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Adobe® Photoshop® CS2: Color Correction

Course Specifications

Course length: 1/2 Day
Certification: Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) Program®

Course Description

You are familiar with the Photoshop tools and techniques that are used to design and create images. Applying the correct image and color correction process and techniques ensures that you get the desired output while printing images for commercial purposes. In this course, you will learn professional techniques for obtaining consistent, predictable, high quality images from Photoshop.

Course Objective: You will create a crisp line art image and eliminate dust and scratches, suppress moiré patterns, and correct red eye defects. You will apply a color by the numbers approach using curves adjustment layers to eliminate color casts and maximize the contrast in important regions of images. Finally, you will apply techniques for improving sharpness & convert color images to grayscale.

Prerequisites: To ensure students' success with this course, we recommend that they have a familiarity with Photoshop or take the following Element K course: Adobe® Photoshop® CS2: Level 1 Second Edition.

Performance-Based Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• eliminate dust and scratches, suppress moiré patterns, and correct the red eye defects in images.
• perform image color correction.
• choose the settings and adjustments, based on the specific image and printing conditions, to create high quality prints.
• sharpen an image without oversharpening or accentuating noise and other defects.
• convert color images to grayscale.

Course Content

Lesson 1: Using Advanced Image Support

Topic 1A: Create High Dynamic Range Images

Topic 1B: Use the Camera Raw Format

Topic 1C: Preview an Image on a Video Monitor

Lesson 2: Capturing Images in Digital Format

Topic 2A: Scan Various Image Types

Topic 2B: Choose Scanner Settings and Adjustments

Lesson 3: Removing Image Defects

Topic 3A: Remove Dust and Scratches

Topic 3B: Minimize Moiré Patterns

Topic 3C: Eliminate Red Eye Defects

Lesson 4: Adjusting RGB Color

Topic 4A: Meet Color Correction Objectives

Topic 4B: Locate Highlights, Shadows, and Neutral Areas

Topic 4C: Make Automatic Color and Contrast Adjustments

Topic 4D: Make Basic Curve Adjustments

Topic 4E: Correct Memory Colors

Topic 4F: Adjust Shadows and Highlights Independently

Lesson 5: Creating CMYK Separations

Topic 5A: Adjust Color Settings for Prepress

Topic 5B: Calibrating to a Proof

Topic 5C: Adjust Out-of-Gamut Colors

Topic 5D: Color Separating Images

Topic 5E: Adjust CMYK Curves

Lesson 6: Sharpening Images

Topic 6A: Apply Unsharp Masking

Topic 6B: Sharpen Image

Lesson 7: Working with Grayscale and Spot Colors

Topic 7A: Convert Color Images to Grayscale

Appendix A: Commercial Printing Conditions

Appendix B: Choosing Image Resolution

Appendix C: Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) Objectives Mapping

Appendix D: Adobe® Photoshop® CS2: New Features Mapping