This introduction to Photoshop enables delegates to:

• Scan, re-touch, and optimise images for print or the web.
• Work effectively and flexibly with layer masks in the production of montage and image manipulation.
• Use filters and layer effects both as tools and effects.
• Export from Photoshop using the most appropriate file format for the job in hand.

Course Content

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

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