Photoshop 6 Tips & Tricks for Windows

Course description

Overview: Students will expand on the skills covered in the Photoshop Basic Skills 1 and 2 courses by working on a variety of image types. While students will learn to work with additional specific Photoshop commands and tools, they'll also study concepts that tie together multiple techniques they already know to create effects and make their work more efficient.

Prerequisites: Completion of the Photoshop 6 Basic Skills 1 and 2 courses, or equivalent knowledge.

Performance-based objectives

Lesson objectives help students become comfortable with the course, and also provide a means to evaluate learning. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

*           Clean up jagged line art and accurately replace colors in line art with soft edges.

*           Apply time-saving shortcuts for selecting, stacking, and blending layers.

*           Precisely control layer styles with contours and with combinations of layer effects, as well as by splitting layer effects onto multiple layers.

*           Repair and retouch old damaged photos efficiently and accurately.

*           Create atmosphere in an image by applying a soft focus effect and adding emphasis to the foreground.

*           Colorize grayscale images with a variety of techniques to create hand-tinted and sepiatone effects.

*           Wrap a two-dimensional object around a three-dimensional one realistically.

*           Use lighting effects and create cast shadows to further simulate three dimensions.

*           Transform a photographic image into a painted one with brushes, filters, and blending modes.

*           Combine multiple steps into one by saving them as Actions.

Course content

Lesson 1: Working with Line Art

Cleaning Up Low Resolution Art

Changing Line Art Color

Lesson 2: Layer Shortcuts & Techniques

Layer Shortcuts

Layer Styling Techniques

Lesson 3: Photographic Techniques

Cropping Tricks

Photo Restoration

Making Focus Adjustments to Images

Colorizing Grayscale Photos

Lesson 4: Creating Realism

Simulating Three Dimensions

Lighting Effects

Simulating Painted Effects

Lesson 5: Actions

Creating Actions

Working with Actions