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This one day course can be booked in
Bristol only according to our course schedule,
or alternatively you can
book a
trainer to visit you.
Contact us for more details!
Adobe Photoshop CS
Beginners Level
Photoshop is the industry standard
photographic-editing software. At its most basic
it is used for resizing, converting and reformatting
photographic images. But its real strength lies in
creating powerful visual
enhancements
and special photographic effects.
Useful to you if:
You
need to open, amend or correct any photographic
images at a basic level, or if you need to enhance
photographic images at a basic level and on a
regular basis.
Before the course, you:
Should
be able to navigate your desktop/system and be
familiar with basic universal functions such as
“Save”, “Quit” etc.;
Need
no prior experience of Photoshop.
At the end of the day’s course you will:
• have produced a house-ad, web gallery and duotone
photograph, and repaired a photograph;
• be comfortable with bitmap and resolution
principles;
• know some essential keyboard shortcuts and
procedures to improve workflow;
Course contents (may vary slightly):
Basics
General preferences
Bitmap vs vector, common file formats
Interpolation, resolution and quality
issues
Import percentages (maximum)
Viewing/opening documents, browsing
Title bar info, new document
specifications
Colour models
Tools and Palettes
Tool bar, variations
Options bar (introduction)
Most commonly used palettes
Palette options
Editing tools vs vector tools
Rulers, guides and grids
Using control
Image
Image sizes (handout)
Image size vs canvas size
Cropping (and resizing), plus manual
Image modes
Basic retouching with clone, heal,
patch tools
Colour adjustment
Basic tonal adjustment/enhancement
Brightness/contrast: when to use
levels (+ auto), shadow/highlight
‘Quality’ adjustment
Dust and scratches, reduce noise
Blur, gaussian blur
Sharpen/unsharpen, and size issues
Transformation
Flipping, scaling, rotating,
distorting, perspective
Control options
Free transform, straighten or tilt
Brushes
Brush options and parameters
Brush size and hardness
Selections
Various tools, tool options
Adding/subtracting
Inversing, feathering, grow, smooth,
expand, similar
Moving, transforming
Show/hide
Pen tool specifics
Shape tools, options
Selecting a path, show/hide,
active/inactive
Saving, clipping
Paths to selections
Layers
Background v layer, creating layers
Preserving data
Re-arranging
Hiding, locking/unlocking
Naming, deleting
Layer opacity
Type
Rasterised vs character, selecting
and editing
Formatting palettes
Fill and stroke
Type on a path
Workflow
Automating contact sheets
Automating batches
Saving the workspace
Navigation, using guides and info
Saving
Save options, file formats for
inDesign, web etc
Paths to Illustrator
Keyboard shortcuts
Project achievements:
House ad/poster
Web gallery
Duotone photograph
Repaired photograph
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fill in the form below, or call us on 0800 019 6882, or email us at
sales@computertrainingsolutions.co.uk
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