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Photoshop training course – Intro

 

 

The aim of this 2 day intro Photoshop training course is to create a basic framework for understanding digital images and to set a sound foundation on which delegates can continue to develop and enhance their skills after the course has finished. Initially the emphasis is on providing a range of functional, everyday Photoshop techniques for quickly processing and improving images and then moves on to exploring and mastering more creative image editing techniques.

 

Objectives

To gain confidence and familiarity with the Photoshop working environment. To understand file formats and some of the advantages/disadvantages that each has to offer. To understand resolution and how to adjust resolution (resample images) to meet output requirements and how to optimise images for web/screen. To understand the significance of histograms and to use Adjustment Layers to control the overall contrast and brightness in an image. To introduce a wide range of Photoshop tools and techniques for creating and modifying selections. To create and control layers to provide flexibility and creative possibilities. To use a variety of techniques for creating and manipulating type. To work with a variety of functional and creative filters.

 

Photoshop intro – Day 1

 

Setting Up

• Restore palette positions • Reset tool settings • Default colors

 

The Photoshop Working Environment

• The Toolbox, tool shortcuts • Options bar • Sizes Bar – Document Sizes / Scratch Sizes • Units and Rulers • Zooming and Navigation techniques • Basic palette techniques • RGB / CMYK Colour Models • Image Modes – Bitmap, Grayscale, RGB Colour, CMYK Colour

 

File Formats

• Save as dialog box • JPEG compression settings • Photoshop (PSD) file format • TIFF / TIFF compression settings • EPS  • PNG

 

Optimising Web Images

• Save for Web dialog box • GIF, JPEG, PNG formats • Compression and Preview Settings

 

More Basics

• Save for Web dialog box • GIF, JPEG, PNG formats • Compression and Preview Settings

 

Undoing Mistakes

• Edit > Undo • File > Revert • History panel • Clear and Purge history states • Snapshots

 

Basic Colour Correction Techniques

• Adjusting Contrast and Brightness • Using Auto Levels/Auto Color/Auto Tone • Levels dialog box • Understanding Histograms • Creating and editing Adjustment Layers • Color Balance dialog box • Understanding Sharpening • Sharpen Filters

 

Selecting Colours

• Adjusting Contrast and Brightness • Using Auto Levels/Auto Color/Auto Tone • Levels dialog box • Understanding Histograms • Creating and editing Adjustment Layers • Color Balance dialog box • Understanding Sharpening • Sharpen Filters

 

Making Selections – an Introduction

• Rectangular and Elliptical Marquee techniques • Transform selections • Lasso, Polygon Lasso, Magnetic Lasso tools • Anti-aliased selections • Magic Wand tool / tolerance settings • Grow, Similar and Contiguous options • Feathering a selection • Moving a selection • Copying & Pasting selections • Inverse selections

 

Photoshop intro – Day 2

 

More Selection Techniques

• Rectangular and Elliptical Marquee techniques • Transform selections • Lasso, Polygon Lasso, Magnetic Lasso tools • Anti-aliased selections • Magic Wand tool / tolerance settings • Grow, Similar and Contiguous options • Feathering a selection • Moving a selection • Copying & Pasting selections • Inverse selections

 

Removing Unwanted Detail

• Clone Stamp tool • Healing Brush tool • Patch tool • Spot Healing Brush tool • Dust and Scratches filter

 

Painting and Editing

• Brush tool / Brush presets • Changing Brush size • Hard and Soft edged brushes • Custom Brush settings • Eraser tool / Eraser modes • Paint Bucket tool

 

Layers

• Creating and Selecting Layers • Hiding / Showing / Moving / Restacking Layers • Copying layers to other documents • Move tool • Deleting / Linking Duplicating / Layers • Merge Down / Merge Linked / Merge Visible • Flatten Layer Options • Working with Layer Effects • Free Transform / Numeric Transform • Layer Opacity

 

Type

• Creating Type Layers • Type Options bar • Type palettes • Anti-aliasing options for type • Editable Type Layers and Rendering Type • Recolouring Type • Creating Shadow Type

 

Filters

• Sharpen, Sharpen More, Sharpen Edges and Unsharp Mask filters • Blur filters • Distort > Twirl • Add Noise • Render > Clouds • Texture > Texturizer

 

 

 

 

 

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