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.
Digtial Photography and Image Manipulation Terms
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

January 5

Design History Lecture

Introduction • Mac Basics
Photoshop Intro
Toolbox, Menu Bar
Color Space(mode)
Layers Pallete
Duplicate, Link, Transform
New Document

Zoom Tool, Crop Tool
Marquis Tool, Move Tool

Assignment #1 - Collage


 JANUARY 6

Scanning
Layer Adjustments including levels
Desaturate
Grayscale, Monotone, Duotone, Quadtone

Pen Tool - Add, Delete and Convert Anchor Points

JANUARY 7

Canvas Size/Image Size
Edit Fill
Gaussian Blur (Edges of Photos)
Activate Layer
Invert

Lasso Tools
Pattern Stamp Tool

 

 JANUARY 8

Edit Fill
Images off the Web

Magic Wand Tool
Blur, Smudge and Sharpen Tool
Dodge, Burn and Sponge Tool

 JANUARY 9
JANUARY 12

Align Objects

Clone Tool
Patch Tool
Healing Brush Tool

Assignment #2 - Book/Poster Design


 JANUARY 13

Book Set Up

Brush Tool

Helvetica The Movie

Critique (Assignment 1)

JANUARY 14

Paste Into
Layer Effects
Spell Check
Liquify Filter

Type Tools

 JANUARY 15

Digital Photos
Actions
Rasterize Layer
Color Balance/Replace Color

Gradient Tool
Shape Tools

 JANUARY 16
JANUARY 19

Skew with Free Transform
Measure Tool
Posterize, Filters
Eye Dropper

Photomerge

History Brush
Custom Brush

Assignment #3 - Jpeg, Gif and PDF

 JANUARY 20

Critique (Assignment 2)

Preparing files for Digital Publication including web, powerpoint and PDF

Bridge
Jpeg, Gif Formats
Gif Animation
Burn CD

 JANUARY 21

PDF Files

Eraser Tools

J-Term Review - Part One

 JANUARY 22

Assignment 3 Due Monday January 26

J-Term Review - Part Two

 JANUARY 23

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