Introduction to Adobe Photoshop Course Details

Photoshop Basics

• Basic procedure

The Toolbox

• What the Tools do

Photoshop 5.0's Toolbox:

• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Toolbox groups; Toolbox flyouts
• Toolbox "tooltips"

The Options palette

• Opening the palette

Selecting Colours

Keyboard Shortcuts

Photoshop Preferences

• General preferences and Resetting preferences
• Saving files
• Transparency and gamut; Units and rulers
• Plug-ins and scratch disks; Guides and grids
• Memory and memory cache; Physical memory usage

Painting Tools

• Airbrush & Paintbrush
• Pencil & Line tool
• History Brush & Rubber Stamp tool
• The Rubber Stamp tool in action

• Monitor colour depth & resolution
• The Navigator palette
• The Zoom tool and the Hand tool

Making selections

• Magic Wand tool
• Modifying selections
• Quick Mask mode; Quick Mask options
• Useful conversions

Layers

Layer tips

• Copying and duplicating a layer
• Changing the layer palette thumbnail size

Layer modes

• Merge modes and Opacity

Bipmap file formats

• File compression
• Photoshop.PSD; Adobe Illustrator (A1 or EPS)
• Amiga IFF; Windows BMP
• CompuServe GIF; EPS
• Filmstrip FLM; JPEG (JPG)
• Kodak PhotoCD (PCD); MacPaint
• PCX; PICT; PIXAR; PixelPaint
• RAW; Scitex CT; Targa TIFF

Summary