Adobe Photoshop Introduction

Adobe Photoshop Introduction

Cost: £495 per delegate
Duration: 2 days

Adobe Photoshop is the industry standard software for editing digital images. Widely used across print, internet and multimedia industries, this course will benefit anyone needing a good grounding from which to develop highly effective Photoshop skills. The course content will enable delegates to scan and import images into the program, use commands for editing and exporting these files, and learn techniques for creating original artwork.

Retouch and balance digital photographs
Cut-out images from complex backgrounds
Produce multi-layered creative compositions
Apply shapes, text and effects to your artwork
Save your files for both web and print

Course Outline

Day 1
Example
AM

The Photoshop interface
Organizing palettes and document views
Using navigation tools/ navigator palette
Using the history palette

Pixels and paint programs
Image resolution, dimensions and file size
Image colour modes
Understanding file formats

Cropping and rotating artwork
Changing image resolution and artwork size
Making colour mode conversions
Saving and exporting files for web and print

PM

Correcting an image
Auto contrast, levels and colour commands
Understanding the image histogram
Balancing tonal levels
Colour balance and variations
Image retouching tools

Defining selections
Lasso, magic wand and marquee tools
Selecting by colour range
Feathering selections
Modifying and transforming a selection
Saving and loading selections

Day 2

AM

Painting and drawing
Mixing and applying paint and fill colours
Print and web safe colours
Airbrush, pencil and paintbrush tools
Creating gradients

Drawing shapes
Creating vector shape layers
Polygon, line and custom shape tools
Applying and editing type
Text distortions

Working with layers
Creating transparency using erasers
Layers palette
Building a multi-layered document
Moving, scaling and rotating layer

PM

Drop shadows, glows and embossed effects
Using the layer styles palette
Linking layers and aligning layers
Locking and protecting layers
Creating layers for pattern and fill effects

Type layers
Rasterising shape and text layers
Saving and flattening layered documents
Layer Sets
Lock and protect options for layers

Special effects
Using Photoshop filters
Fading the effects of filters
Liquify command

Printing /optimizing documents
Printing from Photoshop
Save for web command
Creating transparent gif files