Advance your editing skills with non-destructive workflows, advanced masking, compositing, and correction techniques.
Learning Mode: Learn at ALC or at Home
Detailed Course Curriculum
Hands-on module breakdown aligned with MKCL production standards and industry requirements.
Identification and mastery of layers, masks, and filters
Overview of software offering these advanced features (e.g., Adobe Photoshop)
Concepts of layers, blending modes, and stacking order
Practical exercises on non-destructive editing with layers
Various masking techniques, including layer masks and clipping masks, for precise editing control
Exploring the flexibility of non-destructive editing
Creating complex compositions using masks
Organizing layers and masks to create cohesive digital montages and composites
Application and comparison of artistic filters for achieving creative balance in images
Advantages of working with RAW files for extended flexibility in post-processing
Differentiating between various portrait retouching techniques for natural-looking results
Strategies for handling diverse projects and summarizing approaches for a versatile portfolio
Arranging an efficient editing workflow, addressing common editing challenges, and adopting best practices for speed and efficiency
Eligibility Criteria
• Basic knowledge of computers and keen desire to build skills in this field.
• Open to students, job seekers, and working professionals.
Official Certification
• Official MKCL KLiC Certificate upon successful completion of the course and evaluations.
Work-Centric Learning Approach
• Step 1: Learners are given an overview of the course and its connection to life and work
• Step 2: Learners are exposed to the specific tool(s) used in the course through the various real-life applications of the tool(s).
• Step 3: Learners are acquainted with the careers and the hierarchy of roles they can perform at workplaces after attaining increasing levels of mastery over the tool(s).
• Step 4: Learners are acquainted with the architecture of the tool or tool map so as to appreciate various parts of the tool, their functions, utility and inter-relations.
• Step 5: Learners are exposed to simple application development methodology by using the tool at the beginner’s level.
• Step 6: Learners perform the differential skills related to the use of the tool to improve the given ready-made industry-standard outputs.
• Step 7: Learners are engaged in appreciation of real-life case studies developed by the experts.
• Step 8: Learners are encouraged to proceed from appreciation to imitation of the experts.
• Step 9: After the imitation experience, they are required to improve the expert’s outputs so that they proceed from mere imitation to emulation.
• Step 10: Emulation is taken a level further from working with differential skills towards the visualization and creation of a complete output according to the requirements provided. (Long Assignments)
• Step 11: Understanding the requirements, communicating one’s own thoughts and presenting are important skills required in facing an interview for securing a work order/job. For instilling these skills, learners are presented with various subject-specific technical as well as HR-oriented questions and encouraged to answer them.
• Step 12: Finally, they develop the integral skills involving optimal methods and best practices to produce useful outputs right from scratch, publish them in their ePortfolio and thereby proceed from emulation to self-expression, from self-expression to self-confidence and from self-confidence to self-reliance and self-esteem!
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Course Overview
Duration:30 hours
Track:Digital Designing
Skill Level:Beginner
Language:English
Mode:Learn at ALC or at Home
Certificate:Official MKCL
Key Course Highlights:
Interpret and recognize advanced photo editing tools like layers, masks, and filters.
Illustrate the effective usage of photo editing tools through comprehensive tutorials.
Transform editing capabilities by experimenting with advanced non-destructive techniques.
Defend the importance of practicing and elevating editing skills.
Paraphrase the concept of layers in photo editing and their significance.
Recall techniques for working with multiple layers and understanding blending modes.
Explain the practical uses of layers for organizing and manipulating image elements.
Describe how layer masks enable non-destructive editing and selective adjustments.
Differentiate various masking techniques, including manual and gradient masking.
Distinguish the control masks offer for precise editing and creativity.
Support the achievement of unified and visually appealing results through colour harmonization.