Syllabus

Photoshop

Essentials

• The Photoshop Screen
• Getting to know the Tools & Palettes
• Utilizing guides, grids and rulers
• Zoom shortcuts and convenient navigation

Selections

• Why use Selections?
• Creating selections using Marquee tools
• The Magic Wand and Quick Selection tool
• The Lasso tools
• Adding or Deleting from selections
• Saving and Loading selections
• Tonal Values Control
• Toned and Tinted Images creation
• Selecting by color range
• Feathering selections
• Quick Mask mode

Image Correction

• Properly Using the Histogram palette
• Fixing color with variations
• Using Levels and Curves to fix tone & contrast
• Color balance and variations
• Hue and saturation controls
• The Vibrance command

Re-Touching Techniques

• Custom colors
• Dodge and burn tools
• Crop and rotate artwork
• Sharpen and Blur filters
• Focus tools
• The Clone & Heal tools
• The Healing Brush tools
• The Color Replace tool
• Red eye reduction
• Digital darkroom techniques
• Gradients creation and editing

Filters, Painting and Drawing

• Using Plug-ins and filters
• Using the Unsharp Mask
• Cloning Images
• Using the Burn/Dodge/Sponge Tools
• Print and web safe colors
• Mixing and applying paint and fill colors
• Using the Paint Bucket tool
• Using the Airbrush, Pencil, Paintbrush and Eyedropper tools
• Drawing shapes
• Creating vector shape layers
• Polygon, line and custom shape tools
• Adding, subtracting, intersecting commands
• Editing vector shapes using the pen tools
• Adding color fills, patterns and gradients

Working with Layers

• Multiple Layers creation and viewing
• Moving, scaling and rotating layers
• Linking & aligning Layers
• Merging, Flattening and Saving Layers
• Locking and protecting layers
• Layer groups
• Applying and editing type
• Converting shape and text layers
• Saving and flattening layered files

Merging layers

• Applying transparency
• Fundamental modes of layer blending
• Text and adjustment layers
• Special effects
• Drop shadows, glows and embossing
• Layer masks

Operating with Text

• Fresh Features
• Text Layer Creation
• Text Paragraphs
• Adding Text Effects,
• Painting Text
• Anti-aliasing Text

Special Effects

• Photoshop filters utilization
• Working with the Filter Gallery
• Fading the effects of filters

Files Saving

• File formats
• Right color mode selection
• Adjusting resolution and image size
• Canvas cropping and enlargement
• Printing and Optimizing Documents
• Color modes, resolution & image size
• Printing from Photoshop and other Applications
• The Save for web command
• Developing Transparent GIF files

Finalizing (Wrapping Up)

• Final assessments of all above
• Tips for enhancing Graphics Design further
• Pro tips for job interview