The training

Photoshop advance↑

The training

Photoshop advance↑

The skill booster for Photoshop power users.
Adobe Photoshop CC


The leading and the most advanced image editor in professional appliances nowadays

The training agenda in the pritable PDF format can be downloaded here.

The training agenda in the pritable PDF format can be downloaded here.  

Training profile

The course “Photoshop advance↑” is designed for demanding users well acquainted with the content of the “Photoshop core” course and is a follow-up to it. It emphasizes maximum design re-editability, increasing productivity by using other Adobe applications, and preparing raster images for printing.

Before taking the “advance↑” course, we strongly recommend completing the “core” training. If you have doubts about which training to choose, please do contact us, preferably directly with one of the attendees.

During the training the proficiency in computer operation is necessary, along with the mastering the “Photoshop core” course material. If any of topic issues presented during a course will be unfamiliar to attendees, a trainer will add a proper exercise, and will subsequently return to course’s schedule.
The training is offered both in English and in Polish.
  • It is worth considering to acquaint oneself with InDesign or Illustrator, depending on a profile of performed tasks
  • Artworkers and DTP operators closely cooperating with a printing houses or dealing with high-volume printing may be interested in the training “Prepress for designers”, which focues entirely on the data print preparation issues

Training objectives

  • To encourage students to leave their Photoshop “comfort zone”, and to make their working patterns more flexible
  • To upgrade student’s workshop with new, previously unused tools
  • To present methods to increase “document editability” – an approach allowing to revoke previous actions, without a necessity to rebuilt a document from scratch
  • To broaden student’s knowledge on printing technologies and appropriate data preparation
  • To demonstrate an effective collaboration among Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign as one consistent working environment
  • To acquaint student with techniques of developing “digital negatives” (i.e. 16-bit RAW images) in Camera Raw module
  • To introduce an automation of repetitive tasks on a large number of files

Training succeeds:

  • if participants have a similar level of knowledge (very important);
  • the group should be no more than 6-7 people;
  • it is helpful when the participants are relieved from other duties so that they can focus only on learning.

Regarding videoconference online training:

  • The day before the training, we recommend testing the computer and software and downloading exercises so that the next morning everything is ready for work;
  • very important: two displays; one showing the remote trainer’s presentation, the second for the student’s individual practice. More info on working with two monitors.

After the training:

  • After completing the course, daily professional contact with Photoshop is necessary: work, practical tasks.

Training duration

The training lasts for 16 school hours. It is 2 days, 8 school hours each.

08:45

Gathering

Workplace preparation, attendance list, organizational arrangements

09:00

Beginning of a training

An introduction & lesson start right on time

10:45

Coffe break (15 min.)

A short breather to stretch your legs

12:30

Lunch break (45 min.)

45 minutes to rest, relax and to have a meal

14:30

Coffe break (15 min.)

The last break on this training day

16:00

End of a training day

A quick review of the topics covered

Naturally. The presented schedule is a proposal based on the experience from previous training sessions, however, the trainer can adapt flexibly to the client’s requirements.
Yes, of course. If students wish, breaks can be shifted at will.

Online training

Stationery training

If you prefer a training in a videoconferencing form, we offer our courses in Poland and abroad as live online classes, through modern platforms like Zoom, Teams, etc.,
Do you prefer a stationary training conducted locally, at the premises of your company? We offer on-site courses throughout Poland.
More on online trainings
Contact us

Stationery training

Contact us
Do you prefer a stationary training conducted locally, at the premises of your company? We offer on-site courses throughout Poland.

Online training

More on online training
If you prefer a training in a videoconferencing form, we offer our courses in Poland and abroad as live online classes, through modern platforms like Zoom, Teams, etc.,

Online training

If you prefer a training in a videoconferencing form, we offer our courses in Poland and abroad as live online classes, through modern platforms like Zoom, Teams, etc.,
More on online training

Stationery training

Do you prefer a stationary training conducted locally, at the premises of your company? We offer on-site courses throughout Poland.
Contact us

Training program

Let us emphasize the flexibility of the course: a trainer chooses exercises accordingly to specific training objectives set by a student, who takes time to practice only exercises that are directly useful and advantageous. The training program is a proposal, well thought-out and proven in practice.

We proceed on the premise, that a training should flexibly adjust to student’s needs, but never the other way around.

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Print preparation of raster images
  • Additive and subtractive colour model, relationships between RGB and CMYK, understanding of the color wheel
  • Control over the color separation from RGB to CMYK, and it’s uses in photo correction
  • Printing house jargon: ink limit, black generation curve, dot gain compensation
  • Setting values of shadows and highlights
  • Checking against and repairing blowouts
  • Print preparation of screenshots
  • How big is pixel? Picking an image resolution depending on a print’s assumed real-world applications
  • Exchange of information on an image’s DPI among Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign
CIE Lab color space
  • Edition restrains in RGB & CMYK
  • CIE Lab model and its applications in a photo correction
  • Color measurements: ∆L, ∆a, ∆b, ∆E; precise and objective defining color difference between a color target and an actual commercial print
Patterns
  • Defining a new Pattern
  • Seamless repetitive patterns (by Offset, by Smart Objects)
Brushes
  • The Brush library (import, export)
  • Defining custom brushes basing on pictures
Channels
  • Building complex selections with a content of channels
  • Apply Image and Calculations functions
  • Fine-tuning selections in Quick Mask mode and with blending modes
  • Saving and restoring selections as Alpha channels
  • Setting up new spot channels (e.g. to apply a selective lacquer)
Smart Objects
  • Advantages of Smart Objects as design tools
  • Embedding a vector graphics, collaboration with Adobe Illustrator
  • Hierarchical embedding
  • How to apply filters non-destructively and revocably
  • How to create a pattern composed of shapes different than a rectangle (i.e. triangle)
Layers +
  • Advanced layer effects
  • Drawing interface items (buttons, dials, sliders)
  • A review and typical uses of Blending Modes
  • Advanced layer blending
Photoedition techniques
  • Quick picture evaluation based on a histogram
  • Color and contrast: introduction to correction on numbers
  • Correction of a color hue on digital photos
  • Classical photomontage: combining objects from different images and matching their geometric proportions, contrast and color
 
  • Merging photos into a seamless panorama
  • Stitching multiple photo fragments together (like screenshots, map scans)
  • A photomontage: a visualization of an advertisement by putting it into outdoor context (e.g. billboard, bus stop ad)
  • Merging a series o photos for a better depth of field (useful esp. in macrophotography)
  • Merging a series of photos for taking best parts from each one (e.g. a shot of group of people taken multiple times, then joined)
  • Simulation of low depth of field (Tilt Shift)
  • An effect of blur following an arc (e.g. behind an advertised car on a road bend)
  • Content Aware transformations: (CA Scale, CA Move, CA Fill)
  • The Puppet Warp transformation
  • The Stamp Tool and the Vanishing Point filter
  • The Perspective Warp tool
Lighting effects
  • Picture vivification by adding lighting effects: flares, light beams, godrays, solarization, rendering a 3d bump map
Paths
  • Background separation of an object of straight or elliptical edges, like fruits, bottles, boxes, etc.
  • Vector layer masks
  • Importing paths from Illustrator
  • Painting along a path
  • A concept and use of a Clipping Path
How to damage an image?
  • An overview of commonly made mistakes during image edition, resulting in tonal posterization, losing sharpness to a blur, visible grain in shadows, unnatural colors, etc.
  • RAW Digital negatives
  • 8-bit or 16-bit images?
  • Camera RAW module, interface, operation, shortcuts
  • Camera RAW integration with Photoshop
  • Repairing blowouts
  • Altering picture’s geometry, straightening of parallel lines, cropping
  • Setting the natural color balance, tonal corrections
  • Enhancing low contrast (e.g. on foggy pictures)
  • Local editions, removing spots and scratches introduced by a lens or camera’s sensor
  • Combining RAWs into 16-bit panoramas
  • How to combine multi-exposure developed RAW’s for better shadows and highlights
  • Quick development of a series of RAW images with the same consistent settings
  • Embedding a 16-bit RAW in a 8-bit document
  • Merging series of 8-bit images shot using the bracketing technique into one HDR image
  • Automation
  • Putting a series of image files into Photoshop layers and vice versa
  • The Image Processor module
  • Quick convert of series of images to a different format/size (i.e. for emailing)
  • Quick cropping a series of photos from a scanner
  • Actions palette, constructing own actions for repetitive tasks
  • Functionality of the Batch module against the Image Processor
  • A droplet (a desktop icon, invoking a previously recorded action)
Print preparation of raster images
  • Additive and subtractive colour model, relationships between RGB and CMYK, understanding of the color wheel
  • Control over the color separation from RGB to CMYK, and it’s uses in photo correction
  • Printing house jargon: ink limit, black generation curve, dot gain compensation
  • Setting values of shadows and highlights
  • Checking against and repairing blowouts
  • Print preparation of screenshots
  • How big is pixel? Picking an image resolution depending on a print’s assumed real-world applications
  • Exchange of information on an image’s DPI among Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign
CIE Lab color space
  • Edition restrains in RGB & CMYK
  • CIE Lab model and its applications in a photo correction
  • Color measurements: ∆L, ∆a, ∆b, ∆E; precise and objective defining color difference between a color target and an actual commercial print
Patterns
  • Defining a new Pattern
  • Seamless repetitive patterns (by Offset, by Smart Objects)
Brushes
  • The Brush library (import, export)
  • Defining custom brushes basing on pictures
Channels
  • Building complex selections with a content of channels
  • Apply Image and Calculations functions
  • Fine-tuning selections in Quick Mask mode and with blending modes
  • Saving and restoring selections as Alpha channels
  • Setting up new spot channels (e.g. to apply a selective lacquer)
Smart Objects
  • Advantages of Smart Objects as design tools
  • Embedding a vector graphics, collaboration with Adobe Illustrator
  • Hierarchical embedding
  • How to apply filters non-destructively and revocably
  • How to create a pattern composed of shapes different than a rectangle (i.e. triangle)
Layers +
  • Advanced layer effects
  • Drawing interface items (buttons, dials, sliders)
  • A review and typical uses of Blending Modes
  • Advanced layer blending
Photoedition techniques
  • Quick picture evaluation based on a histogram
  • Color and contrast: introduction to correction on numbers
  • Correction of a color hue on digital photos
  • Classical photomontage: combining objects from different images and matching their geometric proportions, contrast and color
  • Merging photos into a seamless panorama
  • Stitching multiple photo fragments together (like screenshots, map scans)
  • A photomontage: a visualization of an advertisement by putting it into outdoor context (e.g. billboard, bus stop ad)
  • Merging a series o photos for a better depth of field (useful esp. in macrophotography)
  • Merging a series of photos for taking best parts from each one (e.g. a shot of group of people taken multiple times, then joined)
  • Simulation of low depth of field (Tilt Shift)
  • An effect of blur following an arc (e.g. behind an advertised car on a road bend)
  • Content Aware transformations: (CA Scale, CA Move, CA Fill)
  • The Puppet Warp transformation
  • The Stamp Tool and the Vanishing Point filter
  • The Perspective Warp tool
Lighting effects
  • Picture vivification by adding lighting effects: flares, light beams, godrays, solarization, rendering a 3d bump map
Paths
  • Background separation of an object of straight or elliptical edges, like fruits, bottles, boxes, etc.
  • Vector layer masks
  • Importing paths from Illustrator
  • Painting along a path
  • A concept and use of a Clipping Path
How to damage an image?
  • An overview of commonly made mistakes during image edition, resulting in tonal posterization, losing sharpness to a blur, visible grain in shadows, unnatural colors, etc.
  • RAW Digital negatives
  • 8-bit or 16-bit images?
  • Camera RAW module, interface, operation, shortcuts
  • Camera RAW integration with Photoshop
  • Repairing blowouts
  • Altering picture’s geometry, straightening of parallel lines, cropping
  • Setting the natural color balance, tonal corrections
  • Enhancing low contrast (e.g. on foggy pictures)
  • Local editions, removing spots and scratches introduced by a lens or camera’s sensor
  • Combining RAWs into 16-bit panoramas
  • How to combine multi-exposure developed RAW’s for better shadows and highlights
  • Quick development of a series of RAW images with the same consistent settings
  • Embedding a 16-bit RAW in a 8-bit document
  • Merging series of 8-bit images shot using the bracketing technique into one HDR image
  • Automation
  • Putting a series of image files into Photoshop layers and vice versa
  • The Image Processor module
  • Quick convert of series of images to a different format/size (i.e. for emailing)
  • Quick cropping a series of photos from a scanner
  • Actions palette, constructing own actions for repetitive tasks
  • Functionality of the Batch module against the Image Processor
  • A droplet (a desktop icon, invoking a previously recorded action)
What makes us 
stand out 
?
We offer 
individual 
live online 
competitively priced 
customizable 
trainings.
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Close delivery dates
We specialize in closed training courses aimed at companies and institutions, so we can offer quick delivery times. We do not reschedule agreed trainings unless requested by the client.
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Even for a one trainee
Are you looking for a position training for a newly hired employee? We will deliver it in the form of remote online training or onsite stationery training at your company office in any location in Poland.
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Customizable courses
The modular construction of the training material allows for flexible adjustment of the material exactly according to the needs of the participants, even on an ongoing basis during the training session.
What makes us 
stand out 
?
We offer 
individual 
live online 
competitively priced 
customizable 
trainings.
CALENDAR3-3
Close delivery dates
We specialize in closed training courses aimed at companies and institutions, so we can offer quick delivery times. We do not reschedule agreed trainings unless requested by the client.
Artboard 2
Even for a one trainee
Are you looking for a position training for a newly hired graphic specialist? We will deliver it in the form of remote online training or onsite stationery training at your company office in any location in Poland.
Artboard 1
Customizable courses
The modular construction of the training material allows for flexible adjustment of the material exactly according to the needs of the participants, even on an ongoing basis during the training session.
What makes us 
stand out 
?
We specialize in closed training courses aimed at companies and institutions, so we can offer quick delivery times. We do not reschedule agreed trainings unless requested by the client.
Are you looking for a position training for a newly hired graphic specialist? We will deliver it in the form of remote online training or onsite stationery training at your company office in any location in Poland.
The modular construction of the training material allows for flexible adjustment of the material exactly according to the needs of the participants, even on an ongoing basis during the training session.
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The calculator below will give you a close indication of the training price. To get a final binding offer, multiple variables have to be accounted for, therefore please contact us directly.


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