At Digital Training & Designs we can provide you with the right solution to help you understand and Adobe Photoshop CS4/CS5 to create your own spectacular digital images. Whether you enroll in our public classes, or have us create private training for your entire staff, we will help you learn to create art in a productive and efficient manner. Check our schedule for class dates and prices for Adobe Photoshop training in Dallas, Texas or call us for private training at your site.

This course focuses on creating special effects and composites of your images. It does not try to teach you every possible effect that can be created in Photoshop, but is designed to give you a solid foundation in how many effects are achieved, so that you can begin creating your own. This course is not designed for beginners. It is assumed that you can: scan images properly, select parts of an image by shape and color, correctly alter the contrast and brightness of an image, and that you are familiar with the color models and color correction techniques.

When you finish the class you will be able to make non-permanent adjustments and alterations to images that always can be re-edited using non destructive techniques.

Topics covered in this two-day class are:

Layer Masks

• Creating and editing
• Applying Filters to Layer Masks
• Seeing How Gradients Modify Layer Masks
• Using Images as Layer Masks

Adjustment Layers

• Using Various Adjustment Layers to Alter Images
• Creating Layer Clipping Masks
• Confining Adjustment Layer Effects with Masking

Smart Objects

• Exploring the Editability of Smart Objects
• Utilizing Smart Filters
• Nesting Smart Objects

Advanced Image Manipulation

• Blending Images Together
• Applying Curves
• Matching Colors Between Documents
• Enhancing Images with Auto Color
• Distorting Images with the Liquify Filter
• Making Panoramic Images
• Warping Images
• Applying Perspective with Vanishing Point
• Recording and Playing Steps in a Process

Color Based Edits

• Making Selections Based on Color
• Blending Images Based on Color
• Eliminating Backgrounds based on Color
• Replacing Existing Colors in an Image