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Photoshop CS6 Photo Tools and Workflow- 1 Day class

Advance your Photoshop skills with Steve Laskevitch, author of Photoshop CS6 and Lightroom 4 Handbook

August 14 from 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM, $275

At Luminous Works in Seattle

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Luminous Works Photoshop Photo Tools and Workflow class

Class Description

Learn precise and powerful selection strategies, and use these to do precision color correction. We'll start with important tips of importing images and combining them as panoramics or "high dynamic range" (HDR) images. By the end of the day, you'll experience virtually an entire photographic workflow.

who should take this class?

  • Photographers who need to take their color correction and other skills beyond the basics
  • All who want to tweak their images and color appropriately and well

what we cover

(always customized for the students in attendance):

Import and Development
  • import and organizing tips
  • basics of Adobe Camera Raw (ACR)
Marquees & masks
  • how to make and manipulate them
  • combining selections strategically
Isolate complex areas of images
  • selecting by color
  • selecting by edges
  • fine-tuning selection edges: Refine Edge and other tools
Attain pro-level control of Curves, Levels, and other color tools
  • go from guesswork to high-speed
  • using key shortcuts to achieve targeted color results
  • separate tone from color for more accurate corrections
  • adjustment vs correction: interpretation as well as accuracy
  • migrating adjustment layers
  • saving and sharing settings files
HDR and Panoramics
  • tips for both shooting and processing
  • post-processing cleanup
Image Refinements



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