Training Vancouver

Adobe Photoshop is the professional image-editing standard. In addition to teaching the fundamentals, our Photoshop courses feature techniques that will prove useful in the workplace. And, by popular demand, we still sprinkle our courses with lots of those super cool time-savers that always delight our students.

Photoshop Complete 3 days | $995 + HST

Adobe Photoshop is an essential part of so many different disciplines like print design, web design, multimedia, and digital video editing. It is the one program that everyone in every area of digital media should know. We found that people using Photoshop need to know more than can reasonably be learned in a two-day session so we combined our Level One and Level Two classes to provide greater value to students. The result is a three-day class that provides a thorough understanding of the interface, the tools, the features, and all the tips and tricks that you will need to prepare professional quality files with confidence. Prerequisite: familiarity with computer and mouse, and proficiency in at least one software application.

• the toolbar
• palettes and menus
• setting your preferences
• do, undo and redo
• image size and resolution
• navigating around images
• making selections
• modifying selections
• adding and subtracting selections
• saving selections
• converting selections to paths
• retouching images
• crop, rotation and transform
• repairing images
• sharpening images
• colour modes
• converting colour modes
• choosing colours
• making colour and tonal adjustments
• special effects
• layer basics
• selecting and linking layers
• grouping layers
• moving and locking layers
• opacity + blend modes
• layer effects
• adjustment layers
• nondestructive editing
• layer masks
• painting tools
• brush presets
• creating and modifying brushes
• blending modes
• gradients
• vector graphics
• drawing shapes
• importing shapes
• using smart objects
• the pen tool
• managing paths
• editing paths
• filter basics
• common filters
• essential filter techniques
• creating type
• editing text
• the type palette
• typographic basics
• rasterizing type
• saving images
• file formats
• saving pdf files
• printing from photoshop

Photoshop Quickstart 1 day | $475 + HST

I'm sorry to say we didn't think of adding this course ourselves. It was a client's idea, and it's a good one! This one-day class is for people who need a quick introduction to key concepts and basic techniques in Photoshop. We'll help you understand image resolution and make you comfortable with basic retouching, colour correction, and resizing images. If you need to get going quickly with Photoshop, this course is for you. Excellent practice exercises will ensure you retain the lessons learned. Prerequisite: familiarity with computer and mouse, and proficiency in at least one software application.

• the interface
• image size and resolution
• navigating around images
• making selections
• basic retouching
• cropping images
• colour modes
• converting colour modes
• layer basics
• opacity + blend modes
• blending modes
• filter basics
• creating type
• editing text
• saving images
• file formats
• saving pdf files
• printing from photoshop

Expert Retouching Techniques1 day | $475 + HST

The good, the bad, and the ugly — nearly every photograph can benefit from retouching. In this course, we'll teach you how to turn good photographs into showstoppers! Using Photoshop’s tools and filters, you will learn to make seamless changes, realistically enhancing your images so that no one knows work was done. The course features both portrait retouching and compositing (adding, altering and removing elements from images). Prerequisite: familiarity with Photoshop.

• how to determine what retouching is required
• the retouching workflow
• the correct order for correcting images
• removing a colour cast
• adopting a non-destructive approach to editing
• correcting exposure problems
• correcting tone problems
• correcting colour problems
• retouching Faces
• removing distracting elements and backgrounds
• lessening facial blemishes
• softening lines
• smoothing skin tone
• enhancing catchlights
• reshaping objects
• soft focus portrait effects
• retouching bodies
• lessening lumps, bumps and skin folds
• removing scars, veins and tattoos
• healing blemishes
• slimming contours
• evening out skin tone
• compositing images
• montage and advanced retouching
• removing unwanted items from a photo
• adding items to photographs
• making helpful selections
• using layers
• using layer masks
• using adjustment layers
• replacing the background of an image
• stitch together 2 or more images
• create a panoramic image
• creating textures and patterns for backgrounds
• creating a line art effect from a photograph
• adding depth to an image
• creating vignettes and artistic borders around photographs