# Adobe Photoshop Private Tutoring

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## Overview

This course is only available as one-on-one training, if you're interested in our Adobe group classes please check our [design school courses](https://www.nobledesktop.com/graphic-design-school-nyc).

Photoshop is a leading graphic creation application, popular among graphic designers, illustrators, and photographers. Photoshop's numerous features work together to provide a comprehensive toolset for you, the design professional. This course delves into some of the more advanced image creation and editing techniques, and offers you hands-on activities that demonstrate how these techniques can be used in combination to create exciting visual effects.

## What you'll learn

- Create graphics for the Web
- Retouch damaged photography
- Use Text, Layers and Drawing Tools to create images
- Work with Masks and Channels
- Typographic Design

## Curriculum

#### Introduction

- Raster vs. Vector
- Creating new images
- Saving files for print
- Saving files for web/screen
- Working with Adobe Bridge

#### Lesson 1.  Getting to Know the Work Area

- Using the tools
- Using the options bar and other panels
- Undoing actions in Photoshop
- Customizing the workspace
- Tools panel overview

#### Lesson 2.  Basic Photo Corrections

- Strategy for retouching
- Resolution and image size
- Adjusting the color in Camera Raw
- Straightening and cropping the image in Photoshop
- Replacing colors in an image
- Adjusting saturation with the Sponge tool
- Repairing areas with the Clone Stamp tool
- Using the Spot Healing Brush tool
- Using content-aware fill
- Applying the Unsharp Mask filter

#### Lesson 3.  Working with Selections

- About selecting and selection tools
- Using the Quick Selection tool
- Moving a selected area
- Manipulating selections
- Using the Magic Wand tool
- Selecting with the lasso tools
- Rotating a selection
- Selecting with the Magnetic Lasso tool
- Cropping an image and erasing within a selection
- Refining the edge of a selection

#### Lesson 4.  Layer Basics

- About layers
- Using the Layers panel
- Rearranging layers
- Applying a gradient to a layer
- Applying a layer style
- Flattening and saving files

#### Lesson 5.  Masks and Channels

- Working with masks and channels
- Creating a mask
- Refining a mask
- Creating a quick mask
- Manipulating an image with Puppet Warp
- Working with channels

#### Lesson 6.  Typographic Design

- About type
- Creating a clipping mask from type
- Creating type on a path
- Warping point type
- Designing paragraphs of type

#### Lesson 7. Final Project

## Pricing

**Tuition:** $850