Digital Learning in Chicago, Illinois

Learn about nondestructive editing, image retouching, color correction, creating custom shapes and brushes, and so much more. By the end of this 8-week bootcamp you'll be creating professional compositions and masking layers like a pro!
If there was one program everyone needed to know, it would be Adobe Photoshop. With this 8-week course, you'll learn how to color correct any photograph no matter how badly it was shot. You'll discover the sophisticated healing tools and perspective correction filters. In short, whatever you can imagine, you will be able to accomplish with Photoshop.
You've taken photographs, you've drawn up layouts, but something is missing. Photoshop is all about finishing your work, detailing it, and polishing it up for the final presentation. You'll learn about blending layers together to create spectacular illusions and then save them for any medium. You'll learn the basics of selecting portions of an image and correcting. You'll also learn new ways to "see" an image, discovering along the way that Photoshop can do just about anything you'd like it to do.
The key to mastering Photoshop lies in how it sees your image. If you can think like Photoshop, you can do anything. Explore the anatomy of a digital image and use that knowledge to create perfect selections, quickly and easily. You'll learn about color, how it's captured and accurately reproduced. You'll also learn about Camera Raw and the principles of scanning a high quality original.
Photoshop is a dangerous tool and like any tool it requires some finessing to work effectively. You'll learn the basics of non-destructive editing, from smart objects to adjustment layers. You'll never erase anything again once you learn the power of masks. You'll also receive the finest instruction for color correcting and enhancing your images.