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Gatlin International offers a variety of digital photograhpy training courses for novices and professionals. Our color correction course teaches you the techniques and tools you need to know in order to get the most from your digital images.
Do you know how to get the best out of your digital images? As every art director knows, even the best photographs (on the best of days) can be plagued by problems such as color casts, unnatural tones, dull highlights, murky shadows, or low contrast. That's why color correction is such a critical step in preparing high-quality images for print or the Web.
In this challenging 6-lesson course, you'll learn systematic techniques for every aspect of color management using Photoshop. By evaluating and correcting a wide range of images, including some of your own, you'll learn how to identify classic color scenarios and use both comprehensive and quick-and-dirty methods for correcting them.
This digital photography training course covers every aspect of correction, from how color channels work, to managing color settings and profiles, to Levels histograms and the Curves command, making target-based corrections, and preparing your images for print using sharpening, on-screen proofing, and CMYK conversion.
This course is developed and taught by imaging and print production guru Dr. Taz Tally, who is known throughout the Photoshop world for his information-rich but accessible presentations and seminars. There's truly no one better to teach you these techniques. Taz demystifies the scientific basis of digital colors, showing you how to get the most out of your images, as efficiently as possible.
Take your photographs to the next level with digital photography training from Gatlin International.
Outline
LESSON 1 Color Fundamentals Lesson One builds a conceptual foundation for color correction. You'll explore what color correction is and learn why it's an important part of the digital imaging workflow. You'll learn how RGB and CMYK images are constructed by pixels and color channels and displayed on your computer or other output devices, and gain an introduction to main correction terms to know. Projects will explore the resolution and linear dimensions of images as well as auto correction tools. You'll also pool 5-10 photographs of your own, which you will evaluate for issues and correct later in the course.
LESSON 2 Color Settings in Photoshop Configuring Photoshop and your other hardware and software applications is key to getting good color results. Lesson Two introduces you to how to set up color profiles, manage your settings, and set up Photoshop Working Spaces to respond to different projects and workflow scenarios. By the end of this lesson, you'll understand how to work with your own images and those of clients with accuracy and consistency. The projects challenge you to utilize working spaces and synchronize colors settings across CS applications.
LESSON 3 Measuring Color Lesson Three equips you with a scientific approach to evaluation using Eyedropper Tool and the Info palette. You'll learn how to correct grayscale and color images using expert calibration curves that you've created yourself, and explore how linearization and neutralization are achieved. The basics of color calibrating monitors and other devices are also explored. In the exercise, you'll practice measuring RGB values, and creating target-based correction curves.
LESSON 4 Color Image Evaluation Now it's time for the nitty-gritty of colors-identifying diffuse and specular highlights, color casts, midtones, and shadows. Photoshop Levels histograms are explored in detail to help you evaluate these key image components. With professional evaluation techniques, you'll know where your images need to be corrected and how to proceed. The lesson and projects run you through a range of imaging scenarios to help you build your skill in evaluating images.
LESSON 5 Correcting Color Accurately Lesson Five covers techniques for colors, ranging from the most efficient to the most exacting. For quick-fix scenarios, you'll learn how to correct images beautifully with just a little work using Levels. For high-profile or critical scenarios, you'll learn a systematic approach to mangement of colors that removes the guesswork. You'll also explore some of the more subjective areas of correction-how to make skin tone look "right" and when color casts might be used for effect. The exercise puts you through your paces via a range of color correction scenarios.
LESSON 6 Finishing Up Your Color Images Correction of colors isn't the final step in producing your images-once your images are corrected, you still have many important production steps to carry out. In Lesson Six, you'll learn how to sharpen your final images, convert them to CMYK for printing, and preview and proof your print images on-screen. In the exercise, you'll practice working on these production tasks and apply everything you've learned in the course to correcting your own collection of images.
Additional Info
- Languages
- English
- Course Length
- 60.00 hours
- Duration of Access
Enrolled students have access to the class for six months. During this period, questions or assignments may be submitted at any time to the instructor. Each of our digital photography training course lessons requires an average of 10 hours of study time.
- Instructor
Our digital photography training course is taught by Dr. Taz Tally. Dr. Tally is the president of Taz Tally Seminars, a computer publishing consulting and training company, and Taz Tally Photography. Taz is the author of numerous graphics and print production books including Photoshop Before and After Makeovers, Acrobat and PDF Solutions, Avoiding the Output Blues, and Avoiding the Scanning Blues, and he is a contributing author to The Photoshop World Dream Team Book. Taz has produced numerous instructional videos, CDs, DVDs and online training courses on scanning, prepress and printing, Photoshop, color correction, and font management, including an extensive library on Lynda.com. Taz is a frequent presenter at seminars and trade shows throughout the U.S, including the GraphExpo, the annual Chicago Print show, and is a member of the Photoshop Dream Team at the biannual Photoshop World convention. Taz writes for graphics art publications including Printing Industry of America, The Magazine, Layers Magazine, and Photoshop User. Taz is an adventure author who specializes in black and white landscape photography and whose latest book is 50 Hikes in Alaska's Kenai Peninsula.
- Prerequisites/Audience
Our digital photography training courses are designed for adult learners interested in building skills and portfolio for a design career. To take the course, students simply require a computer (PC or Mac), an Internet connection (56 Kbps modem or faster), and any required software. For courses with software requirements, computers must meet software manufacturers' system requirements.
- Requirements/Materials Included
To take this course you'll need Adobe Photoshop CS4 or CS5, basic experience in Adobe Photoshop, and a digital camera and color printer recommended but not required.
- Certification
Sessions College is accredited by the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC). Certificate programs are accredited by the Middle States Commission on Secondary Schools.