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Online Photoshop Courses, with Richard Lynch
One of the most fantastic things to come out of the web is the ability to have immediate access to information on the internet. This ability has grown to include access to live resources such as authors and instructors. With the aid of communications online, you can take courses in Photoshop from Richard Lynch, one of the top pros in the industry. These courses aren't just static documents that you download and read like a book, but interactive lessons where you read, do exercises, submit your work, and communicate directly with your instructor to ask all the questions you've ever wanted directly from the source.
Courses are available at the begining, intermediate and advanced levels to help users get started as absolute beginners with Photoshop, learn the ins and outs of image corrections and enhancement, take on and conquer the enigma of color management, and, of course, learn to work with layers as a companion to The Adobe Photoshop Layers Book. Any of Richard's courses is designed to work with Mac and PC, for Photoshop (7, CS, CS2, CS3, CS4 and CS5) or Elements (3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8). They are taught entirely online via betterphoto.com in groups, allowing you the comradery of the classroom but entirely from the comfort of your own home. Participate in class discussions about Photoshop, critique other's work, submit your own, and gain direct access to a top industry expert who will show you what you need and want to know on an individual basis.
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Photoshop 101: the Photoshop Essentials Primer
A beginner-level course that helps introduce users to Photoshop and Photoshop Elements by exploring core concepts of navigating the program, storing and saving files safely, listing essential tools to know and use, and defining a process for editing any image. Learn more about Richard's Photoshop 101 course.
Correct and Enhance Your Images
An intermediate level course that helps users become more familiar with techniques for enhancing their images on a dat-to-day basis. Explores key concepts for evaluating your images, works through color and tone correction, shows you how to repair and alter images, and explores image enhancements like sharpening, soft focus effects and framing. Learn more about Richard's Correct and Enhance Your Images course.
From Monitor to Print: Photoshop Color Workflow
An intermediate level course for users who want to get more from their images in print. This course covers monitor calibration, creating ICC profiles, setting up color management, making corrections for print, and outlines a process for checking your color management results and choosing a printing service. Learn more about Richard's From Monitor to Print course
Leveraging Layers: Photoshop's Most Powerful Tool
An intermediate-advanced level course designed to help you not just understand layers, but embrace them as thee primary tool for development of your images in Photoshop/Elements. This course starts with an overview of layer features and types, progresses to layer management techniques and using layers as an organizational tool, then looks at layer features in practical examples that you will use layers for every day. Learn about isolating image areas, masking, layer modes, advanced blanding modes, and take layers to new levels by using layers as channels and for making collages. Learn more about Richard's Leveraging Layers course.
Awesome Digital Projects: Panorama, HDR, B&W Conversion, Toning & Colorizing (NEW 06.01.10!)
An intermediate-level course for both Photoshop and Elements users. The goal of the course is to extend what you can do with your camera and the canvas of your images. Projects cover the whole concept of producing your results, from capture to combining captures in Photoshop to bridge concept with result. This course differs from classes that look at shooting and post-processing separately by requiring both in each project. Students are challenged to relate shooting to post-processing through four projects: shooting panoramas, HDR photography, converting images to black-and-white, and colorizing and toning black-and-white images. All the techniques in the course can be mixed to achieve creative new images. Learn more about Richard's Awesome Digital Projects course.
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The First
and Best Book Dedicated to Photoshop Layers
"The Adobe Photoshop Layers Book is the best 'how to' book I've ever come across!"
-- Ralph Holmberg [Reader] |