Adobe PhotoShop CS3

Duration : 18 hrs

Course Outline

•  Introduction to Photoshop CS3

•  What is new in Photoshop CS3

•  Image Modes & Pixels: to open pictures, to create new documents

•  The Workspace: option bar, hidden menus, palettes, shortcuts

•  View and Window: all the commands you need to zoom and arrange

•  Understanding history palette & Pixels

•  Colour correction: basic adjustments to optimize contrasts, colors and saturation

•  Creating background for Video: introduction to rendering filters

•  Selections: rectangular and elliptical marquee, the 3 lassos, magic wand

•  Layers: basis to photomontage

•  Text layers and layers styles

•  Accurate colour correction: optimizing channel contrasts and removing color cast

•  The amazing Shadows/highlights adjustment

•  Blend Modes: Multiply, Screen, Overlay, Soft Light, Color

•  Creating multilayer background for Video: merging layers

•  Selections: extract filter, range and colour based selection

•  Insert vector shapes and rasterize

•  Adjustment Layers to create non-distructive corrections

•  Layer masks: to hide pixels

•  Advanced colour correction: using channels to optimize contrasts, colors and saturation

•  Further Blend Modes: Darken, Lighten, Hard Light, Luminosity, Difference

•  Filters to increase micro contrasts: Unsharpen mask, High pass

•  Selections: accurate selections with pen tool

•  The amazing performances of healing brush and clone stamp

•  Dodge/Burn/Sponge: the digital make up

•  Colour replacements

•  Masking Adjustment Layers