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Photoshop Lesson 1

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

Inside Out

http://www.insideoutproject.net/site/about

INSIDE OUT is a large-scale participatory art project that transforms messages of personal identity into pieces of artistic work. Everyone is challenged to use black and white photographic portraits to discover, reveal and share the untold stories and images of people around the world. These digitally uploaded images will be made into posters and sent back to the project’s co-creators for them to exhibit in their own communities. People can participate as an individual or in a group; posters can be placed anywhere, from a solitary image in an office window to a wall of portraits on an abandoned building or a full stadium. These exhibitions will be documented, archived and viewable virtually.

INSIDE OUT is a collaboration between the artist JR, the TED Prize and you.