Adobe Photoshop Introduction

Adobe Photoshop Introduction

Structure:
PC for every delegate.
All pass training courses involve extensive hands-on activity including exercises that give participants practical experience of using the Internet's tools. Delegate numbers are restricted to 8, to ensure personal attention from the trainer.
Photoshop Basics

• Basic procedure
  The Toolbox
  
  
• What the Tools do
  Photoshop 5.0's Toolbox:
  
  
• Keyboard Shortcuts
  
  
• Toolbox groups; Toolbox flyouts
  
  
• Toolbox "tooltips"
  The Options palette
  
  
• Opening the palette
  Selecting Colours
  Keyboard Shortcuts
  Photoshop Preferences
  
  
• General preferences and Resetting preferences
  
  
• Saving files
  
  
• Transparency and gamut; Units and rulers
  
  
• Plug-ins and scratch disks; Guides and grids
  
  
• Memory and memory cache; Physical memory usage
  Painting Tools
  
  
• Airbrush & Paintbrush
  
  
• Pencil & Line tool
  
  
• History Brush & Rubber Stamp tool
  
  
• The Rubber Stamp tool in action
  Working Views in Photoshop
  
  
• Monitor colour depth & resolution
  
  
• The Navigator palette
  
  
• The Zoom tool and the Hand tool
  Making selections
  
  
• Magic Wand tool
  
  
• Modifying selections
  
  
• Quick Mask mode; Quick Mask options
  
  
• Useful conversions
  Layers
  Layer tips
  
  
• Copying and duplicating a layer
  
  
• Changing the layer palette thumbnail size
  Layer modes
  
  
• Merge modes and Opacity
  Bipmap file formats
  
  
• File compression
  
  
• Photoshop.PSD; Adobe Illustrator (A1 or EPS)
  
  
• Amiga IFF; Windows BMP
  
  
• CompuServe GIF; EPS
  
  
• Filmstrip FLM; JPEG (JPG)
  
  
• Kodak PhotoCD (PCD); MacPaint
  
  
• PCX; PICT; PIXAR; PixelPaint
  
  
• RAW; Scitex CT; Targa TIFF
  Summary