Photoshop Advanced
Master complex technical skills, hone your visual literacy, and deepen your artistic style with Advanced Photoshop. Get equipped with industry-standard methods for seamless, highly realistic, professional compositing. Use your own photography, AI imagery, or stock photos to tackle the complex workflows required in advertising, publishing, and entertainment. From detailed masking techniques, through high-end portrait retouching, to the integration of light, cast shadows, and reflections, you'll learn to create breathtaking composites and transform everyday images into immersive worlds. By the end, you'll have polished, portfolio-ready projects that showcase your technical mastery and signature artistic style-setting you apart in today's competitive visual market.
- Hone your unique artistic method and signature style through class critique and demos
- Acquire working comprehension of photographic light for realistic layering
- Learn best-practice techniques for skin, body shape, hair, and fur retouching
- De-mystify color channels, adjustment layers, and blend modes for expert color correction
- Master the intricacies of masks using transparency, the pen tool, and shape-combining
- Create special effects like smoke, fire, and rain for atmospheric storytelling
- Discern when Photoshop's AI features help versus when other methods give superior results
- Train your visual literacy to develop an expert eye for detail, nuance, and professional industry standards
(optional) Intro to Photoshop