If you are going to attend please REGISTER for this workshop at the bottom of this material. Getting Started with Photoshop CC
Ron Addison, Instructor Begins September 15, 2017 at 2 p.m. Game Rooms 1 & 2
(Activities Building) This 8 session workshop covers the Photoshop portion of Adobe’s subscription service for photographers. Other portions include Lightroom, Bridge, the mobile app, and a personal website. Your instructor has used Photoshop since version 4 in 1996. He has made presentations, offered workshops, and run SIGs for Sun City Photo Club and other photo clubs for 8 years. His teaching background includes high school mathematics and classes at three colleges. What is Photoshop CC? Photoshop is regarded as the best product for having all the power to accomplish your goals as a photographer for an image. You must rent it by the month or year for $9.99 a month. Who Should Attend? This workshop is designed for club members who: - Want to start from zero and learn the very basic features of Photoshop.
- Self-taught users who would like to fill in gaps in what they know or learn other ways of doing things.
- Members who use Photoshop and would like to learn ways that may be more efficient such as using smart objects, adjustment layers, and blend modes.
If you just have a couple of questions, attending the Photoshop SIG may be a better use of your time. Goals for this workshop - Gain the knowledge and confidence to enjoy using Photoshop.
- Be able to use resources such as YouTube, websites, on-line workshops, etc. to learn additional skills as you discover you need them.
- Be able to “develop” the pictured captured by the camera into the image that you want.
- Learn skills such as:
- Combining several images into
- ·one image,
- a panorama,
- ·one image that shows the shadows and highlights that were missing from the first image,
- Placing the subject into a new background.
- Developing the images to meet PSA standards for a nature image.
Future Meetings for 2017- all are in Game Rooms 1 & 2 at 2 p.m.
Topics will change depending on the interests of the group.
Check the Photography Club Calendar for details and notes. September 15 Friday 2 pm to 3:30 pm
See information on next page. October 6 Friday Developing an image using Adobe Camera Raw
October 20 Friday Selections Using the geometric tools
Using the quick selection tool
Making Selections based on color or focus area.
Combining Selections and Adjustment Layers November 3 Friday Layers-Adjustment Layers-& Layer Masks – Oh my. Adding a copy of the background - Control-J
Why use Layers
Adding Adjustment Layers
Layer Masks
Blending Modes November 6 Monday Q & A for anyone in the Workshop November 17 Friday Layers continued, HDR, Panoramas, Actions December 1 Friday Adding Text, Retouching, Composites
December 4 Monday Q & A for anyone in the Workshop. December 15 Friday Final Meeting – Color Adjustments, Removing Noise, Sharpening and Q&A What we will cover in the first meeting What is the Creative Cloud? Why you should shoot in the RAW format if you want to have the best image. How to open an image using Photoshop A grand tour of the Photoshop interface Tools that you will use most for photography
move
quick selection
paint brush
healing brush
clone Setting a few preferences in Photoshop We will take quick look at layers and adjustment layers. The following short cuts are useful:
depress space bar to change to hand tool to move around a large image then
take finger off the space bar and you have the tool you were using back.
Control-1 to see the image at 100%
Contorl-0 to fit the image to the screen
Control-Z to undo the last step
b to get the Brush tool
Part of this meeting and all of next meeting will be about developing your image using Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) which is part of Photoshop. If you have an image shot in the RAW format (That is not a TIFF or JPG) then Camera Raw can to a better job of making initial adjustments in a non-destructive way using other Photoshop tools. Often all or almost all of your adjustments can be completed in ACR including HDR and panorama images. Photoshop is best for making adjustments to specific areas; using layers to do many things that are difficult to impossible in ACR such as combining multiple files into a single image, moving part of an image to another image, retouching an image etc. After we cover ACR, we will learn about how layers are probably the most important feature of Photoshop. Another very important topic will be making selections. Addition topics will include context-aware features, making composite images, making panoramas, making HDR images, and other topics of interest to the group. Interested in learning a little more? You can download a free 7 day trial of the complete current version of Photoshop CC at http://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/photography.html Tutorials on all the tools:
http://nmsmithphotoshop1.weebly.com/photoshop-tools.html The Do's and Don'ts of a Lightroom and Photoshop Workflow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj0mnL_AUM4 Terry White has a good series on getting started with Photoshop CC. Introduction to Adobe Photoshop CC - Pt 1 - The Interface
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ5RSBFHNTw
Introduction to Adobe Photoshop CC - Pt 2 - Making Selections
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtV2iIyk6MI
Introduction to Adobe Photoshop CC - Pt 3 - The 10 Most Used Tools
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq4b8eeE97U
Introduction to Adobe Photoshop CC - Pt 4 - All About Layers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdWlrok3wtk
Introduction to Adobe Photoshop CC - Pt 5 - Adobe Camera RAW Filter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2Sb6B2AYrc
Introduction to Adobe Photoshop CC - Pt 6 - Swapping Backgrounds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MN73mcts54
Introduction to Adobe Photoshop CC - Pt 7 - Working with Type
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRqnD2jg4TA
Introduction to Adobe Photoshop CC - Pt 8 - Working Non-Destructively
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKXysBPDqIs
Introduction to Adobe Photoshop CC - Pt 9 - Cropping & Resizing Images
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekBJitZwnYk
Introduction to Adobe Photoshop CC - Pt 10 - Exporting for Web & Print
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKNi0c-5nb4 NOTE: Many of the ideas, images, and structure of this workshop can be found in Ben Willmore’s workshops sold by CreativeLive.com most notably “Adobe® Photoshop® CC: The Complete Guide available about 200 dollars when not on sale. Ron Addison [email protected] . |
