Photoshop syllabus

Instructor: Christina Freeman

christinahfreeman@gmail.com

class blog: www.universitysettlementphoto.blogspot.com

University Settlement Photoshop:

The focus of this course will be improving straight images,

particularly images you have already taken and have problems

with that you would like to resolve.

This is a great course for orienting yourself with Photoshop and

also if you want to improve on the skills you already have.

It is highly recommended that you have access to a computer

with Photoshop to practice.

There will be weekly lessons posted on the class blog, and I

would like everyone to practice the lesson at home and bring in

an example of their work each week.

Keyboard shortcuts will also be on the class blog.

Week 1 (March 9)

Introduction/Review:

Workflow – planning and organizing

Photoshop Tools Palette – Crop Tool, Zoom, Hand Tool, Burn,

Dodge, Sponge, Eraser,

Photoshop Essentials- Opening files, Undo (History), History

Palette Snapshot, Layers Palette, Brushes, Save, Save As

Week 2 (March 16)

Working with Adjustment Layers: Levels, Curves, Hue/

Saturation, Brightness/Contrast, Threshold, Invert

Working with Selections: Marquee Tools, Magic Wand,

Lasso, Feather, Adjustments to selections, Copying & Pasting

selections

Week 3 (March 23)

Paint Brush, Paint Bucket, Eye Dropper, Default colors

Move, Blur, Sharpen, Smudge, Merge Down, Merge Visible,

Flatten Image, Filters

Week 4 - (March 30)

Masks, Quick Masks, Channels

Week 5 (April 6)

Retouching: Clone Stamp

Week 6 (April 13)

Retouching: Pattern Stamp

Week 7 (April 20)

Retouching: Healing Brush, Patch Tool, Pen Tool

Week 8 (April 27)

Review of all lessons + Type Tool