Adobe Photoshop CS5™ - Level 1
Students who are new to using Photoshop will gain familiarity with the interface. Along with learning the interface, students will begin to understand how to organize and rank images, apply image corrections and adjustments, and specify where those adjustments are made. Students will also learn the fundamentals of creating their own graphic designs. Upon completion of Level 1, students will have sufficient knowledge to begin working on their own images.
Fundamentals
- This is the Work Area
- Starting to work in Adobe Photoshop
- Choosing the tools
- Using the tool options bar and other palettes
- Using Photoshop Help
- Using Adobe online services
- Keyboard shortcuts and combinations (shift, opt/alt, cmd/cntrl)
- Navigating
- Options Bar
- Intro to Preferences
- Workspaces
- Panels and Panel Menus (Swatches, List – Expand and Collapse Palettes)
- Starting to Paint
- Brush Options
- Colors and Background Colors (D, X, Opt-Delete/Alt-Backspace, Cmd-Delete/Ctrl-Backspace)
- Multiple Undo and History
- Contextual Menu
- Creating a New Blank Document
Working with Color
- Foreground vs. Background
- Fill and Stroke
- Using the Color Picker
- Swatches Palette
- Gradients
Opening Files and Using the Bridge
- Using the Bridge to Preview Files
- Viewing and Organizing
- Rearranging and Renaming
- Batch Renaming
- Bridge Views
- Changing
- Collapsing
- Collapsed View
- Favorites
- File Navigation
- Ranking
- Opening in Camera Raw or Photoshop
Compositing
Working with Selections – Controlling Photoshop
- About selecting and selection tools
- Adding to and Deleting from Selections
- Drawing Shape-based selections
- Selecting with the various lasso tools
- The Magic Wand tool
- Combining Selection Methods
- Moving Selection, Moving Pixels, Copying Pixels
- Using Align with Move Tool
- Spacebar moves Selection while drawing
- Transform Selection
- Selecting by Color Range
- Using Quick Select
- Refining Selections
- Using Quickmask to Refine Selections
- Saving a Selection
Layers – Beginning Non-Destructive Editing
- About layers
- Background Layer
- Converting the Background Layer
- Layer Palette Options
- Renaming Layers
- Viewing and Hiding
- Working on Layers
- Jumping Selection to Layer
- Loading Layer Contents as Selection
- Moving layer contents to another image
- Rearranging layers
- Changing Opacity and Blending Mode
- Linking Layers
- Adding Gradient Layer – Intro Gradient tool
- Merging Layers and Flattening
- Managing Layers with Layer Groups
- Create Layer Groups
- Create Alternate Text Layers (duplicate Layer and Change)
- Using layer comps
- Use Alternate Languages for Comps
- Duplicate Layer Comp and Use Update Button
- Basic Layer Masks
- Basic Layer Blending for Shadows
Adjusting
Basic Photo Corrections
- Strategy for retouching
- Discuss RGB vs CMYK
- Resolution and image size
- Resizing an Image
- Straightening and cropping an image
- Measurement Tools
- Using the Info Palette
- Transform and Free Transform
- Using automatic adjustments
- Auto Levels
- Auto Contrast
- Auto Color
- Replacing colors in an image
- Replace Color
- Adjusting lightness with the Dodge and Burn tools
- Adjusting saturation with the Sponge tool