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Photoshop CS3: Introduction
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Public scheduled course £435
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Adobe Photoshop is the worldwide industry standard software for working with digital images.
Whether you are using Photoshop for print or the web, this extremely popular course has proved to be the most efficient and effective way of getting started in Photoshop CS3.
The course covers all major Photoshop features including compositing images, graphics and text, making colour corrections to an image, understanding resolution, creating a montage, using Photoshop filters, working with layers and channels and preparing images for use in print and the web.
This is an Adobe authorised training course which will allow you to radically increase your creative options.
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DAY ONE
Photoshop essentials
• The Photoshop interface
• Organising panels
• Customising panel display
• Using the Tool Options bar
• Using the Navigator panel
• Using the History panel and multiple undo
• History Brush and Snapshots
• Using online help
The characteristics of a Photoshop file
• Pixels and paint programs
• Image resolution, dimensions and file size
• Understanding colour channels and modes
• Understanding file formats
Setting basic image characteristics
• Working with Adobe Bridge
• Creating new documents
• Cropping and rotating artwork
• Changing image resolution and artwork size
• Changing the Canvas Size
• Making colour mode conversions
• Saving and exporting files for web and print
Correcting an image
• Understanding image Histograms
• Using the Info panel
• Levels command
• Adjusting colour balance
• Variations command
• Replacing object colour
• Hue/saturation command
Defining selections
• Lasso, magic wand and marquee tools
• Quick Selection tool
• Selecting by colour range
• Feathering selections
• Modifying and transforming selection shape
• Saving and loading selections
Retouching techniques
• Dodge and burn tools
• Sharpen and Blur filters
• Focus tools
• The Clone and Heal tools
• Using the Clone Source panel
• Red eye reduction
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DAY TWO
Painting and drawing
• Sampling and mixing paint and fill colours
• Print and web safe colours
• Working with Swatches
• Using the Airbrush, Pencil and Paintbrush tools
• Using the Paint Bucket tool
• Adding gradient fills and patterns
Special effects
• Using Photoshop filters
• Working with the Filter Gallery
• Fading the effects of filters
• Using the Liquify command
Working with layers
• Adding transparency to objects
• Creating new Paint and Fill layers
• Building a multi-layered document
• Moving, scaling and rotating layers
• Applying shape distortions
• Using guides, grids and rulers
• Linking and aligning layers
• Locking and protecting layers
• Layer groups
• Creating layer effects
• Adding drop shadow, glow and emboss treatments
• Using the Layer Styles panel
• Introducing Layer Masks
• Merging and flattening layers
• Exporting layered documents
Shape and text layers
• Introducing vector shape layers
• Polygons, lines and custom shapes
• Working with the Text tool
• Adjusting character attributes
• Text anti-aliasing
Special effects
• Using Photoshop filters
• Working with the Filter Gallery
Printing and optimising documents
• Printing from Photoshop
• The Save for Web command
• Understanding image compression and optimization settings
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