This workshop is especially for people who want to learn to create photo collages and for those who are interested in refurbishing digital images of aging photographs. Designed for people with some experience using Photoshop, this workshop delves more deeply into Photoshop image-editing strategies and practices. Participants will learn the most beneficial way to modify images, using channels and masks to preserve and edit their work. While doing the exercises, participants will save and re-use complex pixel selections, colorize grayscale photographs, learn the best method to create collages, and explore the ways Photoshop digitizes color.

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Participants will:

• Restore digital scans of aging photographs
• Sharpen a blurry image
• Create a true black and white image from a yellowing photo
• Blend two images together with a gradient mask
• Create sepia tone effects with a Duotone
• Colorize a grayscale image
• Create a photo collage

The following workshops are suggested prerequisites to this workshop:

• Photoshop CS4: The Basics

Participants should already be able to:

• Work with Photoshop's toolbox, Options bar, and palettes
• Make basic pixel selections
• Use filters
• Work with layers