Phototshop

Introducing Photoshop -- BEGINNER (Full Day)_Speaker: Gary Crickmore
Get your sea legs as we cast anchor for a week of image-editing adventure. Whether you’re a polliwog or an old salt, here’s your chance to learn what everybody pretends to know about Photoshop, but few really do.
• What Photoshop Can Do
• The File Browser
• Workspace and Navigation
• Image Resolution
• Rotate and Crop
• Presets and Preferences
• Select and Modify (basics of marquee, lasso, and wand tools)
• Introducing Layers
• Opacity and Blend Modes
• Fill, Stroke, and Color
• Painting Tools
• The Brushes Palette

 


Day 1, Track 2


Painting with Photoshop, _Part 1 -- ADVANCED BEGINNER (Half Day)_Speaker: : Gary Crickmore

Sure Photoshop can take any photograph and make it look great. What happens when you need that photograph of something that doesn't exist? What about that dream you are trying to describe to your spouse in so many words when a picture, as they say, is worth a thousand words? Maybe you just want to let your imagination soar and create your own little world you can escape to. Photoshop is the answer. Even though PHOTO is part if its name, Photoshop is one of best compositing tool out there.
In this session, : Gary Crickmore
, considered a pioneers of digital art, will take you to places you never thought possible with Photoshop. He will leave you with a full understanding of the basic features, and their functionality, to create images from scratch.
So you did not take art in school, Gary will give you an understanding of perspective, shading and other basics that will set you on the path to artistic freedom.
Masking? You have no idea what that is all about until you do it with Alpha Channels Get ready to let your imagination run wild.


Day 1, Track 2


Layer Styles for Graphics, Photos _and Fun -- ADVANCED (Half Day)_Speaker: Gary Crickmore
Once you have the Photoshop basics down, and you have the passion to move beyond the basics to communicating your vision through powerful, engaging, motivating imagery - where do you go? This class by Gary Crickmore, Learn how to create stunning darkroom and dimensional special effects that look hard but are easy once you now the secrets. In this session, Gary will show you how to create successful and innovative graphic communication and photo effects with a high "WOW Factor." You'll learn:
• Quick and easy ways to use Photoshop's built-in presets to create special effects on-time and on-budget.
• The phenomenal power, flexibility and speed of Layers Styles
• Customizing effects with displacement maps and controlled distortions
• How to create dimensional effects like chrome, rock, and glass (and beyond) instantly and without filters
• One-click framing and tinting techniques to tie disparate photographs together - separately or as a collage

 


Day 2, Track 1


Heal, Liquify, and History -- _INTERMEDIATE (Half Day)_Speaker: Gary Crickmore
Retouching is nothing more than the safe and inexpensive art of making people look the way they think they look on a really great day. Armed with Photoshop, you can erase wrinkles, whiten yellow teeth, remove unsightly hair, and fill in unsightly lack thereof. Best of all, you can take that 10 pounds that the camera adds and delete it with interest. Join Deke for three hours of non-evasive cosmetic surgery, skeletal reformation, and selective time travel.
• The Edit Tools
• Cloning with the Stamp Tool
• Healing Brush and Patch Tool
• Liquify and Displace
• Using History
• The History Brush


Day 2, Track 1


Correcting Colors and Focus -- _INTERMEDIATE (Half Day)_Speaker: : Gary Crickmore
The stuff you need to do to virtually every digital photo, explained in exciting, nautical detail. Learn how to remove color casts, boost saturation, revive lost skin tones, increase contrast and brightness, offset vivid backlighting, temper a hot flash, and correct the focus of a soft image. No bells, no whistles -- just good, clean digital photography fun.
Photoshop and the Web: Whether you’re posting images to a Web site or emailing photographs to friends and family, the low-bandwidth limitations of many Internet connections must be endured. Learn how to make your images small enough to upload and download in a flash. Plus learn how to achieve consistent color, compare optimization settings, and slice a design into rollovers and animations.
• Color Variations
• Hue Shift and Colorize
• Mixing Color Channels
• Auto Color and Levels
• Adjustment Layers
• Correcting Focus


Day 2, Track 2


Painting with Photoshop, _Part 2 -- INTERMEDIATE (Half Day)_Speaker: Gary Crickmore

Part one of Painting with Photoshop left you with your head hungry for more? Oh yeah, there's more! This session will have you creating the elements. Stone, wood, water, even air will be filling those blank canvases leading the way to unlimited visuals locked in the crevices of your imagination's attic.
Filters? There are many of them in Photoshop. What happens when you use them for other than their intended purpose? What happens when you put a few of them together? You will create images that are more realistic than a camera could ever achieve.
Of course there will be some practical application to all this zaniness. Gary will put all these outrageous techniques into context of real-world situations such as web design. The real focus is on creativity and FUN!


Day 2, Track 2


Photo Retouching and Optimizing Techniques -- ADVANCED (Half Day)_Speaker: Gary Crickmore

The experienced user knows there are a million tools in Photoshop to adjust your images for maximum impact, but which ones work best, work fastest and are most "photographer friendly"? In this session you will learn all sorts of workflow enhancing techniques including: 101 uses for Auto Levels, how to create nondestructive dodge and burn layers, advanced gray scale conversions, eyedropper color correcting, the best way to use Photoshop 's healing brush and patch tool (so as not to create genetically altered mutant models) stained teeth whitening, red eye neutralizing and blotchy skin unifying — all with an emphasis on quality, flexibility and speed.
• Which editing tools are best to use when fixing images - and which ones to avoid.
• How to quickly fix under and over exposed images once and for all.
• Quick tone and color adjustments that leave your original image intact
• Creating nondestructive, fast and flexible repair layers for fixing, dodging and burning and color correcting.
• Simplified levels, curves and sharpening techniques
• Advanced gray scale conversions using Channel Mixer


Day 3, Track 1


Photo Enhancing Techniques -- _ADVANCED (Half Day)_Speaker: Gary Crickmore
Here is a session to let you get especially creative with your work. Your photograph has a strong subject but it lacks the unique "execution" that will allow that subject to shine. And how do you go beyond what was captured to communicate what was experienced? In this session techniques will be demonstrated that can exaggerate, enhance and elaborate on the concept of an image while minimizing unwanted distractions — from creative focusing to sepia tones to infrared effects and hand coloring -- all using layers, masks, clipping groups, adjustment layers, layer styles and advanced blending techniques.
• Focusing attention by changing the focus of an image after the fact
• Creating soft focus and density effects
• How to create stunning dark room effects using layers, adjustment layers, and filters
• Quick and easy framing and tinting techniques to tie disparate images together
• How to composite panoramas and multiple images to solve color and tone inconsistencies
• Hand coloring and tinting effects


Day 3, Track 2


Painting with Photoshop, Part 3 -- _INTERMEDIATE (Half Day)_Speaker: Gary Crickmore

Still want more? This session will put it all together. You will be given assignments that will have your creative juices flowing. You will learn how to solve problems and create new ones along the way that will challenge you to do more. You'll take those shots you took with Gary and those type treatments taught you and combine them into finished artwork suitable for framing.
When this class is over you will be ready for anything. Step aside Michelangelo the new masters are coming.


Day 3, Track 2


Photoshop and the Web -- _ADVANCED BEGINNER (Half Day)_Speaker: ay 2, Track 2
Painting with Photoshop, _Part 2 -- INTERMEDIATE (Half Day)_Speaker: Gary Crickmore

Part one of Painting with Photoshop left you with your head hungry for more? Oh yeah, there's more! This session will have you creating the elements. Stone, wood, water, even air will be filling those blank canvases leading the way to unlimited visuals locked in the crevices of your imagination's attic.
Filters? There are many of them in Photoshop. What happens when you use them for other than their intended purpose? What happens when you put a few of them together? You will create images that are more realistic than a camera could ever achieve.
Of course there will be some practical application to all this zaniness. Gary will put all these outrageous techniques into context of real-world situations such as web design. The real focus is on creativity and FUN!


Day 2, Track 2


Photo Retouching and Optimizing Techniques -- ADVANCED (Half Day)_Speaker: Gary Crickmore

The experienced user knows there are a million tools in Photoshop to adjust your images for maximum impact, but which ones work best, work fastest and are most "photographer friendly"? In this session you will learn all sorts of workflow enhancing techniques including: 101 uses for Auto Levels, how to create nondestructive dodge and burn layers, advanced gray scale conversions, eyedropper color correcting, the best way to use Photoshop 's healing brush and patch tool (so as not to create genetically altered mutant models) stained teeth whitening, red eye neutralizing and blotchy skin unifying — all with an emphasis on quality, flexibility and speed.
• Which editing tools are best to use when fixing images - and which ones to avoid.
• How to quickly fix under and over exposed images once and for all.
• Quick tone and color adjustments that leave your original image intact
• Creating nondestructive, fast and flexible repair layers for fixing, dodging and burning and color correcting.
• Simplified levels, curves and sharpening techniques
• Advanced gray scale conversions using Channel Mixer


Day 3, Track 1


Photo Enhancing Techniques -- _ADVANCED (Half Day)_Speaker: Gary Crickmore
Here is a session to let you get especially creative with your work. Your photograph has a strong subject but it lacks the unique "execution" that will allow that subject to shine. And how do you go beyond what was captured to communicate what was experienced? In this session techniques will be demonstrated that can exaggerate, enhance and elaborate on the concept of an image while minimizing unwanted distractions — from creative focusing to sepia tones to infrared effects and hand coloring -- all using layers, masks, clipping groups, adjustment layers, layer styles and advanced blending techniques.
• Focusing attention by changing the focus of an image after the fact
• Creating soft focus and density effects
• How to create stunning dark room effects using layers, adjustment layers, and filters
• Quick and easy framing and tinting techniques to tie disparate images together
• How to composite panoramas and multiple images to solve color and tone inconsistencies
• Hand coloring and tinting effects


Day 3, Track 2


Painting with Photoshop, Part 3 -- _INTERMEDIATE (Half Day)_Speaker: Gary Crickmore

Still want more? This session will put it all together. You will be given assignments that will have your creative juices flowing. You will learn how to solve problems and create new ones along the way that will challenge you to do more. You'll take those shots you took with Gary and those type treatments taught you and combine them into finished artwork suitable for framing.
When this class is over you will be ready for anything. Step aside Michelangelo the new masters are coming.


Day 3, Track 2


Photoshop and the Web -- _ADVANCED BEGINNER (Half Day)_Speaker: ay 2, Track 2
Painting with Photoshop, _Part 2 -- INTERMEDIATE (Half Day)_Speaker: Gary Crickmore

Part one of Painting with Photoshop left you with your head hungry for more? Oh yeah, there's more! This session will have you creating the elements. Stone, wood, water, even air will be filling those blank canvases leading the way to unlimited visuals locked in the crevices of your imagination's attic.
Filters? There are many of them in Photoshop. What happens when you use them for other than their intended purpose? What happens when you put a few of them together? You will create images that are more realistic than a camera could ever achieve.
Of course there will be some practical application to all this zaniness. Bert will put all these outrageous techniques into context of real-world situations such as web design. The real focus is on creativity and FUN!
Day 2, Track 2
Photo Retouching and Optimizing Techniques -- ADVANCED (Half Day)_Speaker: Gary Crickmore

The experienced user knows there are a million tools in Photoshop to adjust your images for maximum impact, but which ones work best, work fastest and are most "photographer friendly"? In this session you will learn all sorts of workflow enhancing techniques including: 101 uses for Auto Levels, how to create nondestructive dodge and burn layers, advanced gray scale conversions, eyedropper color correcting, the best way to use Photoshop 7's healing brush and patch tool (so as not to create genetically altered mutant models) stained teeth whitening, red eye neutralizing and blotchy skin unifying — all with an emphasis on quality, flexibility and speed.
• Which editing tools are best to use when fixing images - and which ones to avoid.
• How to quickly fix under and over exposed images once and for all.
• Quick tone and color adjustments that leave your original image intact
• Creating nondestructive, fast and flexible repair layers for fixing, dodging and burning and color correcting.
• Simplified levels, curves and sharpening techniques
• Advanced gray scale conversions using Channel Mixer


Day 3, Track 1


Photo Enhancing Techniques -- _ADVANCED (Half Day)_Speaker: Gary Crickmore
Here is a session to let you get especially creative with your work. Your photograph has a strong subject but it lacks the unique "execution" that will allow that subject to shine. And how do you go beyond what was captured to communicate what was experienced? In this session techniques will be demonstrated that can exaggerate, enhance and elaborate on the concept of an image while minimizing unwanted distractions — from creative focusing to sepia tones to infrared effects and hand coloring -- all using layers, masks, clipping groups, adjustment layers, layer styles and advanced blending techniques.
• Focusing attention by changing the focus of an image after the fact
• Creating soft focus and density effects
• How to create stunning dark room effects using layers, adjustment layers, and filters
• Quick and easy framing and tinting techniques to tie disparate images together
• How to composite panoramas and multiple images to solve color and tone inconsistencies
• Hand coloring and tinting effects


Day 3, Track 2


Painting with Photoshop, Part 3 -- _INTERMEDIATE (Half Day)_Speaker: ay 2, Track 2
Painting with Photoshop, _Part 2 -- INTERMEDIATE (Half Day)_Speaker: Gary Crickmore

Part one of Painting with Photoshop left you with your head hungry for more? Oh yeah, there's more! This session will have you creating the elements. Stone, wood, water, even air will be filling those blank canvases leading the way to unlimited visuals locked in the crevices of your imagination's attic.
Filters? There are many of them in Photoshop. What happens when you use them for other than their intended purpose? What happens when you put a few of them together? You will create images that are more realistic than a camera could ever achieve.
Of course there will be some practical application to all this zaniness. Bert will put all these outrageous techniques into context of real-world situations such as web design. The real focus is on creativity and FUN!


Day 2, Track 2


Photo Retouching and Optimizing Techniques -- ADVANCED (Half Day)_Speaker: Gary Crickmore

The experienced user knows there are a million tools in Photoshop to adjust your images for maximum impact, but which ones work best, work fastest and are most "photographer friendly"? In this session you will learn all sorts of workflow enhancing techniques including: 101 uses for Auto Levels, how to create nondestructive dodge and burn layers, advanced gray scale conversions, eyedropper color correcting, the best way to use Photoshop healing brush and patch tool (so as not to create genetically altered mutant models) stained teeth whitening, red eye neutralizing and blotchy skin unifying — all with an emphasis on quality, flexibility and speed.
• Which editing tools are best to use when fixing images - and which ones to avoid.
• How to quickly fix under and over exposed images once and for all.
• Quick tone and color adjustments that leave your original image intact
• Creating nondestructive, fast and flexible repair layers for fixing, dodging and burning and color correcting.
• Simplified levels, curves and sharpening techniques
• Advanced gray scale conversions using Channel Mixer


Day 3, Track 1


Photo Enhancing Techniques -- _ADVANCED (Half Day)_Speaker: Gary Crickmore
Here is a session to let you get especially creative with your work. Your photograph has a strong subject but it lacks the unique "execution" that will allow that subject to shine. And how do you go beyond what was captured to communicate what was experienced? In this session techniques will be demonstrated that can exaggerate, enhance and elaborate on the concept of an image while minimizing unwanted distractions — from creative focusing to sepia tones to infrared effects and hand coloring -- all using layers, masks, clipping groups, adjustment layers, layer styles and advanced blending techniques.
• Focusing attention by changing the focus of an image after the fact
• Creating soft focus and density effects
• How to create stunning dark room effects using layers, adjustment layers, and filters
• Quick and easy framing and tinting techniques to tie disparate images together
• How to composite panoramas and multiple images to solve color and tone inconsistencies
• Hand coloring and tinting effects
Day 3, Track 2
Painting with Photoshop, Part 3 -- _INTERMEDIATE (Half Day)_Speaker: Gary Crickmore

Still want more? This session will put it all together. You will be given assignments that will have your creative juices flowing. You will learn how to solve problems and create new ones along the way that will challenge you to do more. You'll take those shots you took with Gary and those type treatments Deke taught you and combine them into finished artwork suitable for framing.
When this class is over you will be ready for anything. Step aside Michelangelo the new masters are coming.


Day 3, Track 2


Photoshop and the Web -- _ADVANCED BEGINNER (Half Day)_Speaker: Gary Crickmore

Whether you’re posting images to a Web site or emailing photographs to friends and family, the low-bandwidth limitations of many Internet connections must be endured. Learn how to make your images small enough to upload and download in a flash. Plus learn how to achieve consistent color, compare optimization settings, and slice a design into rollovers and animations.
• Work large, then shrink
• Working with sRGB
• More rules of the Web
• Saving JPEG images
• Preparing and saving GIFs
• Making side-by-side comparisons
• Slicing a composition
• Rollovers and animation_
Still want more? This session will put it all together. You will be given assignments that will have your creative juices flowing. You will learn how to solve problems and create new ones along the way that will challenge you to do more. You'll take those shots you took with Gary and those type treatments Deke taught you and combine them into finished artwork suitable for framing.
When this class is over you will be ready for anything. Step aside Michelangelo the new masters are coming.


Day 3, Track 2


Photoshop and the Web -- _ADVANCED BEGINNER (Half Day)_Speaker: Gary Crickmore

Whether you’re posting images to a Web site or emailing photographs to friends and family, the low-bandwidth limitations of many Internet connections must be endured. Learn how to make your images small enough to upload and download in a flash. Plus learn how to achieve consistent color, compare optimization settings, and slice a design into rollovers and animations.
• Work large, then shrink
• Working with sRGB
• More rules of the Web
• Saving JPEG images
• Preparing and saving GIFs
• Making side-by-side comparisons
• Slicing a composition
• Rollovers and animation_
Whether you’re posting images to a Web site or emailing photographs to friends and family, the low-bandwidth limitations of many Internet connections must be endured. Learn how to make your images small enough to upload and download in a flash. Plus learn how to achieve consistent color, compare optimization settings, and slice a design into rollovers and animations.
• Work large, then shrink
• Working with sRGB
• More rules of the Web
• Saving JPEG images
• Preparing and saving GIFs
• Making side-by-side comparisons
• Slicing a composition
• Rollovers and animation_
Whether you’re posting images to a Web site or emailing photographs to friends and family, the low-bandwidth limitations of many Internet connections must be endured. Learn how to make your images small enough to upload and download in a flash. Plus learn how to achieve consistent color, compare optimization settings, and slice a design into rollovers and animations.
• Work large, then shrink
• Working with sRGB
• More rules of the Web
• Saving JPEG images
• Preparing and saving GIFs
• Making side-by-side comparisons
• Slicing a composition
• Rollovers and animation_



Apple Pro Certification Programs

The Apple Certified Pro program creates a benchmark for assessing an end-user’s proficiency in a specific Apple Pro application. By taking and passing the Apple Certified Pro exam, a user is given Apple Certified Pro status, which allows them to distinguish themselves to colleagues, employers and prospective clients as a skilled user of the chosen software application. This certification gives individuals a competitive edge in today’s ever-changing job market.

What is an Apple Certified Pro?

A certified user who has reached the highest skill level in the use and operation of Apple’s Pro Applications as attested to by Apple. Certification is attained by passing the online certification exam administered only at Apple Authorized Training Centers.

What Certifications are available?

Apple Pro Certification is available for the following applications:

  • Final Cut Pro — Level One Certification
  • Advanced Final Cut Pro — Level Two Certification
  • Shake — Level One Certification
  • DVD Studio Pro — Level One Certification
  • Logic — Level One Certification

How do I become an Apple Certified Pro?

To become an Apple Certified Pro you must pass an online exam administered at an Apple Authorized Training Center.

Level One exams are administered at the end of specific courses facilitated at the Centers, or if you prefer to learn on your own or believe you already have the necessary skill-set in your chosen application you may register to take the exam at an Authorized Training Center for a fee.

Level Two exams can only be taken in conjunction with the Advanced classes taught at the Apple Authorized Training Centers.

What are the benefits of becoming an Apple Certified Pro?

As an Apple Certified Pro you will be recognized as a highly skilled user of the chosen application and will have the ability to differentiate yourself to employers and colleagues as a Certified Pro to promote career growth. You will receive a certificate from Apple distinguishing you as an Apple Certified Pro and will have the right to use the Apple Certified Pro logo.

Do I have to take a class to become certified?

For Level One exams you may take the exam without taking a class. Level Two exams require a Level One Certification and can only be achieved by taking the approved Advanced class for the certification.

How much does it cost to take the test?

The cost for the test is $150. Call us today at 1-877-225-0242 to set up an aponitment to take the test.

Imagineering Institute, 243 N. 5th Street, Suite 110 Columbus, Ohio 43215
1-877-225-0242