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Adobe Photoshop Training, Image Manipulation

2-day Course

Principles

Editing Preferences
Title bar window spec.s
Colour Wheel
Colour channels
RAW
Histograms
Modes

Making Selections

Tools and methods

Colour management

CMYK-RGB conversion: issues
System requirements
Panel management
Scratch disks
Tools and Panel Options
Browsing Vector tools

Paths and selections

Cutouts, considerations,
Paths to selections
Multiple path export
Channel - path - export
Selections: modifying, transforming, colour range
Selection variations
Alpha channel selections and combinations
Displacement Maps
Adjustments
Bump maps
Masks, calculations
Perspective straightening

Colour conversion

Colour mode conversion, gamut warnings (view)
Colour sampler; info panel
Adding to swatches
Specials; procedure for 5th colours
Dangers in merging
Photo-montage

Layers

Layer effects
Layer modes
Changing order
Masking adjustments
Layer styles
Adjustments
Levels, Curves, Adjustment layers
Shadow / highlight
Histogram
Gradient maps
Organising
Correcting colour casts; variations (parameters)
Spot colours, Duotone specifics
Info panel, Colour sampler

Channels

Understanding use
Creating, Deleting, Renaming
Using as selections
Masks
Quick Mask, Editing, Applying Channels
Clipping masks, Vector masks

Restorative work

Blur / gaussian blur (web + focal considerations)
Noise: dust and scratches
Channel separations
Sharpen / unsharp mask
High pass
Replace colour, match colour etc
HDR merging
Filter control
Smart Objects
Blending options
Content-aware scaling
Content-aware fill
Puppet warping
Retouch tools

Simple effects

Puppet warp
Paint mixing
Photographic edges
Neon type
Photo-montage
Layer modes
Plug-ins and third-party software
Posterisation, solarisation etc
Inverting
Brush effects
History brush, art history brush
3d, filters
Distortion warps

Resolution

Resampling
Trading
Print requirements vs web requirements
Pixel dimensions
Canvas size
Crop tool specifics
DPI vs LPI
JPG standards, PNGs etc

Workflow

Quick colour selection
Drag-dropping multiple layer
Position on paste
Best formats
Optimising for web: 1-4 up, droplets
Creating a basic web page
Actions: recording, saving, setting up batch process
Contact sheets

Saving

Save options, file formats for export
Placing in Illustrator
Archiving formats
Printing considerations
Colour management
Zoomify

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