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Photoshop Training

Posted by admin - 04/09/09 at 11:09 pm

A popular high-end image editor for the Macintosh and Windows from Adobe. The original Mac versions were the first to bring affordable image editing down to the personal computer level in the late 1980s. Since then, Photoshop has become the de facto standard in image editing. Although it contains a large variety of image editing features, one of Photoshop’s most powerful capabilities is layers, which allows images to be rearranged under and over each other for placement. Photoshop is designed to read from and convert to a raft of graphics formats, but uses its own native format for layers.

Basics

  • Overview of the Photoshop CS3 interface
  • Bitmaps and vectors explained
  • Image modes
  • Image size and resolution
  • Image colors concepts

Basic Tools and Colors

  • Overview of the Photoshop toolset
  • Brushes and brush types
  • Adjusting brushes
  • Choosing colors by eye
  • Numerical color
  • Pantone color
  • Do’s and don’ts of choosing colors
  • The background image
  • Erasing and canvas color

Selection

  • Essential image navigation shortcuts
  • The marquee tools
  • Adding and subtracting selections
  • Automatic selection using the wand tool
  • Automatic selection using the quick selection brush
  • Manual cut-out techniques
  • Transforming a selection
  • Understanding selection edges
  • Refining selection edges
  • Saving and reloading a selection

Layer Masks

  • Introduction to the power of layer masks
  • Creating a layer mask from a selection
  • Modifying a layer mask using the paintbrush tool
  • Tricks for modifying mask edges for cut-out
  • The gradient tool and masks

Layers – Combining Images

  • Layer blending modes
  • Layer opacity
  • Transforming and distorting layers
  • Working with multiple layers
  • Creating montages

Image Adjustments

  • Destructive verses non-destructive techniques
  • Using adjustment layers
  • Levels explained
  • Color balance and color balance considerations
  • Hue and saturation
  • Selective adjustments using masks

Filters

  • An overview of filters and their uses
  • Pixel (100%) view and what it means
  • Image sharpening in detail
  • Image blurring
  • Selective filtering

Layer Effects

  • Overview of layer effects
  • Applying drop shadow
  • Applying other layer effects

Steps to Prepare and Image for End Use

  • Opening an image using Adobe Bridge
  • Scan resolution and dpi explained in depth
  • Reference to color bit depth
  • Cropping and sizing (the quick way)
  • Image adjustments using levels, color balance and hue/saturation
  • Further correction to images using Shadow/highlight
  • Re-touching using the clone tool
  • Re-touching using the healing tool
  • The new Clone Source Palette

File Formats

  • Considerations when choosing a file format C
  • Common file formats explained
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