Photoshop Professor Notes - Volumes 1 - 5 A Photoshop Master Class for Photographers, Graphic Designers, Multimedia Production Technicians and anyone else This is Volume1 through 5 in my Photoshop - Beginners to Intermediate series. I have developed this series over many years of teaching at both the College and University levels in a variety of departments including the Multimedia Program, Graphic Design Program, the Fashion Program, and the Creative Photography Programs both daytime and evening diploma and certificate programs. This course in Adobe Photoshop starts right at the very beginning assuming that the learner has no experience in using the application. Photoshop Professor Notes - Volume 1 Setting Photoshop up for Success - Mastering the Photoshop Document, the Workspace, Essential Settings and Much More. Lecture 1: Navigating the Document Window Knowing how to effectively and efficiently navigate around your image files (the document window) will allow you to zoom in and zoom out and focus on specific areas of interest in your images. Lecture 2: Setting Up Our Preferences Setting Photoshop up for success allows us to fine tune how the application performs. Photoshop is factory set for very generic purposes and not set up for photography. Lecture 3: Setting Up Photoshops Colour Settings Changing these default factory settings will allow your images to look clearer, cleaner and more vibrant in ways your friends, family and coworkers images wont because they arent aware of these issues. Lecture 4: Creating a New Document There are a number of ways to create new documents and knowing these little secrets will allow you to create your masterpieces faster like creating a new image file with the same attributes as your currently open file. Lecture 5: Arranging Panels and Groups Learning how to arrange and then rearrange Photoshops Panels and Panel Groups allows you to work on your images with less clutter in the applications interface. Lecture 6: Creating a Custom Workspace Learning to modify Photoshops workspace so that only the tools and panels that you use most frequently are showing can help you work more efficiently. Lecture 7: Learn how to use the Colour Heads Up Display (HUD) The Colour Heads Up Display is just a fancy name for a really cool way to select existing colours in your image. Why is this important you ask? Well, for one thing, if you ever want to type some text over your image and you want to use a colour that already is in your image, using the HUD is quick and easy to do. Lecture 8: An Introduction to File Size and Resolution File size and resolution can be one of the biggest hurdles to wrap your head around for the average person. Getting a handle on this topic can greatly assist you if you ever wanted to create a montage or collage of any kind where you bring one or more images together for a birthday or anniversary collage. Photoshop Professor Notes - Volume 2 Creating Great Selections. This is Volume 2 of 5 in my Photoshop - Beginners to Intermediate series. I have developed this series over many years of teaching at both the College and University levels in a variety of departments including the Multimedia Program, Graphic Design Program, the Fashion Program, and the Creative Photography Programs both daytime and evening diploma and certificate programs. First of all, why would you ever need to make a selection? Well, if you have ever wanted to make a change in your image on a specific part of the image, one of the easiest ways to do that is with a selection. You see, selections allow you to isolate areas that you want to make a change in and protect the other areas from that change. Learning how to use all of the selection tools properly will allow you to make these changes to your images so your viewers wont know you did anything to your image. Lecture 1: The Rectangular and Elliptical Marquee Tools Knowing how to use these selection tools will assist you in making great selections. Have you ever wanted to make a selection of a square object in your image(s) but were not successful? Knowing how to modify the Rectangle Marquee selection in order to create a perfect square is just one thing youll learn in this volume. have you ever wanted to enhance or modify the moon (or any other circular object) in one of your images? Knowing how to modify the Elliptical Marquee selection tool will allow you to make these changes in an undetectable way to your viewers. Lecture 2: The 3 Lasso Style Selection Tools Probably one of the most often used selection tools is the Lasso Tool. The main Lasso Tool is what we call a free hand style drawing tool. Just click and drag around the area that you want to change. But what if you wanted to select an object that has straight lines and curved lines? Or what if your hands are not as steady as you would like but you still need to make a selection - try the magnetic lasso tool. Lecture 3: The Selection Brush and the Magic Wand Tools The Selection Brush is relatively new to Photoshop. Not everybody fully understands how to
