Photoshop class for retouching: Topics covered
- Creating Perfect Selections
- Color Correction
- Retouching and painting
- Creating Compositions
- Applying Special Effects
- Building the best Photoshop selections
- Understanding Photoshop masks
- Painting masks
- Refining masks
- Creating vector masks
- Saving and Re-using Masks
Please call 800-851-9237 or 781-376-6044 to schedule a course.
Photoshop Class for Retouching: Course Topics
Module 1: Creating great selections using Photoshop
- Building Selections
- Creating masks with selections
- Refining selections
- Sharing masked selections with InDesign and Illustrator
Module 2: Correcting Color in Photoshop
- Understanding color
- Eliminating color casts and adjusting light
- Maximizing image details
- Effectively using adjustment layers
- Working with Camera Raw images
Module 3: Photoshop Retouching and Painting
- Working with Photoshop brushes
- Adjusting brush settings
- Applying color to an image
- Changing blending modes
- Using the Clone Stamp tool
- Using the content-aware scaling and retouching tools
- Maximizing use for the healing tools for wrinkles, acne and other blemishes
- How to discreetly morph shapes
- Using vector and pixel adjustment layers to quickly change color
- Matching colors
Module 4: Creating Photoshop Compositions
- Working effectively with Photoshop Layer basics
- Layer masks
- Grouping and masking layers
- Being smart about Smart Objects
Module 5: Creating Photoshop Special Effects
- Adding Layer Style effects
- Using lighting effects
- Creating a Depth of Field effect
Photoshop course instructors
Learn Photoshop from expert instructors who authored Photoshop Digital Classroom, Photoshop Classroom in a Book, and Creative Cloud for Dummies. Benefit from skilled teachers with many years of using and teaching Photoshop who help you learn quickly and easily.

Grace
MS, Information Design
BA, Digital Communications
Adjunct Professor, St. Olaf

Jennifer S.
MS, Human Factors Information Design
BA, Commercial Art
UXQB Certfied
Adjunct Professor, Boston University

Greg
BA, Advertising Design
Adobe Certified Instructor
Author, multiple Adobe Creative Cloud books

Patti
BA
BFA
Adjunct Professor
Custom and private Photoshop classes
This Photoshop course is available as a private class. Curriculum can be customized for your specific needs. Photoshop classes can be delivered at your location, online, or in our classrooms. For more information, call 781-376-6044 to speak with a training consultant or contact us.
Prerequisites for the Photoshop Course for retouching
We recommend that you have the Adobe Photoshop application before starting the class. You can purchase the software or obtain a trial version from the Adobe website. Participants should understand all basic Photoshop functions covered in our introductory Photoshop course before attending this class.
Course Materials for the Photoshop Class for retouching
Participants in the Photoshop class for retouching will receive comprehensive curriculum from the Adobe Certified Experts at AGI. Our instructors have created many official Photoshop training books for Adobe Systems, along with curriculum used in many schools. Our best-selling Photoshop course books are widely used around the world to teach advanced Photoshop skills, and you learn from those involved with writing and editing the books when you take a Photoshop class at American Graphics Institute.
