Computer WorkGroup Training

An Introduction to

Adobe Photoshop CS5

Course Title : Introduction to Adobe Photoshop CS5

Duration : 1 Day

Pricing : Basic - 1 person $750, 2 people $850 for both (see pricing page for full details)

Pre-requisites : Familiarity with Computers.

For Whom: The course is intended for people who wish to crop or touch up scanned images and photographs, create bitmap images or stylise drawings.

Course Objectives: At the conclusion of the training participants will be able to -

  • Customise Photoshop
  • Crop & Deep Etch Images
  • Select specific parts of an image
  • Retouch scanned images
  • Fine control the painting tools
  • Transform parts of an image
  • Apply custom filters
  • Add text to an Image
  • Work with Selections

COURSE OUTLINE

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS5 - 1 DAY INTENSIVE INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION
  • Photoshop Files
  • The Photoshop Window
  • Magnification
  • The Toolbox
  • The Ribbon
  • Docking palettes
  • Moving Around
  • Preferences
BASIC EDITING
  • Erasing
  • Cropping
  • Resizing
  • Correcting Mistakes
  • History palette
  • Duplicating an Image
SELECTING PARTS OF AN IMAGE
  • Marquee Tools
  • Magic Wand
  • Quick Selection tool
  • Pen Tool
  • Colour Range
  • Add, subtract and intersect selections
PASTING
  • Pasting Into
  • Pasting Behind
PAINTING TOOLS
  • Paintbrush & Airbrush
  • Mixer Brush and Bristle Tips
  • Pencil Too
  • Clone Stamp
  • Blur & Sharpen
  • Eraser Tools
  • History Brushes
  • Dodge & Burn
  • Red-eye correction
  • Healing Brushes
LAYERS
  • Creating Layers
  • Layer Opacity
  • Making objects invisible
  • Stacking layers
  • Manipulating objects
  • Layer effects
  • Comp Layers
  • Grouping layers
 
FILLING A SELECTION
  • Solid Fill
  • Blends
  • Magic Fill
  • Patterns
  • Content Aware fill
TRANSFORMING PARTS OF AN IMAGE
  • Mirroring, Rotating, Scaling
  • Skewing
  • Free transform
  • Adding Perspective
  • Distorting
SPECIAL EFFECTS
  • Using the Filter Dialog Box
  • Blur Filters
  • Sharpening
  • Stylising Effects
  • 3-D Effects
  • Liquify
  • Extracting Backgrounds
  • Puppet Warp
TYPE
  • Adding Text
  • Character & Paragraph palettes
  • Anti-Aliasing
  • Layer Styles
  • Warping Text
  • Text as Vectors
COLOURS
  • Selecting Colours
  • Selection Options
  • Editing Colours
BASIC IMAGE CORRECTIONS
  • Inverting
  • Adjustment Panel
  • Adjusting Tonal Levels
  • Changing Tone Curves
  • Adjusting the Colour Balance
  • Alter Hue and Saturation levels
  • Smart Sharpening
  • Shadow / Highlight adjustment
THE BRIDGE
  • Accessing files
  • Views
  • Meta data and batching

 

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