Professional Workflows in Photoshop
Real-World Production Strategies for Artists & Designers
Prerequisites: Introduction to Photoshop or comparable experience.
This course is for intermediate to advanced students who want to hone their process and develop a
distinctive signature style within Photoshop's vast and complex toolkit. Students will complete a
small body of work while honing professional, efficient workflows, mastering "insider" skills, and
evolving an expert eye through engaging class critique and simulated real-world projects. Graphic
designers, illustrators, aspiring imaging specialists will benefit from this immersive class.
Students will complete a small body of work while honing efficient Photoshop workflows,
mastering "insider" skills, and evolving a professional eye through engaging class critique and
simulated "real-life" projects.
Students will be able to demonstrate:
- A comfortable, efficient yet flexible workflow within Photoshop's highly complex and ever-evolving toolkit through deeper understanding of technological underpinnings and proven best- practices, achieved through completion of class assignments
- The development of a signature style, increased confidence, and individual expression through a body of work honed by critique, application of new skills, and expert techniques resulting from presentation of projects and class discussion
- Relative mastery of Photoshop's tools, panels, and hidden capacities through completion of individual and collaborative assignments and problems solved during critique
- The ability to use Smart Objects for assets and to create libraries of styles, actions, brushes, textures, typography, and customized client palettes through completion of real-world projects