Photoshop CS2 Essential Training is a programme designed for beginning users who want to learn the basics of Adobe Photoshop CS2. The training begins with an overview of the software, including simple functions such as managing documents and palettes, then quickly moves on to cover more specific topics such as image adjustment and manipulation, tonal and colour correction, brush settings, cloning, healing and other advanced tools, layers, masks, type, blending modes, filters, layer effects and so much more.
Course Title: Introduction To Adobe Photoshop Training
Duration: 11 hours of 1 hourly lessons, weekly, bi-weekly or monthly
Cost: £35 per lesson, per hour
Pre-requisites: None - Basic keyboard and PC skills are part of the course.
Objectives: The goal of this Adobe Photoshop Training course is to introduce attendees to the features of Adobe Photoshop.
Course Profile: The 1 hour lessons are tutor-led by a Adobe Photoshop Specialist with over twenty years computer training experience in the print and publishing sector.
We are happy to vist at home and training can take place on your own PC running Adobe Photoshop.
Course contentsInterface Essentials
The Default Workspace
Palette Management
Customizing Your Workspace
Customizing the Menus
Customizing the Keyboard Shortcuts
Tools and Tool Presets
Essential Preferences
Using Help
Navigation
The Document Window
Using the Navigator Palette
Panning and Zooming
Changing Screen Modes
Managing Multiple Document Windows
Changing the Matte colour
Digital Image Essentials
File Formats
Resolution, colour Mode, and Bit Depth
What Resolution Does Your Image Need to Be?
Image Size: Resize vs. Resample
How Big a Print can You Make?
The Resize Image Wizard
Accurate Print Size Preview
Cropping Images
Adding a Border by Extending the Canvas
Adobe Bridge Essentials
Accessing the Bridge
Changing the Workspace
Sorting and Rating Your Images
Viewing Your Images in a Slideshow
Assigning Keywords and Finding Your Images
Using the Batch Rename Command
Ordering Prints Online
Camera Raw Essentials
What is Camera Raw?
Processing a Camera Raw File
Processing Multiple Camera Raw Files
Non-Destructive Cropping
Undo and History
Undo and History
History Palette Options
Painting with History States and Snapshots
Creating a History Log
Transformations
Rotating and Flipping
Straightening Crooked Images
Cropping and Straightening Photos Automatically
Correcting Perspective with the Crop Tool
Scaling, Skewing and Rotating with Free Transform
Warping Images
Selections and Channels
Using the Marquee and Lasoo Tools
Using the Magic Wand Tool
Using the Magnetic Lasso Tool
Saving and Reusing Selections
Painting
Brush Tool Essentials
Picking colours
Using the colour Picker
Using the colour Palette
Saving Custom colours as Swatches
Sampling colours with the Eyedropper Tool
Tonal Correction
The Evils of Brightness/Contrast
Using the Histogram Palette
Improving Tonality with Levels
Using the Auto Contrast Command
Improving Tonality with Curves
Creating an “S” Curve to Boost Contrast
Shadow/Highlight is Your Friend
Basic colour Correction
Removing a colour Cast with Auto colour
Adjusting the Auto colour Settings
Removing a colour Cast with the Levels Eyedroppers
Adjusting colour Balance
Selective Desaturation
Using Hue/Saturation
Matching colour Across Multiple Images
Layers Essentials
The Background Layer
Working with Layers
Changing the Opacity of a Layer
Using a Clipping Mask
Layer Masks
Layer Mask Essentials
Swapping Heads in a Family Portrait
Adding a Gradient to a Layer Mask to Isolate Corrections
Flowers of Hawaii Composition Project
Adjustment Layers
Adjustment Layer Essentials
Using Auto colour as an Adjustment Layer
Masking the Effects of an Adjustment Layer
Digital Photo Filters
colour to Grayscale with Channel Mixer
Using Multiple Adjustment Layers
Repairing Discoloured and Noisy Shadows
Blending Modes
Three Blending Modes You Must Know
Cycling Through the Blending Modes
Adding a Lens Flare Effect with Screen
Tonal Correction with Screen and Multiply
Creating a Diffused Contrast Glow with Overlay
Dodge and Burn with Overlay
High Pass Sharpening with Overlay
Retouching
One-Click Red Eye Fix
Removing Unwanted Objects
Removing Blemishes with the Healing Brush
Using the Spot Healing Brush and Patch Tools
De-emphasizing Wrinkles
Brightening Teeth
Enhancing Eyes
Push and Pull with Liquify
Layer Styles
Creating Drop Shadows
Using Inner Shadow to Create a Carve Effect
Making an Object Glow
Creating a Stroke with Sharp Corners
How (and When) to Scale Layer Styles
Essential Filters
Gaussian, Surface and Lens Blurs
Lens Blur Pt. 2
Radial Blur
Simulating Film Grain with Add Noise
Reducing Noise
Smoothing Skin with Median
Smart Sharpening
Vanishing Point
Cloning in Perspective
Type Essentials
Character (Point) Type
Paragraph (Area) Type
Checking Spelling
Type on a Path
Warping Text
Vector Shapes and Tools
Shape Tools Essentials
Creating Multiple Shapes on a Single Shape Layer
Creating Custom Shapes
Using the Pen Tools
Printing and Sharing
Saving Paper and Money with Picture Package
Creating a Contact Sheet
Creating a Web Photo Gallery
