Photoshop – Practical Sessions on Best Practice
When?
- Wednesday 24 February 6–9pm
- Saturday 27 February 10am–4pm
- Wednesday 3 March 6–9pm
- Wednesday 10 March 6–9pm
- Wednesday 17 March 6–9pm
- Wednesday 24 March 6–9pm
- Saturday 27 March 10am–4pm
Where?
The Media Academy, Cirencester College
Refreshments
Lunch plus refreshment breaks will be offered during each session. This will consist of sandwiches, light snacks, tea, coffee and soft drinks.
What is it about? The sessions will be tutored by practicing photographer and artist Kel Portman, who has a depth of experience in tutoring on this software. A rare opportunity for existing Photoshop users to brush up your skills and learn new techniques, in this series of practical hands-on sessions. This short course leads to a professional qualification in digital image manipulation.
This training covers:
- Enhancing and manipulation – including tone & colour management, realistic and surreal manipulation, retouching, applying special effects and text, layers, colour replacement
- Image acquisition – suitability of various file formats
- Output techniques –printing surfaces, dye sublimation, CD/DVD, website, presentation options
Who is it for? This course is for you if:
- You are already using Photoshop for basic image manipulation, either for web, print, or other new media applications, and wish to enhance your skills.
- You are mostly self-taught and would like access to professional knowledge on how to get the best and consistent results from this software.
- You have used Photoshop for a number of years and would like to refresh yourself on the ‘best practice’ approach.
What will I get out of it? At the end of the training participants will:
- Be comfortable with using key Photoshop tools
- Understand the quality issues when selecting an image
- Be confident in the best techniques to apply to get the desired result
- Know and apply the appropriate skills for output for print, disc, web or presentation products
Course Outline During the course you will examine how to:
1 acquire images 2 optimise files 3 select images for manipulation 4 enhance and manipulate photo images 5 produce final images
As part of our investigation, we will look at these specific areas:
Enhancing and manipulation. White balance, exposure, tone & colour management, cropping, masking & selection methods, manipulating images both realistically and surrealistically, retouching, sharpening, applying special effects, layers, opacity, colour replacement, image sizes, transformations, text.
Input & Output technique make informed and accurate judgements about the acquisition of images and the suitability of various file formats
Image quality Images visually controlled for density, colour, contrast, resolution, sharpness
Output techniques Ink jet printers, printing surfaces, dye sublimation, CD/DVD, website, presentation
Tutor
Kel Portman MA Cert Ed
Kel Portman is a practicing photographer and artist as well as an experienced Lecturer in Higher and Further education. He has extensive experience of teaching in Europe, Asia and America and his work is exhibited widely in the UK and abroad and held in private collections in Britain, USA and Europe.
He is a former Senior Lecturer at The University of the Arts, London and currently a lead artist with land arts collective Walking the Land. He also works with PhotoStroud, Gloucestershire Digital Arts Forum, Stroud Valleys Artspace and runs practical digital imaging, photography and painting workshops in the UK, Greece, Thailand and Cambodia.
“The quality of this software enables complex images with high production values to be achieved quickly and relatively easily, with the only limitation your imagination” Kel Portman
How to get a Free place
- A minimum of 19 years old
- Living or working in Gloucestershire
- Be either employed by a small business (between 1-249 employees)
- Or running your own business (this can include freelancers if you have a business bank account or are self-employed for tax purposes)
- Be working in the creative/media industry
Sign Up
Refundable Deposit:
The course is free, however, as we only receive our funding once individuals have achieved the qualification linked to the course, we do ask for a deposit of £100, which is refunded in full upon successful completion.
To book your place click the Sign Up Now link below
If you have any queries, please contact us on jessica@thegmg.org
