Adobe Photoshop - Advanced

• Adobe Community Professional instructor Howard Pinsky
• Certificate of training upon completing the course
• Accredited with CPD UK
• Bite sized video tutorials, cheat sheets and quizzes
• Unlimited testing
• Self-paced course can be completed in your own time over 12 months

Certificate of completion

Digital certificate - Included

• Course Syllabus includes 55 intermediate-advanced level lessons
• · Advanced Photo Editing

• Turn a Photo into a Sketch

With just a few layers styles and filters you can turn a photo into a sketch and even use the same style on video.

• Create a Pumpkin Face

Great technique for combining different images together for stunning results.

• Time Lapse Part 1

This is part one of a two part tutorial that sets up an animated time lapse look. It is a useful tutorial on the tasks of manipulating multiple image size and placement.

• Time Lapse Part 2

In combination with part 1 of this tutorial and a flower with the background removed. Learn how to set key frames for movement and color adjustments.

• Photographic Fireworks

Good for compositing tasks, and adding elements like reflections.

• 32-Bit HDR Images

Combine a series of images into a single High Dynamic Range image using Lightroom and Photoshop

• Porcelain Doll Effect

Isolate facial features and adjust skin tones. Adjust size and placement of features like eyes, nose and mouth.

• Camera Shake Reduction

Useful tips for reducing that camera shake blur.

• Camera Raw Filter

Raw filters essentially treat your image like a negative rather than a finished product. Raw filter in Photoshop offer an extended range of color adjustments to even regular non-raw images and has the added advantage of editing the photo in only one window (and no stacked Adjustment Layers).

• Interweaving Effect

Learn how to create and save your own patterns, and then apply them to images in interesting ways.

• · Animation and Video

• Basic Video Editing in CS6 and above

Extend your Photoshop skills into the time dimension. Add effects and layer styles with ease. Turn a ho-hum phone video into expressionist art.

• Clouds Animation

Create a time-lapse style effect with some simple video effects in Photoshop.

• Animated Loading Circle

This tutorial will show you how to make an animation that pulses a great light effect with layer styles and animation.

• Animated GIF on Mars

When reality is just not interesting enough you can always rely on Photoshop to spice it up. This unit is a good introduction to GIF creation.

• Glowing Button

Combine layered styles and animation to create this great effect.

• Animating a Power Button The Frame Animation

Turn a static design into a glowing button by using the Frame style of animation in Photoshop.

• Load files into stacks and converting to a GIF

Bring in a number of files simultaneously and get Photoshop to organise and align them in layers.

• · 3D

• 3D Text Intro

Turning your text into a 3D object opens up lot of interesting possibilities. Control textures, deform shapes, and add lights and shadows to your text in realistic ways.

• Chrome Text

Explore Photoshop’s (CS6 and above) 3D text generator.

• Bubbly Text

Create inflatable text with the 3D properties in Photoshop.

• Long Shadow Effect

The long shadow is a clean design look that can be created a few different ways in Photoshop; here we achieve the look by using 3D objects.

• Importing 3D Models

Importing a 3D model into a 2D background can be tricky, but with a few simple steps you will be able to blend lots of design elements like lighting, position, color tone, and texture.

• Image Based Lights

Improve the realistic look to your 3D images with Image Based Lights.

• Create a 3D Pool Ball

Create and add 3D objects to an existing photograph with this tutorial. Create a new texture, add lights and composite it in an existing photo.

• TRON Legacy Text Effect

This tutorial will teach you how to create 3D text, edit many useful features and then add 2D elements as well.

• · Tips and Tricks

• Missing Filters

The more up to date versions of Photoshop have tucked away some of the rarer filter effects. Find out how to drill down into the filter gallery.

• Adaptive Wide Angle

Straighten out those distorted images with this very clever Photoshop Feature.

• Working with Kuler

The Kuler extension for Photoshop makes finding great color combinations a breeze.

• Color Coding Layers

Organise your complex Photoshop projects with this simple tool. Particularly useful for template projects that you will be coming back to again.

• 10 Just Do It (JDI) Tips

10 little Photoshop productivity tips.

• Hiding Menu Items

Clean up your menu interface.

• Interface and Performance Improvements

Improve your familiarity of Photoshop with this list of interface tips and tricks.

• · Text Effects

• Fireworks Text Effect

Transform text into a path and apply a brush present to a path.

• Hairy Text Effect

Give text a furry feel within a few easy steps.

• Beer Text Effect

Add a frothy amber liquid appeal to your text.

• Wood Engraved Text Effect

Add text or a logo and create a great wood texture effect.

• Graffiti Text Effect

In this tutorial Howard will introduce you to Displacement Mapping, which is a fancy way of saying ‘making text bumpy’.

• Battlefield 3 Text Effect

The video game is such a classic that of course you need to make text look like it.

• · Power User

• Refine Edge Tool

Refine the edge of a selection so that fine strands of hair can be included with the person or animal in the photo.

• Copy CSS

Let Photoshop do your geek work for you with this simple but powerful method for converting Photoshop designs to flexible web formats.

• Tool Recording within Actions

Record repetitive edits so that you can save time.

• Clone Source Panel

A few more tips for using the clone source tools on Photoshop.

• The Swatch Panel Advanced

Grab a color scheme from a web pages CSS data.

• Transforming Selections

Transforming the size and shape of a selection masks from within the mask mode.

• Conditional Actions

Delve into Photoshop’s one button solution to repetitive editing tasks.

• Generator

This is an advanced technique for those who want to design their web pages primarily in Photoshop.

• · Design

• iOS Icon Design

Design an app icon for IOS or Android.

• Create a 3D Switch Icon

With the principles of this design you can create all sorts of switches, toggles and doorways. This is a good tutorial for learning how to stack and transform layers.

• Create a Space Scene

Make stars and planets to design your own Solar System in the Cosmos.

• Create the Minecraft Icon

Get that pixelated look into your image editing, or use the basics of this lesson to apply 2D images to a cube shape.

• Minecraft Skin

This technique is good for adjusting images at the pixel level.

• · Lightroom

• Lightroom Smart Previews

Work with files in an offline mode.

• Lightroom Upright

This is a onestep solution in Lightroom for straightening up photos, and saving the need to take it into Photoshop for a simple edit.

• Lightroom Radial Filter

Use the radial filter to add quick vignettes and style touches directly in Lightroom.

• Lightroom Healing Brush

Lightroom has a few ways to repair spots and blemishes in photos, explore them here.

This online course is designed to teach advanced techniques in Adobe Photoshop. It includes 55 intermediate-advanced level lessons delivered in bite sized, engaging video tutorials by Adobe Community Professional instructor Howard Pinsky.

A foundation in the basics of Photoshop is advised, such as our Photoshop Basic course. Videos recorded using Adobe Photoshop CS5 and CS6. Students must supply own Photoshop software.

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