Understanding Photoshop

Faber Academy are running another tutorial, this time on Photoshop. There will be a beginner’s session in the morning and an intermediate’s in the afternoon.

Plans are as follows.

Morning session:

Opening Photoshop documents
Managing workspaces
Cropping and rotating artwork
Understanding image resolution, dimensions and file size
Lasso and marquee tools
Quick Selection and Magic Wand tools
Modifying and saving selections
Working with layers
Smart Objects
Removing imperfections and unwanted details
The Clone Stamp and Healing Brush tools
Content Aware Retouching
Pros and Cons of various file formats
Exporting for the web – GIF, JPEG and PNG.

Afternoon session:

Creating new documents
Layer opacity and blends
Solid colour and gradient fill layers
Creating and reusing layer effects
Grouping, linking and merging layers
Adjustment layers
Improving tonal range
Using curves to adjusting colour balance
Editing Hue and Saturation
Introduction to filters
Working with the text
Image and text effects
Character and paragraph formatting
Exporting for production – PSD and TIFF vs. JPEG