Adobe Photoshop CS4 (Fund.)
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Adobe Photoshop CS4 (Fund.)

Adobe Photoshop CS4 (Fund.) Aug 3–4, 2010

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Adobe Photoshop CS4 Fundamentals
$595 / 2 days / 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM EST


Connect Learning: Barbara Binder - Adobe Photoshop CS4 FundamentalsAn Instructor-Led Online Class with Barbara Binder

Gain competence with Photoshop CS4 by learning how to change elements in a photograph to make the photograph more effective.

You'll take a giant step in confidence as you observe and practice essential skills. You'll leave this Connect Learning class knowing how to make a clean selection, how to crop a photo, and how to punch up a photo by correcting color and contrast. You'll know how to use layers and -- most important, how to recover from an error.

Goals
Learn how Photoshop thinks.

Audience
Learn with other designers, graphic artists, Web masters, and developers eager to learn Photoshop, the gold standard for working with digital images.

Prerequisites
Good mouse and Mac or Windows skills. Successful and frequent use of one or two software applications. Word and PowerPoint count. Knowing an Adobe software gives you an advantage, but is not required.

Next Steps
Adobe Photoshop Advanced
Adobe InDesign Fundamentals (Desktop publishing software)
Adobe Illustrator Fundamentals

Objectives

1. THE WORK AREA

- Find, identify, and use the tools in the Photoshop toolbar.
- Use the options bar and other panels
- Undo actions in Photoshop
- Customize your workspace
- Q & A

2. BASIC PHOTO CORRECTIONS

- Retouch a damaged photo
- Select the Resolution and image size
- Straighten and crop an image
- Remove a color cast
- Adjust the tonal range, lightness, and saturation
- Replace colors in an image
- Repair areas with the clone stamp tool
- Use the spot healing brush tool, the healing brush, and the patch tool
- Apply the Unsharp Mask filter
- Save the image for four color-printing

3. WORKING WITH SELECTIONS

- Move a selected area
- Manipulate selections
- Select with the magic Wand tool
- Select with the lasso tool
- Rotate a selection
- Select with the magnetic lasso tool
- Crop an image and erasing within a selection
- Refine the edge of a selection
- Q & A

4. LAYERS

- Use the Layers panel to rearrange layers
- Apply a layer style
- Flatten and save files
- Q & A

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