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 thorugh cameras and/or smart phones, 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. It also includes saving files, 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: animated gif, jpeg and PDF's.

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Digtial Photography and Image Manipulation Terms
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

JANUARY 2

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

Zoom Tool, Crop Tool
Marquis Tool, Move Tool
Lasso Tools

Assignment #1 - Collage

JANUARY 3

Layer Adjustments including levels

Desaturate
Grayscale, Monotone, Duotone, Quadtone
Edit Fill
Images off the Web
Rotate Images
Scale Images

Pen Tool - Add, Delete and Convert Anchor Points

JANUARY 4

Canvas Size/Image Size
Gaussian Blur (Edges of Photos)
Activate Layer
Transparency
History
Undo
Link, Duplicate, Merge Layers
Show, Hide, Lock Layers

Magic Wand Tool
Pattern Stamp Tool


JANUARY 5

Invert
Layer Effects
Downloading Fonts • DaFont

Type Tools
Clone Tool

 

JANUARY 6

 

Some
Inspiration

JANUARY 9

Paste Into
Spell Check
Liquify Filter
Distort - Skew, Perspective etc.
Save as JPEG demo

Patch Tool
Gradient Tool

Assignment #2 - Book/Poster Design

 JANUARY 10

Align Objects

Healing Brush Tool
Shape Tools

Assignment 1-Due (Class Critique)

 

 JANUARY 11

Book Set Up • Conversion Chart
Liquify Filter

Brush Tools

 

 JANUARY 12

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

Helvetica
The Movie (Watch on your own)
 JANUARY 13
JANUARY 16

Digital Photos
Actions
Rasterize Layer
Color Balance/Replace Color
Content Aware
Adobe Fonts

Assignment #3 - Jpeg, Gif and PDF

JANUARY 17

Skew with Free Transform
Measure Tool
Posterize, Filters
Eye Dropper
Photomerge
File Formats (including Jpeg)

Gif Animation

History Brush

JANUARY 18

Assignment 2 - Due
(Class Critique)

Preparing files for Digital Publication including web, powerpoint and PDF

Adobe Illustrator Intro

J-Term Review-Part One

 JANUARY 19

PDF Files

Eraser Tools

Assignment 3
Due Monday January 23
(via email)

J-Term Review-Part Two

Last Day of Classes
 JANUARY 20

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