fast track to photoshop

audience: Beginner - Intermediate
course duration: 2 days
delivery method: On-site / In-house

description

In the Fast Track to Photoshop CS3 course you will learn how to use the tools and workspace to retouch, repair, mask, correct and enhance images for print or web use.

course outline

Getting to Know the Work Area
- Starting to work in Photoshop
- Using the tools
- Using the tool bar and palettes
- Customising the workspace
- Adobe ImageReady
- Using Photoshop Help
Using Adobe Bridge
- Viewing and editing files in Adobe Bridge
- Viewing information for easy identification
- Searching with Adobe Bridge
- Using Favourites and Collections
- Automating routine tasks
- Acquiring stock photography
Basic Photo Corrections
- Strategy for retouching Resolution and image size
- Straightening and cropping image
- Making automatic adjustments
- Manually adjusting the tonal range
- Removing a colour cast
- Replaing colours in an image
- Adjusting lightness with the Dodge tool
- Adjusting saturation with the with Sponge tool
- Applying the Unsharp Mask filter Comparing automatic and manual results Saving the image for four-colour printing
Retouching and Repairing
- Repairing areas with the Clone Stamp tool
- Using the Spot Healing Brush tool
- Using the Healing Brush and Patch tools
- Retouching on a seperate layer
Working with Selections
- About selecting and selection tools
- Selecting with the Magic Wand tool
- Using the Magic Wand with other selections
- Working with oval and circular slections
- Selecting with the lasso tools
- Rotating a selected
- Selecting with the Magnetic Lasso tool
- Cropping an image and erasing within a selection
Layer Basics
- About Layers
- Using the Layers palette
- Rearranging layers
- Applying a layer style
- Flattening and saving files
Masks and Channels
- Working with masks and channels
- Creating a quick mask
- Editing a quick mask
- Saving a slection as a mask
- Editing a mask
- Loading a mask as a selection and applying an adjustment
- Extracting an image Applying a filter effect to a masked selection
- Creating a gradient mask Applying effects using a gradient mask
Correcting and Enhancing Digital Photography
- About camera raw Processing camera raw files
- Correcting digital photographs
- Editing images with a vanishing-point perspective
- Correcting image distortion Creating a PDF portfolio
Typographic (text) Design
- About type Creating a clipping mask from type
- Creating a design element from type
- Using interactive formatting controls
- Warping point type
- Design a paragraph of type
- Warping a layer Dancing with type