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Applied Color Theory with Dan Margulis
Duration: 3 days
Applied Color Theory with Dan Margulis

Course Synopsis: An intensive, small group, hands-on, three day color correction class. This is a demanding and sharply-focused seminar for those who are serious about improving the way their color images appear on the printed page or online. The class is highly focused on image enhancement and color correction only. There is no coverage of special effects. The emphasis is on the use of input-output curves to improve quality.

Who Should Attend: This is the class that many professional Photoshop instructors take to improve their own skills and expertise. This class will appeal to retouchers, photographers, art directors, and anyone involved with image manipulation.

Prerequisites: Familiarity with Photoshop is a prerequisite, but, as this is a
concept-based course, extensive expertise in the program is not necessary. Exact curriculum is subject to change depending upon the skills and wishes of the students.

What You Will Learn: Each student is assigned a fully-equipped Power Macintosh in a networked environment. Lecture/discussions are followed by sessions in which each member of the class works on improving the same images. The results are compared against one another and critiqued.

Time: Class time is 9:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m. Breaks are scheduled throughout the day and lunch is typically scheduled 12-1. Students provide their own lunch.

Locations: We have company-operated facilities in Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, San Diego and Washington DC. We also work with a network of rental facilities to offer our classes regularly across the United States and in Canada. Please double-check the location of your class with our office to make sure you get to the right location.

Related Courses: We recommend the following courses that relate to this
class: Adobe Photoshop and Advanced Adobe Photoshop. Please take a look at our other course outlines.

Goals: Sterling Ledet and Associates realizes the importance of education and we take pride in being able to offer you classes that are more custom fit to your needs. Call us at (770) 414-5007 if you have any special questions or e-mail us at sales@ledet.com.

Registration: Please fill out our registration form and fax it to us at (312) 896-9094.


Applied Color Theory with Dan Margulis

 

DAY 1: Concepts and Curves
• Objectives of color correction
• How humans perceive color
• Differences between human perception
and that of a camera
• Limitations of the printing process
• Introduction to Input-Output curves
• Setting proper numbers for highlight, shadow, neutrals and fleshtones
• Identifying the main interest area of an image
• Enhancing contrast in local areas
• Finding areas of colorspace that are not
used efficiently
• Influence of curve shape on reproduction
• Unsharp masking defined
• Photoshop method of USM and its variables
• Application of USM in selected channels,
or locally
• Relation of resolution to unsharp masking


DAY 2: CMYK and other colorspaces
• Role of black ink and GCR
• GCR and UCR differentiated
• When is GCR appropriate?
• Anticipating press problems
• Role of the unwanted color; how to generate a stronger unwanted color
• Channel blending
• RGB, HSB, and LAB: when to use them
• Retouching advantages of LAB
• Creation of masks with LAB
• Use of curves in LAB


DAY 3: Putting it All Together
• The majority of the day is spent working on images that illustrate the points covered by the course. The lecture/presentation portion of the day is programmed by the class: each student submits one topic or question, and these topics form the core of a two-hour presentation by the instructor

 




 


 

 



 

 

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