Training

  • Trainer: Gavin Phillips
  • gavin@photoeffects.biz
  • 07738-284-330
  • email and phone support

Photoshop Essentials | 1-day
Novice

You will work through some mini-projects that will teach you how to use particular tools. All files are supplied for you to work on.
There are two main projects you will complete...

Photoshop Essentials Training

The Photoshop Workspace

  • The tool bars
  • Docking/unlocking palettes
  • Customizing your workspace
  • Brief palettes overview
  • Colour picker
  • Tabbing

Put Photoshop´s Bridge
to Work For You

  • Different views
  • Navigating your files
  • Renaming and batch renaming files
  • Sorting & ranking images
  • Metadata
  • Using favourites

Layers

  • Importance of layers
  • Creating layers
  • Moving layers
  • Naming
  • Layer masks

Using Text

  • Change font
  • Change spacing between letters
  • Applying styles to text
  • Saving custom styles

Cropping

  • Using the crop tool
  • Tool presets
  • Resize image
  • Create more room in a document

Selections

  • Overview of selection tools
  • Which tool to use and when
  • Fine tuning selections

Adjustment layers

  • Using curves
  • Using Levels
  • Using Hue and Saturation
  • Painting on the layer mask

Portrait Retouching

  • Colour-correct
  • Apply digital make-up
  • Remove blemishes
  • Remove wrinkles

Grid View

  • Rulers
  • Using snap to

Printing

  • Resizing images
  • Checking colour

Converting to BW

  • Adjustment
  • Calculations
  • Taking Snapshots to Compare BW

Web Photo Gallery

  • Review Photoshop automatic web gallery options

There is a review to make certain you can apply what you are learning after the class has ended.

Photoshop Essentials 1-day pricing includes a copy of Adobe Photoshop CS5 Classroom in a Book for later review.

$300.00 | 6-8 students per class.

If you require on-site training for your staff and provide the equipment, pricing is below.
$190.00 per person per day. 4person minimum

1-on-1 training is $700-$1,000 per day depending on the day you require. Get 7-hours of training with 1-on-1 classes.
Get 7-hours of training with 1-on-1 classes.
Any travel beyond 50 miles of Chicago will be an extra charge.

Please feel free to Contact Us for more information.

Photoshop | 2-day Class
Beginner to Intermediate

Includes 30-minute ´live´ online (with the trainer) webinar help after class ends. Schedule it with your trainer anytime within 6-months.
Email and phone support.

You will work through several mini-projects that will teach you how to use particular tools. All files are supplied for you to work on.
These are the four largest projects you will complete...

Photoshop Essentials Training
Photoshop Essentials Training
Photoshop Essentials Training

The Photoshop Workspace

  • The tool bars
  • Docking/unlocking palettes
  • Customizing your workspace
  • Brief palettes overview
  • Colour picker
  • Tabbing

Put Photoshop´s Bridge
to Work For You

  • Different views
  • Navigating your files
  • Renaming and batch renaming files
  • Sorting & ranking images
  • Metadata
  • Using favourites

Layers

  • Importance of layers
  • Creating layers
  • Moving layers
  • Naming
  • Adjustment layers
  • Filling
  • Layer Masks
  • The value of smart objects

Using Text

  • Change font
  • Change spacing between letters
  • Applying styles to text
  • Saving custom styles
  • Installing custom fonts

Cropping

  • Using the crop tool
  • Tool presets
  • Resize image
  • Create more room in a document

Selections

  • Overview of selection tools
  • Which tool to use and when
  • Quick mask
  • Removing people from a photo
  • Fine tuning selections
  • Scaling people
  • Changing backgrounds with gradients
  • Create custom gradients

Adjustment layers

  • Using curves
  • Using Levels
  • Using Hue and Saturation
  • Painting on the layer mask

Layer Styles

  • Drop shadow
  • Gradient overlays
  • Contours

Using the Pen Tool

  • Create custom vector shapes
  • Selections

Colour Correction

  • Colour correct with ´Curves´
  • Colour correct with ´Levels´

Gradients

  • Loading
  • Creating and editing
  • Gradient masks

Shortcuts

  • 20 essential shortcuts
  • Creating custom shortcuts

Portrait Retouching

  • Colour-correct
  • Apply digital make-up
  • Remove blemishes
  • Remove wrinkles
  • Lightening under eyes
  • Whiten blood-shot eyes
  • Enhance eye colour
  • Selective sharpening
  • When/how to use the clone stamp
  • Using liquify

Grid View

  • Rulers
  • Using snap to

Printing

  • Colour spaces
  • Resizing images
  • Checking colour

Create Custom Panels

  • Create a custom palette with your favourite tools.
  • Big time-saver.
  • Create Custom Panels

Actions

  • Create an action
  • Edit an action
  • Put a message into an action
  • Make an action stop at certain points
  • Create a batch action

Converting to BW

  • Calculations
  • Unique BW Toning Techniques
  • Taking Snapshots to Compare BW

Web Photo Gallery

  • Review Photoshop automatic web gallery options

There are numerous reviews to make certain you can apply what you are learning after the class has ended.

Photoshop 2-day pricing includes a copy of Adobe Photoshop CS5 Classroom in a Book for later review.

$495.00 | 6-8 students per class.

If you require on-site training for your staff and provide the equipment, pricing is below.
$190.00 per person per day. 4person minimum

1-on-1 training is $700-$1,000 per day depending on the day you require. Get 7-hours of training with 1-on-1 classes.
Get 7-hours of training with 1-on-1 classes.
Any travel beyond 50 miles of Chicago will be an extra charge.

Please feel free to Contact Us for more information.

Photoshop | 2-day Advanced
Advanced

This advanced class is fast paced and we mainly use keyboard shortcuts when switching tools in Photoshop.
This class is for people who have been using Photoshop professionally for at least a year

You will create several complex projects that will involve using a great variety of Photoshop tools and techniques.
Many of these techniques are used to create compelling imagry for use in print advertising.

Photoshop Essentials Training
Photoshop Essentials Training
Photoshop Essentials Training
Photoshop Essentials Training
Photoshop Essentials Training
Photoshop Essentials Training

There are numerous reviews to make certain you can apply what you are learning after the class has ended.

Photoshop Essentials 1-day pricing includes a copy of Adobe Photoshop CS5 Classroom in a Book for later review.

$700.00 | 6-8 students per class.

If you require on-site training for your staff and provide the equipment, pricing is below.
$190.00 per person per day. 4person minimum

1-on-1 training is $700-$1,000 per day depending on the day you require. Get 7-hours of training with 1-on-1 classes.
Get 7-hours of training with 1-on-1 classes.
Any travel beyond 50 miles of Chicago will be an extra charge.

Please feel free to Contact Us for more information.

Photoshop | 3-day Bootcamp
Beginner to Intermediate

Includes 30-minute ´live´ online (with the trainer) webinar help after class ends.
Schedule it with your trainer anytime within 6-months.
Email and phone support.

You will work through several mini-projects that will teach you how to use particular tools. All files are supplied for you to work on.
These are some of the larger projects you will complete.

Photoshop Training
3d Photo Project
In Depth Retouching
In Depth Retouching

The Photoshop Workspace

  • The tool bars
  • Docking/unlocking palettes
  • Customizing your workspace
  • Brief palettes overview
  • Colour picker
  • Tabbing

Put Photoshop´s Bridge
to Work For You

  • Different views
  • Navigating your files
  • Renaming and batch renaming files
  • Sorting & ranking images
  • Metadata
  • Using favourites

Layers

  • Importance of layers
  • Creating layers
  • Moving layers
  • Naming
  • Adjustment layers
  • Filling
  • Layer masks
  • Purpose of smart objects

Using Text

  • Change font
  • Change spacing between letters
  • Applying styles to text
  • Saving custom styles
  • Warping text
  • Installing custom fonts
  • Apply clipping mask to text

Cropping

  • Using the crop tool
  • Tool presets
  • Resize image
  • Create more room in a document

Shortcuts

  • 20 essential shortcuts
  • Creating custom shortcuts

Selections

  • Overview of selection tools
  • Which tool to use and when
  • Quick mask
  • Removing people from a photo
  • Fine tuning selections
  • Scaling people
  • Changing Backgrounds with gradients
  • Create custom gradients

Adjustment layers

  • Using curves
  • Using Levels
  • Using Hue and Saturation
  • Painting on the layer mask

Colour Correction

  • Colour correct with ´Curves´
  • Colour correct with ´Levels´

Layer Styles

  • Drop shadow
  • Gradient overlays
  • Contours

Gradients

  • Loading
  • Creating and editing
  • Gradient masks

Portrait Retouching
(Retouching projects)

  • Colour-correct
  • Apply digital make-up
  • Remove blemishes
  • Remove wrinkles
  • Lightening under eyes
  • Whiten blood-shot eyes
  • Enhance eye colour
  • Selective sharpening
  • When/how to use the clone stamp
  • Using liquify

Grid View

  • Rulers
  • Using snap to

Printing

  • Colour spaces
  • Resizing images
  • Checking colour

Create Custom Panels

  • Create a custom palette with your favourite tools.
  • Big time-saver.
  • Create Custom Panels

Actions

  • Create an action
  • Edit an action
  • Put a message into an action
  • Make an action stop at certain points
  • Create a batch action

Project – Create a Postcard Collage

Project - Create a sales flyer

Project - Create 3D Photo FX

Create Web Icons

  • Buttons
  • Arrows
  • Custom shapes

Web Photo Gallery

  • Review Photoshop automatic web gallery options

Converting to BW

  • Calculations
  • Unique BW Toning Techniques
  • Taking Snapshots to Compare BW

Plugins

  • What they are and do
  • How to install plugins

Camera RAW

  • RAW VS JPG
  • Opening RAW images
  • Editing RAW

There are numerous reviews to make certain you can apply what you are learning after the class has ended.

Photoshop Essentials 1-day pricing includes a copy of Adobe Photoshop CS5 Classroom in a Book for later review.

$900.00 | 6-8 students per class.

If you require on-site training for your staff and provide the equipment, pricing is below.
$200.00 per person per day. 4person minimum

1-on-1 training is $700-$1,000 per day depending on the day you require.
Get 7-hours of training with 1-on-1 classes.
Any travel beyond 50 miles of Chicago will be an extra charge.

Please feel free to Contact Us for more information.

  • Trainer: Gavin Phillips
  • gavin@photoeffects.biz
  • 07738-284-330
  • email and phone support

Lightroom 3 Essentials
1-day Class

Import:

  • The New Import Dialog
  • Tethered Capture
  • Overview of the Import Dialog
  • Moving Folders Around After the Fact
  • Tethered Capture
  • Preferences

Organizing:

  • Rating and Labeling
  • Find Your Keepers
  • Saving Your Favorites Into a Collection
  • Using Collection Sets
  • Using Smart Collections
  • Stacking Similar Photos

Develop:

  • Process Version
  • Improved Noise Reduction
  • Lens Correction
  • Improved Vignettes
  • Collections
  • Point Curve
  • The New Grain Feature
  • Cropping
  • AutoSync
  • Little Things

Exporting Photos:

  • Publishing Services
  • Watermarking

Slideshow:

  • Exporting as Video
  • Timing to Music

Web:

  • Watermarking

Black and Whites

Split Toning

There are numerous reviews to make certain you can apply what you are learning after the class has ended.

Lightroom 1-day Pricing includes a copy of Lightroom 3 For Digital Photographers by Scott Kelby for later review.

$305.00 | 6-8 students per class.

If you require on-site training for your staff and provide the equipment, pricing is below.
$190.00 per person per day. 4 person minimum

1-on-1 training is $900-$1,200 per day depending on the day you require.
Get 7-hours of training with 1-on-1 classes.
Any travel beyond 50 miles of Chicago will be an extra charge.

Please feel free to Contact Us for more information.

Lightroom 3 Advanced
2-day Class

Organizing:

  • Rating and Labeling
  • Find Your Keepers
  • Saving Your Favorites Into a Collection
  • Using Collection Sets
  • Using Smart Collections
  • Stacking Similar Photos
  • Keywords
  • Metadata

Import:

  • Where to Store Your Photos?
  • Overview of the Import Dialog
  • Moving Folders Around After the Fact
  • Tethered Capture
  • Preferences
  • About DNG
  • Video

Slideshows:

  • Creating a Quick Slideshow
  • Customizing Your Slideshow
  • Adding Opening and Closing Slides
  • Adding and Timing Music
  • Saving as a Video
  • Emailing a Slideshow as a PDF

Web:

  • Creating a Basic Web Gallery
  • Customizing your Web Galleries
  • Flash Galleries
  • Getting Your Galleries Online
  • Watermarking

Photoshop:

  • Move to Photoshop
  • Opening Multiple Photos As Separate Layers
  • Lightroom and 3rd Party Plug-ins

Adjustment Brush:

  • The Basics
  • Getting Creative
  • Retouching Portraits

Customizing:

  • Preferences
  • The Interface
  • Identity Plates and Graphics

Printing:

  • Picture Package Layouts
  • Custom Print Layouts
  • Saving Your Layout as a JPEG
  • Printing to a Printer

Exporting:

  • Saving Your Photos as JPEGs
  • Watermarking Your Photos
  • Working with Flickr and Publishing Services

The Basics:

  • Color

Other...

  • Making Batch Changes
  • The Tone Curve
  • HSL: Adjusting Specific Colors
  • Getting Around in Lightroom
  • Viewing Your Photos
  • Searching for Photos
  • Renaming Photos Already in Lightroom
  • Backing Up Your Catalog
  • Syncing Between Laptop and Desktop
  • Quick Develop
  • Cropping
  • White Balance
  • Setting the Exposure
  • Working with Shadows and Blacks
  • Brightness and Contrast

 

  • Clarity
  • History and Undos
  • Snapshots
  • Comparing the Before and After
  • Black and Whites
  • Split Toning
  • Virtual Copies
  • Vignettes and Grain Sharpening
  • Detail Settings: Noise Reduction
  • Lens Corrections
  • Calibration
  • Creating and Using Presets
  • Removing Spots
  • Removing Red Eye
  • Te Graduated Filter

There are numerous reviews to make certain you can apply what you are learning after the class has ended.

Lightroom 1-day Pricing includes a copy of Lightroom 3 For Digital Photographers by Scott Kelby for later review.

$600.00 | 6-8 students per class.

If you require on-site training for your staff and provide the equipment, pricing is below.
$190.00 per person per day. 4 person minimum

1-on-1 training is $900-$1,200 per day depending on the day you require.
Get 7-hours of training with 1-on-1 classes.
Any travel beyond 50 miles of Chicago will be an extra charge.

Please feel free to Contact Us for more information.

Photoshop for Photographers
2-day Class

Includes 30-minute ´live´ online (with the trainer) webinar help after class ends.
Schedule it with your trainer anytime within 6-months.
Email and phone support.

This class is designed for professional photographers.
Included are two fast ways to create photo albums, batch process images, fast retouching, and improved workflow

This class includes 1-set of Photoshop/Lightroom presets and 1-set of Photoshop ´actions´.
This software sells from our website for $90.00 and is yours for free when you attend this class.

Photoshop Training
Photoshop Training

The Photoshop Workspace

  • Different ways to view your photos
  • Working lean-customize your workspace
  • Tabbing

Shortcuts

  • 20 essential shortcuts
  • Creating custom shortcuts

Bridge

  • Different views
  • Renaming and batch renaming files
  • Sorting & ranking images
  • Metadata
  • Using favourites
  • Create a contact sheet

Layers & Adjustment Layers

  • Creating layers
  • Moving layers
  • Layer masks – Painting, applying
  • Filling
  • Smart Objects

Create Custom Panels

  • Create a custom palette with your favourite tools.
  • Big time-saver.
  • Create Custom Panels

Photoshop CS3,4,5 Actions

You receive our 'Vivid Colours and Tritones' set of 20 creative Photoshop 'actions'. (£60.00 value)
Click here to review our other Photoshop ´actions´.

Click a button and the 'action' automatically goes through 20-40 steps in Photoshop for you. Elegant imagery with a click!
SAVE time, increase your profits and show your clients something different.
Also, how to, Create actions, Edit actions,Create a batch action, and much more!




Photoshop CS3,4,5 & Lightroom Presets

You receive our 'Retro Passion' set of 50 Photoshop CS3,4,5 and Lightroom Presets. (£30.00 value)
Click here to review our other Photoshop CS3,4,5 & Lightroom Presets.







Fast Retouching - Learn our 'Glamour Gal' 4-minute retouch!

Color correct, Use action to apply make-up, Paint back in detail, Remove spots and wrinkle, Enhance eye colour, Use dodge and burn, Selective sharpening, When/how to use the , clone stamp , Liquify overview, and more!

Grid View

  • Rulers
  • Using snap to

Printing

  • Colour spaces
  • Resizing images
  • Checking colour

Converting to BW

  • Calculations
  • Unique BW Toning Techniques
  • Taking Snapshots to Compare BW

Plugins

  • Recommended plugins
  • Installing plugins
  • Remove fisheye distortion
  • Get very wide angle shots without the distortion

Web Photo Gallery

  • Review Photoshop automatic web gallery options

There are numerous reviews to make certain you can apply what you are learning after the class has ended.

Photoshop 2-day pricing includes a copy of Adobe Photoshop CS5 Classroom in a Book for later review.

$495.00 | 6-8 students per class.

If you require on-site training for your staff and provide the equipment, pricing is below.
$190.00 per person per day. 4person minimum

1-on-1 training is $700-$1,000 per day depending on the day you require.
Get 7-hours of training with 1-on-1 classes.
Any travel beyond 50 miles of Chicago will be an extra charge.

Please feel free to Contact Us for more information.

Photoshop Digital Painting
3-day Class

Learn how to create authentic hand painted portraits of people and pets, landscapes, etc. in Photoshop, using our custom brushes and techniques.

You will learn two main ways to paint digitally in Photoshop
The first is with the ´art history brush. The second technique is using the smudge brush.
Using the smudge brush more time, but the results are very impressive.

You will receive all of out custom brushes, digital canvases, and Photoshop ´actions´ required with the class.

Your digital painting class is 3-days. You will be painting many different types of photos throughout the 3-days with constant creative help from Gavin Phillips.

Photoshop 3-day Digital Painting Class Pricing

$2,000.00
4-6 students per class

Above pricing is when we provide the traning room with computers

If you require on-site training for your staff and provide the equipment, pricing is below.
$300.00 per person per day. 4 person minimum

1-on-1 training is $3,000-$5,000 per day depending on the day you require.
Get 7-hours of training with 1-on-1 classes.
Any travel beyond 50 miles of Chicago will be an extra charge.

Please feel free to Contact Us for more information.

High Dynamic Range - Photography Workshop
2-day Class

What is HDR?
HDR is when you take 3-5 or 7 photos at different exposure settings and then merge them into a single image, using specialty software

What you get are beautiful photos with incredible detail, controlled lighting and accurate colour.


You cannot reproduce an HDR image, manipulating a single JPG or RAW image in Photoshop.
Click here for more examples of HDR imagery.


Day 1 - HDR Hands-on workshop

We are outside photographing select London/Paris (whichever destination we are located) architectural landmarks.
We will also set-up for some interior shots.

You Learn...

Camera Set-up
Framing the shot
When to increase your bracketed set of HDR
How to shoot hand-held HDR
How to shoot HDR panorama's
When to use a Fisheye
How to use a Fisheye and be able to remove the distortion in Photoshop
We will photograph some people with HDR, and I show you how to remove the ´ghosting´ in the software training part of the course.

The priority on this day is to get as many sets of HDR as possible. Just because it looks good through the lens does not mean it will end up being a ´keeper´.

Day 2 - Software Post-processing
You are shown how to use the programs. The programs are not included with the course.

Post-processing training is held in a computer conference room at our location.

You Learn...

Fast sorting of your winning HDR sets in Photoshop
´Batching´ the winning sets in ´Photomatix Pro´ to 32-bit
Tone mapping the winners in one of three specific HDR software programs, depending on the shot.
You learn the strengths and weeknesses of...
´Photomatix Pro´
´Dynamic Photo HDR´
´Artizen´

Photoshop

  • Colour correction
  • Clean blotchy skies
  • How to replace the sky
  • Advanced cloning
  • Advanced ´curves´
  • Remove ´ghosting´ of moving people
  • Advanced black and white
  • Different sharpening techniques

Photoshop Plugins

  • Remove ´Fisheye´ distortion
  • Nik

Other Software

  • Removing digital noise in ´Neat Image´
  • Stitching panorama´s in ´PT Gui´


See the HDR web page for more before and after images, as well as a demonstration movie about HDR.

Download The PDF of my article that was published in ´Imagemaker´ magazine this year.

Do you prefer a ´live´ webinar? Contact us for webinar dates and times

HDR Photography 2-day Pricing
Includes 12 ´Movie Tutorials´, created by me that cover the most important of the class for later review.

$795.00
6-8 students per class

Above pricing is when we provide the traning room with computers

If you require on-site training for your staff and provide the equipment, pricing is below.
$250.00 per person per day. 4 person minimum

1-on-1 training is $1,200-$2,000 per day depending on the day you require.
Get 7-hours of training with 1-on-1 classes.
Any travel beyond 50 miles of Chicago will be an extra charge.

Please feel free to Contact Us for more information.

Testimonials

Just one click and a couple of tweeks and my images are transformed in to a variety of different looks and feels. Priceless. - Chris Jepson chrisjepson.com

We wanted to get that extra edge that would set our studio apart from the rest. We purchased the Ultimate BW and Vivid Colors just for our wedding clients. We found out that they could be used for every single client that we have. - Reel Life Portraits reellife.me

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