Event Details

Time: 6:00pm-9:00pm MT
Cost: $69 for BDA members, $89 for non-members

Adobe Photoshop is an amazingly powerful and flexible program for digital photographers and graphic designers alike. It's the industry standard for creating and manipulating images with subtle transitions in color, like photos and scanned artwork. If you've recently bought a digital camera and are wondering how you can use Photoshop to enhance your digital photos, or want to use scanned artwork and digital photos to create spectacular designs, this is the place to start.

We'll take a look at the Photoshop interface, learn some Photoshop basics like layers and selections, and cover some easy ways to improve your digital photographs in the Photoshop darkroom.

Basic skills:

* Understanding the interface
* Navigating in the document window
* Undoing mistakes
* Saving
* Choosing a file format
* Image resizing


Selection essentials:

* Why select
* The most useful selection tools
* Modifying selections


Layers:

* Why layers are so important
* Working with the Layers palette
* Building a layered file
* Adding type and shapes
* Combining images


Working with photos:

* Cropping and rotating
* Simple exposure adjustments
* Simple color adjustments
* Printing


Presented in Adobe CS5, but most of what is taught will apply to earlier versions of the program.

For complete details, PLEASE REGISTER at the BDA website. Boulder Digital Arts offers affordable training in digital media from professionals working in the field.