Adobe Photoshop Introduction

Goals

Learn the basics of Photoshop, image size, retouching, colormanagement, photomontage

Prerequisite

Knowledge of the Windows or Mac work environment.

Contents

Introduction

• The workspace: menus, options, panels, toolbox

• Saving workspaces

• The difference between vector and pixel images

• The notions of quality: size of the image in pixels, resolution, image depth and compression factor

• Colour fields: RGB, CMYK

Retouching the image

• Cropping

• Image size

• Colour adjustment with Camera Raw

• Retouching tools

• Tool options

Selections

• Rectangular/oval selection

• The Tools: Magic Wand, Quick Selection, Object Selection

• The lassos

• Transforming the selection: adding, removing

Layers

• Creating and manipulating layers

• Overlaying

• Opacity and blending mode

Text

• Text editing

• Character and paragraph options

• Modifying the text layer or its effects

Masks

• Clipping masks

• Layer masks: creation, modification