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Summary of the Chapters Module 1 Chapter 1: Introduction to Photoshop This chapter introduces the Photoshop basics such as the screen sections, the Tools panel, Zoom tools, the navigation techniques, adjusting workspaces 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, the Magic Wand and the Quick Mask tool 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 Chapter 4: Creating a Detailed Sketch Demonstrates how to use the drawing and painting tools to create the following artwork. The Brush tool is used to create the outline of the sketch, the Paint Bucket tool is used to fill the sections with colour and layers are duplicated and modified to produce the road lines and white posts..
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 within a frame shape.
Back to Adobe Photoshop | Top | Previous | Next Demonstrates how to combine shapes and photos together to create designs. Students are shown how to magnify a cat's head then draw a magnifying glass over it.
Back to Adobe Photoshop | Top | Previous | Next Chapter 7: 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, 3D 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 8: 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, Brightness/Contrast Adjustment layers, Colour Balance Adjustment layers and removing background tools.
Back to Adobe Photoshop | Top | Previous | Next Chapter 9: Combining Photographs Demonstrates how to use the Photomerge tool to 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 Chapter 11: Creating 3D Shapes Introduces students to the preset 3D tools that Photoshop provides to create 3D shapes from layers and the Repoussé tools to convert custom shapes into 3D objects. Creating 3D text is also covered.:
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 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 Chapter 13: 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 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 The applications of 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 This chapter demonstrates how to use the Refine Edge dialogue box to accurately make selections of objects in a photo, in particular how to select fuzzy areas such as people's hair or animal's fur. The edge detection brushes and colour contamination tools are used to select a girl from one background and place her over another.
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 18: Advanced Layer Uses This chapter demonstrates how to use layers to enhance the photograph of a face, including softening skin tones, whitening teeth, highlighting eyes and changing eye colour.
Back to Adobe Photoshop | Top | Previous | Next Chapter 19: Applying Artistic Filters Demonstrates how to use the filters within Photoshop to create artistic sketches. A shipwreck viewed through the port hole of another ship is created.
Back to Adobe Photoshop | Top | Previous | Next Demonstrates how to use the different brushes that photoshop provides to create artwork. The difference between Regular brushes and Bristle Tip brushes are demonstrated and students practice the brushes by colouring in the following image.
Back to Adobe Photoshop | Top | Previous | Next Demonstrates how to use the Mixer Brush tool to mix brush colours and canvas colours. Students use the Mixer Brush tool to convert a photo into artwork.
Back to Adobe Photoshop | Top | Previous | Next Chapter 22: 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 Ruler tool, the Lens Correction filter and the Vanishing Point filter are used to straighten images and remove shadows from the following building.
Back to Adobe Photoshop | Top | Previous | Next Chapter 23: 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 the Vibrance 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 Puppet Warp Tool, the Replace Colour tools the resize image and canvas tools and the content aware scale tool. The following cat is selected from a background, recoloured and resized.
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. Back to Adobe Photoshop | Top | Previous | Next Module 3 Demonstrates the use of reflections to add depth and realism to images.
Back to Adobe Photoshop | Top | Previous | Next Chapter 27: Creating 3D Styles Demonstrates how to create accurate three dimensional objects by applying a range of styles to them. Those styles are then saved so that they can be applied to other objects and text.
Back to Adobe Photoshop | Top | Previous | Next Chapter 28: Graffiti on a Brick Wall Demonstrates how to create a brick wall from the Texturize filter then add some graffiti text to it and apply some lighting effects.
Back to Adobe Photoshop | Top | Previous | Next Chapter 29: Graffiti on a Building Demonstrates how to add some graffiti text to a building so that the text matches the perspective of the building. The text is then moved behind some branches and snow to make the text look realistic.
Back to Adobe Photoshop | Top | Previous | Next Chapter 30: Creating Balls and Spheres Demonstrates how to quickly create balls that can be duplicated, resized and have their colour adjusted.
Back to Adobe Photoshop | Top | Previous | Next Chapter 31: Creating Accurate Shapes Demonstrates how to create three-dimensional boxes using Rulers, Grids and Guide lines. The following product box for a software company is created.
Back to Adobe Photoshop | Top | Previous | Next Chapter32: Creative Text Effects Demonstrates how to combine text effects into a scene with lighting effects.
Back to Adobe Photoshop | Top | Previous | Next Demonstrates how to add depth and motion to an image by displacing an image with curves into a 2D flag.
Back to Adobe Photoshop | Top | Previous | Next Demonstrates how to use blur effects within an animation to create a short advertisement.
Back to Adobe Photoshop | Top | Previous | Next Chapter 35: Timeline Animations Demonstrates how to use the Timeline section of the Animation panel to create animated GIFs. Bouncing icons and an animated mask are created. :
Back to Adobe Photoshop | Top | Previous | Next Chapter 36: Animating 3D Objects Demonstrates how to animate a 3D object from Photoshops 3D menu. A spinning planet on a night sky is created.
Back to Adobe Photoshop | Top | Previous This chapter demonstrates how to use the Pen tool to draw straight paths, curved paths and paths that combine straight and curved paths. Shapes that are created are converted to filled shapes, outlines and selections.
Back to Adobe Photoshop | Top | Previous | Next Chapter 38: 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.
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