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PHOTOSHOP for PHOTOGRAPHERS COURSE

Learn basic Photoshop skills to turn your OK shots into wonderful pictures.

Discover the lost art of creatively bringing your pictures to life.

Course consists of 5 weekly sessions, 10am – 12.30pm.

Topics:

Introduction to Photoshop

Simplifying the Photoshop workspace so that you will be able to find your way around and use the easiest, yet most effective tools.

Introducing Adjustment Layers to help to bring your pictures alive.

 

The Heart of Photoshop

Introducing Layers and Layer Masks, the most powerful tools in Photoshop, made easy.

 

Tidying Up

Using the healing and cloning tools. Portrait retouching. Removing distracting objects and details

Demonstrating the use of a digital brush and tablet

 

Colouring, Sharpening, Softening, Sharing

Colour correction, sharpening and blurring. Saving pictures for the web, email, or printing

 

Unleashing Creativity

Using your imagination to creatively combine two or more pictures, Blending and modifying

 

Reviewing the course material
 
This is a very practical, hands-on course, and there will be fun exercises between the sessions.

Bring a laptop with a recent version of Photoshop, CS2 or later.

It’s more convenient, but not essential, to use a mouse rather than the trackpad.
NB: Photoshop Elements is not suitable for this course.

Venue/Dates to be announced.
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Cost: 750NIS
Further info, ring Tom 052 8012 817
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CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY COURSE

FOR BEGINNERS AND ENTHUSIASTS.

Please join Newsletter for details. Courses in Pardes Hanna, Tel Aviv, Netanya.

5 weekly sessions, 9am – 11.30am.

Whether you are a beginner or an experienced enthusiast, this course will help you take the next step to being more creative with your camera. This is a fun, practical, hands-on course.

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You’ll practice simple exercises to help unlock your creativity and take more interesting pictures. We’ll look at how photographers have used different ways of thinking and looking at the world.

Tom Langford is a professional photographer who loves to share his knowledge and enjoyment of photography.

Registration,  Tom: 052 8012 817

Venu: Karkur, Pardes Hanna

Cost: 650NIS

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BEGINNERS/IMPROVERS PHOTOGRAPHY COURSE

For beginners and experienced photographers who want to improve and take more creative pictures. Learn and practice how to take amazing pictures.

5 weekly sessions of 2 ½ hours each, 10 – 12.30am

Course Topics

The 5 steps to taking good pictures (details here…)
Essential camera settings, menus, modes, file types
Developing visual awareness
Using your camera more effectively and creatively
A brief history of photography
Telling a story with your pictures
Taking pictures of children, tips and tricks
Using your imagination to improve a picture
Assessing the strengths and weaknesses of your pictures
Making basic improvements to your pictures in the computer
Keeping track of your digital pictures
Emailing pictures
Sharing your pictures on the Web

There will be practical exercises during the course and fun assignments between sessions.

Any digital camera can be used, compact or SLR.
You will need access to a computer with a basic photo editing program such as Picasa (download free from Google).
Venue/Dates to be announced.
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Registration, or further info, ring Tom: 052 8012 817
Cost: 700NIS
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FIELD TRIPS TO ZICHRON, TEL AVIV, JAFFA

For beginners and experienced photographers who want to take their photography a step further.

Field trips are a wonderful way to enjoy a day out with your camera, meet other enthusiasts, and develop your skills.

Tom will be on hand throughout the day to give practical advice to help you get the most from your camera and to develop your photography skills.

 

Schedule

10am, we meet at the venue. Tom will give some helpful tips of how to take better pictures and get the most from the day.

During the day we will take gentle strolls through three areas full of pictorial opportunities. Tom will be on hand to with practical tips, advice and insights.

There will be a short lunch break, and later at around 2pm we will gather at a venue for refreshments. Tom will download a selection of your pictures to his laptop.

From about 2.30 Tom will show and review a selection of pictures and give feedback about the day’s photography in his own practical and informative style. This is a very popular part of the day: Seeing the pictures that others have taken, you will benefit from the advice and insights they receive too.

 

Cost: 120 NIS

(Lunch, refreshments, and travel are not included)

Venue/Dates to be announced.

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PRIVATE LESSONS

Private lessons are an excellent alternative if you are unable to attend my Photography or Photoshop courses.

I really enjoy helping enthusiasts and have had remarkable successes with one-to-one sessions.
To see how you could benefit from individual sessions, please ring me: 052 8012 817.

“Our session was great. It really focused on what is really important, which is exactly what I was looking for”.

Sheldon.