Photoshop Course

Basics of Photoshop

• Understand the Photoshop interface
• Vectors and bitmaps
• Configure various properties of an image

Basic tools and colour

• Brushes and their types
• Brushes adjustment
• How to choose the colours (by eye, numerical colour and pantone)
• How to change the background image
• Canvas and erasing the colour

Bridge & Mini Bridge

• Viewing, keywording and rating of the images

Selection

• Explain image navigation shortcuts
• Marquee tools
• Quick select, lasso and magic wand
• Selection transformation
• Selection edges and refine edge dialogue box
• Saving and Opening Images

Layer Masks

• Layer Mask creation using a selection tool
• Modify a layer mask using the paintbrush
• How to modifying edges of mask for cut-out
• Explain gradient tool

Layers

• Layer blending modes
• Layer transformation and distortion
• Multiple layers
• Creation of montages

Image adjustments

• Dissimilarity in the destructive and non-destructive techniques
• Layers adjustment
• Explain Levels
• Colour balancing and colour balance considerations
• Explain hue and saturation
• Selective adjustments

Retouching

• Healing brush and spot healing brush
• Clone and Patch tool
• Content aware fill

Filters

• Use of filters
• Explain the pixel views
• Benefits the use of smart filters
• Image sharpening
• Image blurring
• Selective filtering

Layer effects

• Understand the concept of layer effects
• Drop shadow

Prepare an image aimed at end use

• Open the image (using bridge)
• Scan resolution
• Colour bit depth
• Size and Cop images
• Image adjustments using colour balance, levels and hue or saturation
• Other correction to images (using shadow or highlight)
• Re-touching by using the healing and clone tool
• Palette of clone source

How to use the file formats

• Common file formats
• Choose a file format