Photoshop

Aims and Objectives
To learn how to use Photoshop to create and edit images.
The flexibility and value of self-study course designed to enable you to work at your own pace.
A personalised workbook to use as a reference guide on completion of the course.
The opportunity to gain the widely recognised Pitman Training Certificate.

Target Audiences
Those who wish to learn how to use this popular image editing application to create images for use in print and on the web.

Prerequisites
Knowledge of a least one Windows-based application.

Course Content
Lesson 1: Launching Photoshop; opening a file; the toolbox; saving into the Photoshop format; navigating in Photoshop; using the navigator palette.

Lesson 2: Image resolutions; image sizes; resizing an image; cropping an image.

Lesson 3: The rectangle and Elliptical Marquee Tools; Constraining shapes; the lasso; polygon and magnetic lasso tools; saving a selection; the magic want tool; subtracting from a selection.

Lesson 4: Resizing; rotating and moving a selection; the erase tool; the history palette; copying a selection; feathering edges.

Lesson 5: Greyscale and bitmap images; creating a duotone image; colour modes.

Lesson 6: The colour palette; the colour picker; the eyedropper; the line tool; the fill command; the paintbrush tool; the clone stamp tool; the gradient tool.

Lesson 7: Creating layers; adding text to a layer; hiding and moving layers; copying a layer; scaling a layer; adding effects to layers; merging layers.

Lesson 8: Sharpening an image; rippling an image; other distortion effects; adding a lens flare; adding a texture; other filter effects.

Lesson 9: Brightening and darkening an image; removing dust and scratches; adjusting an image's overall tones; changing the hue and saturation.

Lesson 10: Saving into a TIFF file format; saving an image for the web.