Photoshop CS5 - Basics
If you are a photographer and are interested in editing/retouching
the photos, you have reached the right place, just register for the class and you will learn Photoshop from
our Instructor Jeff Shaffer, who himself is a photographer. He has tremendous knowledge
about Photoshop and you will have a great understand after learning from him.
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In the next two sessions we will learn how to:
- Use and customize the basic workspace of Photoshop
- Perform basic corrections on photos
- Retouch and repair photos/ Save in different file formats
- Use layers to enhance and composite images
- Create and work with selections to make isolated correction/adjustments
- Acquire and correct RAW images files from Digital SLR cameras
Upcoming Courses
Audience
Photoshop CS5: Level 1 is for beginners who need an essential understanding of photo editing.
This is a level 1 Photoshop course- no previous experience with the program is required. All students should be familiar with using a mouse, file management and general operations of a Macintosh or Windows operating system
Course Outline
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1. The Photoshop Workspace
- A. Opening files
- B. The toolbar: Selecting tools and toolbar options
- C. Using panels
- 1. Select, rearrange and use panels
- 2. Using commands and contextual menus in panels
- 3. Open and use a docked panel in the well
- D. Undoing actions to correct mistakes
- E. Customizing the workspace
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2.Basic Photo Corrections
- A. Understanding Image size and resolution
- B. Straightening and Cropping
- C. Adjusting Tonal Range
- 1.Remove color cast using Auto Color
- 2. Adjust saturation & brightness using sponge and dodge tools
- D. Using Clone Stamp Tool, Spot Healing, Patch and Healing Brush
- E. Sharpening an image using Unsharp Mask
- F. Saving image for use in a page layout program
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3.Working with Selections
- A. Using Selection Tools
- 1. Make specific areas of an image active using selection tools
- 2. Reposition a selection marquee
- 3. Move and duplicate a selection
- 4. Using Keyboard options with Tools
- 5. Deselect a selection
- B. Refining Selections
- 1. Adding to and subtracting from selections
- 2. Rotate a selection
- 3. Using multiple tools to make a complex selection
- 4. Erase pixels within a selection
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4. Layers Basics
- A. Organizing Layers
- 1.Create, View, and Hide Layers
- 2.Rearranging Stack order
- 3.Linking Layers
- B. Layer Effects
- 1.Blending Modes
- 2.Gradients
- 3. Applying filters to layers
- 4.Adding text and Layer Effects to a layer
- 5. Save a copy with the layers flattened
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5. Masks and Channels
- A. Using Quick Mask Mode
- B. Saving Selections as a Channel
- 1.View mask as a channel
- 2. Loading a saved mask
- 3. Applying Filter Effects and Blending Modes to mask
- 4. Moving the image within a mask
- 5.Isolate individual channels and use as a mask
- C. Create and Use layer Masks
- 1. Paint to modify selection
- 2.Use Quick Selection and Extract feature for intricate masks
- 3.Applying a Gradient to a mask
- 4. Erase pixels within a selection
- D. Isolate a channel to make specific image corrections
- E. Using Channels to create a high-quality Grayscale image
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6. Correcting and Enhancing Digital Photos Using Camera RAW
- A. Acquiring RAW images from the camera
- B. Making Image adjustments and corrections using Camera RAW
- C. Saving in DNG Format
- D. Using Tools for correcting digital photos
- 1.Red-eye tool
- 2. Noise reduction
- 3.Shadow/Highlight
- E. Perspective Adjustment
- 1. Vanishing Point
- 2.Transform to correct distortion
- F. Apply optical lens correction to an image
- G. Align and blend two images to extend Depth of field
- H. Prepare a PDF images gallery of selected images
- I. Adopt best practices for organizing, managing and saving images
