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Teaches you to how use layers, retouch photos, manipulate images, create selections, create composites, manage your workspace, add text, layer effects, masks, filters, optimizing for the web, & more. Let’s Get creative!
Audience
Photoshop: Level 1 is for beginners who need an essential understanding of photo editing, or want to learn what you can do with this fun graphics application!
This course is a beginner level class for those new to Adobe Photoshop. Also recommended by Adobe for those planning to obtain the Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) status.
Prerequisites
Basic Computer Skills & File Management on Windows or Mac
Introduction to Photoshop
- What is Photoshop?
- Bitmaps & Vectors
- What is resolution?
- Introducing Photoshop
- Resizing images
- Cropping images
- Export file formats: EPS, JPEG, GIF, PNG, PDF
- Using Guides, Grids and Smart Guides
The Photoshop Interface
- Differentiating between the Application bar and the Control panel
- Using the Workspace Switcher to customize workspaces
- Managing images in the new Tabbed format
- Navigation and Open GL: Zooming and panning
- Rotating the canvas view without rotating the image
Color in Photoshop
- The different color modes: RGB, CMYK, Bitmap, Grayscale, Indexed Color & Lab
- Forground and Background colors and how they interact with the Swatches and Color panels
- Color correction fundamentals
- Changing Color with Hue and Saturation
- Using Color Overlays
Using Bridge and Mini Bridge
- Launching Mini Bridge and the differences between Mini Bridge and Bridge
- Viewing linked Photoshop files within an InDesign document in Mini Bridge
- Working with the File Bridge to view, search, sort, manage, rename and process image files
- Searching by file name or keyword
- How the Bridge works with Illustrator, InDesign & Acrobat files
- Use Flags, Keywords and Editable Metadata within the File Bridge
Working with Layers, Layer Styles, Blend Modes & Adjustment Layers
- Creating new Layers, Layer Sets & reordering the stacking order within the layers panel in Photoshop
- Using the Transform functions to Scale, Rotate, Flip, Skew & Distort images and text
- Linking & Aligning Layers within Photoshop
- Grouping Layers
- Transforming Images
- Using Layer Styles to create Drop Shadows, Strokes, Bevels, Glows, and Color Overlays
- Introduction to Adjustment Layers using Hue/Saturation and the Target Adjustment tool
- Utilizing the new Adjustments’ Panel for non-destructive alterations
- Using Smart Objects to scale Illustrator files without losing quality
- Turning a Photoshop layer into a Smart Object to allow for non-destructive transformations
- Using Layer Blend Modes & how they affect layers underneath in the stacking order
- Placing graphics from other applications as layers
- Creating composites with layers
Selections
- Creating Selections in Photoshop, adding and subtracting selections
- Transforming Selections
- Using the Quick Select tool
- Using the Magic Wand
- Improving edges of selections with Refine Edge
- Adding to selections, subtracting from selections, and saving selections to an Alpha Channel
- Using Photoshop’s Quick Masks to make selections
- Feathering selections to create a soft edge
- More advanced selections
- Saving Selections
Layer Masks, Filters, Transformations
- Introduction to the use of Layer Masks to hide or reveal a portion of an image
- Managing the Masks panel for Pixel or Vector masks
- Refining masks with the Paintbrush or Color range
- Using Refine Edge to clean up selections or to automatically output to a Layer Mask
- Using Filters to create various effects, blurs, drop shadows
- Changing Layer Opacity
Text in Photoshop
- Working with text as Vector based, as opposed to Raster based
- Creating Warped text
- Using kerning, tracking & other new text features
- Rasterizing Text Layers to turn them from a Vector to a Bitmap Gradients
- Applying Layer Styles, dupicating layers
- Transforming Text
Gradients
- Creating multiple-colored gradients including transparent areas in Photoshop
- Working with the Fade feature to use half of a gradient, or even change the color mode of each
Intro to Web Graphics
- What is the best format for my needs?
- Using the Photoshop Save for Web feature for GIF, JPEG and PNG files
- Adjusting images for the web & using the Slice tool
- Dither transparencies to achieve partial transparent effects
- Optimizing web graphics in Photoshop
The History panel
- The History panel vs. Undo
- How Photoshop saves Snapshots on the History panel
Intro to Smart Filters
- Turn layers in to Smart Objects for Smart Filtering
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