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PSCS6L1: ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS6 LEVEL 1

Duration

1 day

Introduction

The course focuses on essential features of Photoshop CS6 and CC for beginners.

This entry level course is ideal for new users and those self taught who would like to expand their knowledge and confirm

they are using best practice when editing and saving/sharing images.

The course is structured into bite sized portions, with plenty of time to try out your new skills with a few easy mini projects.

Once completed and with time to practice, you will be well placed to move to the next day course, Photoshop level 2

Prerequisites

You should have basic computer skills and understand how to launch an application, browse to locate and open files, and

can navigate to on-screen elements using a mouse or other navigational devices.

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will understand:

Digial building blocks – pixels

What’s new in CC

Overall image adjustment basics

Layer basics and best practice

Adjustment layers

Saving files

Formats and resolution

Preferences

Selective adjustments

Combining images

Content replacement tools

File storage and access using Adobe Bridge

File formats and colour modes

Automated

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COURSE CONTENT

Getting started with Photoshop CS6 and CC

An easy to understand Introduction to digital images.

Like painting or drawing, images have building blocks,

and for Photoshop it’s the pixel. Understanding what you

can and can’t do with them will gives you a rock solid

base to explore Photoshop’s wide range of features.

Image size and format

The end use will often dictate the finished image. You will

be given a real world best practice approach to file

formats, size and resolution. JPG, PNG, PSD and other file

formats are explained, together with how to save files

specifically for print, web and screen.

Editing images

Image editing is mostly overall colour adjustment,

lightening or darkening images, and resizing. You will gain

the skills to not only correct your images, but gain a

better understanding of how to spot problems, and the

best practice of how to fix them.

Non destructive editing

One of the most important skills in Photoshop is speed.

You will gain a good understanding of the quickest way

to achieve your goal. It’s easy to change an image, but

what if you need to change it back to some degree?

Rather than starting from scratch, we will show you how

to use a technique called non destructive editing.

Working with lots of images

Often the same thing needs to be done to a number of

images. Re size, re colour, and lighten/darken to name a

few. You will learn how to use the automation and action

recording features of Photoshop.

Image illustration

Clear cutting and masking used to be an area for

professional photo retoucher. Thanks to Photoshop’s easy

to use range of editing tools, you will be masking, clear

cutting and merging images like a pro.

Cropping images

The cropping tool is only part of the story. Knowing where

and why to crop is just as important. A look at simple

cropping rules should equip you with the knowledge

needed to re crop images to make content meant to be

seen, stand out.