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Mastering Adobe Lightroom

BKC @ 33 Washington St, Brooklyn, NY

Beginners and experienced shooters alike can all benefit from learning Adobe's excellent photo management and post-production app Lightroom. Built from the ground up to suit the needs of professional photographers, Lightroom can greatly speed up your editing and image adjustment time compared to Bridge and Photoshop. If you use iPhoto to organize your images, you'll be amazed at how much Lightroom can help you better manage, edit and adjust your...

Creating Custom Charts, Graphics and Icons with Adobe

Newmark Graduate School of Journalism @ 219 W 40th St, New York, NY

Course Title: Creating Custom Charts, Graphics and Icons with Adobe Illustrator This six-hour session will be an introduction to basic Adobe Illustrator skills. At the end of the course, students will be able to create simple vector icons, build and style a variety of basic charts and graphs, create easy social media sells, and understand how to optimize and export everything for use on various digital platforms. Refunds up to 1 week before ev...

Introduction to Photoshop Editing and Creation

Creatively Wild Art Studio Dumbo @ 98 Water St, Brooklyn, NY

Discover the fascinating history and practical applications of Adobe Photoshop in this comprehensive class at Creatively Wild Art Studio Dumbo. From mastering realistic image rendering to utilizing essential tools and techniques, this course is perfect for beginners and those looking to enhance their Photoshop skills. Don't miss the chance to bring your artistic visions to life.

Essential Lighting and Studio (6 weeks)

BKC @ 736 Bushwick Ave, Brooklyn, NY

This methodical approach to learning studio photography begins with analyzing lighting in well-known photographs and breaking down the setups, tools and techniques required to accomplish these images.    Each week we'll tackle one essential factor of lighting, from single-light setups to complex multiple-light setups, using modifiers, backgrounds, and various light sources to deliver precise and amazing results. Through a combination...

Illustrator Essentials

New York City College of Technology @ 25 Chapel St, Brooklyn, NY

This class teaches the most important skill needed to create vector graphics and illustration. Students will learn to manipulate vector drawing tools for 2 and 3 dimensional illustrations and to create brushes and repeat patterns. At the end of this class, students will be able to create vector art and place it in an illustrator design, export to Photoshop, or save it for a web site. Note: Price Includes $20 Registration Fee

Intro to Photoshop

New York City College of Technology @ 25 Chapel St, Brooklyn, NY

Photoshop is an essential skill for photographers, web developers and designers. In this 24-hour class, learn the fundamentals of image editing with hands-on exercises that use Photoshop’s powerful tools. You’ll learn to create files, work with layers & masks and to add adjustment layers. You’ll understand the concepts of resolution, canvas versus image size, master the selection tools and learn to import images edit them in Camera Raw...

Photoshop for Photographers

New York City College of Technology @ 25 Chapel St, Brooklyn, NY

Have you recently purchased a digital camera, or would you like to learn to enhance your personal, travel and family photos? This course introduces photographers to the essential tools needed to edit, enhance and color-correct images. Your friends and family will be asking, "Who's your photographer?" Learn to Organize your files in the Adobe Bridge Understand file size and resolution Edit and retouch Work with the Layers palette Understand...

Adobe InDesign QuickStart

New York City College of Technology @ 25 Chapel St, Brooklyn, NY

This InDesign training class is ideal for those with a basic knowledge of Adobe Programs and Microsoft Office. Students will create an in-class brochure assignment and will learn to manage master pages, thread text, place and wrap images, and publish a pdf document. Students are asked to bring high-resolution photos and text documents to the workshop. Note: Price Includes $20 Registration Fee

Introduction to Lightroom

PhotoUno Photography School @ Online, Online, NY

This Lightroom course is designed to teach students how to import, export, organize, edit, and share their photographs. Adobe Lightroom is an amazing program that has been designed to offer an end-to-end solution for photographer’s workflow (downloading, organizing, editing and sharing). Now you can learn exactly how to get started, and see how it can help you achieve the quickest, easiest results for your digital workflow needs. In this class...

Photoshop: Learn the Basics for Your Everyday Needs

Q.E.D. @ 27-16 23rd Ave, Astoria, NY

Tired of asking your friends for design help? Need to put together your own banners, marketing, ads, logos, or just edit some images? All that is covered in this latest class, where we learn all the necessary skills needed to become comfortable with Adobe Photoshop as well as the free design program, Gimp.

Lightroom (Private)

LightroomNYC @ 59 Wycoff St, Brooklyn, NY

In this class, you will learn how to get the most out of Lightroom, including catalog management, importing and exporting images, developing photos, making books as well as setting up backup workflows and keeping a well organized catalog. If you need help getting the most out of Lightroom or you want to take total control of your catalog, then David Mark Erickson is the Instructor you need. He has been certified by Adobe as an Expert in Lightroom...

Introduction to Graphic Design for Teenagers

Creatively Wild Art Studio Dumbo

This is a foundation class which explores the basics of graphic design using a Laptop. Beginning with Photoshop students will learn the basic tools of brush and erase creating their very own digital illustrations while familiarizing themselves with the fundamentals of design on a digital interface. After grasping a strong feel for the fundamentals, students will be introduced to more intermediate tools with the utilization of layers, masking, transformation...

Teens: Introduction to Graphic Illustration & Design

Creatively Wild Art Studio Dumbo

This is a foundation class for teenagers which explores the basics of graphic design using a Laptop. Beginning with Photoshop students will learn the basic tools of brush and erase creating their very own digital illustrations while familiarizing themselves with the fundamentals of design on a digital interface. After grasping a strong feel for the fundamentals, students will be introduced to more intermediate tools with the utilization of layers,...

Beginner Digital Art for Adults

Creatively Wild Art Studio Dumbo @ 98 Water St, Brooklyn, NY

This is a foundation class which explores the basics of digital painting using the iPad with Stylus. Each class will begin with a warm up sketch using outline interface, brushes, layers, color picker & preferences for 5, 15, 60 minute sketches.  We will work on line: mechanical drawing, brush dynamics, the importance of light & surfaces, rendering techniques & painting from real life. We will also explore the anatomy of color, line...

Making GIFs

Newmark Graduate School of Journalism

Learn not just how to make these moving and magical visuals, but how to use them to create stronger interactive content and tell more visually striking stories. GIFs have moved beyond simple, looped video frames of pet tricks and laughing babies. Highly stylized GIFs that combine still photo masks with video frames have emerged as a cutting-edge design tool.

Lightroom Beyond the Basics: Retouching, Lighting

92nd Street Y

Complete course name: Lightroom Beyond the Basics: Retouching, Lighting, and Composition Now that you know the basics of how to use your camera, what’s next? This class will offer a plethora of information on how to move forward with your photography skills. Using Adobe Lightroom you will learn to organize your photographs and understand basic retouching practices for enhancing most images. Composition and simple lighting techniques using...

Photoshop Essentials

NYIM Training @ 185 Madison Ave, New York, NY