| Adobe PhotoShop | ||
| Level: Introductory | Level: Advanced | |
| Duration - 1-2 Days | Duration - 1 Day | |
PhotoShop Basics• The Toolbox• The Options Palette • Selecting Colours • Keyboard Shortcuts Photoshop Preferences• Saving files• Transparency and gamut • Units & Rulers • Plug-ins & scratch disks • Guides & Grid • Memory and image cache • Physical memory usage Painting Tools• Airbrush• Paintbrush • PencilLine Tool • History Brish • Rubber Stamp Tool Working views in Photoshop• Monitor colour depth and resolution• The Navigator palette • The Zoom tool • The Hand tool Making Selections• Magic Wand tool• Modifying selections • Quick Mask mode • Quick Mask options • Saving selections as channels Image modes• Changing Image modes• Useful conversions Layers• Layer tips• Copying a layer • Duplicating a layer • Changing the layer palette thumbnail size Layer modes• Merge modes• Opacity Bitmap file formats• File compression• Photoshop .PSD • Adobe Illustrator (AI or EPS) • Amiga IFF • Windows BMP • Compuserve GIF • EPS • Filmstrip FLM • JPEG (JPG) • Kodak PhotoCD (PCD) • MacPaint • PCX • PICT • PIXAR • PixelPaint • RAW • Scitex CT • Targa • TIFF • Summary |
This course looks at the more advanced features of Adobe Photoshop, both in terms of achieving quality output from the program and in exploring its possibilities for creative effects. The course contents can usually be tailored to meet specific requirements. Image Modes & Formats• Colour Modes : Bitmap, greyscale, indexedcolour, RGB,CMYK and Lab colour models • Converting images from one colour mode to another • Image File Formats: Technical differences between bitmap file formats and the advantages and disadvantages of each . Channels, Masks and Filters• What are channels?• Creating and working with masks • Saving selections as channels • Editing mask channels to achieve graduated image blends and filter effects • Filters: Photoshop's special effect filters • Overview of third-party filter Plug-Ins Photomontage with layers• Montaging images: Making and workingwith floating selections • Copying and pasting from one image to another • Feathering selections to create soft transitions • Layers: Introduction to the Layers palette • Layer modes: Blending image components using Layer palette modes (Normal, multiply, difference etc) • Working with layers: Viewing and editing a single layer • Changing the order of layers • Grouping and merging layers • Special effects: Adjusting layer opacity Moving the contents of a layer • Calibration: Principles of setting up the hardware / software (optional) |
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