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Photoshop Essentials
Audience
Graphic Designers
Duration
2 days classroom
Level
Basic / Intermediate
Instructor: Warwick Soar
Course Overview
Learn the industry standard tool for creating rich imagery for a variety of applications including video, print and the web in this comprehensive 2-day Photoshop training.
Through hands-on practice, you will create, edit and apply special effects to images and text that can be prepared for various uses such as print and marketing materials, presentations, websites, eLearning and digital apps.
The course introduces you to the newest techniques and tools used in Adobe Photoshop 2019.
Course Topics
Module 1: Get Started
Photoshop interface and work area, open, save, close images, pan, zoom in and out, undo mistakes.
Module 2: Image Transformation
Resize, crop, straighten and expand.
Module 3: Working with Layers
Understanding layers, creating new layers, duplicating, ordering, deleting layers, layer opacity, transforming layers, placing images as layers, locking, unlocking hiding and grouping.
Module 4: Adjusting Image Quality
Brightness, contrast, vibrance, hue, saturation and applying these adjustments using adjustment layers.
Module 5: Selection
Selecting, deselecting, selection tools, inverting selections, adding to selection, removing parts of a selection and fine-tuning selections.
Module 6: Retouching
Removing imperfections, small objects, cloning objects and removing large objects.
Module 8: Geometry
Adding text, editing text, font selection, paragraph and text options, adding shapes and editing shapes.
Module 9: Combining Images
Add texture, objects and layer masks.
Module 10: Filters
Filter gallery, smart filters and blend modes.
Module 11: Multiple Documents
Opening, closing, saving, switching between multiple documents and transferring layers between documents.
Module 12: Customising Photoshop
Changing panel and tool layout, showing common panels and hiding less common panels, saving layouts and modifying keyboard shortcuts.
Module 13: Understanding the Formats
File types, their advantages, disadvantages, limitations, colour modes, bit depth, colour space and use cases.
Module 7: Colour
Brushes, foreground and background colour, colour selection, colour panel and swatches.