Computer Training for Busy People

Adobe Photoshop

Photoshop Level I

Prerequisite: Knowledge of Windows and experience working with images.
Workshop consists of two 3-hr sessions.
This workshop is designed to help students create images for both print and the Web. Students will use Photoshop's basic tools, palettes, and features to create images, retouch photographs, and save files using different file formats.

Tasks include viewing tools, image and canvas size; Selection Tools, Crop, Trim, Skew, Distort and Perspective commands. Explore layers, create, placement, visibility, format and flatten. Edit foreground and background colors by using the Color and Swatches palettes, the color ramp, and Color Picker, choose custom colors, pick colors by using the Eyedropper tool, create gradients, draw with the Pencil and Brush tools, create customized brushes, use the Eraser tool, the History palette, and History brush tools, and use the Clone and Pattern Stamp tools and the Pattern Maker command. Retouch images using Auto Color, the Healing Brush, the Dodge, the Burn, the Sponge, the Blur, the Sharpen, and the Smudge tools.

Photoshop Level II

Prerequisite: Photoshop Level I.
Workshop consists of two 3-hr sessions.
This workshop covers the advanced features and functions of Photoshop. Before taking this course, students should have basic photo editing skills, and they should know how to create simple shapes and drawings. Students will learn how to create artwork for both print and the Web. The workshop is filled with interactive exercises that help ensure student retention.

Topics include Shape Tools, Histogram Palette, Layer opacity and effects, Layer Comps Palette, Channels Palette, Quick Mask, Horizontal Type Mask tool, Background Eraser Tool and Extract command. Apply Noise and Rendering Filters, Brush Strokes Filter, Texture Filter and Liquify Filter to modify images. Automate Photoshop commands, Crop/Straighten Photos, and PDF presentation. Soft proof images, set print options, optimize images create slices, and save optimized and sliced images.