Photoshop Introduction
Pre-requisites
The delegate should be familiar with using a mouse, and working in a Windows environment.
Objectives
This course will give those with little or no experience a basic grounding in the magic workings of PhotoShop
Meeting PhotoShop
- PhotoShop characteristics
- Tools
- Workspace
- Window Menu
- Panels
- Options Bar
- Vector & Bitmap
- History Panel
- Image file formats best practice: TIFF, JPEG, PNG, EPS, PSD
Layout and Selection
- Screen Layout: rulers, guides, grids
- Selection Tools: marquee, lasso, magic wand, selecting, deselecting, repositioning, moving
- Selections: add, subtract, intersecting selection outlines, rotate, scale, transform selection outlines, combine selection tools, feathering selections, selecting by colour range, threshold
Transformations: transform, free transform
- Crop: cropping, set crop specifications
Image characteristics
- Image resolution & artwork
- Canvas size
- Colour mode conversion
- Crop and rotate artwork
Layers
- Layer palette, selecting, arranging, linking, deleting, merging, flattening layers
- Layer effects
- Layer blending
- Aligning multiple layers
Colour
- Foreground & background colour
- RGB & CMYK
- Colour library (pantones)
Type
- Vertical & horizontal type tools, anti-aliasing, leading, tracking & kerning
Paint
- Changing brushes, brush sizes, airbrush, new brush tips
- Paint bucket
- Eraser, magic eraser, background eraser
Filters
- Lighting effects
- Filter gallery
- Liquefy
- Artwork effects
- Variations
Print
- Best practice
- Print to .PDF