Adobe Photoshop Introduction
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In Newbury
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Type
Course
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Location
Newbury
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Duration
1 Day
At the end of this two day course you will feel confident with getting around Photoshop, creating and editing multi-layer files. Suitable for: This 1 day course is aimed at complete beginners to this powerful photo editing and manipulation tool.
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About this course
No previous experience necessary.
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Teachers and trainers (1)
Lynne Telfer
Training Manager
Lynne has been training since 1987, specialising in IT training since 1990 and is an Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor in FrameMaker. City and Guilds 7407 Teaching in Further Education Level 1 and 2 Certificate in Education BA Hons Educational Practice
Course programme
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.
Adobe Photoshop Introduction