Adobe Photoshop CS4
Introduction training class

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Class: Adobe Photoshop CS4 - Introduction

Duration: 2 days

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Class Outline for Adobe Photoshop CS4 - Introduction

To “Photoshop an image” has entered the common parlance and for the right reasons - Adobe Photoshop CS4 is the de facto standard for image manipulation. It’s an exciting tool to learn and offers almost unlimited creative freedom once you get to grips with its vast array of powerful tools. For photo enthusiasts and creative designers alike, there’s no other application on the market that provides such great tools

Adobe Photoshop CS4’s Workspace

-The Workspace overview
-Exploring Default Workspaces
-Toolbar, Measurements and Panels
-Reseting workspaces
-The Application Window
-Jumping to Adobe Bridge

Adobe Bridge

-Why use Bridge?
-Workspaces in Bridge
-Image info in Bridge
-Image sorting and grouping
-Opening and Placing from Bridge

Navigating a document

-Close up on bitmap pixels
-Zooming in and out
-Different views and windows
-Window modes

Selecting

-Overview of Selection Tools
-Overview of Selection Menu
-Quick Selection and Lasso tools
-Creating Selections using Marquee Tools
-Creating Selections using Magic Wand
-Selecting by Color
-Refining Selections
-Saving Selections
-Combining Selections
-Reloading a Selection

Saving your Work

-Filetypes: PSD vs PDF vs TIFF
-What about JPEG, PNG and the rest?
-Quick look at Save For Web…

The Layers Panel

-Understanding Layers
-Creating new layers
-Importing and Pasting to layers
-Changing Layer order
-Grouping and Naming Layers
-Starting to build layered compositions
-Layer Transparency and Blending Modes
-Turning a layer into a Smart Object

Enhancing an Image

-Understanding a Histogram
-Layer adjustments vs Image Menu adjustments
-Using Levels to improve light and color
-Hue & Saturation layer adjustments
-Selectively Change Color
-The Filters Menu - applying select filters

Retouching Images

-Applying adjustments directly with Tools
-Adjusting Selections only
-Quick Masking
-Layer Masks
-Clone Stamp and Healing tools
-Gradients and Gradient Masks
-Repairing damaged images

General Image Manipulation

-Drag, Drop, Copy and Paste
-Transforming Placed Content
-Changing Image Size and Canvas Size
-Cropping an image to a specific size
-Resolution - a primer
-Resizing and resampling and image
-Color modes

Text

-Adding Text Layers
-Editing Text
-Warping text
-Saving Files with Text

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