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Provided by: XChange Training UK Adobe Photoshop CS One Day IntroductionPhotoshop |
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Provided by XChange Training UK
Adobe Photoshop CS is the standard image editing application used by the majority of design professionals throughout the world. It offers incredible creative freedom both in terms of manipulating exisiting images, creating wholly new art, and integrating the two. Photoshop CS also supports vector graphics, easy automation, and a wide range of other improved features. If you re serious about working in the creative industries, it s no exaggeration to say that you must know this application.
In this one day beginners course in Adobe Photoshop CS, you will learn the basics of image manipulation and creation with this powerful tool. Learning how to create accurate selections to modfiy with Photoshop s tools will form a key part of the training (including Quick Masks), as will understanding layers, using colour and transparency, and adjusting images to improve their quality/suitability for their intended publication. As Photoshop is such a feature-rich application, other features of the software will be considered according to how appropriate they are to your workflow needs.
By the end of this course you will be able to resize, crop, improve and alter images, create basic artwork and layouts, and use Photoshop to save correctly for your intended medium.
In this one day beginners course in Adobe Photoshop CS, you will learn the basics of image manipulation and creation with this powerful tool. Learning how to create accurate selections to modfiy with Photoshop s tools will form a key part of the training (including Quick Masks), as will understanding layers, using colour and transparency, and adjusting images to improve their quality/suitability for their intended publication. As Photoshop is such a feature-rich application, other features of the software will be considered according to how appropriate they are to your workflow needs.
By the end of this course you will be able to resize, crop, improve and alter images, create basic artwork and layouts, and use Photoshop to save correctly for your intended medium.
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Adobe Photoshop CS One Day Introduction
Getting Started with Photoshop CS
-Workspaces, Palettes, the File Browser
-Tool Palette: explanation of each tool and its options.
-Use of the Navigator palette: how to view the image you are working on easily and quickly.
-Use of the Options Palette: how it changes for each tool selected.
Selections and Erasing
-Use the marquee, lasso, and magic wand tools to select parts of an image in various ways
-Reposition a selection marquee
-Use of the Quick mask mode- how to fine-tune a selection
-Move and duplicate a selection
-Constrain the movement of a selection
-Add to and subtract from selections
-Rotate, scale, and transform a selection
-Crop an image
Levels & Curves
-Improving the black/white balance in images
Layers
-Organise your artwork on layers
-Create a new layer, view and hide layers
-Remove artwork on layers
-Reorder layers & applying modes to layers
-Link layers to affect them simultaneously
-Add text and layer effects to a layer
-Save a copy of the file with the layers flattened
Using Brushes and other drawing/editing tools
-The Paintbrush tool
-Brushes and the Rubber Stamp (clone) tool
-Brushes and their use with other tools
-The rubber stamp tool for duplicating objects
-Transforming an object with the Free Transform tool
Mask
-Using Quick Mask mode to make detailed selections
-Adding and using Layer Masks
Gradients
-Using the Gradient tool
-Gradient Map adjustment layers
Text
-Using the Text Tool
-Setting font, size, Colour, Leading and Tracking
-Applying "Layer Effects" to text
-Rendering a text layer
Image Resizing
-Image size, screen size, resolution, resampling options
Retouching problem images
-Using Masks, Filters, and the Healing Brush to correct problem images
-Remove a colour cast from an image using an adjustment layer
File Types: saving for different types of output
-Save an Adobe Photoshop file in a format that can be used by a page layout program
-Save a file for the Web
-Save a file for repurposing
-Save a PDF
-Workspaces, Palettes, the File Browser
-Tool Palette: explanation of each tool and its options.
-Use of the Navigator palette: how to view the image you are working on easily and quickly.
-Use of the Options Palette: how it changes for each tool selected.
Selections and Erasing
-Use the marquee, lasso, and magic wand tools to select parts of an image in various ways
-Reposition a selection marquee
-Use of the Quick mask mode- how to fine-tune a selection
-Move and duplicate a selection
-Constrain the movement of a selection
-Add to and subtract from selections
-Rotate, scale, and transform a selection
-Crop an image
Levels & Curves
-Improving the black/white balance in images
Layers
-Organise your artwork on layers
-Create a new layer, view and hide layers
-Remove artwork on layers
-Reorder layers & applying modes to layers
-Link layers to affect them simultaneously
-Add text and layer effects to a layer
-Save a copy of the file with the layers flattened
Using Brushes and other drawing/editing tools
-The Paintbrush tool
-Brushes and the Rubber Stamp (clone) tool
-Brushes and their use with other tools
-The rubber stamp tool for duplicating objects
-Transforming an object with the Free Transform tool
Mask
-Using Quick Mask mode to make detailed selections
-Adding and using Layer Masks
Gradients
-Using the Gradient tool
-Gradient Map adjustment layers
Text
-Using the Text Tool
-Setting font, size, Colour, Leading and Tracking
-Applying "Layer Effects" to text
-Rendering a text layer
Image Resizing
-Image size, screen size, resolution, resampling options
Retouching problem images
-Using Masks, Filters, and the Healing Brush to correct problem images
-Remove a colour cast from an image using an adjustment layer
File Types: saving for different types of output
-Save an Adobe Photoshop file in a format that can be used by a page layout program
-Save a file for the Web
-Save a file for repurposing
-Save a PDF
About The Training Provider: XChange Training UK
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