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Photoshop CS3 Introduction

Overview

Adobe Photoshop is the industry standard image manipulation tool. This course, aimed at those who have never used the application, will introduce the essential tools and techniques through hands-on exercises and theory. Delegates will gain an understanding of Photoshop to use it with confidence.

Prerequisites

Good Mac or PC skills

Course Content

The Interface

  • Toolbox
  • Context Menus
  • Tool Options Bar
  • Rulers Guides & Grid
  • Navigating in Photoshop
  • Shortcuts
  • Adobe Bridge
  • Adobe Help Centre

Managing Palettes

  • Customised Workspace
  • Layers
  • Channels
  • Paths
  • History
  • Navigator
  • Styles
  • Info

Adjusting and Retouching Images

Tonality

  • Auto Levels
  • Variations
  • Automatic Colour Correction
  • Auto contrast
  • Auto colour

Colour

  • Colour Balance
  • Hue/Saturation
  • Desaturate

Focus

  • Actual Pixels
  • Scaling
  • Sharpen
  • Sharpen More
  • Sharpen Edges

Retouching

  • Quick Selection Tool
  • Magic Wand Tool
  • Clone Stamp Tool
  • Spot Healing Brush
  • Red-Eye Correction
  • Colour Replacement tool

Saving Files

  • PSD
  • TIFF
  • JPEG
  • EPS

Working With Photoshop Tools

  • Painting
  • Quick Selection
  • Refine Edge Tools
  • Editing
  • Canvas Size
  • Image Size
  • Rotate Canvas
  • Photoshop Filters
  • Automatic Crop

Working With Layers

  • Layers and Backgrounds
  • Layer Types
  • Group
  • Layer Opacity
  • Creating Layers
  • Re-arranging Layers
  • Linking Layers
  • Duplicating Layers
  • Merging Layers
  • Rendering Layers
  • Deleting Layers
  • Flatten Image

Creating a Montage

  • Adjusting and Retouching multiple Images
  • Using Selection Tools
  • Cutting out multiple Images
  • Cropping Images
  • Managing Layers

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Course Booking Conditions

Duration

2 Days

Schedule

  • 24/25 November 2008
  • 11/12 December 2008
  • 8/9 January 2009
  • 9/10 February 2009

Prices

  • 545

All the bookings come with lunch, refreshments, course notes and post training support.

Costs

  • Studio Vouchers: 420 or less
  • Season Tickets: 348

Dates

This course runs at Harlequin Training and can be run privately at your site.


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