Join our Photoshop Course hosted via Zoom

Starting this fall David Braitsch, Charlie Bartolotta, Jeff Hayward, & Billy Callaghan will be co-hosting a series of courses in using Photoshop offered via Zoom at 7PM for our members. This will be offered on the opposite Wednesday nights of our in-person meetings at the Science Museum. 

Exact dates on Wednesday are listed below.

• 9/10/25
• 9/24/25
• 10/8/25
• 10/22/25

• 11/12/25
• 12/10/25
• 1/14/26
• 1/28/26

• 2/11/26
• 2/25/26
• 3/11/26
• 3/25/26

• 4/8/26
• 4/22/26
• 5/13/26
• 5/27/26

SMCC Photoshop Course – Proposed Agenda 

1. Beginning Photoshop  

• Why do so many use Photoshop?
• Purchasing, Installing, and Settings (Very Brief Overview)
• Opening and Saving Files
• Adobe Camera Raw Processing and its Similarity to Lightroom
• Available Resources

2. Navigating the Photoshop Workspace

• Basic Screen Arrangement
• Tabs and Layouts
• Tools Bar
• Windows
• Menus
• Layers
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Color Picker

3. Photoshop Tools and Examples of Workflows

• Adjustment Layers
• Blend Modes and “Blend-if mode”
• Opacity, Flow and Hardness
• Brush Tool and Hardness
• Menus
• Printing Dialog

4. Layers and Masks

• Layer Order and Functioning
• Local vs Global Adjustments
• Clipping
• Smart Objects

5. Making and Using Selections and Selection Tools

6. Tools in Detail (and use with other features)

• Dodging and Burning
• Transforms
• Gradients

7. Tools in Detail

• Brushes - Navigating the Brushes Pallet
• Mixer Brush

8. Tools in Detail

• Clone Tool
• Spot Removal Tool
• Healing Brush

9. Photoshop Actions

• Recording and Editing
• Using Actions

10. Tools in Detail

• Blur Filter
• Sharpening

11. Tools in Detail

• Creative Filters

12. Pen Tool

• Path vs. Shape vs Selection

13. HDR, Image Stacking, Auto Aligning, Panoramas

14. Shapes and Vector Masks