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Adobe Course Overview
In this course, you'll learn skills to enhance your ability to create accurate masks, image effects, and retouch images. You'll further your understanding of isolating image areas by creating and saving masks with specialized tools, commands, modes, and layer elements. You'll learn how to use vector paths for a variety of purposes, including masking, clipping paths, and illustration. You'll also create and apply creative elements such as gradients, patterns, and color overlays, and will generate special effects ranging from distorted type to simulating natural media paint realistically. When you've completed the course, you'll have a firm grasp on Photoshop concepts that are applicable to almost every facet of using the application, including Web design, preparing photographic images for printing, and illustration.
Course Objective:
- Use the Background Eraser, Quick Mask mode, alpha channels, and layer masks to isolate image areas quickly and accurately, even for images with indistinct edges and very fine details.
- Create clipping masks to use one layer's contents to mask another's.
- Create vector paths as tools for selecting images, for creating transparent areas in images to be used with other applications, and for drawing shapes.
- Create color swatches, gradients, and patterns.
- Distort type by warping it, wrapping it on a path, and transforming it.
- Create layer comps to quickly compare multiple versions of a document.
- Retouch and restore old damaged photographs.
- Simulate natural media painted effects.
- Automate multi-step processes with actions and batch processing.
Prerequisites:
To ensure your success, we recommend you first take the following course or have equivalent knowledge:
- Photoshop CS: Basic Image Enhancement
Delivery Method:
Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom delivery learning model with structured, hands-on activities.
Course duration:
1 day.
Hardware/Software Requirements:
You will need:
- PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor.
- Mac OS X v.10.2 through v.10.3.
- At least 192 MB of RAM (256 MB recommended).
- At least 320 MB of free hard-disk space to install software, and an additional 25 MB to run the course.
- A color monitor with 16-bit or greater video card (24-bit color recommended).
- 1024 x 768 or greater monitor resolution.
- A CD-ROM drive.
- Adobe Photoshop CS and Adobe ImageReady CS.
Class Requirements
Step 1.
- On the course CD-ROM, double-click the 078323Data.sit file and save the 078323Data folder on your computer. This folder contains all the data files that you will use to complete this course.
Step 2.
- In order to ensure that all features of Photoshop will be available for this course, run a standard installation from the software installation CD.
Step 3.
- This course will run best if you remove the Photoshop preferences files. If these preferences are not removed, some of the options chosen during previous sessions may affect your work in Photoshop throughout this course. Navigate to the Macintosh HD:Users:[User]:Library:Preferences folder. Delete the Adobe Photoshop CS Settings folder, or drag it to another location on your computer's hard disk so you can reinstate it after the class to continue using the settings it specifies.
Step 4.
- This course specifies the use of specific fonts. If these fonts are not installed, some of the documents the student works on will not display as intended. Make sure the fonts Arial, Arial Black, Impact, and Times New Roman (or equivalent, such as Times New Roman PS MT) are installed on the computer.
Step 5.
- Staged data files have been provided with this course. These files may allow you to find a possible solution if you get stuck at any point during the course. If you wish to use the staged data files, on the course CD-ROM, double-click the 078323ddstaged.sit file, and save the 078323Staged folder to your computer.
- In the 078323Staged folder on your computer, the Lesson folders contain all the course images and data, completed up to the lesson indicated by the folder name. For example, if you would like to view the data as it should appear at the beginning of Lesson 4, you should open the Lesson 4 folder in the 078323Staged folder on your computer. All the files you'll need to complete the rest of the course are contained in the new folder.
Step 6.
- In addition to the specific setup procedures needed for this class to run properly, you should also check the Courseware product support Web site at for more information. Any updates about this course will be posted there.
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