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Adobe Photoshop CS5 Fundamentals
 
Target Audience:  

Users who need to modify and enhance images for use in web sites, newsletters and other business documentation.

  
   
Objectives:  

By the end of the course, users will be able to use several tools for selecting parts of an image, understand layers and apply layer effects. Additionally, users will be able to use painting tools and blending modes to create shading effects in an image.

  
   
Prerequisites:  

Users must be proficient with a mouse and keyboard and be able to confidently work within a Windows environment - minimise, maximise, open, close. 

 
   
 
       
     
  Duration: 2 Days
  Cost: £350 + VAT
     
 
  Course Date Location
  18/03/2013 Liverpool
  08/04/2013 Bradford
  08/08/2013 Bradford
  05/09/2013 Liverpool
  12/12/2013 Bradford
     
         

Getting Started with Photoshop CS5

  • Introducing Photoshop CS5

  • The Photoshop Interface

  • Working with Panels & Panel Groups
 

Creating & Saving Images

  • Creating, Saving  & Opening Images

  • Viewing, Zooming & Navigating Images
 

Working with Selections

  • Selection Techniques & Tools

  • Using the Magic Wand Tool

  • Modifying Areas & Selection Borders
 

Editing Images

  • Modifying Images Properties

  • Viewing Actions in the History Panel

  • Moving & Copying Selections

  • Cropping an Image

  • Drawing with the Pencil & Brush Tools

  • Cloning Parts of an Image

  • Stamping Parts of an Image

 

Working with Colours

  • Understanding Colour Modes

  • Working with the Colour Panel & Colour Gamut

  • Applying Colour using the Paint Bucket & Eyedropper Tool
 
   

Transforming Images

  • Using the Skew, Distort, Warp & Perspective Tools

  • Rotating an Image

  • Scaling an Image
 

Modifying Photographs

  • Correcting Photos using Red Eye, Dodge & Burn

  • Enhancing Photos using Sponge, Sharpen, & Smudge Tools

  • Working with Eraser Tools
 

Working with Layers & Masks

  • Creating Layers & Deleting Layers

  • Linking & Locking Layers

  • Changing the Layer Order

  • Adding Text with Type Layers

  • Protecting Areas with a Layer Mask

  • Using Quick Mask Mode
 

Working with filters

  • Adding Filter Effects to Images

  • Warming & Blurring Filters

  • Liquefying Drawings
 

Customising the Environment

  • Changing View Options

  • Setting Default Preferences

  • Automating Actions with the Actions Panel

  • Recording & Editing Actions