Adobe Photoshop CS4
Application Overview:
Adobe Photoshop CS4
Adobe Photoshop CS4 software allows you to scan, create, modify and enhance digital photographs and images. Ideal for photographers, graphic designers, and web designers, the professional standard delivers new features such as automatic layer alignment and blending that enable advanced compositing. Live filters in Photoshop CS3 boost the comprehensive, nondestructive editing toolset for increased flexibility.
Users: Photography, Web, Creative, Marketing and Admin Professionals as well as anyone who needs to create, edit, manipulate, colour correct digital imagery.
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Course Information
Duration: Two-Day Course
Platform: Windows and Macintosh
Fee: $765 CDN (+HST)
This class is limited to eight people.
Course Overview
In this hands-on course, you will master the basics of Photoshop's painting, image manipulation and enhancement capabilities and modify electronic images using Photoshop's painting and editing tools. You will learn to make selections and save them as Alpha channel masks. You will also create drop shadows with Photoshop's powerful Layers feature.
Course Content
- Restoring default settings
- The Work area and toolbox, creating a custom workspace
- Selecting tools
- Using the palettes: showing, hiding, nesting & docking
- Creating new images
- Rules for scanning
- Viewing images: scrolling, zoom - in and out, magnifying, using quick keys
- Using the Navigator palette to zoom in & out, and to move an image around in the window
- Working with the painting and editing tools: brush tool, spot healing brush tool, patch tool, red-eye tool, clone stamp tool, gradient tool, blur tool, sharpen tool, smudge tool, sponge tool, dodge and burn tools
- Selecting foreground and background colours with the Colour Picker and Colour palette
- Using the eyedropper tool
- Using Undo/redo and revert commands
- Using the History palette
- The Grow and Similar commands
- Working with the Selection tools: rectangular Marquee tool, elliptical Marquee tool, lasso tool, polygon lasso tool, magnetic lasso tool, magic wand tool
- Using Feathering to create a feathered edge and create borders using the Border command
- Alpha channels: saving, loading and deleting channels
- Layers: adding layers, changing the order, duplicating layers, selecting layers, linking& unlinking layers, grouping & ungrouping layers
- Use the Transformation commands to scale, rotate, skew, distort and apply perspective to objects on layers
- Using the Fill command to fill or delete a layer
- Using Hue/Saturation, and colourizing a grayscale image
- Working with type effects to highlight and apply type attributes
- Warping and unwarping type
- Colour: basic colour theory, using colour balance
- Adjusting colour with levels
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