Adobe Photoshop CS Two 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 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
-Blending modes

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
-The Art Histroy brush for paint-type effects

Mask & Channels
-Using Quick Mask mode to make detailed selections
-Making subtle changes to colour balance with the Channel Mixer
-Adding and using Layer Masks

Gradients
-Using the Gradient tool
-Gradient Map adjustment layers

Text and Vector Features
-Creating Vector Masks: what are they?
-Drawing vector objects
-Drawing paths
-Stroking paths
-Using the Text Tool
-Setting font, size, Colour, Leading and Tracking
-Applying Layer Effects to text
-Rendering a text layer
-Clipping Paths for DTP layout applications

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
-Use the Replace Colour command to change the hue and saturation of a selected colour in a photograph

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