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Photoshop Foundations - Warren Keller

  • Introducing Adobe Photoshop the ‘Black Hole’ of image processing software
  • Find what works for you and ‘KISS’.
  • The Black Hole - the initial, compressed histogram  - how to free it.
  • 256 Steps - Photoshop is based on a 256-step scale and everything we do in Photoshop revolves around it.
  • Three reference tools which help us accomplish our goals: Our eye, the Histogram, and Info Palette.
  • Introduction to Menus, Tools, Palettes. Demonstrate how to customize workspace.
  • Adjusting Photoshop’s Settings and Preferences to begin.
  • A quick look at DDP - is it the answer to all image processing prayers?
  • More Basics - Layers.
  • More Basics - the Channels tab.
  • Starting from scratch:- B + W Points in Levels, Stretching w/ Shadow/Highlight and introduce the Basic Curve.
  • Non-linear Curves and Selections - The real power of Photoshop
  • Selections. All images comprised of different elements: background sky, stars and dim arms.
  • Selection Tools: (Layers, Channels), Color Range, Magic Wand, Lasso, Threshold, Masks and inverted Masks.
  • Elaborate on ‘5-S’s’: Selections/Stretch/Sharpen/Saturate/Smooth