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adobe photoshop CS3 Introduction

Course Description

This bigrockdesigns training course in Photoshop CS3 will explain features such as masking, filters, layers, blend modes, Liquify, Vanishing Point, and vector-based type. The learner will be shown how to construct and organize the elements in a composition so you can edit them easily in the future and many additional features to speed and enhance a user’s workflow

Course Outline

 

Index

  • Navigating the interface
  • Opening an image
  • Opening multiple images
  • Adding file info
  • Tiling and scrolling
  • Zooming shortcuts
  • Zoom tool
  • The Navigator palette

Setting preferences

  • Color settings
  • Custom keyboard shortcuts
  • rearranging keyboard shortcuts
  • Organizing the palettes
  • Saving your workspace

Adobe Bridge

  • The Bridge turns two
  • Introducing the Bridge
  • Managing image thumbnails
  • Rotations, ratings, and labels
  • The new Filter panel
  • Moving, copying, and deleting images
  • Batch renaming
  • Customizing and saving the workspace

Color management and cache

  • Understanding Color Adjustment
  • ''Color Correction'' explained
  • Color Balance vs. Variations
  • The Variations interface
  • Color primaries and complements
  • Correcting the color cast
  • Fading an adjustment

Adjusting hue and saturation

  • Changing yellow paint to red
  • Selectively adjusting hues
  • Refining your color range
  • Shadows, Highlights, and Midtones
    Brightness and Contrast
  • Levels of luminance
  • Bad old Brightness/Contrast
  • Modifying a histogram
  • Channel-by-channel adjustments
  • saturation explained
  • When Levels fail
  • Curves

 

Correcting the composite image

  • The Shadow/Highlight filter
  • Image Size and Resolution
    Imaging fundamentals
  • The Image Size command
  • Selecting an interpolation option
  • Upsampling versus
  • Changing the print resolution
  • Downsampling your artwork
  • How do you make a small image big?
  • Cropping and Straightening
    Frame wide, crop tight
  • Drawing a freeform crop
  • The Crop command
  • Auto Crop & Straighten
  • Straightening an image with the Ruler tool
  • Perspective cropping

Making Selections

  • Flowers and saw blades
  • Meet the Selection tools
  • The Magic Wand tool
  • Tolerance and other options
  • Grow, Similar, and Inverse
  • The Quick Selection tool
  • The Marquee and Lasso tools
  • Using Refine Edge to preview a selection
  • The Refine Edge slider options
  • Saving a selection
  • Using the Move tool
  • Replacing, Retouching, and Editing

Red-eye explained

  • Using the Red-Eye tool
  • The Color Replacement tool
  • Replacing colors with lighter shades
  • Brightening teeth with the Dodge tool
  • Removing plaque with the Sponge tool
  • Spot-healing blemishes
  • Using the Standard Healing brush
  • Healing large areas with the Patch tool
  • Painting inside a selection
  • The new Clone Source palette
  • Adding drama with the Toning tools
  • Merging history states

Summary

who should do this course

 
This course is ideal for the learner with sound PC or MAC skills. You have basic knowledge of the CS suite and wish to develop your skills to a new level of expertise using the suitable elements from all the CS2 applications

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Course Duration:
-1, 2 days
Course Level:
-Intro/Inter
recommended reading
Adobe photoshop cs3 recommended reading

Photoshop CS3 Essential Skills by Mark Galer and Philip Andrews
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