Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop
This Adobe Photoshop training course will provide an introduction into the powerful Adobe Photoshop suite that will teach you how to optimise and create digital images. Participants will learn how to add those finishing touches to your photographs to create superb images or use the powerful editing techniques to create images for web and graphic design.
- recognise and understand fundamental aspects of Photoshop
- create your first document
- navigate images
- understand the concepts of file formats, file size, colour modes and image resizing
- make effective selections in an image
- work with layers
- resize images using a variety of techniques
- select, use and work with colour
- create and format text layers
- draw and format standard and custom shapes
- understand the process of saving
- retouch and repair artefacts in images
- print and understand printing techniques
- use the Help menu and access online help resources.
Course Features
- Students
- Max Students10
- Duration1 day
- Skill levelall
- LanguageEnglish
- Re-take courseN/A
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Your first document
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Getting to know the application
- Starting from the desktop
- The welcome experience
- Dark versus light interface
- The workspace
- Understanding panels
- Working with the panel dock
- Panel techniques
- Working with panels and panel groups
- Understanding the tools panel
- Working with the tools panel
- Resetting the tools panel
- Opening an existing file
- Understanding the options bar
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Digital image basics
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Making selections
- Understanding the lasso tools
- Using the marquee tools
- Using the polygonal lasso tool
- Using the lasso tool
- Using the quick selection tool
- Using the magnetic lasso tool
- Using the magic wand tool
- Add to or subtract from a selection
- Growing a selection
- Saving a selection
- Refining hard-edged selections
- Understanding the refine edge dialog box
- Redefining soft-edge selections
- Moving and copying selections
- Selecting with colour range
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Working with layers
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Resizing images
- Understanding resizing and resampling
- Resizing an image for printing
- Resampling an image for email or web
- Using the print dialog box to resize images
- Understanding the crop tool options bar
- Guidelines for cropping images
- Cropping images
- Cropping images to a pre-set size
- Using the crop tool to add a border
- Applying a non-destructive crop
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Colour
- Understanding colour
- Colour fundamentals
- Understanding the colour panel
- Applying colour with the colour panel
- Selecting colours using the swatches panel
- Selecting colours using the hue cube
- Selecting colours using the eyedropper
- Identifying a colour using the eyedropper
- Using the brush tool to apply colour
- Changing brush styles
- Using the mixer brush
- Creating a custom brush
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Working with text
- Understanding vector-based text
- Adding point text
- Changing text size
- Changing the font family
- Changing text colour
- Installing typekit fonts
- Editing text
- Creating a custom path frame
- Adding text inside a custom path frame
- Filling text with an image
- Creating and applying paragraph styles
- Creating a watermark
- Creating and applying character styles
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Shapes
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Retouching and repairing
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Saving
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Printing
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Getting help
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