more courses, please be sure to space the start date for each course at least two months apart.
Week 1
Wednesday - Lesson 01Photoshop CS6 is an exciting release of Adobe's popular photo editing software. This is an excellent package for photographers to enhance and edit digital images, and in this class, we move into the advanced features for photographers. In the first lesson, we'll dive into a workflow for digital editing. Photographers often wonder where to start when working with an image, and you'll get a good idea of the options available and a sequence to follow.
Friday - Lesson 02Today we'll look at tools to perfect portraits. Although you can use these tools to fine-tune any type of image, you'll find them especially helpful with the detail work associated with portraiture. We'll look at the new CS6 Blur Gallery that gives you professional options for portrait work. You'll also see how to smooth away wrinkles, remove red eye, and even turn gray hair brown! If only it were so easy in real life . . .
Week 2
Wednesday - Lesson 03Distortion. You don't often strive toward distortion in photography, but with the options in Photoshop, you'll discover how it can work wonders! You'll see how to slim a waistline, trim loose edges, and accentuate the positive with distortion tools, including CS6's Puppet Warp tool. You'll also find out how to correct an image by combining parts of two different photos, and you'll have a chance to get creative with the many brushes available in Photoshop.
Friday - Lesson 04Photoshop gives you lots of options for editing images, and in this lesson, we'll turn to the task of restoring old and damaged photographs. You'll see how to reverse the effects of time as well as how to add hints of color to black-and-white images.
Week 3
Wednesday - Lesson 05In this lesson, we'll explore advanced ways to use text, special effects, and layers. You'll master the art of creating text from images and building multilayer documents with sophisticated edging for both text and image components to draw your viewer's attention right where you want it. You'll also see how to professionally blend layers together by refining edges with Photoshop's Refine Edge technology.
Friday - Lesson 06Editing your images isn't all about painstaking details and procedures. It can be a lot of fun, too! Photoshop offers countless special effects and filters that you can use to show off your images. You'll have a chance to experiment with CS6's new Oil Paint filter and see how to sharpen and blur photos, as well as how to salvage an image with these miraculous fixes!
Week 4
Wednesday - Lesson 07Working with layers is one of Photoshop's most powerful capabilities. In this lesson, you'll see how layers work from beginning to end. You'll build a quickly modifiable business card and a collage as you learn how to use Adjustment and Fill layers to your advantage. You'll also see how to arrange, link, and lock your layers for just the look you want.
Friday - Lesson 08As we continue our discussion about layers, you'll see how to add patterns, blend layers with colors and effects, and group them for great framing options using Photoshop's tabbed windowing feature. Using layers in Photoshop is like supercharging a race car—and you'll be in the driver's seat!
Week 5
Wednesday - Lesson 09You're going to have fun with this lesson! Today we'll explore the fun and fantastic features of advanced Photoshop editing. You'll see how to patch, clone, fill, and even work magical proportional adjustments with the high-end repair tools Photoshop provides. We'll work with Content-Aware Scale and Photoshop's Content-Aware Fill, so you'll know how easy it is to create sophisticated adjustments, even when you need to change the image significantly.
Friday - Lesson 10Panoramics are a beautiful way to show off wide scenic shots, and in today's lesson, you'll see how Photoshop helps you blend these to provide seamless imagery. You'll also learn how to add colored borders to make your images just the size you want. With all these options under your belt, you'll see how to create customized photo cards with your own captions and add watermarks to protect your images.
Week 6
Wednesday - Lesson 11As you work through this lesson, you'll create dazzling images from ordinary ones using Photoshop's HDR Processing tools. You'll see how to combine several images to get the best exposure from each one, and you'll learn how to create the effects of multiple-image combinations from just one original. We'll work with both color and black-and-white imagery, and I think you'll find the results are surprising. You'll also get some tips on how to shoot for HDR work, so your work will be easier when you're back at the computer.
Friday - Lesson 12In our last lesson, you'll have an opportunity to put Photoshop CS6 to work! We'll walk through three separate approaches to improving an image with highly sophisticated editing tools. You'll see real-life applications for the tools and features we've discussed in class, and you'll discover ways to put the class material to work on your own images. You'll also have a chance to analyze differences in workflow and see what works best for you.
Requirements
Internet access, email, the Microsoft Internet Explorer or
Mozilla Firefox Web browser, and the Adobe Flash and PDF plug-ins
(two free and simple downloads you obtain at
http://www.adobe.com/downloads by clicking Get Adobe Flash Player
and Get Adobe Reader).
This course is written with Windows software, but Macintosh users
will find the software is quite similar and are welcome in this
course. Mac users will need to be comfortable with the normal
Windows/Mac conversion for keyboard differences. Photoshop Extended
is NOT necessary for this course, but can be used. All coursework
and examples are based on Windows using standard Photoshop CS6
software.
Students should feel comfortable acquiring digital images, either
with a digital camera, using images scanned onto CDs, or scanning
film prints. Basic computer skills, such as using a mouse, creating
and accessing folders, downloading and saving files will be briefly
reviewed in this course, but should be familiar to students.
In addition to Internet access for classroom participation,
students will need Adobe's Photoshop CS6 (Windows Vista/7/XP),
Adobe's Photoshop Extended CS6 (Windows Vista/7/XP), Adobe's
Photoshop CS6 (Mac OS X), or Adobe's Photoshop Extended CS6 (Mac OS
X) installed and functioning to take full advantage of the
course.
Windows requirements include:
Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor, Microsoft® Windows®
XP with Service Pack 3; Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business,
Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 (Service Pack 2
recommended); or Windows 7 and 1GB of available hard-disk space for
installation; additional free space required during installation
(cannot install on removable flash-base)
Mac requirements include:
Multicore Intel processor with 64-bit support, Mac OS X v10.6.8 or
v10.7. Adobe Creative Suite 3, 4, 5, 5.5, and CS6 applications
support Mac OS X Mountain Lion (v10.8) when installed on Intel
based systems, 1GB of RAM and any other requirements Adobe
indicates for this software.
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