Course Information

Duration: Two-Day Course
Platform: Windows and Macintosh
Fee: $745 CDN (+GST)

This class is limited to eight people.

*As of January 1, 2008 all Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver and Flash courses will be on version CS3 unless otherwise indicated. If you are currently are using previous versions you can still benefit from attending this course.
Please contact DPA for more details or to have an instructor contact you.

Course Overview

In this hands-on course, you will master the basics of Adobe Photoshop’s painting, image manipulation and enhancement capabilities and modify electronic images using Adobe 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 Adobe Photoshop’s powerful Layers feature.

Course Content

• Restoring Adobe Photoshop default settings for Windows and Macintosh
• The Work area and toolbox, creating a custom workspace
• Selecting tools
• Using the palettes: showing/hiding, nesting & docking
• Creating new images
• Rules for scanning
• Understanding resolution
• Viewing images: scrolling, zoom – in and out, magnifying, using quick keys
• Using the Navigator palette  to zoom and an image around in the window
• Working with Adobe Photoshop 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
• Adding and removing colours from the Swatches pallete
• Using the eyedropper tool
• Using Undo/redo and revert commands
• Using the History palette
• Using and creating custom brushes
• Working with Adobe Photoshop Selection tools: rectangular Marquee tool, elliptical Marquee tool, lasso tool, polygon lasso tool, magnetic lasso tol, magic wand tool
• The Grow and Similar commands
• 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 in Adobe Photoshop with levels