Photoshop course - beginner

Adobe Photoshop two-day beginner and advanced courses in Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town.

Photoshop essentials
• The Photoshop interface
• Working with tabbed windows
• Image Navigation tools
• Using the History panel and multiple undo
• History brush and snapshots

The characteristics of a Photoshop file
• Pixels and paint programs
• Image resolution, dimensions and file size
• Understanding colour channels and modes
• Understanding file formats

Setting basic image characteristics
• Working with Mini Bridge
• Creating new documents
• Cropping, rotating and straightening artwork
• Changing image resolution and artwork size
• Making colour mode conversions
• Saving and exporting files for web and print

Correcting an image
• Understanding image Histograms
• Using the Info panel
• Using the Levels command
• Checking for colour casts
• Adjusting colour balance
• Replacing object colour
• Editing hue and saturation

Defining selections
• Lasso and marquee tools
• Quick Selection and Magic Wand tools
• Feathering selections
• Modifying and transforming selection shape
• Saving and loading selections

Retouching techniques
• Using the Dodge and Burn tools
• Working with the Focus tools
• The Clone and Heal tools
• Removing imperfections and unwanted details
• Using Content Aware Fill

Day two:

Working with paint and colour
• Using the Eyedropper tool
• Mixing paint and fill colours
• Print and web safe colours
• The Paint Brush tool
• Adding solid colour fills
• Adding a gradient fill

Working with layers
• Adding transparency to objects
• Building a multi-layered document
• Moving, scaling and rotating layers
• Linking layers
• Locking and protecting layers
• Creating layer groups
• Merging and flattening layers
• Exporting layered documents

Creative techniques using layers
• Creating layers for paint and fill effects
• Layer opacity and blends
• Adding layer effects
• Adding drop shadows
• Glow and emboss treatments
• Introducing layer masks

Shape and text layers
• Introducing vector shape layers
• Polygons, lines and custom shapes
• Working with the Text tool
• Adjusting character attributes
• Text anti-aliasing

Special effects with filters
• Using Photoshop filters
• Sharpen and Blur filters
• Using Smart Filter layers
• Using the Liquify command

Printing and optimising documents
• Printing from Photoshop
• The Save for Web and Devices command
• Understanding image compression and optimisation settings

Questions and answers

Venues

Date: 21 June 2012 to 22 June 2012
Location: Centurion, Centurion
Cost: R4,250
More info: Tea/coffee, lunch and free parking.
Course materials and certificate included.
8:30am - 4pm each day.

Date: 17 July 2012 to 18 July 2012
Location: Centurion, Centurion
Cost: R4,250
More info: Tea/coffee, lunch and free parking.
Course materials and certificate included.
8:30am - 4pm each day.

Date: 07 June 2012 to 08 June 2012
Location: Centurion, Centurion
Cost: R4,250
More info: Tea/coffee, lunch and free parking.
Course materials and certificate included.
8:30am - 4pm each day.

Date: 19 July 2012 to 20 July 2012
Location: Centurion, Centurion
Cost: R4,250
More info: Tea/coffee, lunch and free parking.
Course materials and certificate included.
8:30am - 4pm each day.

Date: 25 June 2012 to 26 June 2012
Location: Cape Town, Cape Town
Cost: R4,500
More info: Tea/coffee, lunch and free parking.
Course materials and certificate included.
8:30am - 4pm each day.
Bookings: http://www.multimediacentre.co.za/classselection/booking.asp?CoursedateID=6111

Date: 09 July 2012 to 10 July 2012
Location: Durban, Durban
Cost: R4,500
More info: Tea/coffee, lunch and free parking.
Course materials and certificate included.
8:30am - 4pm each day.

Contact: Neil Stromin
Company name: Multimedia Centre
Telephone number: 0217903684
Email address