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Adobe Photoshop 101: An Overview of Photoshop CS3
Three Day Premiere Training Course

This Level 1 course provides you with the concept and skills to use Adobe Photoshop effectively. Hands-on training assist students with basic through advanced techniques to maximize this powerful tool. This course is also recommended for those planning to obtain the Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) status. We also offer one-on-one or onsite Photoshop CS3 training.

Adobe Photoshop Training is for beginners who need an essential understanding of photo editing.

No previous experience with the program is required. All students should be familiar with using a mouse, file management, and general operations of a Macintosh or Windows operating system.
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Overview of Photoshop

  1. Vector vs. Raster based images
  2. Resolution
  3. Anti-aliasing
  4. Starting the application
  5. Opening files from the hard drive, and opening new files
  6. Saving files, and choosing file formats
  7. RAM and Hard Drive requirements

Preferences

  1. Setting Photoshop preferences and Color Settings

Overview of the Workspace

  1. Toolbox
  2. Palettes
  3. Hiding and
  4. Docking palettes

Navigation

  1. Getting around, and viewing images using the
    Navigator palette
  2. Zooming in and out
  3. Using the Hand tool

Colors

  1. Switching the foreground and background colors
  2. Using the Swatches Palette
  3. Choosing CMYK safe colors, and viewing CMYK output
    in the RGB color space
  4. Using the color sliders to choose colors
  5. Choosing Custom colors
 Layers - I
  1. Creating
  2. Viewing
  3. Reordering
  4. Linking
  5. Moving
  6. Background layers
  7. Regular layers
  8. Layer Sets
  9. Locking layers

Selection Tools

  1. Using the basic selection tools: the Marquees, and Lasso tools
  2. Selecting by color, using the Magic Wand
  3. Adding and subtracting from selections
  4. Filling selections with foreground and background colors
  5. Hiding edges
  6. Saving selections
  7. Feathering selections

The Move Tool

  1. The difference between moving pixels and moving
    selection outlines

The Crop Tool and the Brush

  1. Setting brush options
  2. Modifying brush shape

The Airbrush Tool

  1. Painting with the airbrush

Basic Image Adjustment and Correction

  1. Using Variations
  2. Brightness and Contrast

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