Introduction to Photoshop
This course introduces digital imaging concepts and techniques using Adobe Photoshop. The course will give an introduction to Photoshop, and will cover how to get the best from your photographs and how to retouch and add effects to them.
Course Requirements – good general understanding of PCs or MACs.
Tutor Suzy Prior
Suzy Prior is a professional photographer who specializes in documentary photography, with a particular interest in documenting England and its idiosyncrasies. Suzy’s exploration of Englishness focuses on many of the institutions of childhood, which have their own hallmarks and visual signifiers: the funfair, a weekend by the sea, Morris dancing and the small and insignificant details of village life. The images are both an affectionate and an ironic take on English life and culture.
Previously in her professional capacity as a Museum studio photographer, Suzy was involved with archiving and recording culturally significant artifacts for posterity. Her work translates some of this curatorial aesthetic to sideshow prizes and ketchup bottles, which are themselves iconic, visually and socially, exploring the beauty beyond the ordinary and everyday.
Suzy’s work has recently appeared in the British Journal of Photography and Modern Art Oxford as outstanding in the Oxford Open show. She has also exhibited her work widely, including a solo show at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.
Spring Dates: 7th & 8th July 2012, 10am – 4pm
Cost
£99 (includes10 per cent early booking discount if booked by 23rd June 2012 – EU citizens)
£110 Subsidised rate for EU citizens
£150 Full price for non-EU citizens. (Non-Eu citizens with indefinite leave to remain can pay subsidised rate – proof required.)
£55 – 50% discount for people on benefits, proof required, (income support, JSA, Housing Benefit, Council tax benefit, pension credit (guarantee), asylum seeker, unwaged dependent of someone on these benefits
RUNS 10AM – 4PM
This course is run in conjunction with Oxfordshire County Council Adult Education
The class will be a small group with a maximum of eight students.
Course outline over the two days:
The Photoshop Interface
1. Overview and layout
2.Settings and Preferences
3.File types and Importing
4. Toolbox Overview
Image Optimization
1.Levels
2. Curves
3.Gradient masks and layers
4. RGB and Monochrome.
5. Removing colour casts
6. The Sponge tool
Retouching an Image
1.Clone Stamp
2.Healing Brush
3.Patch tool
4.Removing ‘Red Eye’
Transforming
1.Resizing and Transformation
2.Cropping
3.Rotating
4.Image and canvas sizing
5.Creating borders
Selections
1.The Lasso tool
2.Colour range
3.The Magic Wand
4.Extract
5.Modifying and feathering selections
Image Effects
1.Filters
2.Variations
3.Liquify
4.Blending Modes
Text and Effects
1.Using ‘FX’ for text
2.’Paste Into’ text
3.Using ‘Shapes.’
Sharpening
1.Smart Sharpen
2.Unsharp mask
3. Sharpen tool
Course outline may change slightly and will take into account individual student needs.
All students are welcome to bring their own laptops, although computers will be available. Also please feel free to bring your own images to work on.
Students usually work on a machine each, however students sometimes may be asked to work in pairs, or may opt to do so. There is a mix of PCs and MACs. Students who have Photoshop installed on their own laptop may bring it along to work on, but please let us know in advance.
Comments
Sarah – Brilliant! Step by step approach with backup whenever needed
Margaret – Excellent training, very supportive. Gained a lot of insight
Rafe – Very knowledgeable and amneable to questions
Terry – The course was well paced and took account of student’s abilities. There was always time for review and individual help as required
Sarah – I achieved a lot as I had no knowledge of photoshop. I can now do all the basics and have something to build on