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Photoshop & Lightroom
This workshop focuses on the most essential workflow and developing features of Adobe Lightroom Classic with the needs of the photographer in mind. Students will learn how to import, sort, organize and enhance their digital images, as well as batch process groups of images, quickly and efficiently. In addition to the software’s new developing capabilities, participants will learn how to take advantage of Lightroom Classic’s local adjustment tools for retouching and correction. Other processing utilities such as white balance, black and white conversion, sharpening, noise reduction, and merging HDR and Panoramic images will be covered in this workshop. Further, the class will be instructed on how to export images in various formats such as JPEGs for emails and websites or high-resolution files such as DNGs, PSDs, and TIFFs.
Online Learning (12 sessions offered twice) Date: Tuesdays and Thursdays, July 13-August 19, 6:30-8 pm PST with Michael e. Stern (for bio see www.lacphoto.org/people/michael-e-stern) Date: Mondays and Wednesdays, October 11-November 17, 6:30-8 pm PST with Michael Pliskin (for bio see www.lacphoto.org/people/michael-pliskin) Enrollment limit: 15 students Tuition: $415 Location: Online
In-Person Learning (Six sessions offered once) Date: Mondays and Wednesdays, September 15-October 6, 7-10 pm PST (no mtg. 9/20) with Rollence Patugan (for bio see page 30) Enrollment limit: 10 students Tuition: $465 Location: Los Angeles Center of Photography, 5566 W. Washington Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90016 Introduction to Adobe Photoshop is a core fundamental class for photographers. Using Adobe Photoshop CC, the course teaches the most important tools, composition and basic image optimization, helping students to understand the process behind simple photo correction. The class will cover:
The goal of the course is to develop each student’s ability to work with Adobe Photoshop CC while having fun in the process.
Photoshop Interface and Tools Overview a. Preferences b. Color settings c. Basic tools d. Panels & layout preferences for work space
Cropping, Resizing, Saving a. Crop tool b. Image size dialog c. Resolution, pixels, file size d. File formats Adobe Camera Raw a. Basic overview b. Camera Raw workflow
Photoshop Adjustments a. Pixel layers— white & black points b. Adjustment layers c. History panel
Online Learning (12 sessions offered twice) Date: Mondays and Wednesdays, August 9-September 20, 6:30-8 pm PST with F. Scott Schafer (for bio see www.lacphoto.org/people/f-scott-schafer) Date: Tuesdays and Thursdays, November 2-December 16, 6:30-8 pm PST (no meeting 11/23 & 11/25) with David Calicchio (for bio see www.lacphoto.org/people/david-calicchio) Enrollment limit: 15 students Tuition: $415 Location: Online
In-Person Learning (Six sessions offered once) Date: Tuesdays and Thursdays, November 30-December 16, 7-10 pm PST with Ed Freeman (for bio see page 45) Enrollment limit: 10 students Tuition: $465 Location: Los Angeles Center of Photography, 5566 W. Washington Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90016
©Ed Freeman
Simply put, masking is the heart and soul of Photoshop. Masking allows you to make incredibly subtle and complex selections with ease, which in turn opens up a world of image correction, retouching and compositing. One of the principle functions of Photoshop is to adjust images. Adjustments are relatively easy to learn; knowing where and how to apply them is a function of masking. Compositing is a technique that is basic to Photoshop; the way into the world of compositing is masking. Masking does nothing in itself, but it makes everything else possible. We’ll spend class time working with a variety of pictures and masking techniques. Students should come away with a whole new understanding of the near-limitless power and possibilities of Photoshop. Ed Freeman (www.edfreeman.com) is an educator and award- winning fine art and commercial photographer. He uses Photoshop as his primary creative tool, creating unique images from ordinary photographs. He has exhibited widely in the United Sates and Europe and has hundreds of articles and magazine covers to his credit. A book of his erotic nudes, Work, was published in 2000 by Bruno Gmunder in Germany. His first book of computer enhanced landscapes, Desert Realty, was published in spring 2007 by Chronicle Books. Equally at home in the studio and on location, Ed is a committed generalist. He is represented by Getty Images.
One Session Date: Saturday, September 18, 10 am- 6 pm (includes a one hour break) Enrollment limit: 10 students
Skill/Experience level: Students should be comfortable working with the Macintosh OS X operating system and have basic Photoshop experience. Tuition: $315 Location: Los Angeles Center of Photography, 5566 W. Washington Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90016
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