Photoshop CS3 to CS6 Training Courses

Duration: 1 Day

Course Objective:

At the end of the day's course you will: have produced a house-ad, web gallery and duotone photograph, and repaired a photograph; be comfortable with bitmap and resolution principles; know some essential keyboard shortcuts and procedures to improve workflow

Course Contents:

General Preferences Brushes
  • Bitmap vs vector, common file formats
  • Interpolation, resolution and quality issues
  • Import percentages (maximum)
  • Viewing/Opening documents
  • Browsing Title Bar Info
  • New document specifications
  • Colour models

Tools and Palettes

  • Tool bar variations
  • Options bar (introduction)
  • Most commonly used palettes
  • Palette options
  • Editing tools vs vector tools
  • Rulers, guides and grids
  • Using control

Image

  • Image sizes (handout)
  • Image size vs canvas size
  • Cropping (and resizing)
  • Image modes
  • Basic retouching with clone, heal, patch tools
  • Montage work

Colour Adjustment

  • Basic tonal adjustment/enhancement
  • Brightness/contrast: when to use levels (+ auto), shadow/highlight

Quality Adjustment

  • Dust and scratches, reduce noise Blur, gaussian blur
  • Sharpen/unsharpen, and size issues

Transformation

  • Flipping, scaling, rotating, distorting, perspective
  • Control options
  • Free transform, straighten or tilt
  • Brush options and parameters
  • Brush size and hardness

Selections

  • Various tools, tool options
  • Adding/subtracting
  • Inversing, feathering, grow, smooth, expand, moving, transforming
  • Show/hide
  • Pen tool specifics
  • Shape tools, options
  • Selecting a path, show/hide, active/inactive, saving, clipping
  • Paths to selections

Layers

  • Background v layer, creating layers
  • Preserving data
  • Re-arranging
  • Hiding, locking/unlocking, naming, deleting
  • Layer opacity

Type

  • Rasterised vs character, selecting and editing
  • Formatting palettes
  • Fill and stroke
  • Type on a path

Workflow

  • Automating contact sheets
  • Saving the workspace
  • Navigation, using guides and info

Saving

  • Save option, file formats for inDesign, web etc
  • Paths to Illustrator
  • Keyboard shortcuts

 

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