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Summary of the Chapters Module 1 Chapter 1: Introduction to Photoshop and Layers This chapter introduces the Photoshop basics such as the screen sections, the Tools palette, Zoom tools, the Navigation palette and how to use layers, including how to turn layers on and off, add new layers, delete,layers, name layers, change the layer order and change the layer opacity.
Back to Adobe Photoshop | Top | Next Chapter 2: Selecting parts of Images This chapter demonstrates how to select parts of images and photos. This includes using the Edit Marquees, the Lasso tools, the Quick Selection tool and the Magic Wand which are used to select a cat in one photo and transfer it to another.
Back to Adobe Photoshop | Top | Previous | Next Demonstrates how to apply effects to photos using the Liquify Tool and the Filter Gallery.
Back to Adobe Photoshop | Top | Previous | Next Demonstrates how to use the drawing tools such as rectangles, ellipses, lines and custom shapes, then adding effects to those shapes. Students are shown how to combine photos with shapes, for example, placing a photo with a frame shape.
Back to Adobe Photoshop | Top | Previous | Next Demonstrates how to combine shapes and photos together to create designs.
Back to Adobe Photoshop | Top | Previous | Next Chapter 6: Adding Text to Designs This chapter shows students how to enter text and apply effects to that text such as colour, text warp, style effects and typing text along a path. Text is then added to photos and images, for example:
Back to Adobe Photoshop | Top | Previous | Next Chapter 7: Adjusting the Look of Images Shows students how to edit and improve photographs using the many tools that Photoshop provides. Some of the tools used include the Blur tool, the Sharpen tool, the Smudge tool, the Sponge tool, the Dodge tool, the Burn tool, Gradient Fills, the Red Eye Reduction tool, Colour Balance layers and removing backgrounds tools.
Back to Adobe Photoshop | Top | Previous | Next Chapter 8: Combining Photographs Demonstrates how to use the Photomerge, HDR files, Web Photo Galleries and Contact Sheets to view or combine multiple photos. Students are then shown how to adjust the combined photos to improve the panoramic effect.
Back to Adobe Photoshop | Top | Previous | Next Introduces students to the concept of masks so that just wanted parts of images are displayed, and how to apply styles to masks.
Back to Adobe Photoshop | Top | Previous | Next Students are shown a variety of different ways Photoshop documents can be saved and exported, including saving TIFF files, JPEG and GIF formats, the Save for Web & Devices command, Zoomify and saving individual layers. Project 1: Create a Poster The Multi-user version provides a project that gets students to apply the Photoshop skills that they have developed to produce a poster on a topic of their choice
Back to Adobe Photoshop | Top | Previous | Next Module 2 Students are shown how to clone parts of a car to repair scratch marks and to remove an object (a cat) from the front of the car using the Clone Stamp tool. The car is then cropped to straightened it and to remove parts of the background.
Back to Adobe Photoshop | Top | Previous | Next Chapter 12: Patches and Healing Brushes The same car from the previous chapter is repaired using the Patches tool and the Healing Brush tools. A sticker is removed from the front of the car and other scratch marks repaired.
Back to Adobe Photoshop | Top | Previous | Next Filters including Motion Blur, Gaussian Blur, Reduce Noise and Sharpen are applied to a photo to improve it. Also, the use of Smart Filters is demonstrated which allow applied filters to be edited at a later date. A lighting effect filter is applied to the car, then edited.
Back to Adobe Photoshop | Top | Previous | Next Chapter 14: Fill and Adjustment Layers The uses of a range of Fill and Adjustment layers are demonstrated to improve the appearance of photographs. The examples covered are Exposure layers, Levels layers, Brightness/Contrast layers and Black & White layers. For example, dark buildings in a photo are lightened whilst maintaining the original sky colour.
Back to Adobe Photoshop | Top | Previous | Next Chapter 15: Advanced Layer Uses This chapter demonstrates how to use layers to enhance the photograph of a face, including softening skin tones, highlighting eyes and changing eye colour.
Back to Adobe Photoshop | Top | Previous | Next Chapter 16: The History Palette and History Brush Students are shown how to use the History palette to remove previous steps or remove individual steps, save snapshots at particular stages of a production, create new documents at particular stages and how to use the History Brush tool.
Chapter 17: Working With Perspective In this chapter students are shown tools that allow the editing of photos, whilst maintaining the 3-D perspective of the photo. The Lens Correction filter and the Vanishing Point filter are used to remove shadows from the following building.
Back to Adobe Photoshop | Top | Previous | Next Chapter 18: Colour Adjustments Students are shown some of the professional colour adjustment tools that Photoshop provides to repair the colour in poorly taken photos. The Match Colour tool and the Curves tool are used to repair the following photo of a building which had a bluish tinge to it.
Back to Adobe Photoshop | Top | Previous | Next This chapter shows students how to create QuickTime Movies, Flash Video and Animated GIFs within Photoshop. A time lapse photography animation and the following animated logo for a decorating company are created.
Back to Adobe Photoshop | Top | Previous | Next To complete the module some of Photoshop's handy tools are demonstrated, including the Magnetic Lasso tool to select objects within a photo, the Replace Colour tools the resize image and canvas tools and the different workspaces that Photoshop provides. The following cat is selected from a background, recoloured and resized.
Back to Adobe Photoshop | Top | Previous | Next Project 2: VicSports The Multi-user version provides a project that requires students to create two pages for VicSports, a government organiisation set up to promote sport in schools. Students are required to produce the first page of a web site and an advertising collage poster.
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