PHOTOSHOP
Course Outline
All sessions will combine short discussions, demonstrations,
question and answer sessions and appropriate exercises. Space will also be given
in each session to look at alternative solutions and develop your problem solving
abilities. The following presents a probable rather than definite timescale to the
course programme.
Week 1
Introduction: Course Outline
Diagnostic session: What do you know already? What do you want to know?
Covering the basics
Short talk: What are digital images? How do they behave? How will their characteristics affect the way you work with them?
Overview of the programme: introduction to the tools and their uses.
Getting out of trouble (reverting, backup and storage)
Week 2
Scanning and an introduction to image adjustment
Some other items on the menu bar
Selection, cropping, cutting and pasting
An introduction to layers
An introduction to the options bar
Week 3
Using masks
More about layers
Fine tuning your tools with the options bar
Week 4
Touching up or faking it? Using the clone tool for everything from simple repairs to telling blatant lies
Using the transform function
Week 5
Colour correction and manipulation
How to get the best out of your images
How to make sure they look good on someone else’s computer too
Using filters and effects (and how to avoid looking cheesy)
Week 6
Vectors and paths: a different world
Painting and drawing mean completely different things when you are using a computer
Week 7
Using type in images: from the simple to the baroque
Week 8
Layer styles
Blending modes
Custom gradients
Week 9
How to impress your clients by looking really fancy: actions and automation
Week 10
Moving images: an introduction to Image Ready
Course Aims
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