Adobe Photoshop 5.5 for Professionals
Who Needs to Attend
Graphic professionals who need an essential understanding of
photo editing. Experienced users will also benefit from
the many tips and tricks and special exercises.
Course Outline
This class provides you with the concepts and skills to use
Adobe Photoshop effectively. You will learn color painting,
photo retouching and image editing. Whether you are a designer,
illustrator, photographer, video artist, webmaster
or just a beginner, Photoshop offers you many opportunities to
make your images look great.
Prerequisites
Because of the amount of material we cover in class, we do require
students to be comfortable using a mouse, opening
and saving files, and the general operations of computers.While
we will make every reasonable effort to help, students
with insufficient skills may be required to observe the class
lessons or do their best to keep up without slowing down
the rest of the class. We highly recommend working with the application
tutorial before coming to the course.
What You Will Learn
· Using the Toolbox, Palettes, Views, Guides and Zooming
· Working with Selections
· Layers
· Painting and Editing
· Masks and Channels
· Photo Retouching
· Advanced Layer Techniques
LESSON I Getting to Know the Work Area
· Starting Adobe Photoshop and opening files
· Using the tools
· Viewing images
· Working with palettes
· Using context menus
· Using on-line help
· Using Adobe on-line services
· Jumping to ImageReady
· Review questions
LESSON II Working with Selections
· Tool Overview
· Getting Started
· Selecting with the rectangular marquee tool
· Selecting with the elliptical marquee tool
· Moving a selection
· Selecting with the magic wand
· Selecting with the lasso tool
· Adding and subtracting selections
· Selecting with the magnetic lasso
· Transforming a selection
· Combining selection tools
· Cropping the completed image
· Review questions
LESSON III Layer Basics
· Organizing artwork on layers
· Getting started
· Creating and viewing layers
· Selecting and removing artwork on a layer
· Rearranging layers
· Changing the opacity and mode of a layer
· Linking layers
· Adding a gradient to a layer
· Adding text
· Adding a layer effect
· Flattening and saving files
· Review questions
LESSON IV Painting and Editing
· Getting started
· Painting and filling images with color
· Setting up a painting or editing tool
· Painting within a selection
· Erasing
· Filling with the paint bucket tool
· Using custom brushes
· Airbrushing and smudging
· Creating gradients
· Creating soft-edged effects
· Painting with a texture
· Defining a brush
· Review questions
LESSON V Masks and Channels
· Working with masks and channels
· Getting started
· Creating a quick mask
· Editing a quick mask
· Saving a selection as a mask
· Editing a mask
· Loading a mask as a selection and applying an adjustment
· Extracting an image
· Applying a filter effect to a masked selection
· Creating a gradient mask
· Applying effects using a gradient mask
· Review questions
LESSON VI Photo Retouching
· Strategy for retouching
· Resolution and image sizes
· Getting started
· Cropping and image
· Adjusting the tonal range
· Removing a color cast
· Replacing colors in an image
· Adjusting saturation with the sponge tool
· Adjusting lightness with the dodge tool
· Removing unwanted objects
· Replacing part of an image
· Applying the unsharp mask filter
· Saving the image for four-color printing
· Review questions
LESSON VII Advanced Layer Techniques
· Getting started
· Adding guides to align artwork
· Working with layer masks
· Aligning images
· Aligning layers
· Creating a clipping group
· Adding adjustment layers
· Adding text
· Adding multiple layer effects
· Removing layer masks
· Review questions
LESSON VIII Setting Up Your Monitor for Color Management
· Getting started
· Color management: an overview
· Calibrating and characterizing your monitor
using Adobe gamma
· Saving the monitor profile
· Review questions
LESSON XI Producing and Printing Consistent Color
· Reproducing colors
· Getting started
· Defining the RGB color space for images
· Defining the CMYK color space for images and
printing
· Compensating for dot gain in grayscale images
· Preparing images for print
· Preparing a color separation in Adobe
PhotoShop
· Strategies for successful printing
· Displaying individual channels
· Identifying out-of-gamut colors
· Previewing a printed image
· Selecting print options
· Printing
· Review questions
Pricing
Adobe Photoshop 5.5 is a one-day course for $250.00 plus $40.00
for materials.
Time
Class time is 9:00 a.m.- 4:00/4:30 p.m.
Breaks are scheduled throughout the day and lunch is typically
scheduled 12-1. Students provide their own lunch.
We may change or alter course topics to best suit the classroom
situation.