Adobe Photoshop Introduction

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.