Photoshop – Essentials

This course runs from 9:00am to 5:00pm on Monday 29th & Tuesday 30th May.

This is the first in our Photoshop course series. It provides instruction on how to create professional-looking images for both print & the Web.

After completing this 2-day course, participants will be able to:

Identify the attributes of raster and vector graphics

Manage colour

• implement Colour Management

Identify the components and capabilities of Photoshop CC

• organise Photoshop Assets by Using Adobe Bridge
• organise the Photoshop Workspace
• customise the Photoshop Workspace

Create basic images

• manage Image Elements and Formats
• apply Design Principles, Elements, and Graphic Composition
• work with Digital Devices

Manage selections and layers

• use Selection Tools
• modify and manipulate selections.
• create and manage Layers
• arrange and transform layers
• create Type layers
• use opacity, layer blending modes, and layer styles

Enhance and retouch images

• straighten horizontals or verticals and correct perspective

convergence

• enhance Images for tones/contrast, colour cast, and saturation
• retouch Images

Edit images non-destructively

• adjust Layers
• apply Camera Raw

Managing Files in a Production Workflow

• import, Export, and Organise Files
• use the Crop tool
• determine an image’s resolution and dimensions
• resize images with and without resampling
• save Images for the Web
• save Images for Print
• format Images for Other Programs
• print single and multiple images on a page or export them to a PDF file intended for printing.

Adobe® Photoshop CC will be used in class. It is much less applicable to earlier versions of the software.

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