Adobe Photoshop

Introduction to PhotoShop 

Course Content

Introduction

Background

Adobe PhotoShop System Requirements

Calibrating PhotoShop for your Computer

Painting & Editing in PhotoShop

Opening files in PhotoShop

Working with the palettes

Viewing, selecting and creating layers

Choosing and changing foreground colours

Sampling colours using the eyedropper tool

Painting with the pencil, paintbrush & airbrush

Eraser tool

Undo command

Revert command

Using the brushes/options palettes

Using the picker/swatches/scratch palettes

Blending colours with the smudge tool

Change the painting and editing modes

Saving files

Working with Selections

Loading a selection

Making selections with the marquee tool

Cropping

Cut, copy and Paste

Selecting with the magic wand tool

Zooming in and out with the magnify tool

Moving around

Moving selections with the move tool

Adding to and subtracting from selections

Saving selections

Copying and pasting selections

Duplicating areas with the rubber stamp tool

Filling a selection with a colour and pattern

Cropping an image

Filling a selection with a gradient

Merging Layers

Adding text with the type tool

Paths, Masks and Channels

Creating a new PhotoShop file

Drawing paths using the pen tool

Colour range selections

Using the Quick Mask mode

Saving, naming and viewing a channel

Posterising an image

Stroking a path

Using layer modes

Manipulating Selections and Layers

Scaling a selection

Changing a selection's hue and saturation

Applying filters to selections

Stroking a selection

Increasing the canvas size of an image

Making selections using the pen tool

Defringing a selection

Adjusting a selection's brightness/contrast

Flipping a selection

Reducing the size of an image

Painting with a pattern

Understanding Colour

Measuring colour in a number of models

Displaying images with different palettes

Correcting the colour of an image using the variations command

Using a Histogram to measure tonal ranges

Adjusting colour levels in an image

Adjusting curves in an image

Using the Infor palette to preview colour changes

Colour–correcting a selection

Using the toning and focus tools

Sharpening detail in an image

Colour-correcting an individual channel

Scanning, Resolution and Resizing

Estimating the best scan resolution

How file Size affects image resolution

Re-sizing an image with & without resampling

Cropping an image proportionately

Combining images of different resolutions

Converting Images

Converting an RGB image to L*a*b & CMYK

Indexed colour and greyscale mode

Converting images to multichannel mode

Creating a duotone and tritone

Inverting colours

Converting a greyscale image to bitmapped mode

Producing Colour Separations and Printing

Converting an RGB image to a CMYK image for printing

Viewing & converting out-of-gamut colours

Previewing an image in CMYK

Adjusting colour separation for dot-gain, black generation and trap

Printing a colour composite

Printing a four-colour separation

Printing a selected area of an image

Printing a half tone

Importing and Exporting Files

Opening JPEG files

Saving in EPS format

Exporting to Adobe Illustrator

Creating type that follows a path in Adobe Illustrator

Placing Adobe Illustrator art in a PhotoShop file

Layers, Masks and Groups

Using and creating a library of images

Using the behind mode

Using a layer mask with a blend

Adding and Subtracting from a layer mask

Creating a clipping Group

Drag-copying a path

Summary