Course Highlights:
Session 1: Understanding Photoshop Essentials
Session 2: Artful Techniques for Image Enhancement
Session 3: Transforming and Integrating Elements
Session 4: Polishing and Finalising Your Creations
Please note that while this course provides an introduction to Photoshop’s essentials, it’s important to recognise that the software’s capabilities are vast and diverse. This course aims to give you a strong foundation, but mastering all of Photoshop’s features will require more time, classes and practice.
Session 1: Understanding Photoshop Essentials
In this introductory session, you’ll dive into the fundamental concepts of Photoshop. Discover how to remove unwanted elements from your images, enhance composition through cropping, and master various techniques for selecting specific parts of images. Learn about feathering selections for smooth transitions. Once selections are made, explore the art of:
Adjusting brightness and darkness
Applying blur and sharpening effects
Enhancing sharpness
Boosting color saturation
Increasing contrast
Session 2: Artful Techniques for Image Enhancement
Uncover advanced editing techniques in this session. Create captivating vignettes, manipulate background blurring and subject sharpening, reshape images, and even construct breathtaking panoramas. Delve into the creative process of converting color images to striking black and white compositions. Discover the magic of the Dehaze slider in breathing new life into your images.
Session 3: Transforming and Integrating Elements
In this session, you’ll learn to take your editing skills to the next level by seamlessly incorporating elements from other images. Master the art of resizing introduced elements while maintaining visual integrity. Fix perspective issues, including straightening converging vertical lines. Explore the intriguing process of altering the color of specific areas to create visually captivating effects.
Session 4: Polishing and Finalizing Your Creations
Refine your editing prowess in this final session. Explore the intricate world of the Blur and Sharpen filters, and gain a comprehensive understanding of Raw and JPEG files, along with their advantages and disadvantages. Delve into the nuances of prepping raw files using the Camera Raw Filter section. Unleash your creativity by adding text to your images using Photoshop’s versatile type tool.
Fee:
$249 $199 Introductory Offer
Enrolment Fee is Non-Refundable*
1 Diamond Creek Road,
GREENSBOROUGH VIC 3088
Closest train station: Greensborough (5 minutes walk)
Limited free parking available on site
Peter Walton is a Melbourne based photographer with a lifetime of professional experience. He is acknowledged as one of Australia’s finest landscape photographers. He’s been romancing Australia with his camera for well over 40 years. His iconic images have been widely used by advertising agencies, the travel industry, in Australian landscape calendars and coffee table books.
As a teenager he became hooked on the magic of creating images and decided to make photography his full-time profession and eventually set up his own studio in South Melbourne. He studied advertising at RMIT in order to promote his new venture. It was a decision that led to many amazing photo opportunities. When digital photography arrived he set up Australia’s first digital image library, Australian Scenics. It proved very successful and led to him being awarded numerous international travel assignments.
Photographic projects undertaken by Peter Walton
World Expeditions: Nepal, Namibia, Botswana, South Africa, China’s Silk Road, Laos, Cambodia, Antarctica, New Zealand, Kakadu National Park and Tasmania’s Tarkine Wilderness
Australian Pacific Tours (APT): Ports of the Baltic Sea, Australia’s Kimberley & Cape York regions.
Oceania Cruises: New Zealand and numerous Asian ports.
Peregrine Tours: Vietnam.
Jetset Tours: UK, Singapore and Indonesia,
Malaysia Airlines: East and West Malaysia.