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Adobe Photoshop Elements 6
Summary of the Modules 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.
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.
Demonstrates how to apply effects to photos using the Liquify Tool and the Filter Gallery.
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.
Demonstrates how to combine shapes and photos together to create designs.
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 and style effects. Text is then added to photos and images, for example:
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 tool and removing backgrounds tools.
Chapter 8: Combining Photographs Demonstrates how to use the Photomerge and Photo Books to view or combine multiple photos. Students are then shown how to adjust the combined photos to improve the panoramic effect.
Introduces students to the concept of masks so that just wanted parts of images are displayed, and how to apply styles to masks.
Students are shown a variety of different ways Photoshop documents can be saved and exported, including saving TIFF files, JPEG and GIF formats and the Save for Web command, 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
Module 2 Chapter 11: Repairing Parts of Images 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 and the Healing Brush tools. The car is then cropped to straightened it and to remove parts of the background.
Filters including Gaussian Blur, Reduce Noise and Sharpen are applied to a photo to improve it. A lighting effect filter is applied to the car, then edited.
Chapter 13: Creating Balls and Spheres Demonstrates how to quickly create balls and spheres. Lighting and reflection effects are added and the images then duplicated, resized and their colour adjusted.
Demonstrates how to use the filters within Photoshop to create artistic sketches. A shipwreck viewed through the port hole of another ship is created.
The uses of a range of Adjustment layers are demonstrated to improve the appearance of photographs. The examples covered are Levels layers, Brightness/Contrast layers, Gradient Map layers and Solid Fill layers. For example, dark buildings in a photo are lightened whilst maintaining the original sky colour.
Chapter 16: Enhancing Photos of Faces This chapter demonstrates how to use layers to enhance the photograph of a face, including softening skin tones, highlighting eyes and changing eye colour.
Chapter 17: Using Rulers and Grids Demonstrates how to use the Rulers and Grid to create three-dimensional boxes. The following product box for a software company is created.
Chapter 18: Enhancing Text Effects Demonstrates how to create a brick wall from the Texturize filter then add some graffiti text to it and apply some styles and lighting effects.
Students are shown some of the professional colour adjustment tools that Photoshop provides to repair the appearance and colour in poorly taken photos. The Correct Camera Distortion tool, the Auto Smart Fix Tool. the Unsharp Mask tool and Levels Layers are used to repair the following photo of a building which had a bluish tinge to it.
To complete the module some of Photoshop's handy tools are demonstrated, including the Magnetic Lasso and the Magic Extractor Tool tool to select objects within a photo, the Replace Colour tool and the Straighten Tool. The following cat is selected from a background and recoloured.
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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