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This course has been designed for anyone who needs to efficiently scan, manipulate, export or print digital images. During the course you will learn how to scan, re-size, re-touch and export pictures for different media. You will look at resolution theory, how to accurately adjust colours on-screen, exporting from Photoshop to QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign and how to ensure trouble-free printing.
Scanning and Digital Images
Print Design Courses
 
Public scheduled course £275
Prices exclude VAT.
Private Tuition
£405 for individual tuition.
Prices exclude VAT.

Introduction
• Understanding file formats
• Understanding resolution theory
• Dots per inch/lines per inch
• Understanding colour theory

Scanning techniques
• Scanning into Photoshop
• The scanning options
• Making selections in Photoshop
• Feathering a selection
• Using the Path tool
• Creating clipping paths in Photoshop
• Cropping an image
• Using the magic eraser
• Retouching the edges of pasted objects so that they blend into the background

Manipulating an image
• Flipping, rotating, skewing and re-sizing
• What you should be aware of before re-sizing an image

Enhancing and retouching an image
• Lightening and darkening images
• Using levels and curves
• The Healing Brush tools
• The Histogram – how to read it
• Adjusting localised areas of an image

Working with filters
• Using unsharp mask
• Using Gaussian and motion blur
• Adding noise

Adjusting colours
• Using the Info panel
• Selecting colours in an image
• Using hue and saturation to match colours and alter tones

Printing an image
• Exporting an image to QuarkXPress or InDesign
• When to use different file formats
• Before you print: a print checklist

Practical exercises

Questions and answers

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Call us on 0845 676 2250
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