Affirm Consulting Courses

Photoshop - Level One Outline

General Course Information: As courses can be customised to suit, condsider this as a general guide. Face-to-face courses are offered, but not restricted to, the Sydney metropolitan area. Other requirements will be considered on request.

Description: This course is an introduction for students who would like to learn how to use the Adobe Photoshop photo editing program.

Learning Outcomes - on completion participants will be able to:

• Manipulate palettes and navigate in the Photoshop environment
• Select appropriate resolutions for different image and output types
• Resize and crop image areas
• Select image areas using the Lasso, Marquee, and Magic Wand tools
• Use alpha channels to save and load selections
• Create and manipulate multiple layers
• Apply blending and shading effects
• Select colours using a variety of methods
• Use Photoshop's painting tools
• Add and format text
• Apply filters and layer effects
• Modify the brightness, contrast, colour balance, hue, and saturation
• Save images in different file formats

Target Audience: Designed for participants interested in learning to modify and combine scanned photographs to create realistic composite images using Photoshop

Prerequisites: Participants should have basic computer skills and be proficient using mouse and keyboard and Windows.

Methodology: A hands-on approach is taken during this course. The exercises are designed to impart relevant skills and knowledge through practice.