Find your way round Photoshop, be the boss, understand it’s ways…

Beginners Photoshop is for people who’ve not much or no experience with Photoshop and want to be able to perk up their pics, create cutouts, make montages and work with type.

Entertaing to be sure. But artistry alone is not always enough! While your creative juices flow, we’ll also explore the nitty gritty of out how to make your images play nice with print and work wonders on the web.

The Photoshop Workspace

• Tools, Options and Panels
• Workspace customisation features
• Tool and Document presets
• Document navigation

Photoshop – Key Concepts

• Introducing layers
• The History panel and undoing
• Understanding image formats
• Bitmaps and vectors
• Colour modes and channels
• File formats
• Images for the Web
• Printing images and resolution

Getting stuff done – image editing basics

• Resizing, cropping and rotating
• Adjusting brightness and colour
• Colour channels
• Using the histogram
• The adjustment menus
• Using adjustment layers

Using Photoshop Filters

• About filters
• Fading filters
• Using smart filters
• Sharpening and blurring
• Unsharp mask
• Blurs

Painting and retouching

• Introduction to brushes
• Colour replacement tool
• Bucket and Gradient tool
• Clone and healing tools

Making selections

• Understanding and working with selections
• The marquee tools
• Quick selection and magic wand tools
• Feathered selections
• Refine edges
• Working with paths
• What are paths?
• Making smooth cutouts with the pen tool
• Creating clipping paths
• Understanding masks and alpha channels
• Saving selections as channels
• Quick masks

Using layers

• Working with layers
• Using layers masks
• Layer styles

Type in Photoshop

• Typographic features
• Type layers
• Type masks
• Warping type
• Converting type to paths

Automation – using Actions and Batchs

• Creating Actions
• Batch Processing files
• Creating Droplets