Photoshop - August

Friday, August 31   2-5 pm
Saturday, September 1   10 am-4 pm
Medium: Photography
Level: I, II & III
Instructor: Greg Newington
Tuition: $125 member/$160 non-member

Demystify Photoshop with this experienced and fun teacher! Participants will learn how to use Adobe Photoshop’s tools, discover how to retouch and color correct photographic images and receive an introduction to professional imaging workflows. Learn these skills in a comprehensive and supportive environment: Combining images, Using Copy and Paste, Dragging and dropping to copy an image, Transforming and editing combined images in Adobe Photoshop CS5, Changing the size of a placed image in Photoshop, Removing a background, Understanding the stacking order of Photoshop layers, Refining the edges of copied images, Adding text, Saving files and understanding file formats, Saving for print and Web, Changing the color settings. Advanced Adobe Photoshop users, who have no formal training, will also benefit from this Photoshop training class as tips, tricks, keyboard shortcuts and essential foundation skills that are covered throughout this Photoshop class. Small classes and individual attention!
Greg Newington has worked as a photographer/editor in Australia and the Middle East for over 38 years. He worked extensively in the field as a news photographer and photojournalist. Greg's news photography won an Australian Press Photographer of the Year award and his photo illustrations have won Nikon Australia National Press Awards. Newington was appointed to The Walkley Board and was chairman of judges for Walkley-Nikon Awards for Excellence in Journalism. He currently works from his gallery and studio in The Sernbe community in Georgia and in Adelaide and Sydney in Australia.

Supply List: Digital camera and computer with Photoshop or Lightroom.