8 week Photoshop Course for Beginners| 2hrs per week
Learn the tips and tricks of editing photos to create a professional image.
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Week one
Photoshop workspace
- The Photoshop workspace
- Organizing Photoshop panels
- Changing the Photoshop view
- Working with tabbed documents
- Working with the Zoom tool
- Preferences overview
- Rulers, grids and guides in Photoshop CC
- Screen modes
Adobe Bridge
- What is Bridge CC?
- Customizing the Bridge workspace
Week two
Essential tasks
- Starting in Camera Raw instead of Photoshop
- Using Undo and the History panel
- Removing a person from the background with masking
- Changing the color of an object
- Swapping heads in a family portrait
- Understanding resolution
- Removing blemishes with the Spot Healing Brush and the Patch tool
- Sharpening and perfecting your photos with Smart Sharpen
Week three
Layers
- Layers panel explained
- Aligning images within multiple layers
- Reducing chaos with layer groups
- Backgrounds and layers
- Merging layer techniques
- The basics of blend modes
- Understanding layer styles
- Generating a flexible drop shadow
- Create cool effects with layer groups in Photoshop
- Exploring layer basics
Week four
Selecting parts of an image
- Basic selection techniques
- Essential selections
- The Magic Wand and Quick Selection tools
- Building and editing a mask
- Selection 101
- Selecting soft edge objects with Refine Edge
- Working with Refine Edge
Week five
Image adjustments
- Introducing adjustment layers
- Improving tonal quality with Levels
- Reading a histogram and using the Info panel
- Increasing midtone contrast with Curves
- Shifting colors with Hue/Saturation
- Controlling which layers are affected by an adjustment layer
- Lightening and darkening image areas with Dodge and Burn
- Converting color to black and white
- Creating traditional darkroom toning effects
Week Six
Cropping and transforming
- Resizing an image to a smaller size
- Non-destructive crops
- Cropping and straightening an image
- Cropping to ratios, fixed sizes and resolution
- Understanding canvas size
- Crop to add canvas
- The relationship between pixels and image sizing
- Making non-destructive transformations with Smart Objects
Retouching
- Removing skin blemishes with the healing brushes
- Using Content-Aware Fill to remove distractions
- Removing dust and scratches
- Fixing rips and creases
Week Seven
Painting, drawing, and type
- Vector shape tools
- Draw and align shapes
- Cropping and merging shapes
- Combine shapes
- Working with vector-based shape layers
- Brushes 101
- Creating a paragraph style
Week eight
Filters
- Smart filters and the filter gallery
- Controlling a filter’s opacity
- Sharpening an image with Unsharp Mask
- Using the new three-part Blur Gallery
- Creating a soft glow with the Gaussian Blur filter
- Creative uses for Liquify
Printing and sharing photos
- Exploring the print dialog
- Printing smaller size proofs
- Creating contact sheets
Certificate of completion at Graduation on week 8. Must have attended all classes to receive certificate.