Digital Image Editing Workflow
offered at Portland Community College
Learn a workflow to take those good images to a higher level using the powerful tools contained in current editing software.
Course Description:
This class covers an editing workflow to prepare your images for print, web, or electronic display using tools & techniques available in several editing softwares.
Develop an effective image editing workflow. Discover the tool sets and a workflow that best fit your photographic needs using levels, curves, shadow/highlights, actions, and many more powerful tools.
If you have a laptop with editing software installed, please bring it to class.
Learn how to:
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Analyze editing needs and set program preferences to best support those needs
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Use Curves to creatively enhance images
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Employ Levels when necessary
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Create and use Actions to automate repetitive editing actions
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Use Layer Masks to focus editing efforts to specific portions of an image
- Employ the best sharpening techniques to prepare images for print
- Create a workflow that best fits editing needs
- Edit a "good" image to make it a GREAT! image
Capturing an image is only one step in the process of creating a piece of art with the system we call photography. Photographers must perform specific actions to capture an image – no matter what camera is used. Processing the image for various end uses such as print, web, or LCD display also requires certain steps be performed – just as film had to be developed, so too must digital images be processed. This class shows you how.
