Photoshop Introduction Profile
Enhancing and Creating Digital Images
- Course duration
- 1 day
- Course timings
- 9:30-16:30
- Prerequisites
- Delegates should have a working knowledge of Windows and experience with a mouse is essential.
- Training formats
- Private course · tailored · 1 to 1 (all instructor led)
- Manuals
- Detailed information sheets and worksheets provide support throughout the course and upon your return to the office.
- Calendar
- Click here to see the Photoshop courses calendar
Course Topics
The Photoshop Work Area
tool · palettes · menus · navigating around a Photoshop document.
Image size and resolution
cropping, straightening and re-sizing an image · perspective cropping · image size and canvas size.
The Auto Image Adjustments
auto levels · auto contrast · auto color · sharpening and unsharp masking.
Area adjustments
replace color · the dodge, burn and saturate/desaturate tools · selecting areas of an image to adjust:
marquee tools · modifying and feathering selections.
Colour Models, Image Modes and File Types
greyscale, indexed color, RGB, CMYK and LAB colour and modes · Photoshop, TIF, JPEG and GIF file formats
Re-touching Photographs
the clone stamp tool · defining a pattern and using the pattern stamp tool · the healing brush tool ·
the history palette and the history brush · the patch tool · using a separate layer to control retouching.
Introduction to Layers
why use layers? · creating new layers · layer masks · layer blend modes · layer effects and
filters · de-fringing, merging and flattening layers · gradient layers.
Masks
Quick masks · saving a selection as an Alpha channel · editing a channel mask ·
loading a channel as a selection · gradient masks · the extract filter · layer effects.
Pen Tool Techniques
Drawing straight and curved paths · editing paths · painting and filling paths · converting
between paths and selections · saving the clipping path.
