Graphic professionals who need an essential understanding of photo editing.

This is a level 1 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.

APPLICATION OVERVIEW

• Vector vs. Raster based images
  
• Resolution
  
• Anti-aliasing
  
• Starting the application
  
• Opening files from the hard drive, and
  
• opening new files
  
• Saving files, and choosing file formats
  
• RAM and Hard Drive requirements

PREFERENCES

• Setting Photoshop preferences and Color Settings

OVERVIEW OF THE WORKSPACE

• Toolbox, palettes, hiding and docking palettes

NAVIGATION

• Getting around, and viewing images using the Navigator palette
  
• Zooming in and out
  
• Using the Hand tool

COLORS

• Switching the foreground and background colors
  
• Using the Swatches Palette
  
• Choosing CMYK safe colors, and viewing
  
• CMYK output in the RGB color space
  
• Using the color sliders to choose colors
  
• Choosing Custom colors

LAYERS

• Creating, viewing, reordering, linking, and moving
  
• Background layers and regular layers
  
• Layer Sets
  
• Locking layers

SELECTION TOOLS

• Using the basic selection tools: the Marquees, and Lasso tools
  
• Selecting by color, using the Magic Wand
  
• Adding and subtracting from selections
  
• Filling selections with foreground and background colors
  
• Hiding edges
  
• Saving selections
  
• Feathering selections

THE MOVE TOOL

• The difference between moving pixels and moving selection outlines

BASIC KEY COMMANDS

THE CROP TOOL THE BRUSH TOOL

• Setting brush options
  
• Modifying brush shape

THE AIRBRUSH TOOL

• Painting with the airbrush

THE ERASER TOOL

BASIC IMAGE ADJUSTMENT AND CORRECTION

• Using Variations
  
• Brightness and Contrast