Adobe Photoshop Advanced

Course contents (may vary slightly):
Fundamentals recap
Title bar window spec.s
Colour wheel, colour channels
Histograms, modes, colour management
CMYK-RGB conversion: issues
System requirements, scratch disks
Palette management
 
Tools and Palettes
Options, browsing
Vector tools
 
Paths and selections
Cutouts, considerations, paths to selections
Multiple path export, channel - path - export
Selections: modifying, transforming, colour range, variations
Alpha channel selections and combinations
Bump maps, masks, calculations
Perspective straightening
 
Colour conversion
Colour mode conversion, gamut warnings (view)
Colour sampler; info palette
Adding to swatches
Specials; procedure for 5th colours
 
Layers
Layer effects, layer modes, layer styles
Changing order
Masking adjustments
 
Adjustments
Levels, curves, adjustment layers
Shadow/highlight, histogram
Correcting colour casts; variations (parameters)
Spot colours, duotone specifics, EPS and DCS
Info palette, colour sampler
 
Restorative work
Blur/gaussian blur (web + focal considerations)
Noise: dust and scratches, sharpen/unsharp mask
Channel separations
High pass, blending options
 
Simple effects
Photographic edges, neon type, photo-montage
Layer modes, styles
Realistic reflections, shadows
Plug-ins, filters
Posterisation, solarisation, Inverting
Brush effects, history brush
3d, filters, plug-ins
Distortion warps
 
Resolution
Print requirements vs web requirements, JPG standards, PNGs etc
Pixel dimensions
Canvas size, crop tool specifics
 
Workflow
Quick colour selection
Drag-dropping multiple layer, folders and layers, position on paste
Best formats, optimising for web: 1-4 up, droplets
Actions: recording, saving, setting up batch process
 
Saving
Save options, file formats for inDesign, web etc
Placing in Illustrator
Archiving, printing
Keyboard shortcuts
 
Project achievements:
Complex layered files
Special typographic effects
Photo-montage