San Diego Photography Classes

Photoshop Retouching and Enhancing

March 9 · 3:00 PM
Right Light Studios

Learn to take your images to the next level with the power of Photoshop! This is the introductory course and will cover the most basic and most useful Photoshop techniques. Photoshop does not have to be complex and daunting - we will be looking at techniques that apply most to digital photographers and amateurs. We will be finding the quickest ways to enhance your images and make them POP! We will be giving you an introduction of how to navigate through photoshop and cover topics like:

1. How to brighten or darken just certain parts of an image.
2. How to crop and resize images properly for printing.
3. How to straighten a crooked image.
4. How to retouch and smooth skin .
5. Enhancing eyes and teeth to make portraits "pop".
6. How to create and save actions to automate tedious tasks.
7. How to set shortcut keys to speed up workflow.
8. Understanding layers and masks and how they make your life easier.

9. Create your very own watermark to add to all of your amazing photos.

We will also be tackling your individual Photoshop questions and providing an overview of all the basic controls. Handouts and sample images to work on will be provided. A USB port for a flash drive or CD-R drive will be required. Techniques covered will be compatible backwards to Photoshop 7. CS3 or higher is recommended. Please bring a fully charged laptop with one of these versions of Photoshop installed. Handouts provided, but note taking is highly encouraged.

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*Outlets will be provided and YOU MUST HAVE PHOTOSHOP INSTALLED before you arrive and please have your chargers.

*Photoshop Elements is okay but you will not be able to follow one or two of the topics, such as creating custom actions.

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Megan Fletcher

I will be using Photoshop Elements.

0 · March 6
- Chris Glady
  
  That's what I have and use but I also downloaded the free month of photoshop Rob talked about. It looks a lot more complex but it will be good to have to learn about the custom layers.
  
  0 · March 6
Rob Andrew

Elements is fine, you will only miss the custom layers portion. If you want you could download a free trial of PS for that part.

0 · March 6
Susan Williams

Sounds like a great class! However, I have a Mac Book Pro and I do not have Photoshop. Do this work with Mac and if so is it expensive?

0 · March 2
- Chris Glady
  
  I just downloaded the free trial. It's easy!
  
  0 · March 4
Stephanie

Hmmm...it's awfully large...I'll see what I can do. :-)
Thanks!

0 · February 27
- Chris Glady
  
  Stephanie, you can sit by me and look over my shoulder on my laptop if you like.
  
  0 · March 4
Rob Andrew

@susan you can get a free 30 day trial of Photoshop at Adobe.com to try it out. You have to install it before coming to class however. The class is for both Mac and PC

0 · March 2
Rob Andrew

3 more. I do expect it will be a go

0 · February 28
Chancey Alexander

how many people have to sign up for this class for it to not get cancelled? thanks

0 · February 28
Rob Andrew

You can bring the iMac if you'd like :-)

0 · February 26
Stephanie

I am a novice in photography and just got CS6 on my iMac. I don't own a laptop and am wondering if there is a way to still take this Photoshop class. I'm very interested in learning more!

0 · February 26