Adobe PhotoShop is the leading photographic manipulation application. With it you can resize, crop, edit, re-colour and optimise the quality of any photographs that you intend to use for either web or print.

On this course you will learn all about different file types for photographs. You will practice opening, editing, manipulating and optimising photographs. You will be given an understanding of how best to prepare and save your photographs. You will be shown methods and introduced to tools that will help you to repair, scale, sharpen, brighten and re-colour all or part of your images.

Minimum Pre-Course Requisites

• Participants should have a good all round knowledge of working with a computer, have average keyboarding skills, a solid understanding of file management, using email, browsing the web and be experienced in using a word processing, presentation or other text/layout application.

Learning the Basics

• Introduction to PhotoShop CS
• Opening, closing and saving files
• The PhotoShop workspace
• Zooming and Navigating within the PhotoShop workspace

Working with the Tools

• Selection Tools
• The Crop Tool
• The Slice Tool
• The Eye Dropper Tool
• Painting Tools
• Painting Tools
• Painting Tools
• Text Tools

Resizing and Orientation

• Resizing an Image
• Resizing the Canvas
• Working with Selections
• Rotating Images and Selections
• Transform Tools

Using Layers

• The Background Layer
• Transparent Layers
• The Layer Palette
• Adjustment Layers
• Masking Layers

Filters

• An introduction to Filters
• Working with some basic Filters
• Artistic Filters
• Distortion Filters

Saving Images

• File Types
• Optimising for the web
• Print options

Workshops

• Levels and Curves
• Healing and Patching
• Creating a Poster
• Basic Compositing
• Selection Compositing
• Colouring a B&W photograph
• Setting Text to a Path
• Exporting Transparent Images
• Some Filter Effects