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Even as your Photoshop experience grows by the year, we guarantee there are hidden Photoshop features you still don't know about and better ways of working only a true professional can explain. This course is recommended as a follow up to our two day Intermediate Photoshop course, or for any self-taught professional with equivalent experience. All our Adobe Photoshop courses are taught by industry professionals who are also Adobe Certified Professional trainers. They will share years of their industry experience with you, imparting best practice techniques as well mastery of the tools.

Course topics include in-depth work with layers, alpha channels, montaging, high-end image manipulation, advanced masking techniques, advanced brush creation, how to create 3D effects, how to create scripts to set up documents or combine images and batch processing techniques that will save you huge amounts of time.

Booking a private training session allows you to focus on your exact needs on dates that work best for you or your team.
•	Sessions can be run online or in person, on your site or at our London training centre.
•	We manage training for many of the UK’s largest companies, taking care of all the admin, working with you to ensure the perfect course.
•	Our expert trainers will first understand your requirements and then tailor each session to your exact specification.
•	We offer a free consultation service to work out every detail of your course.
Prices for bespoke sessions with our expert trainers start at £525 + VAT.

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Layers
•	Pixel and Vector Masks
•	Visual effects with layer blending options and Blend if
•	Opacity vs Fill
•	Layer Comps
•	Smart Objects and Artboards for web output
•	Smart Objects for Smart Filters
•	Editing and breaking Smart Objects to Layers
•	Adjustment Layers
•	Edge control with feathering, matting and defringing
•	Align Layers and Blend Layers
•	Load into Stack

Layer Blending Modes
•	Achieving effects with:
•	Darkening and Multiply
•	Lightening and Screen
•	Overlay and Vivid, Soft, Hard light
•	Hue, Colour and Luminosity
•	The modes where Fill is different to Opacity

Channels
•	Saving selections
•	Adjustments using channel options
•	Editing individual channels
•	Multichannel, Spot and Alpha Channels
•	Calculate and Apply image

Content Aware and Healing
•	Review of Content Aware Fill, Move and Scale using a protected channel
•	Healing tools compared to cloning
•	Clone source

Filters
•	Vanishing point - scaling and cloning in perspective
•	Distortion
•	Displacement Mapping with blend modes for realising surface effects
•	Warp vs Puppet Warp vs Liquify
•	The Camera Raw Filter

Colours
•	CMYK vs RGB vs LAB vs HSB
•	Gamut
•	Colour settings, assignment and conversion
•	Replace Colour, Match Colour, Selective Colour

Selecting
•	Select and Mask options
•	Quick mask settings
•	Select using Colour Range, Focus and other options

Brushes
•	Customising brushes with size, angle, spacing, colour, jitter etc
•	Other brush creation options
•	Creating custom brushes from selections
•	Saving brush presets with and without colour and size

Miscellaneous
•	Non Linear History
•	Video Timeline - creating and manipulating video layers and exporting to MP4 and H:264
•	Using 3D - understanding the 3D workspace, lighting, adjusting, postcards and rendering 8 vs 16 bit work
•	Frequency Separation
•	High Dynamic Range
•	Photomerge
•	Camera Raw - advantages over Photoshop
•	Placing embedded and linked images
•	Panels - info, Navigator, Notes, Tool Presets
•	Workspaces

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Learners will require access to a laptop with an internet connection and access to the relevant software to enrol on this course. They should also have some previous experience in the subject.

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