You are starting to familiarize yourself with image editing using Adobe Photoshop
CS3. You would like to learn about the tools and features available to you. In this
course, you’ll learn about the capabilities of Adobe Photoshop CS3 as well as build
an effective workflow.
You will use Adobe Photoshop CS3 tools for painting, retouching and enhancing images.
with selections and layers.
Managing the Adobe Photoshop CS3 Environment
Exploring default Workspace & Bridge
Introduction to the Toolbar
Palette management & Screen real estate
History Palette & Undoing Actions
Navigation shortcuts
Working with Selections
Creating Selections using Magic Wand
Adjusting Selections
Quick Selection and Lasso tools
Combining Selection tools for complex objects
Saving and Reloading a Selection
Enhancing an Image
Using Levels and Curves
Compensate for flash with Shadow & Highlight
Variations to quickly decide about a colour cast
Hue & Saturation controls
Blurring and sharpening using Filters
Painting and Retouching Images
Digital darkroom techniques
Clone Stamp and Heal tools
Creating, saving and loading custom colours
Painting with Paintbrush, Pencil or Paint Bucket tool
Introduction to Gradients and painting with Gradients
Working with Quick Mask mode & Layer Masks
Working with Layers
Importing images, Layers and Selections
Transforming Layer Objects & using the Smart Objects
Starting to build layered compositions
Applying Transparency
Basic Blending Modes
Other goodies as Text Layers, Adjustment Layers and Layer Styles
Outputting your artwork
Colour modes, Resolution and Image Size
Cropping an image vs Extending the Canvas
File formats & optimizing artwork for Web
Before taking this course, you should have a basic understanding of your computer’s operating system, you should know how to launch an application, create and save files, and copy files from CDs and other media.
This class is for all levels of Photoshop users. Seasoned users may wish to take this class to enforce their Photoshop knowledge or to rid themselves of bad Photoshop habits. Students will not just learn how Photoshop works, but also about many of the new CS3 features.
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
Enhance an image by removing colour cast, compensate for flash lightning and red eyes
Increase/Decrease the contrast and brightness of your artwork
Create simple compositions by blending images together or selecting only parts of an image
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