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Photoshop

Introduction

 

Basics

  • Basic Photoshop concepts
  • Paint versus Draw
  • Ways of acquiring images
  • Overview of Photoshop tools
  • Document options
  • Background and foreground colours
  • How text works in Photoshop

Selection & Masks

  • Use of layer masks in montage
  • Modifying masks
  • Rectangular and elliptical marquees
  • Using the lasso tool
  • How the magic wand works
  • Defining a feather edge
  • Defining an anti-aliased edge
  • Subtracting and adding
  • Essential keyboard image navigation
  • Moving and exporting a selection
  • Saving and reloading a selection
  • Transforming and editing Tools & Layers
  • Brushes and brush types
  • Erasing and canvas colour
  • How text works in Photoshop
  • The advantages of using layering
  • Transforming and distorting
  • Layer blending modes

Image Preparation & Re-touching

  • Layer masks adjustment layers
  • Advantages of adjustment layers
  • Colour correction techniques
  • Using levels. Levels explained
  • Colorizing greyscale images
  • Achieving subtlety when retouching
  • Removing unwanted detail
  • Correcting a damaged image

Combining Images

  • Creating montages
  • Saving feathered borders
  • The gradient tool and selection
  • Working with multiple layers
  • Overlaying images
  • Ways of combining images
  • Creating layer masks Working With Paths
  • Creating and saving paths
  • Adding and deleting points
  • Converting selection to paths
  • Exporting paths to Quark

Filters As Tools

  • Tips on using filters
  • Blurring and sharpening
  • Synthesising texture
  • Preparing video grabs

Exporting Files

  • Creating common file types
  • Setting transparency
  • Images for print
  • Images for the web
  • Examination of file types
  • Advantages of various formats
  • Converting the image type

Importing Files

  • Overview of scanner types
  • Scan-time resolutions
  • Output resolutions
  • Using scanner controls