Adobe Photoshop CS4 / CS5 Introduction 
Course length: 3 days
Prerequisite: None
This course is designed to help you develop fundamental skills for correcting and altering digital images for Internet, multimedia, and print production.
Topics covered in this introductory Photshop course include:
Photoshop Workspace
- Arranging panels
- Saving workspaces
- Exploring the options bar
- Navigating in the document
- Using rulers and guides
- Incorporating Bridge into the workflow
Essentials
- Differentiating between raster and vector artwork
- Understanding resolution
- Preparing images for the Web
- Understanding the history
- Exploring Photoshop’s performance settings
- Understanding anti-aliasing
Painting
- Using the brush, eraser, and pencil tools
- Applying fills and strokes to images
- Using the paint bucket tool
- Using gradients
Crop
- Cropping and straightening photos
- Rotating images
- Adding canvas to an image
Selections
- Using the marquees tools
- Deselecting and re-selecting
- Adding to and Subtracting from selections
- Transforming and distorting selections
- Using the lasso tools
- Understanding the magic wand and quick select tools
- Utilizing the quick mask technique
- Isolating and saving selections
Photoshop Layers
- Exploring stacking order
- Differentiating a background from a layer
- Showing and hiding layers
- Linking layers
- Locking layers
- Manipulating the opacity of layers
- Duplicating and deleting layers
- Transforming and distorting layers
- Auto selectinglayers
- Merging and flattening layers
- Applying layer styles
- Using the magic eraser
Channels
- Understanding color modes
- Previewing Images with the gamut warning mode
- Creating alpha channels
- Correcting images
- Exploring levels
- Utilizing shadow/highlight
- Applying black and white
- Using hue/saturation
- Investigating unsharp mask
Retouching
- Exploring the patch tool
- Using the healing brush
- Investigating the spot healing brush
- Using the clone stamp
- Using the dodge, burn and sponge tools
- Fixing red eye
- Blurring and sharpening localized areas of an image
Text
- Understanding anti-aliased text
- Warping type
- Rasterizeing type
- Checking spelling
- Finding and changing and text
Course materials are provided. Course outlines serve as guidelines for the class. Our goal is to make sure that students receive the training they need to meet their objectives. We may alter course topics to best suit students needs.
Adobe Photoshop CS4 / CS5 Intermediate
Course length:2 days
Prerequisite: Basic Photoshop Skills
This course expands your creative skills by building on your existing knowledge of Photoshop. You will learn how to use adjustment layers and layer masks and discover creative uses for filters. You will explore Photoshop’s powerful automation tools which will allow you to speed up everyday production tasks.
Topics include:
Using Adjustment Layers
- Using adjustment layers to alter Images
- Creating layer clipping masks
- Confining adjustment layer effects with masking
Advanced Gradient techniques
- Creating custom gradients
- Working with noise gradient roughness
- Using gradients to add realistic color to images
Using Layer Masks
- Modifying masks in an adjustment layer
- Creating a collage with layer masks
- Working with filters and layer masks
- Pen tool review
- Using paths as Vector Masks
Automation and Actions
- Creating an action
- Batch processing
- Creating a droplet
- Automation with Bridge
- Photomerge
- Creating a Web photo gallery
Worth a Look
Photos.com is a royalty free stock photo company from which we've purchased images for several projects.
Poser
Try Poser if you want to add 3D characters to your projects. I've been using Poser since version 1 for character generation. It's still my favorite low cost 3D character animation program.
Breakaway Interactive offers custom onsite Adobe software training.
Located in Norman, Oklahoma, we have been providing instructor-led training since 1998.