The course covers all the required skills that you need to know to work successfully with Photoshop

Topics Covered

• Essentials o The Photoshop Screen o Getting to know the Tools & Palettes o Using guides, grids and rulers o Navigation and Zoom shortcuts • Selections o Why use Selections? o Creating selections using Marquee tools o The Lasso tools o The Magic Wand and Quick Selection tools o Adding or Deleting from selections o Saving and Loading selections o Controlling Tonal Values o Creating Toned and Tinted Images o Selecting by colour range o Feathering selections o Quick Mask mode • Correcting an Image o Using the Histogram palette o Fixing colour with variations o Using Levels and Curves to fix tone & contrast o Colour balance and variations o Hue and saturation controls o The Vibrance command • Re-Touching Techniques o Custom colours o Dodge and burn tools o Crop and rotate artwork o Sharpen and Blur filters o Focus tools o The Clone & Heal tools o The Healing Brush tools o The Colour Replace tool o Red eye reduction o Digital darkroom techniques o Creating and editing gradients • Filters, Painting and Drawing o Using Filters and Plug-ins o Using the Unsharp Mask o Cloning Images o Using the Burn/Dodge/Sponge Tool o Mixing and applying paint and fill colours o Print and web safe colours o Using the Airbrush, Pencil, Paintbrush and Eyedropper tools o Using the Paint Bucket tool o Drawing shapes o Creating vector shape layers o Polygon, line and custom shape tools o The add, subtract, intersect commands o Editing vector shapes using the pen tools o Adding colour fills, gradients and patterns • Working with Layers o Creating and Viewing multiple Layers o Moving, scaling and rotating layers o Linking & aligning Layers o Merging, Flattening and Saving Layers o Locking and protecting layers o Layer groups o Applying and editing type o Rasterizing shape and text layers o Saving and flattening layered files • Merging layers o Applying transparency o Basic layer blending modes o Text layers o Adjustment layers o Special effects ? Drop shadows, glows and embossing o Layer masks • Working with Text o New Features o Creating a Text Layer o Text Paragraphs o Adding Text Effects o Painting Text o Text anti-aliasing • Special Effects o Using Photoshop filters o Working with the Filter Gallery o Fading the effects of filters • Saving Files o File formats o Choosing the right colour mode o Adjusting resolution and image size o Cropping or enlarging the canvas • Printing and Optimising Documents o Colour modes, resolution & image size o Printing from Photoshop o Printing from other applications o The Save for web command o Creating transparent GIF files

Who should attend

* Young photographers * Animation & Graphic consultants * All those wanting to work with digital images

Pre-requisites

* None

What you need to bring

* Photo-id * Passport-size photograph

Key Takeaways

Learn how to use photoshop Use photoshop to work successfully with digital images