Online Photography Course
Correct & Enhance Your Images
Have a pro at your side - online, all the time
 Learn the valuable techniques of image correction and enhancement so you get consistently better photos with confidence - every time. Every photographer from beginner to professional can make their images better when they know what to do in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. If you have been working haphazardly, clicking buttons and hoping for the best, this exciting 4-week online course will help you achieve the results you have always wanted with predictability. Richard Lynch, best-selling Photoshop author, will show you robust and reliable - yet uncomplicated - approaches for color correction, image enhancement and repair, and put the guesswork behind.
Key Features
- Evaluate your original images to target your corrections.
- Apply color correction and enhance image tone.
- Image repair in a nutshell.
- Quick effects and enhancements.
- Enhance images with effects like sharpening, soft-focus effects, and framing.
- Learn color and contrast enhancement skills to make any image more dynamic.
- Use pro techniques to clean up, enhance, repair, sharpen and embellish your images.
- Become privy to Richard's master step-by-step outline (workflow) for making the perfect image.
- Note: This course has been adapted - with updated lessons! - from Richard's 8-week From Monitor to Print: Photoshop Workflow class.
What You Get
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Benefits:
You get direct feedback on your photos from world-acclaimed, professional photographers. You can learn photography in this way from anywhere in the world.
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- Learn at your pace, with structure.
- Be guided by a real pro instructor.
- Get your photos critiqued every week.
- Join students from around the world.
- Go far beyond any book or DVD.
- Make great pictures, again and again!
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Instructor
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Richard LynchAfter years of pushing pixels for fun, and with a long history of amateur photography and darkroom experience that stretched back to grade school, Richard Lynch began his professional image editing career as the editor of a photography book publisher in 1991. Starting in the late 90s, he began writing and publishing books on digital image editing with Photoshop. His books teach intermediate and advanced image editing techniques to Photoshop and Photoshop Elements users, also providing custom-made tools for Elements and Photoshop users that simplify difficult image editing processes. Richard has been a columnist for Digital Photography Techniques, and has written for Popular Photography, PCPhoto, Photo Techniques, Advanced Photoshop and many other design and photography magazines. He teaches digital imaging and design at Daemen College in New York. His newest book, The Adobe Photoshop Layers Book, is a great companion to his Leveraging Layers course here on betterphoto.com. Richard's photography tends toward the abstract, often using extreme editing processes and unusual equipment. His Sigma SD14 sports a range of common Sigma EX lenses, but can be fitted with an old bellows, extension tubes and an assortment of vintage M42 lenses from 10mm to 2300mm. See more about Richard's books and tools on his Web site for Photoshop Elements users: http://hiddenelements.com and Photoshop: http://photoshopcs.com. Richard’s four courses on betterphoto.com serve as a series:
- Photoshop 101: A beginner-level introduction to Photoshop.
- Correct and Enhance Your Images: An intermediate-level course dedicated to core imaging correction techniques
- From Monitor to Print: An intermediate-level course for mastering Photoshop / Photoshop Elements color management
- Leveraging Layers: Photoshop's Most Powerful Tool: An advanced-level, specialized focus on using layers
Though it is suggested they be taken as a series, you can start anywhere depending on your level of expertise, or follow it from beginning to end as designed! Contact Richard if you have any questions. Richard has a free Newsletter/Blog to all who are interested in bettering their skills with Photoshop. Listen to Richard talk with Jim Miotke in a two-part interview covering his perspective on image editing: Part 1, Part 2
A Couple of Photos by the Instructor
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Course Outline
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Lesson 1: Evaluate Your Images
Judge the quality of your original images and determine what needs to be corrected by following a checklist that works for any image.
Assignment: Write up a concise list of goals for the image and submit that.
Lesson 2: Color and Tone Correction
There are ways you can approach color and tone correction for any image that take very little thought, but that consistently result in better color and image dynamics.
Assignment: Using simple concepts explained in the lesson, step through color correction of your images, and submit before/after results.
Lesson 3: Image Repair in a Nutshell
Almost any image will need some type of adjustment to look its best, no matter how much time you spend composing it. We'll look at a few simple ways to make adjustments with much bigger implications, including cropping, using the Clone Stamp and Healing Brush, and advanced compositional changes.
Assignment: Practice making changes to your images using what you learned in the lesson and submit the results.
Lesson 4: Enhancements
There are a number of quick effects and enhancements that you can easily apply to almost any image - some which are virtually necessary. These include sharpening, soft-focus effects, and simple framing. We'll look at the basic methods for doing each of these.
Assignment: Apply enhancements to your images and submit the results.
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Requirements
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- Richard's Photoshop 101 course, or equivalent experience using Photoshop or Elements.
- Photoshop 7, CS, CS2, or CS3, or Photoshop Elements 3, 4, 5, or 6
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FAQ
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How will this course help me? This course will help you achieve consistent results with images by improving exposure, color, tone, and composition using the right tools in a workflow that you can depend on for getting the most out of your images every time. I use Elements, not Photoshop. Can I take this course? Yes! This course is intended for Photoshop AND Elements users and contains instruction for both. I have never used Photoshop or Elements. Should I take this course? No. This course is intended for those with some experience. A better option for a beginner is my Photoshop 101 course. Photoshop 101 was meant to prepare you to take this and my Color Management for Digital Photographers courses. What is image enhancement? Image enhancement is embellishing an image to improve it. Most often this means optimizing the shot you have taken through color correction, tone adjustment and composition adjustments (e.g., cropping, removing damage and distractions) rather than radical editing. Sometimes enhancement can mean adding effects and applying filters (e.g., sharpening, soft focus effects and framing). The main focus of this course is practical enhancements which are adjustments you will make to your images every day. Is color correction hard? Does it require special equipment? Color correction is only hard if you don't know how to do it. This course teaches practical methods for color correction that you can easily apply to any image in a few minutes. Photoshop or Elements are the only special tools you need, but it may be helpful to have a calibrated monitor and understand color management but these are tangent concerns to methods of correction. (I cover these principles in my Color Management for Digital Photographers course.) Do I need a digital camera? No. You don't need a digital camera, but you will need at least two digital images. Do I need a printer at home? No. None of my Photoshop courses require that you have a home printer. Color Management for Digital Photographers requires printing, but encourages you to use a service.
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Do I have to be online at any specific time?
No, you do not need to be online at any specific time. The lessons are sent to your email and you are also provided the Campus Square - where you interact with your classmates and instructor. This is also where you upload your photos to be critiqued by your instructor. The instructors are very punctual and respond quickly.
Will I have access to the instructor to ask questions during the photo course?
Absolutely! Students can ask questions in the special Q&A forum set up in the course's Campus Square, or can ask the instructor via email.
Do you offer a money back guarantee?
Yes. We are confident that you will fully enjoy our courses. All the same, for our 8-week classes, we offer a 100% money-back guarantee before the Wednesday that Lesson #3 is sent out. If for any reason, you are not satisfied and let us know that you would like to withdraw before the Wednesday that Lesson #3 is sent, you will be promptly refunded.
For our 4-week courses, we offer a 100% money back guarantee before the Wednesday that Lesson #2 is sent out from BetterPhoto. If for any reason you are not satisfied and you let the ordering department know that you would like to withdraw before the Wednesday that Lesson #2 is sent, you will be refunded within 7 days. After the second lesson has been sent out, no refunds will be given.
If you have further questions about this course, feel free to contact us via the Contact link below.
Only $198.00 USD
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