Who should attend: This 2 day course is aimed at complete beginners
to this powerful software.
Pre-requisities: No previous
experience necessary.
Course Objectives: At the end of this two
day course you will feel confident with getting around Photoshop, creating
and editing multi-layer files.
Course Content: The Photoshop
Environment: What does Photoshop do? Introducing pixels and selections.
The navigator window: getting around in an image, zoom shortcuts. Using
the history palette. Multiple undo and snapshots.
Image Basics: Resolution
and file size. Different image formats and their uses. Colour types.
Selection
Basics: The different selection tools. The magic wand and tolerance
settings. Inverting selections. Feathering selections. Anti-aliasing.
Expanding and contracting selections, transforming selections, adding to
and subtracting from selections.
Adjusting Images: Working with
Levels and Curves. Hue and saturation. The info palette.
Layers: Creating
new layers and duplicate layers. Importing layers from other images.
Giving layers transparency. Linking and merging layers
Channels: Adjusting
individual channels. Saving and loading selections.
Saving Files:
Adjusting image size. Changing colour type. Flattening layers. Cropping
images.
The Painting Tools: Brush selection and adjustment.
Colour selection. Creating new brushes. Using patterns. The other painting
tools. The healing and clone stamp tools
Masks: Quick masks.
Layer masks. The graduated fill tool. Editing gradient properties
The
Pen Tool: Creating and editing paths. Generating clipping paths.
More
About Layers: Adding layer effects. Creating and using layer sets.
Clipping groups and their uses. Changing the hierarchy of layers.
Working
with Type: Editing type. Colouring type. Distorting type Rasterizing
type layers.
