Introduction to Adobe Photoshop:
This course will provide all the basic skills, tools and techniques for working with images and enhancing their output using Photoshop.
Course Outline
Introduction to Adobe Photoshop 1 Day
Who is it for?
Anyone involved in producing high quality images. No prior knowledge of using Photoshop is necessary.
- PhotoShop's environment
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- Raster and Vector Graphics
- PhotoShop Environment Elements
- Saving Images in PhotoShop Format
- Navigating in PhotoShop
- Sizing images
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- Image Size and Resolution
- Cropping
- Selecting image areas
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- The Lasso Tool
- Deselecting Areas
- Crosshair Pointers
- The Polygonal Lasso Tool
- The Rectangular and Elliptical
- Marquee tools
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- The Magic Wand Tool
- The Magnetic Lasso Tool
- Adding to and Subtracting from
- Selections
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- Saving Selections
- Manipulating selections
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- Transforming Selections
- Correcting Mistakes
- Moving Selections
- Hiding Edges
- Floating Versus Fixed Selections
- Copying Selections
- Feathering Edges
- Image modes
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- Mode Characteristics
- Greyscale and Bitmap Modes
- Color Modes
- Selecting colours
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- The Color Palette
- The Color Picker
- The Info Palette
- The Eyedropper Tool
- Painting in colour
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- The Line Tool
- The Paintbrush Tool
- The Pencil Tool
- The Rubber Stamp Tool
- Painting Selection Masks
- Layers
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- Creating Layers
- Manipulating Layers
- Copying Layers between Images
- Painting with Layers
- Adjusting images
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- Brightness/Contrast
- Levels Adjustment Layers
- Toning Tools
- Hue/Saturation
- Saving completed images
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- Flattening Images
- Saving a Copy