Adobe Photoshop CS5 & CS6 - Complete Training Programme

Add an impressive new life skill to your repertoire by becoming a confident beginner-to- intermediate user of Photoshop and discovering all that’s new with the software.

• In Getting Started with Photoshop CS5 or CS6, take an hour to get a good grounding of the basics when it comes to composing an image, using the Mask panel and more.
• Move on to Exploring the Workspace, where you’ll learn to master the tools panel, navigate the image area, use tabbed windows and screen modes and use, expand and customise panels.
• In Using Adobe Bridge, find out how to use folders, find files, create metadata and keywords, create a web photo gallery, create a PDF contact sheet and how to change the Adobe Bridge view.
• Understanding Photoshop Basics takes you through how to combine images, transform combined images, remove backgrounds and stacking layers, refine edges, add text, save Photoshop files, choose a new colour profile and adjust the image size to save as a PDF.
• In Making the Best Selections, Amadou shows you how to take your skills up a notch by guiding you through how to use the Pen, Lasso and Magic Wand tool and more.
• Painting and Retouching gets you going on this important skill. Be careful who you tell though - you’ll soon have all your friends and families sending you their snaps so you can give them a Hollywood smile, and there’s much more to it than a simple click of a mouse!
• In Creating a Good Image you’ll become an adjusting and sharpening whizz.
• Working With Layers gets you to grips with this important aspect of Photoshop. Learn to build and select layers before adding to your layers of knowledge by finding out about stacking order, visibility, masks, cloning, aligning and applying filters to layers and more.
• Just when you thought you knew all you need to know about layers, move on to Doing More With Layers, where you’ll discover more advanced techniques such as adding tints, gradients, text layers and more.
• In the Using Smart Objects unit, Amadou shows you how to open an image and convert a layer to a Smart Object, place and edit a Smart Object and replace the contents of a Smart Object Layer.
• Add the final flourish to your Photoshop skills by getting filter smart and taking advantage of Smart Filters and Vanishing Point.