Photoshop Essentials

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2 About the Course Photoshop essentials will cover Photoshop main tools to manipulate photos, enhance photos, create art photography and produce simple design as well as typography design. After this course students will be able to: Understand Photoshop workspace (Tool box, Layer panels, Colour panel, Swatches, styles, Paths and top menu option bar) Identify appropriate tools (Move tool,selection tool, Pen tool, foreground and background colour, Selection tools, clone tools, gradient tool, paint bucket tool, shapes and type tool) Create a new document and apply appropriate settings (document size, purpose of document, background set-up and applying appropriate resolution size) Identify various image formats (Vectors, Bitmaps,JPEG,PDF,GIF and PSD) Work with various images (Open various images, transferring from one canvas to another and placing images in a single

Topic 1 Exploring Photoshop work space - the tool box, option menu bar and panels. Opening and setting a new document (Resolution, units and setting background layer). Working with two images.

3 Topic 1 Exploring Photoshop work space - the tool box, option menu bar and panels. Opening and setting a new document (Resolution, units and setting background layer). Working with two images. Layers: What are layers-layers properties(duplicate, positioning, link, show & hide, opacity & fill, layers adjustment and clipping mask). Practicing layers Practical session - Pencil tutorial

Topic 2 Marquee tools (Selections) Exploring selection tools - Rectangular, elliptical,magic wand and quick selection Practicing marquee tools and knowledge of transform tool

4 Topic 2 Marquee tools (Selections) Exploring selection tools - Rectangular, elliptical,magic wand and quick selection Practicing marquee tools and knowledge of transform tool Understanding selection options and modifications Using Hue and Saturation Image Adjustment option Practical using the feather technique for blending images Exercise

5 Topic 3 Putting in practice marquee tools and related techniques. In this topic you will work out a tutorial that covers almost the use of all marquee tools with the intend to apply appropriate techniques and revise marquee tools. Introduction to brushes - selecting brushes, identifying brushes, setting up brushes and customizing brushes. Exercise

6 Topic 4 Understand and apply gradients - what are gradients- how to apply gradients - customize gradients. Practice brushes - apply appropriate brushes and apply appropriate techniques to create a scene in Photoshop from scratch using brushes and other brush related tools. Exercise

7 Topic 5 Using text in Photoshop - Characters panel, text style Integrating text to design - integrating text to images Apply styles to text Practical tutorial integrate styles with text - create logo using plastic effect technique. Exercise

Topic 6 Revision tutorial - convert modern photo into old photo, this tutorial will review layers positioning, blending options, hue and saturation and introduction to filters

8 Topic 6 Revision tutorial - convert modern photo into old photo, this tutorial will review layers positioning, blending options, hue and saturation and introduction to filters for effects techniques. Understanding patterns and shapes how to create patterns and shapes. Practice how to define shapes and patterns - save shapes and patterns. Exercise

Topic 7 In this topic you will create artistic photography using patterns and complete two tutorial that will inspire you for you final project and present your portfolio.

9 Topic 7 In this topic you will create artistic photography using patterns and complete two tutorial that will inspire you for you final project and present your portfolio. Tutorial 1 - Create a mosaic face using patterns Tutorial 2 - Create spike abstract background Tutorial 3 - Creating curving shapes in Photoshop (tentacle tutorial)

10 Topic 8 In this topic you will learn various ways how to present your portfolio and complete your final project for evaluation. You will learn how to present a video of your portfolio and set for printing out put. Final project and video portfolio out put

Chapter 1 Introduction to Photoshop CS3 1. Exploring the New Interface Opening an Existing File... 24

CONTENTS Chapter 1 Introduction to Photoshop CS3 1 Exploring the New Interface... 4 Title Bar...4 Menu Bar...5 Options Bar...5 Document Window...6 The Toolbox...7 All New Tabbed Palettes...18 Opening an