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Introduction to Adobe Photoshop 2

Los Angeles Center of Photography

Learn the fundamentals of adobe photoshop. This course builds on the basic foundation created in Introduction to Adobe Photoshop 1. With core knowledge of the software, students will build a wider skill set for image creativity and correction. Students will be introduced to some of the software's more advanced tools and features. Topics include: Photoshop Selections and Masks Selection tools Adding to and subtracting from selections Quick...

(41) Intermediate 18 and older
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After Effects CC | Level 2 (Private)

headTrix, Inc | Adobe Certified Training @ 2500 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA

This advanced class covers topics such as Motio tracking, complex tracking in Mocha AE, Particle simulation, advanced 3D, advanced Masking, Roto Brush Tool, Puppet Tools, Time-warp / Time-lapse simulations, exporting to Flash, and more. Our Adobe After Effects CC - Level 2 course is for Design and corporate communications professionals who need to advance their skills and understanding of motion graphics and composting. Prerequisite: Basic Computer...

(34) Intermediate 14 and older
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$395
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Photoshop CC | Power Users

headTrix, Inc | Adobe Certified Training @ 2500 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA

This course builds on your existing knowledge of Photoshop, and expands your list of creative techniques. Learn how to work faster with new shortcuts, tips and tricks, actions, special effects, and more. Audience This course is for Advanced Photoshop users who wish to expand on their creative techniques, learn shortcuts and tips/tricks, save time and learn the secrets of the pros. Prerequisite Basic Computer Skills on Windows or Mac Have taken...

(34) Advanced 14 and older
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Digital Design with Photoshop

Studio Arts

This class will focus on getting "analog" fine artists started working in a digital way. Exceptional consideration will be made for showing students how to paint digitally with an emphasis on using Photoshop and occasionally Corel Painter to effect a design from sketch to a final, digitally rendered product.  The digital design world can be very challenging for many concept designers, illustrators, animation artists, set designers, costume...

(3) All levels 18 and older
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RAW Photography & Photoshop

Studio Arts @ 570 W Avenue 26, Los Angeles, CA

Do you need to make better photographs? With your camera and Photoshop's help, this class will inform and delight you with industry tips and techniques for getting the most out of any camera by first using the proper camera controls and then applying Photoshop's incredibly easy tools. We'll begin with the basics of how and why certain camera choices are preferable in certain situations: tackling the hows and whys of exposure and what those numbers...

(3) All levels 18 and older
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$1,500

5 sessions

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Compositing & VFX 101

Studio Arts @ 570 W Avenue 26, Los Angeles, CA

Learn compositing as it was meant to be learned. This class will be a thorough introduction to learning the fundamental principles of visual effects compositing. Then these principles will be applied to a node-based compositing system (like The Foundry's Nuke). This class covers the essential aspects of compositing that will help you understand what's going on under the hood in any image-based application (Photoshop, After Effects, Maya etc.) and...

(3) Beginner 18 and older
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$1,500

8 sessions

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Photoshop 1: Basics

Studio Arts @ 570 W Avenue 26, Los Angeles, CA

Adobe Photoshop is the essential software tool used in the film, television, and game industry for use in everything from pre-production and visualization to post. This introductory class explores fundamental skills such as working with layers, editable adjustment layers, mastering selection and masking, use of channels, and layer masks. Other topics we will cover include: simple color corrections, image manipulation, retouching and restoration...

(3) Beginner 18 and older
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$1,500

9 sessions

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Digital Painting

Studio Arts @ 570 W Avenue 26, Los Angeles, CA

This workshop is targeted for those aspiring to understand and work with Photoshop, improving their skills in painting, sketching and more, as used in animation, motion picture or television production. Topics covered will include, but not be limited to: digital painting, composition, lighting, perspective, custom brush creation, photo manipulation, character design, creature design, environment design, anatomy, and final presentation of artwork....

(3) All levels 18 and older
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$750

2 sessions

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Adobe Premiere Pro

Studio Arts @ 570 W Avenue 26, Los Angeles, CA

Adobe Premiere Pro software lets you work faster, integrate projects with the Adobe Suite, and edit in many different native formats. Get breakthrough performance on workstations and laptops; streamline collaboration; and boost productivity with an efficient, robust, cross-platform editing workflow. As part of the Adobe Creative Suite of products, Premiere Pro could make the ultimate tool-set for video pros who don’t necessarily want or need other...

(3) Beginner 18 and older
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$1,500

9 sessions

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Power Photoshop, the RAW Workflow

Studio Arts

Designed for intermediate and advanced users, this power Photoshop class is taught from the perspective of a commercial photographer using features, tips, and concepts to produce composites. This class will also restore damaged photographs. Power Photoshop, the RAW Workflow All students will spend time working on projects that can be taken home for further study and application. Skin-smoothing, displacing realistic textures, compositing, masking...

(3) Advanced 18 and older
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After Effects 375 - Advanced Subjects

Studio Arts

This class is for After Effects users who already have basic familiarity with the program and are looking to expand their use of special effects. The course will cover several of the more complicated Effect filters, including Shatter, Particle World, Fractal Noise, Turbulent Displace, and the new Cineware effect for incorporating 3D content from Cinema 4D into your After Effects projects. Students will learn how to create effect recipes combining...

(3) Intermediate 18 and older
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Look Development in 3D

Studio Arts

This class focuses on look development and production workflow for photoreal props and characters, the class will explain the terminology and tools related to the look development area, we will discuss the different approaches to both Organic and Hard Surface texturing called surfacing. The Concept of Surfacing embraces texturing and shading with obvious interrelations with Lighting and Compositing. Some Modeling instruction related to UVs will...

(3) Intermediate 18 and older
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Digital Mattes (VUE)

Studio Arts

This class will encompass an in-depth exploration of "Vue D'Esprit" and its many subtleties and creative features -- especially to generate awe-inspiring landscapes to be further refined in Photoshop, Maya, Corel, et. al. Vue is a matte painter’s heaven. With sophisticated features such as EcoSystem painting, procedural terrains, Spectral atmospheres, and SolidGrowth plants, it handles even the most demanding, highly-detailed environments with...

(3) Advanced 18 and older
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Digital Sketching 2

Studio Arts @ 570 W Avenue 26, Los Angeles, CA

In Digital Sketching 2, students will take the digital drawing processes and approaches learned in Digital Sketching 1 further and apply them to a wide range of hard-surface objects such as vehicles, boats, planes, heavy machinery, robotics, weapons, armor and even mechs. This class imitates and follows designs challenges typically found in film, video games, television, and all other major forms of media and entertainment. Learning how to distill...

(3) Intermediate 18 and older
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$1,500

8 sessions

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Digital Mattes

Studio Arts @ 570 W Avenue 26, Los Angeles, CA

Vue is a matte painter’s heaven. With sophisticated features such as EcoSystem painting, procedural terrains, Spectral atmospheres, and SolidGrowth plants, it handles even the most demanding, highly-detailed environments with unmatched ease. Give it a go, and you’ll wonder how you ever managed without it! This class will encompass an in-depth exploration of "Vue D'Esprit" and its many subtleties and creative features -- especially to generate...

(3) Advanced 18 and older
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$1,500

9 sessions

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ZBrush with Photoshop

Studio Arts @ 570 W Avenue 26, Los Angeles, CA

So you’ve been sculpting some rad creatures and characters in Z Brush, AWESOME! Turntables are cool, but screenshots are lame. Let’s give our creations a little more love and bring high quality effects and design iterations! In the entertainment industry, digital sculptors use multiple programs to push their designs and final presentations. This class covers several techniques in ZBrush with Photoshop from sculpting to lighting, all the way...

(3) Intermediate 18 and older
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$1,500

8 sessions

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Concept Design 101

Studio Arts @ 570 W Avenue 26, Los Angeles, CA

This class will teach the state of the art methods of concept design. Illustrators and artists will augment their digital art skills with the most successful processes used by today’s leading studios. Using Adobe Photoshop and other essential illustration tools, this class is an in-depth exploration of the techniques responsible for the greatest concept designs of today from the disciplines of cinema, videogames, animation, graphic novels and...

(3) Intermediate 18 and older
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$1,500

8 sessions

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Photoshop 2

Studio Arts

This intermediate class goes further in depth on subjects covered in Photoshop 1. Techniques such as selections and masking, color shifts and other "tricks of the trade" will be covered. We will explore some of the vector tools found in Photoshop for their use with selections and illustrations. And lastly, an emphasis on techniques for retouching, restoration and color correction will be covered. Prerequisite: Photoshop 1 or equivalent knowledge....

(3) Intermediate 18 and older
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$1,500

9 sessions

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Photoshop: Creating a Comic Book

East Los Angeles College @ 1301 Avenida Cesar Chavez, Los Angeles, CA

This course is catered for artists who want to be efficiently and effectively introduced to the art of creating comics and telling a story through sequential art.  Students will learn how to develop a style and how it should correlate to their story, the dynamics of panel layout, using space effectively, font selection, color palettes, negative and positive space, as well as pacing and comedic timing. This is an introductory course that can...

(250) All levels 8 and older
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$80

5 sessions

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Flame in a Day

Studio Arts @ 570 W Avenue 26, Los Angeles, CA

The object of this course is to train students in modern “finishing” techniques using Autodesk Flame. Finishing is the process of conforming the creative edit to the hi-resolution, camera original footage and then sending the “VAM” to the colorist. After color correction, we will learn what it takes to delivery TV shows for broadcast. Students in this class will get a broad overview of the finishing process and how to use Autodesk Flame to...

(3) All levels 18 and older
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$750

2 sessions

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