Photoshop CS4 or CS5 Level 1

The goal of this course is to give participants a combination of instruction and guided hands-on experience with Photoshop. By the end of the course students should have a good working knowledge of basic tools and techniques.

Course Outline

The goal of this course is to give participants a combination of instruction and guided hands-on experience with Photoshop. By the end of the course students should have a good working knowledge of basic tools and techniques. Topics will include getting images into Photoshop, image editing using selections and various ways to output files.
If possible students should have a version of Adobe Photoshop in their offices or at home to practice during the course.

We are teaching 5.5 but students can receive the manual for any version back to 4.  We teach in a lab where each student can choose to use either Mac or PC.  The interface is the same just the shortcut keys change.

Course Content

Introduction

• Discuss image types (Raster vs. Vector)
• Opening Photoshop
• Photoshop workspace (Default)
• Opening Images
• Image dimensions-pixel dimensions-document size-print size
• Navigator palette- zooming, panning
• Introduction to histogram palette

Magnifying tool and hand tool

• Keyboard shortcuts for magnifying

Opening New Documents

• Size and resolution options
• Presets
• Creating custom preset sizes

Layers palette

• Background layers
• Active layers
• Adding and deleting layers
• Linking, Naming, Grouping layers
• Aligning and distributing layers

Combining images

• Drag and drop
• Copy and paste

Brush Tool

• Present Brushes
• Changing Brush properties
• Introduction to Dynamic Brushes
• Loading brush sets
• Creating custom brushes

Foreground and background colour

Colour Palette

• Eyedropper tool
• RGB Colour space

Transforming images

• Scale
• Rotate
• Skew
• Free transform

Selections

• Marquee tools
• Magic wand
• Quick selection tool
• Lasso tools
• Adding and subtracting selections

Quick Masking

• Setting preferences

Type Tool

• Horizontal and vertical type
• Anti-aliasing
• Horizontal and vertical type mask

Styles Palette

Gradient tool

Masking Images

• Creating masks
• Deleting masks
• Adding and subtracting from a mask

Image adjustments

• “destructive” image adjustments
• Auto levels
• Shadow and highlight
• Colour replacement
• Hue and saturation
• Black and White

Image adjustment layers

• Levels
• Hue and saturation
• Black and white

Spot Healing brush

• Healing Brush
• Patch tool
• Red eye tool

Creating duplicate Photoshop documents

• Arranging windows

Photoshop preferences

• Scratch disks
• Computer Performance

Clone tool

Crop tool

Image Restoration

Creating Photo panoramas

Saving basic files

• PSD documents
• Jpeg
• TIFF
• flattened
• layered

Additional Details

Pre-Requisites

Basic computer concepts/skills and knowledge of Windows

Certificates offered

Certificate of completion

Cancellation Policy

10 business days cancellation or full course fee will be charged

Map & Reviews

Technology Training Centre
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Edmonton Training Center
B-11 Cameron Library
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada   T6G 2J8

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Great course

Reviewed by Trevor H. 2011

   

Course instuctor did not hand out the manuals until end of the day. Therefore not able to write notes in for reference later on. - kinda silly.

Reviewed by Mike C. 2011

   

You shoudl have a Excel 3 class available

Reviewed by Brandy Z. 2011

   

Great training, had to meet the various needs from no experience to some with experience. Washrooms looked tired and need of improvement. Personally prefer an early start/early finish 8am to 3pm would be great

Reviewed by David S. 2011

   

Course materials were not handed out till the end of the course and may have been useful to follow along. Some of the example/course files were missing from my folder.

Reviewed by Craig B. 2011

   

The Instructor was very knowledgable on the subject. The class moved quickly. I think an additional day would have been nice.

Reviewed by Cheryl . 2011

   

Trainer was open to answering questions and provide information in a clear manner.

Reviewed by Maureen D. 2011

   

Well presented, hands on course! The instructor was extremely knowledgable and helpful!! I have already reccommended this course to my managers.

Reviewed by Kelly D. 2011

   

The trainer I had was great. She had a great personality that kept me interested. Awesome Job! Thank you

Reviewed by Lindsey G. 2011

   

The course was excellent and the instructor did a great job but why does everybody cut the time short. I think we should take a shorter lunch and get more class time instead of leaving a half of an hour early!

Reviewed by Darlene T. 2011

   

EXCELLENT instructor!!! Very patient ... customized the class to the needs of the students!

Reviewed by Jackie G. 2011

   

The only improvement I can suggest is focusing a bit more on the basics of Visio - more on Org & flow charts as opposed to so much time spent on designing rooms.

Reviewed by Karyn G. 2011

   

George was personable and easy to follow and work with.

Reviewed by Suzanne S. 2011

   

Sue is an awesome instructor!

Reviewed by Cathy P. 2011

   

The instructor was excellent. It was evident that several of us who were competent with Excel 2003 Level 1 should have probably taken Excel 2007 Level 1 again rather than Excel 2007 Level 2, but the instructor was very patient and managed to cover basics from Level I as well as Level 2.

Reviewed by Kim C. 2011

   

With myself being very green with this program I got very useful information that I can use daily.

Reviewed by Rick . 2011

   

One more hour would allow for more hands-on training.

Reviewed by Kerstin M. 2011

   

Good course. Friendly instructor. I found the speed of the course to be a little slow for me, however I understand that other attendees required more help/detail than I did. Overall, a good experience.

Reviewed by Jenna N. 2011