Adobe Photoshop Cs3 Level 1

The industry-standard for working with digital images.
Our Adobe certified trainers will: Cover all major photoshop features providing an easy learning curve to master the world´s leading image-editing program. Affordable, practical, well-paced and taught by professionals, for professionals, we will show you how to perfect your images, create image compositions, increase your productivity, work nondestructively with channels and layers while creatively preparing for print and web publishing.

COURSE OUTLINE

Essential Concepts

Professional Workflows

Optimising Palettes

Productivity Secrets

Optimum Preferences

Essential keyboard shortcuts
Colour Characteristics

The Colour and Swatches Palette

Colour Profiling

Subtractive/Additive Colour

Applying Fills, Strokes and Gradients

Using the channels palette




Making Selections

Magic wand, marquee and Lasso tools

Compositing

Modifying and transforming selections

Feathering and Quick Masking

Loading and Saving Selections


Vectors & Paths

Real World Vectors

Paths for creativity

Vector masks

Drawing & Editing with paths


The layers palette

Creating Layered composites

Grouping layers

Layer Options

Transforming Layers

Layer Effects

Managing Layers


Correcting Images

The evils of Brightness and Contrast

Advancements and new techniques

Changing Hue and Saturation

Adjusting Color Balance

Using the Histogram


Brushes

The most powerful tool

Brush tool presets and shortcuts

Adjusting size, shape and opacity

Brushes for retouching & healing

Brushes for masking


Type & text effects

Broadcast quality type

Using type layers

Adding text effects

Type warp

Converting text to pixels.


Editing Image Attributes

Modifying Canvas & Image size

Cropping, Rotating and Transforming

Adjusting Resolution

Skewing, Flipping and perspective

Image Adjust Commands

Preparing for print or web