Photoshop - Beginner To Medium Level

DESCRIPTION

Develop a basic understanding of how to create and manipulate images and artwork compositions using Adobe Photoshop for use on the web, email and print. Learn how to create and manipulate images and artwork compositions using Adobe Photoshop for use on the web, email and print.

Photoshop is the software used commonly in business, publishing and the graphics industry, and this course provides not only a well designed pathway to learning, but also an opportunity to ask questions of professional graphic artists who use the software on a daily basis.

This is an excellent entry level course for anyone wanting to use Photoshop in their work, and is also suitable for keen amateurs.

Is this course right for me?
If you work with images, photos, and graphics, you will find this course very useful. It is also an excellent course for people who are interested in digital photography, and are wanting to learn to edit and print their pictures.

Please note that software is not included in the cost of this course.

LESSON STRUCTURE

There are 9 lessons in this course:

1. Learning the menus
2. Working with digital image files
3. Understanding the Tool Palette
4. Using Layers, Actions and History
5. Digital painting, shapes and colours
6. Selecting, Resizing, Transforming and Masking
7. Adjustments and modifications
8. Adding Filters and Styles
9. Preparing files for print and web

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

AIMS

Open digital files using Photoshop

Resize images and save them in multiple file formats

Create original graphics using the Photoshop tools

Manipulate individual elements of a graphic composition or image

Improve the quality of an image by applying modifications

Apply interesting filters and effects to images or compositions

Prepare files for the web, print or email.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

Learn the major menu options and what they mean

Open and save files in different formats and learn what the differences are

Scan or download photos from a digital camera and edit them

Prepare images for email

Use the major Photoshop tools and improve understanding of how graphics are created

Create multiple layered compositions and explore movement and position

Understand colour

Create original graphics and artwork

Add exciting effects to images

Format files for the web and print

DELIVERY

Correspondence

Online