Adobe Photoshop Introduction - course outline

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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