Photoshop DVCI
CS3 "Classroom in a Book" Lessons & Practice Projects:
Elements of Design Projects - Theory of Design
7 Areas of Design
Photoshop DVC-1 Training: Syllabus: What we plan to cover
- Review OSHA Training- 1 week – safety regulations – PowerPoint & Test
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- Intro to Mac
- Starting computer
- Creating folder on desktop
- Backing up your work in print & files on a Mac
- Major differences between Mac & PC when operating
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- Starting with Photoshop
- Locating program and starting up
- New File window
- Resolution settings
- Units (pixels vs inches)
- Color modes
- Opening files
- Saving files- basic file types
- Copying images off the internet and placing into Photoshop
- What are layers?
- Resizing Images- Edit>transform>scale command
- Navigator window
- Workspaces and restoring your default workspace
- Moving, resizing and erasing parts of an image on a layer
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- Intro to Toolbar
- Move Tool
- All tools have a “contextual” toolbar at top- changes with chosen tool
- Selection Tools
- Marquee selections- feathering control
- Lasso selections
- Magic wand selections
- Select menu (select all, deselect, reselect, inverse)
- Viewing Tools
- Zoom Tool vs Navigator Panel
- Hand Tool
- View> Fit On Screen Command
- Screen Modes
- Standard, max, full with menu-bar, full without menu-bar
- Painting tools
- Brush & brushes palette controls
- Pencil
- Eraser Tool
- Gradient tool vs Paint Bucket tool
- Color Selection Tools
- Foreground & Background Colors- selecting & switching
- Color Picker
- Eyedropper Tool
- Text Tool
- Horizontal & Vertical Type tools
- Horizontal & vertical type mask tools
- Specialized Tools
- Clone Tool
- Blur, sharpen & smudge tools
- Dodge, burn & sponge
- Additional tools to review at later date
- Slice tool
- Healing brushes and patch tools
- History & Art History brushes
- Background Eraser & Magic Eraser
- Pen Tool set (anchors)
- Path selection tools
- Adding Shapes & Shape Layers
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- Photoshop- Dealing with Photographs vs vector images
- Difference between vector graphic and bitmap graphic
- Photoshop for photographers vs Photoshop as a graphic design tool
- Using Layers of bitmap images in Photoshop – digital collage
- Layers - visibility & stacking order
- Managing layers: new, duplicate, delete, merge visible and flatten
- Copy/paste vs place commands
- Editing a placed image within a file (linked file) vs a pasted image
- Running filters on layers vs layer styles commands
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- Pulldown Menu Controls
- File menu choices
- New, open, close, save, save as, place, revert, import, export, print
- Edit Menu choices
- Step backwards, step forwards, redo, fade
- Cut, copy, paste
- transform
- Image choices
- Modes
- Adjustments
- Brightness-contrast
- Hue-saturation
- Curves
- Color balance
- Black and white conversion vs desaturate command
- Variations
- Layer choices
- New
- Duplicate
- Delete layer
- Layer styles
- Opacity
- Styles
- Blending modes
- New Fill Layer
- New Adjustment Layer
- Convert Layers to Smart Object
- Opening - Editing- Saving Smart Objects
- Merge down
- Merge visible
- Flatten image (discard hidden layers)
- Select choices
- All
- Deselect
- Reselect
- Inverse
- Filter menu
- What are filters?
- Where do filters come from?
- Filter Categories
- Artistic
- Blur
- Brushstrokes
- Distort
- noise
- pixelate
- render
- sharpen
- sketch
- stylize
- texture
- Video
- Filter Gallery
- Liquify
- View menu
- Zoom in, zoom out, fit on screen
- Actual pixels vs print size
- Screen modes
- Show> grids & guides
- Creating guides (drag out from rulers)
- Rulers
- Changing ruler units (same as InDesign)
- Snap To command > grid or guides
- Window menus (contains panels in the right-hand dock)
- Arrange multiple windows
- Workspaces- default vs custom
- Dock
- Primary control panes
- Layer Pane
- Navigator Pane
- Tools
- Secondary panes- under Windows
- Color swatches
- Brushes
- Channels
- Color
- History
- Styles
- Shapes
- Paths
- Character
- Clone source histograms
- Paragraph
- Etc
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Introduction to Text Tools
- Vector Graphic vs Bitmap image
- Creating & Editing text
- Point text vs fill text
- Horizontal vs vertical text tools
- Selecting fonts to use
- Setting font style, size and color
- Text alignment
- Selecting text on a layer to edit (watch the cursor)
- Text warp choices
- Text and layer style controls
- Character & Paragraph controls for blocks of text
- Clipping Masks with text
- Creating text-tool presets in control bar
- Show and Use transform controls on text
- When do you need to rasterize type
- Rasterizing type (Layer>rasterize>type)
- What can you do to type after it is rasterized?
- Run various filters meant for bitmaps
- Pros- more filter choices than layer styles
- Cons- destructive editing
Selection Tools in detail
- Marquee tools
- Lasso tools
- Magic wand tool
- Magic Eraser Tool
- Quick selection vs Magic Wand
- Select Menu>
- All, deselect, inverse
Layers: In detail
- New, duplicate , delete
- Layer visibility
- Layer stacking order
- Managing layers with layer groups
- Locking-unlocking layers
- Type vs bitmap layers
- Shape Layers vs Paths
- Rasterizing type layers
- Adding color with color-fill layers
- Adding gradients with Gradient fill layers
- Applying patterns with Pattern fill layers
- Merging, flattening saving layers
- Working with shape layers
- Vector graphics - pen tool
- Creating, saving & editing paths
- Converting Paths to selections & selections to paths
- Creating custom shapes
- Custom Shapes Libraries premade shapes
- Shape Layers as Clipping Masks
- Shapes Layers with Gradients , pattern fills & adjustment layer controls
- Converting layers to a Smart Object
- Using Smart Objects Layers
- Smart Objects
- Smart Filters
- Layer Comps- creating & using
Layer Masking: channels & clipping masks
- Layer mask basics
- Quickmasks- creating- editing-saving-opening-using
- clipping masks & text
- Type masks
- Gradient Masks
Layer Styles Panel> Layer Blending
- Blending modes and opacity
- Advanced Layer blending controls
Layer Styles & Effects
- Adding layer effects
- Customizing a layer style
- Copying a layer style
- Saving a layer style
- Applying a style from the style panel
- Rasterizing layer effects
- Controlling layer fill opacity
- Using Smart Filters in conjunction with Smart Object Layers
- Working in the Filter Gallery
Clipping Layers:
- Clipping multiple layers
- Clipping layers to limit adjustments
- Filling type and shapes with photos- clipping masks
Layer Comps:
- Understanding layer comps
- Creating and editing layer comps
Image Adjustment
- Modes:
- Grayscale, RGB, CMYK
- 8 bit, 16 bit, 32 bit
Image Adjustment Controls
- Color Corrections
- Reading understanding Histograms
- Levels vs curves
- Using adjustment layers to alter an image nondestructively
- Limiting adjustments with layer masks
- Adjusting with brightness contrast
- Adjusting with hue/saturation
- Adjusting with color balance
- Adjusting with curves
- Adjusting with B&W
- Adjusting with Shadow/Highlight
- Adjusting with variations
- Adding Adjustment layers- nondestructive editing
- Image Correction Project:
Painting
- Brushes Panel
- Editing and saving brush settings
- History brush
- Art history brush
- Filling with color
- Replacing with color
- Getting custom brushes online- importing into brushes palette
- Creating brush presets from imported Illustrator artwork
- using brushes with pressure sensative bamboo tablet
Channels and Masks
- How channels work
- What are duotones, tritons, quadtones
- CMYK vs RGB
- color seperations and printing plates
Masks & selections
- Alpha channels
- Creating- editing alpha channels
- Using alpha channels>masks
- Mask overlay color
- Layer Masking
- Loading, saving, editing masks
- Combining masks
- Blending elements
- Saving selections
- loading selections
- combining selections
Quickmask tool
- Toolbar- temporary alpha channel
Color-range command
Channel masking
- tricks and techniques
Compositing with Blend Modes
Photo retouching
- Clone tool
- Spot healing brush
- Healing brush tool
- Patch tool
- Red eye removal
- Softening skin and adjusting facial structure
- Portrait retouching essentials - techniques
Combining Images
- Auto-blending focus
- Photomerge panoramas
- Scanning large documents and reassembling in Photomerge
Automation:
- Recording & Playing back Actions- Actions Palette
- Batch
- Contact sheet
- Photomerge
- Crop & Straighten
- Conditional mode change
- Create Droplet
- Recording Actions & Actions Panel
Photography and RAW camera data
Scanning and Importing images: Twain source: Using Scanners
Composition & Elements of Design Lecture 1: