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Adobe Photoshop®
Adobe Photoshop has long been the gold standard for professional digital image editing by creative professionals. Learn to harness its power and use the tools and capabilities necessary to enhance your publications and websites. PubCom is currently offering the following Photoshop classes:
- Color Correction and Image Editing
Intermediate class for those who want to learn how to fix, correct, and improve the images they have. - Photoshop Basics — Level 1
Entry-level class that gets you on your way to mastering Photoshop's powerful tools and features. - Photoshop — Quick!
For Webmasters
Delivers the essentials for webmasters who must get graphics ready for websites. Entry-level class. - Photoshop — Quick! For Desktop Publishers
Provides the essentials for graphic designers and desktop publishers working with print/press graphics. Entry-level class.
Photoshop Color Correction and Image Editing
In this two-day concentrated Master Class with Bevi Chagnon, you'll learn many ways to fix, correct, and improve photos. This class is right on target for web developers, print designers, and serious amateur photographers.
Topics include:
- Using different color modes for color correction (LAB color, CMYK and RGB).
- Adjustment curves.
- Appropriate numbers for accurate color .
- Color correcting portraits, skintones, and landscapes.
- Painting with light.
- Using Camera RAW.
- Sharpening techniques.
Many of these techniques are based on Bevi's training, professional experience, and books by Dan Margulis, the world's leading guru for prepress and color correction whom Bevi's pays homage to every time she launches Photoshop. <grin>
This is an intermediate-level class that focuses ONLY only on color correction techniques, so knowledge of Photoshop's basic tools is required (selections, masks, layers, and channels).
| Instructor: | Bevi Chagnon |
| When: | May 4-5, 2010 |
| » Or register for this class with a purchase order | |
| Length: | 2 days |
| Hours: | 9:00am - 4:00pm + extended lab time |
| Platforms: |  Windows and Mac |
| CEUs: | 1.2, certificate awarded |
| Fee: | $695 (call or email for govt price schedule) |
Photoshop Basics — Level 1
This course is for graphic designers and web developers who want to begin their mastery of Photoshop's many tools and features and venture into more creative uses of this powerful program.
Learn to use selection tools, color correct photos, edit images, create montages, use layer effects, understand transparency, set resolution and color modes, export for high-resolution print, and export for the web — all the basics to get you started! Bevi also includes many of her favorite "tricks" for fixing less-than-perfect photos.
| Instructor: | Bevi Chagnon |
| When: | TBA |
| » Or register for this class with a purchase order | |
| Length: | 2 days |
| Hours: | 9:00am - 4:00pm + extended lab time until 5pm |
| Platforms: | Windows and Mac |
| CEUs: | 1.2, certificate awarded |
| Fee: | $695 (call or email for govt price schedule) |
Photoshop — Quick! For Webmasters
Web developers and designers with little experience in graphics programs will be right at home in this class.
We'll cover the essentials of taking existing graphics — such as photos, logos, pie charts, and illustrations — and preparing them for the web. Sizing, cropping, and optimizing graphics will also be covered, as well as the technical differences between graphic file formats and resolution. Bevi also includes many of her favorite "tricks" for fixing less-than-perfect graphics.
| Instructor: | Bevi Chagnon |
| When: | TBA |
| » Or register for this class with a purchase order | |
| Length: | 1 day |
| Hours: | 9:00am - 4:00pm + extended lab time |
| Platforms: | Windows and Mac |
| CEUs: | 0.6, certificate awarded |
| Fee: | $375 (call or email for govt price schedule) |
Photoshop — Quick! For Desktop Publishers
Desktop publishers with little experience in graphics programs will be right at home in this class.
We'll cover the essentials of preparing and optimizing existing photos for press-quality publications. Sizing, cropping, resolution requirements, ink-density/coverage, and graphic file formats will be covered, as well as minor color correction techniques for those less-than-perfect photos you get. Bevi also includes guidelines for handling digital camera files.
| Instructor: | Bevi Chagnon |
| When: | TBA |
| » Register for this class with a purchase order | |
| Length: | 1 day |
| Hours: | 9:00am - 4:00pm + extended lab time |
| Platforms: | Windows and Mac |
| CEUs: | 0.6, certificate awarded |
| Fee: | $375 (call or email for govt price schedule) |
Practicing What She Preaches —
PubCom's in-house studio — i-Imagery Design — creates breakthrough communications pieces, distinctive designs, and imaginative cost-effective solutions for print and digital publishing, websites, and digital media. Visit the i-imagery portfolio pages to view samples of instructor (and professional photographer) Bevi Chagnon's imaging work.
Extended Lab Time
PubCom's hands-on computer classes include self-paced practice time after class, from 4 - 5pm. Although our instructors are available for assistance, the extended lab period is intended to give you a chance to practice what was covered in class, delve into additional topics, and hone your skills in the software.
