Enhance your knowledge of how to use and control light effectively in order to achieve the images of your choice. Get a feel for the world of professional photography through intensive exercises dealing with people/portraiture, products, architecture, landscapes and more. Develop a critical appreciation of the message that images create. Continue to develop your skills in image manipulation.
- This is just about every known shortcut that exists in Photoshop.
- The white box assignment sheet
- Reading on how to create a path. Video tutorial on path and creating a shadow.
- Assignment sheet for lighting a reflective metallic object as a still life.
- Assignment sheet on creating a simple still life using everyday use products.
- An overview of colour management in Photoshop and the behaviour of some of the colour profiles.
- There is no getting away from the fact that if you supplied a digital image to a printer, you are deemed responsible should any problems occur in the printing. Though with a good understanding of Photoshop's colour management system it is not hard to have predicable colours all the way from camera to print.
- An explanation on what is the nodal point and how to find the nodal point for successful panoramic imaging.
- This will provide you with detailed instructions on the steps that you need to go through to help calibrate your monitor for viewing images with reasonably accurate colour representation without having an external calibration device. This article refers to a particular software, please ignore it and try to follow the guidelines and grasp the gist of the whole thing.
- This is a PSD file designed to help you visually asses and evaluate the contrast and colours that your monitor is able to display. This is a zipped file, you will need to unzip before you can open it in Photoshop.
- Brief explanations on the fundamental tools of Photoshop
- What are Blend Modes and the impact they have on your image.
- Details on certain updated features and how to use them. Contains: HDR processing using ACR. Various Lens Correction Options. Additional Smart Object Support.