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Photoshop Advanced

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Refine demanding image edits in Noble Desktop's Photoshop Advanced course. The curriculum covers complex selections, masking, color correction, skin retouching, blending, and Pen-tool techniques, alongside generative features. You practice gaining finer control over parts of an image when a basic editing workflow needs more precise decisions.

What's included with live classes

  • Adobe Photoshop (1 month)
  • Free course retake within one year to refresh the material and gain practice.
  • Class recordings

Overview

Ready to take your Photoshop skills up a notch? This class is designed for those who have a solid grasp of Photoshop’s basics and want to elevate their skills to new heights.

In this class, you’ll learn how to make more precise and difficult selections (such as hair) to isolate a subject and put in a new background. Learn advanced color correction to work smarter, faster, and have more control.

You’ll also learn how to leverage Photoshop’s generative AI features to be more creative and work more efficiently.

Prerequisites

Students should have a foundational understanding of Photoshop, equivalent to what we teach in our Photoshop Bootcamp.

Topics included

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Schedule & enrollment

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Live tuition
$695
Course length
12 hours

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Self-paced tuition & enrollment

Learn through recorded lessons on your own schedule.

Tuition
$695
Course length
12 hours
Format
Self-paced online

This course is available for 30 days. You can choose when to start your access period. Once you activate, you will have 30 days to complete it (access the course materials, quizzes, projects and videos). You may request one extension of seven (7) days. Other extension requests will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Videos are not downloadable.

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Curriculum

What you'll learn

  • Advanced color correction and masking techniques
  • Learn to make complex selections (such as hair) using “Select and Mask,” channels, and more
  • See useful applications of Blending Modes
  • Retouch skin
  • Learn the Pen tool for use in vector masks and clipping paths
  • Explore Photoshop’s Generative AI features

Course syllabus

Skin Retouching in Photoshop

  • Apply advanced skin retouching techniques for advertising and fashion-related industries
  • Skin retouching workflow
  • Reducing and removing imperfections
  • Working with Camera Raw and smart objects for skin retouching
  • Frequency separation for skin retouching
  • Alternatives, tools, and actions

Hair Selection & Removing Backgrounds

  • Hair selection using tools and “Select and Mask”
  • Techniques for improving layer masks
  • Hair selection using channels
  • Painting hair using brushes

Using Channels to Make Selections

  • Working with Channels
  • Saving Selections
  • Altering Channels to improve the selection

Combining Photos (Photo Montage)

  • Combining images and matching light sources
  • Creating and improving shadows
  • Working with reflections
  • Working with perspective and vanishing point

Vector Masks & Clipping Paths

  • Working with the Pen tool
  • Using Vector masks
  • Creating Clipping Paths
  • Creating paths for selections
  • Save files with paths

Advanced Color Correction Techniques & Blending Modes

  • Color correction workflow
  • Matching skin tones
  • Using Blending Modes with Adjustment Layers

Photoshop Generative AI Features (Adobe Firefly inside Photoshop)

  • Generative Expand (when using the Cropping tool)
  • Generative Fill

Self-paced course

Learn through recorded lessons on your own schedule.

This course is available for 30 days. You can choose when to start your access period. Once you activate, you will have 30 days to complete it (access the course materials, quizzes, projects and videos). You may request one extension of seven (7) days. Other extension requests will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Videos are not downloadable.

View self-paced tuition & enrollment

Ready to advance your Photoshop skills? This course is ideal for users who already understand the basics and want to push their abilities further. You’ll learn to create more precise selections, even challenging ones like hair, to isolate subjects and replace backgrounds. Explore advanced color correction techniques that offer more speed, accuracy, and control, and discover how to seamlessly blend multiple photos with consistent lighting and perspective. You’ll also unlock Photoshop’s generative AI tools to boost creativity.

Self-paced prerequisites

Students should have a foundational understanding of Photoshop, equivalent to what we teach in our Photoshop Bootcamp.

Self-paced curriculum

What you'll learn self-paced

  • Advanced color correction and masking techniques
  • Combine multiple photos to create convincing composites
  • Learn to make complex selections (such as hair) using “Select and Mask,” channels, and more
  • See useful applications of Blending Modes
  • Retouch skin
  • Learn the Pen tool for use in vector masks and clipping paths
  • Explore Photoshop’s Generative AI features
Self-paced syllabus

Skin Retouching in Photoshop

  • Apply advanced skin retouching techniques for advertising and fashion-related industries
  • Skin retouching workflow
  • Reducing and removing imperfections
  • Working with Camera Raw and smart objects for skin retouching
  • Frequency separation for skin retouching
  • Alternatives, tools, and actions

Hair Selection & Removing Backgrounds

  • Hair selection using tools and “Select and Mask”
  • Techniques for improving layer masks
  • Hair selection using channels
  • Painting hair using brushes

Using Channels to Make Selections

  • Working with Channels
  • Saving Selections
  • Altering Channels to improve the selection

Combining Photos (Photo Montage)

  • Combining images and matching light sources
  • Creating and improving shadows
  • Working with reflections
  • Working with perspective and vanishing point

Vector Masks & Clipping Paths

  • Working with the Pen tool
  • Using Vector masks
  • Creating Clipping Paths
  • Creating paths for selections
  • Save files with paths

Advanced Color Correction Techniques & Blending Modes

  • Color correction workflow
  • Matching tones in composited images
  • Matching skin tones
  • Using Blending Modes with Adjustment Layers

Photoshop Generative AI Features (Adobe Firefly inside Photoshop)

  • Generative Expand (when using the Cropping tool)
  • Generative Fill

What's included with self-paced

  • Adobe Photoshop (1 month)

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Is this course right for you?

Foundational Photoshop knowledge equivalent to the bootcamp is required. Choose this continuation for more involved retouching and compositing. Compare the Photoshop Bootcamp if you first need confidence with layers, selections, adjustments, and the application workflow.

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