Photoshop users who want to expand and improve their skills.

Course Objective: You will enhance your ability to create accurate masks and advanced image effects, to retouch and color correct images, to learn how you can work with video files; special; automate repetitive tasks; work with Camera RAW files and Digitial Negative Files; work with Adobe Kuler for color management. Save Photoshop files as layouts for the web. Learn how you can take what you learn and use it to become an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE).

Adobe Photoshop Level I or equivalent experience.

Unit 1: Fills and overlays
Topic A: Filling image areas
Topic B: Gradients and patterns
Topic C: Layer overlays

Unit 2: Everything You Alwasy Wanted to Know About Masks
Topic A: Mask channels
Topic B: Layer masks
Topic C: Grayscale masks
Topic D: Clipping masks
Topic E: Export Layers to Files
Topic F: Convert a Smart Object to a Layer (What does "Smart" mean in Photohsop).

Unit 3: Vector paths
Topic A: Creating vector paths
Topic B: Editing vector paths
Topic C: Vector masks
Topic D: Paths for creative imagery

Unit 4: Creative image effects
Topic A: Painted effects
Topic B: Warping
Topic C: Efficient compositing
Topic D: Vanishing Point
Topic E: Smart Filters
Topic F: Layer comps
Topic G: Images for video

Unit 5: Automating tasks
Topic A: Actions and Batch Processing
Topic B: Organizing actions
Topic C: Batch processing
Topic D: Customizing Photoshop

Unit 6: Advanced Image Editing and Retouching
Topic A: Reading the Histogram
Topic B: Working with Levels and Curves Effectively
Topic C: Working Effectively with Colors and Adobe Kuler
Topic D: Working With Camera RAW files and DNG files (Digital Negative) Files