This 3-day course will take you all the way from getting to know the workspace to creating and editing beautiful artworks. These Photoshop classes, trained by an Adobe Certified Expert, will provide you with the skills and knowledge to design Professional Artworks.
Course Outline / Curriculum:
Work Environment:
Looking at the Work Area
Working in 64 and 32 bit modes
Customising Preferences & Keyboard Shortcuts
Using the tools & Tool Options
Using Adobe Bridge:
Viewing & Editing Files
Reading MetaData & Applying Keywords
Searching & Filtering
Favourites & Collections
Introducing Task Automation
Exploring Mini Bridge
Working With Selections:
About selecting & selection tools
Rectangular & Oval selections
Lasso tool, Magnetic Lasso Tool, Polygonal Lasso Tool
Magic Wand
Quick Selection Tool
Feathering - softening selection edges
Selecting by Colour
Understanding Layers:
Background layers
Creating layers
Rearrange & editing layers
Opacity & Layer Blending Modes
Linking Layers
Applying Layer Styles
Flattening Layers
Layer Comps
Duplicating & Aligning Layers
Layer Groups
Transforming:
Free Transform
Mathematical transforms: Flip, Rotate, Arbitrary
Scale, Skew, Distort, Perspective
Transform with Warp
Canvas Rotation
Basic Photo Corrections:
Understanding Images: Raster & Vector
Image Resolution
Exposure & Balance
Tonal values & Photography
Image Adjustments Options
Working with the Adjustments Panel
Histogram
Levels Dialog Box
Curves Dialog Box
Straightening & Cropping
Using Automatic & Manual Adjustments - Contrast, Shadows & Highlights, Hue & Saturation
Replacing colours
Dodge, Sponge & Burn tools
Black & White Adjustment Feature
Retouching & Repairing:
Clone Stamp Tool & Clone Panel Options
Pattern Tool
Spot Healing Brush
Healing Brush & Patch Tools
Red Eye Removal
Separate Layer retouching
Layers - Auto Align Layers
Spherical Alignment
Layers -Auto Blend Layers
Content Aware Healing & Fills
Typography:
Adding Type
Character & Paragraph settings
Justification & Hyphenation
Tracking, Kerning & Leading
Warping Type
Type on a Path
Vertical Type
Colour Modes:
Creating New Colour Swatches
Creating Colour Blends/ Gradients
Applying colour & gradients
Hue Sampling Ring
Brushes:
Working with brushes
Changing Brush Options
Correcting Digital Photographs:
About Camera Raw
Processing Files in Camera Raw
Merging exposure and application of advanced colour correction
Correcting digital photographs in Phoptoshop
Correcting image distortion
Working with depth of field
Quick Masks & Gradient Masks
Creating & Editing Quick Masks:
Saving selections as Masks
Alpha Channels
Loading Masks as selections
Editing Masks
Extracting Images
Applying Filter Effects to Masked selections
Creating Gradient Masks
Vector Drawing: Paths:
Pen Tool
Using Paths
Scaleable Objects
Shape Layer
Importing Smart Objects (Illustrator/ Acrobat)
Complex Path editing
Compound Paths
Saving Paths
Clipping & Work Paths
Filling & Stroking paths, selections
Filters:
Using filters
Gamut & Workflow aspects
Stacking Orders & Saving multiple filters
Fading Filters (Opacity & Blend Modes)
Smart Filters
Creating, Saving & Editing Smart filters
Working with 3D images:
Creating a 3D shape from a layer
Manipulating 3D objects
Using 3D panels to adjust lighting and surface textures
Merging 2D onto 3D layers
Importing 3D Files
Painting onto a 3D object
Using Repoussé to create 3D text
Whats New:
All-new Smart Sharpen
Intelligent upsampling
Camera Shake Reduction
Editable rounded rectangles
Improved 3D painting
Improved type styles
Improved 3D Scene panel
Improved 3D effects
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This course is ideal for those whose current Photoshop knowledge may be outdated and are wanting to get with the program! This course is also great for those who are wanting the essential skills for photo editing and manipulating or even digital content creation for social media.
Learn the fundamental aspects of photo editing through step-by-step instruction, from basic retouching to making your images ready for print or web use.
New to editing and image manipulation? Whether you want to enhance your holiday snapshots or isolate and change the colour of the sky in a landscape photo, start here to become confident with this impressive software.
This course is aimed at anyone who would like to learn how to use Photoshop Basics to manipulate and edit pictures. This is an instructor led virtual course via Teams (Microsoft). Students must have the required software - Adobe Photoshop.
Adobe Photoshop Beginners will assist to make Photoshop understandable and useable.
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