adobe photoshop - essentials

By attending Adobe Photoshop workshop, Participants will learn:

  • Photoshop CS6 interface and tools
  • Photoshop CS6 features, tricks, and tips

Adobe Photoshop has become an industry standard for many different disciplines including desktop publishing, multimedia design, web design, and digital video editing. Photoshop is often a prerequisite for many other software programs and is the one program that everyone in every area of digital media should know.

In Adobe Photoshop - Essentials training course, delegates will learn the CS6 interface and tools, features, tricks, and tips

  • Practical working knowledge of Mac OS X

  • Anyone involved in digital media, including desktop publishing, multimedia design, web design, digital video editing, and other disciplines for which Photoshop is the industry standard
  • Photographers and artists

COURSE AGENDA

  • Opening an saving a file
  • Using bridge to open a file
  • Tools and tools options
  • Hidden tools
  • Using some keyboard shortcuts
  • Zoom in and out of your picture
    • Navigator panel
  • Selections and adjustments
  • Text
  • Clipping masks
  • Undo and the history panel
  • Customizing your workspace
  • RGB and CMYK color models
    • Additive and subtractive
  • Image size vs. resolution
  • Pixel aspect ratio
  • Bits per channel
  • Alpha channel
  • Camera RAW
  • Straightening and cropping an image
    • Regular cropping
    • Rule of thirds
    • Non destructive cropping
    • Straightening the image
  • Making automatic adjustments
  • Removing a color cast
  • Manually adjusting the tonal range
  • Strategies for retouching
  • Selecting and selection tools
  • Using selection tools
  • Transforming a selection
  • Refining the edge of a selection
  • Layers
  • Using the layers panel
  • Layer stacking order
  • Difference between opacity and fill
  • Locking a layer
    • Transparency, image pixels, position, and the entire layer
  • Adding a layer mask
    • White for opacity and black for transparency
  • Applying a gradient to a layer
  • Applying a layer style
    • Drop shadow, stroke, other styles
  • Global light
  • Loading and saving a style
  • Styles panel
  • Flattening and saving files
  • Correcting digital photographs
  • Color correction
    • Levels
    • Curves
    • Color balance
  • Primary color correction
  • Secondary color correction
  • Adjusting lightness with the dodge tool
  • Adjusting saturation with the sponge tool
  • Comparing automatic and manual results
  • Using the right tool
    • Healing tools
  • Patch tool
  • Content-aware move tool
  • Repairing areas with the clone stamp tool
  • Sharpening your images
  • Fixing lens defects
  • Creating a mask
  • Refining a mask
  • Quick masks
  • Loading a mask as a selection
  • Applying a filter to a mask
  • Applying effects using a gradient mask
  • Puppet warp
  • Channels panel
  • Viewing channels
  • Choosing the right channel
  • Adjusting individual channels
  • Increasing contrast
  • Painting with black and white
  • Removing the background from an image
  • Moving layers between documents
  • Inverting a mask
  • Using adjustment layers
  • Grouping layers
  • Clipping masks
  • Using type as a mask
  • Photo merge
  • Auto-align layers
  • Content-aware scaling
  • Content-aware fill
  • Type in Photoshop
  • Creating a clipping mask from type
  • Creating a design element from type
  • Warping point type
  • Designing a paragraph of type
  • Difference between point and paragraph text
  • Warping a layer
  • Text on a path
  • File types
  • Right file for the right job