Introduction To Adobe Photoshop

Join professional photographer and instructor, chris stambaugh for our introduction to adobe photoshop class. This class will immerse you into adobe's photoshop software and give you the knowledge and background to do things that almost no other photo editing software can do. 

During our Introduction to the Photoshop Class, we'll spend the entire course interactivly helping you learn the most common tools in Photoshop and to develop a workflow for editing photographs.  

This class allows you to have hands-on practice with images that we will supply.  Adobe Photoshop is a massive program that not only does advanced photo editing but incorporates aspects of video editing, illustration, 3d modeling and graphic design. We willguide you customize your software and create a virtual workspace for photography. You will learn how to optimize your images to make them look their best, use layers to composite multiple images together, retouch and enhance photographs in ways that other editing software cannot.  Additionally, we will discuss best-practice techniques for ensuring that your image collection sticks around and survives a hard drive crash or other calamity.

This class is targeted towards photographers with little to no experience with Photoshop and is part of the curriculum for our diploma courses.

Instructor Chris Stambaugh will help you every step of the way to learn the most important aspects of this amazing and powerful piece of software. A hands-on class is absolutely the BEST way to get started in photo editing. 

What you will learn

• Editing and adjusting images in Photoshop
• Essential Photoshop tools & techniques such as; crop/rotate, brightness, hue/saturation, levels,  color balance, clone/stamp, healing brush, patch tool, paint brush, paint bucket, history, liquify, transform, marquee tool, lasso, magic wand, quick selection, color picker, red eye tool, and more
• Customizing your toolbox and workspace
• Adjustment layers
• Layer masking
• Working with "history"
• Adding text and text effects
• Increasing or decreasing image resolution
• Re-touching Portraits
• Compositing multiple images
• Special effects
• Transferring images from Lightroom to Photoshop
• When to leave your photo in Lightroom instead of sending it to Photoshop

What to expect

• 6 hours of classroom instruction
• Hands on excersizes and assistance from the instructor
• Certificate of completion
• Small group size
• A new found confidence and knowledge of your camera!

Equipment Required

• A camera
• A fully charged battery for the camera
• Memory cards for the camera
• A copy of your cameras instruction manual or user guide. If you do not have a printed book of your user manual, you may download a PDF copy form the manufacturers website. A PDF on your tablet or smartphone is acceptable. If you have difficulty finding your user manual, please contact us with your camera make and model. We will be happy to help. 
• We provide a handout but you may wish to bring some extra paper and a pen

Prerequisites for our Introduction to Adobe Photoshop 

A basic working knowledge of your computer. Participants should be able to navigate to file folders in thier computers and use basic keyboard shortcuts such as copy and paste.