January/ February Beginner Syllabus

Instructor: Christina Freeman
Email: christinahfreeman@gmail.com
Class blog: www.universitysettlementphoto.blogspot.com

Class Dates:
Mondays 6:30-8:30
January 7, 14,  28 (NO CLASS January 21)
February 4, 11, 25 (NO CLASS February 18)

University Settlement Beginner Photography/ Photoshop:

This course will introduce you to the basic skills needed to use your camera and Photoshop CS5.   
It is recommended that you have a camera and access to a computer with Photoshop to practice outside of class.The lessons we do in class will also be posted on the class blog for review.

Materials for Class:

Camera
Pin Drive / Flash Drive

Lesson 1:
File Types
File Management & Organization
Editing & Organizing in Adobe Bridge
Setting your camera functions
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Lesson 2:
Introduction to Photoshop: Opening Files, Workspace options
Going back and forth between Bridge and Photoshop
Zoom &  Crop in Photoshop
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Lesson 3:
Making Global changes in Photoshop
Adjustment Layers vs. Destructive Edits
Adjusting Opacity
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Lesson 4:
Marquee, Lasso, Select,
Levels Adjustment Layer with a Selection
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Lesson 4:
Selection Tools
Select Inverse
Toggle between selection tools
Making complicated shape selections
Free Transform
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Lesson 5:
Filters
Blending Modes
clone stamp
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Lesson 6:
image size & resizing
preparing the image for print
print dialog box