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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:
- Photoshop Intermediate — Image Editing and Color Correction Techniques
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 Intermediate — Image Editing and Color Correction Techniques
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 amateur photographers.
Topics include:
- Using different color modes for color correction (LAB color, CMYK and RGB).
- Adjustment curves.
- Appropriate numbers for accurate color.
- Adjusting white balance.
- 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>
- View Bevi's online photography portfolio at www.Kree8ivPix.com.
- See samples of Bevi's Photoshop projects on her design studio's website, www.i-imagery.com
This is an intermediate-level class that focuses ONLY only on color correction and editing techniques. You don't need to be a guru, but you must be at least familiar with Photoshop's basic tools is required (selections, masks, layers, and channels).
Bring your special photos to class and work on them during the extended lab time, 4 to 5 pm.
| Instructor: | Bevi Chagnon |
| When: | TBA |
| Length: | 2 days |
| Hours: | 9:00 am - 4:00 pm + extended lab time |
| Where: | PubCom's training lab in Takoma Park |
| Platforms: |  Windows and Mac |
| CEUs: | 1.2 CEUs, certificate awarded |
| Books: | Textbook and PubCom's workbook |
| Fee: | $795 |
| Registration: | •> Online registion |
| •> Download our registration form | |
| •> More details about registration | |
| Discounts: | •> Returning students and groups, email us for registration information |
| GOVT: | •> Email us for our government price schedule and registration form. |
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 |
| Length: | 2 days |
| Hours: | 9:00 am - 4:00 pm + extended lab time |
| Where: | PubCom's training lab in Takoma Park |
| Platforms: | Windows and Mac |
| CEUs: | 1.2 CEUs, certificate awarded |
| Books: | Textbook and PubCom's workbook |
| Fee: | $795 |
| Registration: | •> Online registion |
| •> Download our registration form | |
| •> More details about registration | |
| Discounts: | •> Returning students and groups, email us for registration information |
| GOVT: | •> Email us for our government price schedule and registration form. |
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 |
| Length: | 1 day |
| Hours: | 9:00 am - 4:00 pm + extended lab time |
| Where: | PubCom's training lab in Takoma Park |
| Platforms: | Windows and Mac |
| CEUs: | 0.6 CEUs, certificate awarded |
| Books: | Textbook and PubCom's workbook |
| Fee: | $445 |
| Registration: | •> Online registion — |
| •> Download our registration form | |
| •> More details about registration | |
| Discounts: | •> Returning students and groups, email us for registration information |
| GOVT: | •> Email us for our government price schedule and registration form. |
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 |
| Length: | 1 day |
| Hours: | 9:00 am - 4:00 pm + extended lab time |
| Where: | PubCom's training lab in Takoma Park |
| Platforms: | Windows and Mac |
| CEUs: | 0.6 CEUs, certificate awarded |
| Books: | Textbook and PubCom's workbook |
| Fee: | $445 |
| Registration: | •> Online registion |
| •> Download our registration form | |
| •> More details about registration | |
| Discounts: | •> Returning students and groups, email us for registration information |
| GOVT: | •> Email us for our government price schedule and registration form. |
Practicing What She Preaches —
Here are some sample before/after images that demonstrate what Bevi teaches in her Color Correction & Image Editing class. Click the "after" photos to enlarge them.
Visit the i-imagery portfolio pages to view samples of her digital imaging work and photography shots.
Painting with light
before & after
White balance and color curves, before & after
Portrait retouching and skintones, before & after
Repeat Rewards!
Returning students receive a 5% discount off all future classes.
Group rates are available. Just ask us!
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.
