Welcome to Introduction to Adobe Photoshop

This is an introductory course designed to explore the process of digital image manipulation using Adobe Photoshop as the primary tool. The course will explore digital image capture (scanner and camera), digital image manipulation and preparation of images for electronic publication. The training begins with a basic overview of the software including simple functions such as managing documents and palettes. It quickly advances to cover more advanced topics such as image adjustment, manipulation, color correction, brush settings, cloning, healing and other advanced tools, saving, layers, type, screen modes, filters, layer effects and many more topics in Photoshop. There will be three assignments. The first assignment will be a collage that is executed in photoshop. The second assignment will be design of a poster or book. The last assignment will address preparing photoshop files for electronic distribution. This will include file formats: gif, jpeg and PDF's.
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY
JUNE 2

Introduction • Mac Basics
Photoshop Intro
Toolbox
Menu Bar
Color Space(mode)
Layers Pallete

Zoom Tool
Crop Tool
Marquis Tool
Move Tool

Assignment #1 - Collage

 JUNE 3

Canvas Size/Image Size
Scanning
Layer Adjustments including levels
Desaturate
Grayscale, Monotone, Duotone, Quadtone

Pen Tool - Add, Delete and Convert Anchor Points

 JUNE 4

Edit Fill
Gaussian Blur (Edges of Photos)
Invert
Activate Layer

Lasso Tools
Magic Wand Tool
Pattern Stamp Tool

 JUNE 5

Blur, Smudge and Sharpen Tool
Dodge, Burn and Sponge Tool
Clone Tool
Patch Tool
Healing Brush Tool

Layer Effects

 JUNE 6
JUNE 9

Critique

Paste Into
Images off the Web
Spell Check

Type Tools

Assignment #2 - Book/Poster Design

 JUNE 10

Digital Photos
Actions
Rasterize Layer

Book Set Up

Brush Tool
Gradient Tool

 JUNE 11

Helvetica The Movie

Color Balance/Replace Color
Liquify Filter

Custom Brush
Shape Tools

 JUNE 12

Skew with Free Transform
Measure Tool
Posterize, Filters
Eye Dropper

Link, Duplicate, Merge Visible Layers

Photomerge

History Brush

 JUNE 13
JUNE 16

Preparing files for Digital Publication including web, powerpoint and PDF

File Browser
Jpeg, Gif Formats
Gif Animation

Assignment #3

JUNE 17

PDF Files
Align Objects

 JUNE 18

Eraser Tools

Burn CD

 JUNE 19

Maymester Review

 JUNE 20

Brian Pirman
Associate Professor - Art
Bush Art Center 167
403-4046
brian.pirman@snc.edu