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Digital Retouching: Manipulating Reality with Photoshop

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Digital Retouching: Manipulating Reality with Photoshop

DURATION/TIME
4 weeks
Tuesdays, 7-10 p.m.
Aug. 15-Sept. 12

LOCATION
Burbank, Calif.

MORE INFO
Email learnwest@mediabistro.com, or call (310) 659-5668.

PRICE
$275 ($250 for )
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Course Details

Do you look at a photo and wish you could change something about it? Maybe the photo is a bit too dark or the colors are off. Perhaps you did not have make-up on or you have red-eye. Or maybe you want to see what that tattoo you are contemplating will look like before you get it, or that new hair color will be before you commit to it. Well, you can do that and a whole lot more with digital retouching in Photoshop. Whether you are a non-photographer, novice photographer, artist, non-artist, art director, designer, publisher, writer, or a beginner at Photoshop, you will learn how to perform digital miracles on your photos upon completing this class. All you need is your computer, Photoshop, some photos to scan in, and your imagination.

Over four days, you will learn how to change lighting and color in your photos, sharpen and soften skin tones and texture, change eye and hair color, digitally add make up, remove marks, add or remove tattoos, remove objects or even people from photos or make them change places or even whole locations.

Lesson 1: Simple scanning
  • Learn how to capture an image
  • Choose the proper dpi for resolution output
  • Crop an image to the desired dimensions

    Lesson 2: Changing lighting levels and colors
  • Use Photoshop's built-in levels, saturation, contrast and color adjustments to adjust images
  • Sharpening and softening selection

    Lesson 3: making a selection
  • Introduction to the selection tools (lasso, magic wand, quickmask
  • Using layers and adjustment layers
  • Creating a mask
  • Creating a matte to replace backgrounds with

    Lesson 4: Replacing color
  • Using masking and color adjustments to change hair color, eye color, skin tone, clothing color

    Lesson 5: Introduction to rubber stamping
  • Using the rubber stamp tool
  • Adjusting the features of the rubber stamp tool for fine detail

    Lesson 6: Digital surgery
  • Removing blemishes, marks, unwanted dust and scratches
  • Replacing labels and logos
  • Replacing people and objects

    Lesson 7: Digital surgery part II
  • Adding/changing make-up
  • Adding/removing hair
  • Adding/drawing/removing tattoos
  • Getting rid of wrinkles, for both clothes and skin

    Lesson 8: Digital special effects
  • Compositing images
  • Combing learned techniques to create special effect looks for photos

    • Instructor Bio

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    Jason Faries
    Jason Faries studied art and photography before teaching himself digital wizardry with Photoshop and other graphic programs. Jason has taught Photoshop and Visual Communication at USC and UCLA, and has worked with such clients as Warner Brothers, Columbia Pictures, LAPD, Amgen, Marriott Hotels, Zone Diet, among others, as well as running workshops at corporations on digital techniques. Jason received degrees in Communications from USC and in Art Studio from UC Davis, where he studied painting under Wayne Thiebaud.

    As one of the tallest photographers in Los Angeles, Jason continues to be an event photographer for mediabistro.com.

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