Adobe Photoshop 2 Day

2 Day Course
Adobe Photoshop is the world’s most advanced digital imaging software, used by photographers, artists, designers and illustrators. This is a powerful program that allows you to bring your creative ideas to life. This course gives you an excellent introduction to the program, covering editing photographs, creating, marketing materials for web and print. This is a well attended course taught by an experienced graphic design lecturer.

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Introducing Photoshop

• How Photoshop works with other Adobe applications 

• File format types 

• Additive and subtractive 

• Understanding colour 

• Perceptual colour 

• CMYK preview mode 

Application Basics

• The toolbox and panels 

• The colour picker 

• View modes 

• Keyboard shortcuts 

• Navigation panels 

• Using Adobe Bridge to find, sort and open images 

• Viewing tabs 
  

Working with Layers

• Defining and using adjustment layers 

• Placing guides and using grids 

• Layer styles and layer management 

• Defining and using adjustment layers 

• Placing guides and using grids 

• Layer styles and layer management 

• Converting a selection path to a layer 

• Controlling layer transparency 

• Montages and different mode options 

Selection Techniques

• Creating selection areas 

• Adding to and subtracting from 

• Using quick selection and refinement tool 

• Feathering and anti-aliasing 

• Quick mask 

• Using the magnetic tools 

• The magic eraser tools to make cut outs 
  

Retouching

• Cloning images 

• Content-aware fill 

• Repairing scratches 

• Blurring, sharpening and smudging 

• Cropping 

• Negative to positive, healing tool, shadow and highlight tool, match colour tool, red eye tool and vanishing point filter 
  

Painting tools

• The standard brushes 

• Custom brushes 

• Gradient fills, linear and radial 

• Mixer Brush 

History panel

• Undo actions 

• For effects 

• Using the history brush and the art brushes to create natural media effects 

• RAM and hard disk (scratch disk) issues 
  

Content-Aware Scaling

• Resizing images while retaining the correct proportions for your subjects 
  

Image adjustment

• Using the Adjustments panel for live, non-destructive image adjustment 

• Brightness, contrast, gamma, hue/saturation 

• Colour balance for shadows, highlights and mid-tones 

• Levels and curves 

• The black and white conversion tool 

• Colour correction 

• Sharpening 

Output generally

• Re-sampling and printing 

• Resizing and adjusting resolution to the most appropriate values for printing 

• File formats for export 
  

Type and image

• Using text effects commands 

• Rendering text 

• Text distortion and warping, text on a path 

• Adjusting text 

• Adjusting text appearance 
  

Creating special effects with filters

• Including soften, sharpen and numerous forms of distortion 

• Transforming areas of an image, including rotate, stretch, skew, flip and alter perspective 

• Using the Free Transform function 

Gradients Warping

• Using the interactive image warping window 

• Using Puppet Warp to reposition an image element 

Website Assets

• Optimising for the web using the comparison area to check quality of image output 

• Image Slicing, web panels and choosing the most appropriate file format (GIF, PNG and JPEG), Flash export 

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