Advantages of your 1-on-1 customized 'live'
Photoshop & Lightroom training
3-hour webinar

Targeted training for you
You chose what you need to
learn. You are not restricted to
a set curriculum as in regular
training classes.

Convenience
You do not have to travel
to a training facility. You can take your
class anywhere.


Your Schedule
You schedule your personal
training session when it fits with your
business demands.

Cost-effective
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at a fraction of the cost.

Group 'live' Webinars
We also offer group 'live' webinars for
5-photographers at a time.

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Lightroom Topic Ideas


Importing & Sorting

Overview
Storing Your Photos
Importing From a card or Your Computer
Import Preferences
Exporting
Getting Around Lightroom
Viewing Your Photos
Find Your Keepers
Saving keepers Into a Collection
Smart Collections
Stacking
Keywords
Metadata
Using the Painter Tool
Finding Your Photos
Renaming Photos
Back Up Your Catalog
Syncing Between Laptop and Desktop
Quick Develop


Develop

White Balance
Cropping
Exposure
Shadows
Clarity
Color
Tone Curve
Adjusting HSL
History
Before/Afters
Black & Whites
Split Toning

 

Develop (Continued)

Retouching in lightroom
Comparisons
Making Batch Changes
Sharpening
Noise Reduction
Chromatic Aberration
Vignettes
Creating Presets
Saving and Loading Presets
Spot removal
Red Eye
Enhancing Skies
Adjustment Brush
Adjustment Brush Retouching
Move to Photoshop
Back to Lightroom
Panoramas
Working with HDR


Print & Web

Basic Web Gallery
Customize Web Gallery
Flash Galleries
Get Your Gallery Online
Quick Slideshow
Custom Slideshow
PDF Slideshow
Printing: Basic  
Printing: Package Layouts
Printing: Saving as a JPEG
Printing to a Printer
Saving Presets
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Photoshop Topic Ideas

Photoshop Topic Ideas 1

The Workspace
Docking/undocking pallettes
Customizing Your Workspace
Brief pallettes overview
Tools pallette
Tool Presets

Put CS2’s Bridge to Work For You

Introduction to the Bridge
Bridge Workflow Essentials
Different Bridge Workspaces
Sorting and ranking images
Exporting Cache
Metadata
Batch Renaming/Assigning Keywords


Layers
Importance of layers
Creating layers
Moving layers
Naming
Adjustment layers
Filling

Layer masks



Cropping
Using the crop tool
Tool presets
Resize image

Create more room in a document


Selections

Overview of selection tools
Which tool to use and when
Selective color tool
Removing people from a photo
Fine tuning selections
Scaling people
Changing Backgrounds with gradients
Create custom gradients

Converting to BW
Channel Mixer
Lab Color
Calculations
Channels
Using B/W Actions
Unique BW Toning Techniques
Taking Snapshots to Compare BW
Photoshop Topic Ideas 2

Color correction
Levels
Curves
Comparison

Portrait Retouching

Color-correct
Apply digital make-up
Remove blemishes
Remove wrinkles
Lightening under eyes
Whiten blood-shot eyes
Enhance eye color
Selective sharpening

When/how to use the clone stamp

Glamor Girl Retouch

Vignettes
Blurred vignette
Burnt edges

Making it pop

Actions
The Actions pallette
Create a simple Action
Saving Actions
Manipulating Actions
Overview of my creative 'actions'

Camera RAW Overview
What are the advantages/disadvantages
of shooting RAW?
Overview of the RAW Interface
RAW Interface in detail

Applying Text
Change font
Move text around
Change spacing between letters
Apply styles
Save styles
Fill text with a photo

Warping text

Great free plug-in information
How to load it
Palette overview


 

 

 

 

 

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Photoshop Topic Ideas 3

Custom BW
Splitting channels
Combining channels
Extreme curves
Selective contrast

Layer blending modes

Vignettes
Blurred vignette
Burnt edges

Making it pop

Tones: Far Beyond Sepia
Loading the luminance channel
Selective toning
Toning with curves
Toning with gradients
Coloring with hue-saturation
Duotones-tritones
Using my presets
Combining tones
Selective grain
Alternative grains

 

Retouching
Plan of action
Skin softening 1
Skin softening 2
Digital nose-job
Eye whites
Under eyes
Enhance eye-color
Hotspots
Removing redface

Actions in detail
Complex actions
Altering actions
Duplicating
Droplet
Batch processing Using Actions
Being 'busienss creative' with my custom 'actions'

Great free plug-in.
How to load it
Palette overview


 

 

 
Photoshop Topic Ideas 4

Advanced Bridge
Stripping metadata
Creating a metadata template

Tool presets
Overview
Loading and creating

Masking/Selections
Channel masking
Adjustment layer masking
Selecting with quickmask
Fine tuning selections
Saving selections
Changing & creating backgounds

Sharpening
Pro-sharpening
Selective Sharpening
Paint it sharp
Paint it blurred

 

Raw
Saving custom pre-sets
Applying settings to RAW
Re-setting your camera models defaults
Batch processing RAW

Expediting RAW
Running actions with RAW
Toning in RAW

Applying Text
Change font
Move text around
Change spacing between letters
Apply styles
Save styles
Fill text with a photo
Warping text


Warp Speed your Productivity
Essential shortcuts
Customizing shortcuts
20 deadline-saving tips
Setting up for efficiency
Using scripts

Beyond Photoshop
Plugins review


 

Technical Requirements for your
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For both Mac and PC, you will need a
high-speed Internet connection

PC Computer System Requirements

Internet Explorer® 5.0 or newer, Netscape® 6.0 or newer, Mozilla® Firefox® 1.0 or newer (JavaScript™ and Java™ enabled)

Windows® 2000, XP, vista 2003 Server

Minimum of Pentium® 400 MHz with 356 MB of RAM (recommended)

Mac Computer System Requirements

Safari™ 1.3 or newer, Firefox® 1.5 or newer on PowerPC G3/G4/G5, Firefox 1.5.0.2 or newer on Intel® (JavaScript™ and Java™ enabled)

Mac OS® X 10.3.9 (Panther) or newer

PowerPC G3/G4/G5 or Intel processor (G4 450 MHz with 256 MB of RAM or better recommended)





 


Gavin Phillips
gavin@photoeffects.biz
630-854-2340