Course Content:

Introduction to Photoshop

Exploring the New Interface, Title Bar,Menu Bar,Options Bar, Document Window,The Toolbox,All New Tabbed Palettes, Screen Modes, Standard Screen Mode,Maximized Screen Mode, Full Screen Mode with Menu Bar,Full Screen Mode.

Configuring Basic Settings

Selecting a Workspace, Managing Palettes, Changing the Position of a Palette Group, Working with Keyboard Shortcuts and Menu Settings.

Working with Images

Bitmap and Vector Images, Understanding the Image Resolution, About the Pixel Logic Understanding the Image Size, Editing Images,Rotating an Image,Cropping an Image, Hiding Instead of Cropping, Working with Canvas Size, Duplicating an Image - Color Mode, RGB Mode, CMYI, Duotone Mode, Grayscale Mode, HSB Mode, Lab Mode, Changing Modes, Making Color Adjustments, Levels, Curves, Brightness/Contrast, Hue/Saturation, Variations, File Formats.

Creating, Transforming the Selections

Using Selections Tools,The Marquee Tools, Lasso Tools, Magic Wand Tool, Making Color Range Selections, Modifying a Selection, Adding and Subtracting Selection, Expand and Contract Commands,Grow and Similar Commands,Refine Edges,Inverse, Transforming a Selection, Scale,Rotate, Distort, Skew,Perspective,Warp, Saving and Loading Selection.

Drawing, Painting and Retouching Tools

Setting the Current Foreground and Background Colors, The Color Picker Dialog Box, The Eyedropper Tool, The Color Palette, The Swatches Palette, The Drawing Tools, Using the Rectangle Tool, Using the Custom Shape Tool, The Pen Tool , The Painting Tools The Gradient Tool, The Paint Bucket Tool, The Brush Tool, The Pencil Tool, The Color Replacement Tool,The Retouching Tools,The Spot Healing Brush Tool,The Healing Brush Tool,Patch Tool, Clone Stamp Tool, The Pattern Stamp Tool, The Eraser Tool, The Background Eraser Tool, The Magic Eraser Tool, The Blur Tool, The Sharpen Tool, The Smudge Tool, The Dodge Tool, The Bum Tool, Sponge Tool.

Layers

About the Layers Palette,Working with Layers, Creating a New Layer Using the Layer via Cut Command, Creating a New Layer Using the Layer via Copy Command , Changing Stack Order of Layer, Merging Layers, Flattening Images, Moving Layers between Images, Linking and Unlinking Layers, Working with Adjustment Layers, Applying Blend Modes, Masking Layers, Layer Masking,Vector Masking,Type Masking, Shape Masking .

Layer Style and Filter Effects Layer Style

Using the Layer Style Dialog Box, About Filters, About Smart Objects and Filters, Creating a Smart Object,Editing Smart Object, The Filter Gallery, Applying the Extract Filter, Applying the Liquify Filter, Applying the Vanishing Point Filter, Applying the Artistic Filters, Applying the Blur Filters, Applying the Brush Stroke Filters, Applying the Distort Filters, Applying the Noise Filters, Applying the Pixilated Filters, Applying the Render, Filters.

Automation and Printing in Photoshop

Creating an Action,Contact Sheet,Picture Package,Web Photo Gallery, Scanning Images, The Paths to Illustrator Command, Printing in Photoshop, Page Setup, Various Print Commands in Photoshop.