Photoshop May/June

This 8-week course will cover basic Photoshop concepts and techniques, including introduction to the tools palate, layers palate, adjustment layers, various file formats and creating a work-flow that works for you.

The course will be developed specific to the students in the class.

* Note: Students should have access to a computer where they can practice working on Photoshop outside of class.

Students will also need a flash drive or external hard drive for saving their work.

Course Plan:

Class #1

1. Introduction to the course, student and instructor introductions.

2. Introduction to the Tools Palette

3. Working in Layers/ Adjustment Layers

4. Save, Save As, JPEG, PSD

5. External Hard Drives and Flash Drives

Class #2

1. Review of Week 1

2. Crop tool, Move Tool, Hand Tool

3. Selection Tools - Marquee selection tools, Lasso tools,

4. Zoom in/Zoom Out

Class #3

1. Review of week 2

2. Quick selection/Magic Wand tools,

3. Copy and Paste Selections

4. Free Transform

Class #4

1. Review of week 3

2. Selections and Free Transform

Class #5

1. Review or week 4

2. Eraser tool, Brush tool

3. Opacity slider/ Blending

4. Swatches

Class #6

1. Review of week 5

2. Clone Stamp

Class #7

1. Review of week 6

2. Text Tool

3. Gradient

4. Resize / Image Size

Class #8

1. Final Presentation of students finished images.

2. Group critique.

3. Review of all topics covered