Adobe post-production course is an extensive course that shows how to use both Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom. The course starts from a basic level and by the end moves on to advanced functions such as layers, masks and batch processing. The Adobe post-production course teaches about the functions and workflow to enable you to apply them to any of your photographic requirements. The course is not about learning a few gimmicky techniques it is about learning the fundamentals of Lightroom and Photoshop so you can use it properly and edit your own images with confidence.
Course content:
Within the Adobe Photoshop section you will learn:
- Colour management, to help with accurate editing
- Soft-proofing to enable you to view the image in a print density
- Customising pallets to have your layout best suit your needs
- Brightness adjustments and how to not clip pixels and loose detail
- Colour adjustments for correction or creativity
- Black and white adjustments and the pros and cons between the different ways
- History and all its advanced functions to allow you to recover your image at any point in your editing
- Sharpening and the different methods of doing this and why it is important on every image
- Filters to add creative effects to your images
- Dodge & burn tools to transform your image brightness with complete control
- Crop, resolution and resizing images without losing detail
- Beauty editing and how to do this subtly and skilfully
- RAW file control panel and the control it gives you after image capture
- Text and all of the different methods you can use it for
- Eraser tool and understanding the different types and when to use them
- Layers an often-complicated subject which is explained fully over different sections
- Adjustment layers and how to make the most of them and why they are beneficial over other editing methods
- Masks and the clever adjustments you can make to an image which can be changed at any time to give you full control
- Selection tools and when and where to use each one for accurate editing
- Saving selections is useful for when you want to load them again without having to create another
- Actions to allow you apply changes to many images saving you time
- Creating a panoramic by stitching multiple images together
- High pass filter to produce more dynamic images and bring out detail
- Masking hair when using channels
- Auto-alignment to transform images and edit them together
- Auto blend layers to create complicated composites
- Layer stacking to create complicated composites
Within the Adobe Lightroom section you will learn:
- Understanding the Adobe Lightroom interface
- Develop module and using it to make changes to your images before exporting
- Catalogue to collate your images and stay organised
- Library module and viewing your images in different ways
- Import/export and all the settings associated with this
- Library filter rating to help you finetune your image selections
- Collection stacks to help organise your images to tidy the view in the library area
- Smart collections so that your collections adjust as you make changes
- Collection sets and streamlining your images into groups for better reference
- Map function to set up your GPS and act as a visual reference to the location where your images were taken
- Lens correction to improve the lens errors created by every lens
- Applying changes to other photos to save doing every edit again
- Auto sync to apply changes to multiple images
- Camera calibration to get match your images files from camera to computer
- Slideshow to create slideshows for your clients
- Print module for printing templates
- Book module to create photobooks of your images
- Syncing catalogues so your files match over all of your devices
- Backing up your catalogue to protect from any failures or corruption
- Tethered shooting and connecting your camera to your laptop
