Photoshop Introductory Level

Photoshop Introductory Level

Course Description

An introduction to the basics of digital imaging, painting, collage, image manipulation, building creative and technical skills.

Photoshop is the industry leading graphics package, made by Adobe. It is invaluable for print and web work and has excellent pixel-editing and image adjustment tools, effects filters, text editing and layer options. Photoshop has an amazing array of features but it is not difficult to learn the basics and begin to produce professional looking artwork.

If the aims or topics you require are not listed in this description, please contact Christina to see if the training can be adapted to include them.

Course Topics

Day One:

Painting and Basics:

• Photoshop interface - palettes and tools
• Choosing paint colours, brushes and settings.

Resizing Images:

• Understanding resolution and pixels
• Increasing canvas size
• Cropping images.

Selections:

• Selecting areas of an image
• Softening selection edges
• Editing and saving selections
• Moving and duplicating pixels
• Filling and drawing edges around selections.

Day Two

Layers:

• Building a composite image with layers
• Applying effects to layers
• Deleting and merging layers.

Text:

• Adding and editing text layers
• Choosing styles for text
• Converting text layers to pixels.

Image Adjustments:

• Changing the hue of images
• Improving contrast and adjusting tonal ranges
• Replacing colours.

Transformations:

• Rotating, resizing and distorting parts of an image.