Photoshop Intermediate

Photoshop Intermediate

Requirements:
All attendees must be proficient in either the Macintosh or Windows environments. The course expects all attendees to be familiar with the component features used and covered in the introductory course before progressing onto this level.
Colour Tones, and Filters: Choose the correct resolution for a scanned photograph. Crop an image to final size. Adjust the tonal range of an image. Remove a colour cast from an image using an adjustment layer. Use the Replace Colour command to change the hue and saturation of a selected colour in a photograph. Adjust the saturation and brightness of isolated areas of an image using the sponge and dodge tools. Use the rubber stamp tool to eliminate an unwanted object from an image. Replace parts of an image with another image. Apply the Unsharp Mask filter to finish the photo-retouching process. Save an Adobe Photoshop file in a format that can be used by a page layout program.
Paths, Channels and The History palette: Using the pen tool to create paths. Anchor points, direction lines, and direction points Drawing straight-line paths Drawing curved paths Tips for drawing curves. Alpha channels to store masks. Create save and apply masks. View, delete, duplicate and mixing channels. Quick Mask. The History palette.
Filters and available add-ins: Artistic filters. Blur filters. Brush Stroke filters. Distort filters. Noise filters. Pixelate filters Render filters Sharpen filters. Sketch filters. Stylise filters. Texture filters other filters. Digimarc Filters. Using the Lighting Effects filter.
Action, Automate: Create a ne- action set. Record an action. Stop and playback actions. Replay an action on a batch of images. Duplicate and delete actions. Create a contact sheet. Create a web gallery. Gallery thumbnails. Html and Jpeg files format.
Image Ready: Image size. Jpeg optimisation, Gif optimisation, Png optimisation, Save files in Image Ready. Save an optimised file in Image Ready as Html, Slicing images. Optimising individual slices. Create a Rollover, Gif animation, Previe- and Play an animated Gif.