This excellent Photoshop: Mastering Advanced Techniques with Brian Maffitt course will give you an in depth and advanced education in Photoshop, and how best to harness it. This Photoshop Advanced course is project based and it will give learners a new appreciation of some of Photoshop’s most creative tools. This Photoshop course will give you an in depth overview of Smart Object workflow, Photoshop 3D, and 32-bit colour space. In addition, you will gain valuable tips for artistic compositing including using channels for difficult masks and sophisticated layer management with Smart Objects. In addition, learners will explore 3D Modelling—using only tools found in Photoshop, as well as a practical workflow for merging 3D layers with models from outside sources.
Our learning material is available to students 24/7 anywhere in the world, so it’s extremely convenient. These intensive online courses are open to everyone, as long as you have an interest in the topic! We provide world-class learning led by IAP, so you can be assured that the material is high quality, accurate and up-to-date.
Brian Maffitt brings a singularly diverse background to presenting and directing. As a former professional actor, photographer, carpenter, and Graceland Tour Guide, he jumped on board the computer graphic revolution in the late 1980s. He founded MAFF/x in 1993 and won several awards for video production, interactive design, and animation. Brian also co-founded Atomic Power Corporation and released two award-winning sets of software plugins for After Effects, “Psunami”, and “Evolution”. The latter was acquired by Adobe in 2001 and is now included with every copy of After Effects sold, and has been featured prominently in untold commercials and films, including Pixar’s Academy Award-winning “The Incredibles”.
A combination of communication skills and computer proficiency made video training a natural progression. As Total Training’s co-founder and Chief Creative Officer, he is devoted to great training, crafted by an extraordinary creative team, for exceptional customers. And if he can occasionally make you smile (or roll your eyes) along the way, so much the better.
Those who successfully pass this course will be awarded a Photoshop: Mastering Advanced Techniques with Brian Maffitt certificate. Anyone eligible for certification will receive a free e-certificate, and printed certificate.
This excellent Photoshop Mix course will qualify you to be an Image Editor, or a Photographer. As a Photographer you are usually working on a freelance basis, and could even establish your own Photography business. The average salary of a Photographer in the UK is £20,512, and this will go up with experience (payscale.com). With this course you could fulfil any of the following roles:
1: ARTISTIC COMPOSITING | |||
1. Choosing Suitable Source Material | |||
2. Loading a Path as a Selection & Floating It to a New Layer | |||
3. Good Hair Day – Using Channels for Difficult Masks, Part 1 | |||
4. Good Hair Day – Using Channels for Difficult Masks, Part 2 | |||
5. Layer Management with Smart Objects | |||
6. Creating a Fiery Texture from an Illustration | |||
7. Applying a Texture with Liquify | |||
8. Compositing Fire | |||
2: 3D MODELING IN PHOTOSHOP | |||
1. Introduction to 3D | |||
2. Making a New Mesh from Grayscale | |||
3. Creating a Seamless Object from Grayscale | |||
4. Creating a Smooth Grayscale Gradient | |||
5. Using Curves as a Modeling Tool | |||
6. Advanced Grayscale Modeling | |||
7. Merging 3D Layers | |||
8. Exporting, Importing & Combining 3D Objects | |||
3: TEXTURES & LIGHTS | |||
1. Creating a Seamless Tarnished Metal Texture | |||
2. The 3D Panel, Scene Settings & Render Presets | |||
3. Setting 3D Material Options | |||
4. Performance Optimization & Setting Up 3D Lights | |||
5. Adjusting Material Shininess, Point Lights & Spot Lights | |||
6. Creating an Ivory Material to Texture the Skull | |||
7. Using Bump Maps to Create Metalwork Detail | |||
8. Creating Additional Detail with Bump Maps | |||
9. Using Complex Bump Maps for a Bas-relief Effect | |||
4: 32 BITS – PUTTING IT TOGETHER | |||
1. Compositing the Fire Sprite into the Chalice | |||
2. 32 Bit as an Artistic Tool | |||
3. The Final Element: Type | |||
4. Reducing Bit-Depth for Export Using Smart Objects | |||
5. Credits |