Photoshop CS5: Production

Course Outline

Duration: 1 Day

Description: This course focuses on the specific information needed to create professional-looking images for high-end business printers and commercial print shops. In this course, students will learn project management basics and how to create layer comps. They will also learn how to optimize color management for print. They will explore various techniques for adjusting the quality of an image and making color adjustments. Students will learn how to use CYMK separations for prepress, customize ink options, and adjust CYMK curves. Students will also explore various options for using grayscale, spot-color, and duotones. Finally, they will learn how to optimize images for the Web, balancing quality and file size, and how to prepare images for use in video productions.

Course Content:

Unit 1: Project management

Topic A: Project plans

Topic B: Layer comps

Topic C: Design principles

Unit 2: Color management

Topic A: Color management basics

Topic B: Color space conversion

Topic C: Printing with color management

Unit 3: Photographic techniques

Topic A: The camera raw format

Topic B: Photographic adjustments

Topic C: Lens adjustments

Topic D: Merging images

Unit 4: RGB image adjustments

Topic A: Color correction principles

Topic B: Measuring color

Topic C: Automatic adjustments

Topic D: Curves adjustments

Topic E: Hand-retouching color

Topic F: Color replacement

Unit 5: CMYK separations

Topic A: Prepress color settings

Topic B: CMYK image adjustments

Topic C: Sharpening

Unit 6: Grayscale and spot colors

Topic A: Grayscale conversion

Topic B: Spot-color images

Topic C: Duotones

Unit 7: Web and video images

Topic A: Web image size

Topic B: Optimizing images for the Web

Topic C: Fine-tuning quality

Topic D: Creating transparency

Topic E: Preparing images for video