Track
Digital Designing
Duration
90 hours
Skill Level
Intermediate
Language
English
About this Course
Enhance and retouch images professionally with precision and creative flair.
Learning Mode: Learn at ALC or at Home
Detailed Course Curriculum
Hands-on module breakdown aligned with MKCL production standards and industry requirements.
- Principles of Photography
- Camera Basics
- Exposure Triangle
- Composition and Framing
- Lighting and color in Photography
- Focus and Depth of Field
- Creative Techniques
- Photography Styles and Genres
- Building Your Photography Portfolio
- Photography Business and Career
- A guide to mobile photography
- Case Study: Importing image files from various devices to computer
- Understanding the Basics of Photo Editing
- Introduction to Popular Photo Editing Tools
- Setting Up Your Editing Workspace
- Importing and Organizing Your Photos
- Foundations in Image Editing Mastery
- Digital Artistry Essentials
- The Working Place
- Efficient File Organization and Management
- Image and Color Modifications
- Introduction to selection, drawing, text, and advanced tools
- Using the Brush and Paint
- Working with Selections
- Using Scaling and Transform Tools
- Using Content-Aware Scale
- Utilizing Layers
- Getting Creative with Types
- Applying Masks
- Exploring Filter Gallery
- Playing With Palettes
- Applying Color Adjustments
- Automating
- Settings and General Preferences
- Digital Asset Management Primer
- Case Study - Photo Background Remover
- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
- Prisma
- Afterlight
- Fotor
- ProCam X
- Mextures
- Touch Retouch
- A Color Story
- Polar, Darkroom
- Camera+ 2
- Enlight
- Adobe Spark Post
- Prizmo
- Snapseed
- Basic Photo Adjustments (Exposure, Contrast, Color)
- Cropping and Composition Techniques
- Case Study - Food Photography Enhancement
- Correcting Exposure Issues
- Underexposure, Overexposure
- Underexposure, Overexposure
- Case Study - Wildlife Photo Post-Processing
- Identification and mastery of layers, masks, and filters
- Overview of software offering these advanced features
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Photoshop
- Concepts of layers, blending modes, and stacking order
- Practical exercises on non-destructive editing with layers
- Various masking techniques
- Layer masks, clipping masks
- Layer masks, clipping masks
- Exploring flexibility
- Creating complex compositions
- Creating complex compositions
- Organizing layers and masks
- Application and comparison of artistic filters
- Advantages of RAW
- Professional Portrait Retouching
- Natural-looking techniques
- Natural-looking techniques
- Strategies for diverse projects
- Summarizing approaches
- Summarizing approaches
- Efficient editing workflow
- Best practices for speed
- Best practices for speed
- What are Raw Files?
- Benefits of Shooting in Raw
- Differences Between Raw and JPEG
- Raw Compatibility with Cameras
- Importing Raw Files
- Navigating the Interface
- Navigating the Interface
- Making Basic Adjustments
- Exposure, White Balance
- Exposure, White Balance
- Saving Raw Settings
- Tools for RAW Import
- Understanding Dynamic Range
- Expanding Dynamic Range
- Recovering Highlights, Shadows
- Recovering Highlights, Shadows
- HDR Techniques
- Advanced Exposure Adjustments
- Working with Local Adjustments
- Graduated & Radial Filters
- Graduated & Radial Filters
- Fine-Tuning Color Adjustments
- High-ISO Noise Reduction
- Streamlining Workflow
- Creating and Applying Presets
- Using Actions and Scripts
- Batch Exporting
- Case Study - Architectural Enhancement
- Landscape Photography Editing
- Color and Contrast Enhancements
- Color and Contrast Enhancements
- Sky Enhancements
- Sky Enhancements
- Filters and Gradient Masks
- Filters and Gradient Masks
- Focus Stacking
- Focus Stacking
- Case Study - HDR Landscape Editing
- Case Study - HDR Landscape Editing
- Portrait Photography Editing
- Skin Retouching and Portrait Enhancements
- Skin Retouching and Portrait Enhancements
- Eye and Teeth Enhancements
- Eye and Teeth Enhancements
- Portrait Background Editing
- Portrait Background Editing
- Softening and Vignetting Techniques
- Softening and Vignetting Techniques
- Product Photography Editing
- Cleaning Product Images: Removing Imperfections
- Cleaning Product Images: Removing Imperfections
- Enhancing Product Details and Textures
- Enhancing Product Details and Textures
- Color Correction for Product Consistency
- Color Correction for Product Consistency
- Creating Transparent Backgrounds (Clipping Paths)
- Creating Transparent Backgrounds (Clipping Paths)
- Case Study - Product Photography Enhancement
- Case Study - Product Photography Enhancement
- Event Photography Editing
- Culling and Selecting Event Photos
- Culling and Selecting Event Photos
- Batch Processing for Event Photos
- Batch Processing for Event Photos
- Correcting Group Shots (Face Swaps, Closed Eyes)
- Correcting Group Shots (Face Swaps, Closed Eyes)
- Adding Text and Watermarks for Events
- Adding Text and Watermarks for Events
- Case Study - Event Photography Editing
- Case Study - Event Photography Editing
- Astrophotography Editing
- Reducing Light Pollution and Enhancing Stars
- Reducing Light Pollution and Enhancing Stars
- Tracking and Stacking for Deep Sky Objects
- Tracking and Stacking for Deep Sky Objects
- Handling Long Exposure Noise
- Handling Long Exposure Noise
- Creating Stunning Milky Way Photos
- Creating Stunning Milky Way Photos
- Creating HDR Images
- Understanding High Dynamic Range (HDR)
- Understanding High Dynamic Range (HDR)
- Capturing Bracketed Exposures
- Capturing Bracketed Exposures
- Merging and Tone Mapping HDR Images
- Merging and Tone Mapping HDR Images
- Creative HDR Editing Techniques
- Creative HDR Editing Techniques
- Photo Editing for Web
- Case Study - Website Layout
- Creating web-ready images by applying various effects
- Creating web-ready images by applying various effects
- Learning about a tool and creating a web layout
- Learning about a tool and creating a web layout
- Learning to automate and mask an image
- Learning to automate and mask an image
Eligibility Criteria
• Basic knowledge of computers and keen desire to build skills in this field.
• Open to students, job seekers, and working professionals.
• 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!
• 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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