Learn Adobe Photoshop

1. Workflow of Adobe Photoshop
2. Detailed Usage of Adobe Photoshop
3. Principles of Design
4. Elements of Design
5. Color Theory
6. Branding & Brand Identity
7. Layouts
8. Grid
9. System
10. Typography

Introduction to Adobe Photoshop

• Bitmap vs. vector
• Resolution and quality issues
• Viewing/opening documents
• Tool bar
• Most commonly used palettes

Rulers, guides and grids Layers

• Background v layer, creating layers
• Preserving data
• Re-arranging
• Hiding, locking/unlocking
• Naming, deleting
• Layer opacity

Layers Styles

• Shadow effect
• Glow effect
• Bevel & Emboss effect
• Color Overlay
• Gradient Overlay
• Pattern Overlay
• Stroke

Transformation

• Flipping, scaling, rotating, distorting, perspective
• Control options
• Free transform, straighten or tilt

Working with Text

• Warp Text
• Text with underline and Strikethrough
• Text with mask

Image

• Image sizes (handout)
• Image size vs. canvas size
• Cropping (and resizing), plus manual
• Image modes
• Basic retouching with clone, heal, patch tools

Color adjustment

• Basic tonal adjustment/enhancement
• Brightness/contrast: when to use levels (+ auto), shadow/highlight

‘Quality’ adjustment

• Dust and scratches, reduce noise
• Blur, Gaussian blur
• Sharpen/unsharpened, and size issues

Selections

• Various tools, tool options
• Inversing, feathering, grow, smooth, expand, similar
• Pen tool specifics
• Paths to selections
• Selection with Mask

Outputting for the Web

• Optimizing for Web colors
• Resizing and compressing an image for quick rendering

Saving

• Save options, file formats for InDesign, web etc.
• Paths to Illustrator
• Keyboard shortcuts

Project achievements:

• House ad/poster
• Duotone photograph
• Repaired photograph