Colour Correction

DPA
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Course Format: Classroom | E-learning | Virtual Class | Online | On-site | Blended | Self-paced

Course Description:

'' This is a demanding Adobe Photoshop seminar directed at those who are serious about improving their colour images on the printed page. The seminar is sharply focused on image enhancement and colour correction, emphasizing the use of input/output curves to improve image quality. The use of special effects will not be covered.
This is an intensive course in which five days of material are covered during three long sessions. Days One and Two begin by 9:00 a.m. and end at approximately 8:00 p.m. Day Three begins at 7:30 a.m. with an estimated finish time of 6:00 p.m.
Course lectures and discussions are followed by hands-on, work sessions. During these sessions, all participants are assigned a set of images to improve using a fully equipped Power Macintosh in a networked environment. The resulting images are then compared and critiqued. These images are typical of those encountered in professional work and represent a variety of requirements. This course will appeal to professional retouchers, photographers, art directors, and anyone involved with image manipulation. Familiarity with Adobe Photoshop is a prerequisite for this course, but as this is a concept-based course, expertise in the program is not.

Course Content
Day One: Concepts and Curves
Objectives of colour correction
How humans perceive colour
Differences between human perception and that of a camera
Limitations of the printing process
Introduction to Input/Output curves
Setting proper numbers for highlight, shadow, neutrals and fleshtones
Identifying the main interest area of an image
Enhancing contrast in local areas
Finding areas of colourspace that are not used efficiently
Influence of curve shape on reproduction
Unsharp masking defined
Adobe Photoshop method of USM and its variables
Application of USM in selected channels or locally
Relation of resolution to unsharp masking
Day Two: CMYK and Other Colourspaces
Role of black ink and GCR
GCR and UCR differentiated
When is GCR appropriate?
Anticipating press problems
Role of unwanted colour; how to generate a stronger, unwanted colour
Channel blendingRGB, HSB and LAB: when to use them
Retouching advantages of LAB
Creation of masks with LAB
Use of curves in LAB
Day Three: Putting it All Together
The majority of the day is spent working on images in Adobe Photoshop that illustrate the points covered by the course. The lecture/presentation portion of the day is programmed by the class: each student submits one topic or question, and these topics form the core of a two-hour presentation by the instructor.
About the Instructor: Dan Margulis, a veteran prepress manager, is author of the classic guide to colour correction, “Professional Photoshop� and of “Professional Photoshop 6� which is distributed to each student in the class. His column, “Makeready� focusing on production issues, appears in Electronic Publishing magazine.
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Phone:416-205-9604 or 1-800-269-5742

School Address:

439 University Avenue
Suite 1150
Toronto Ontario
Canada M5G 1Y8

Jobs & Resumes: Toronto
Houses & Roommates: Toronto

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