Adobe Photoshop - Basic Training (AP1)

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This Adobe Photoshop basic course is designed for users who want to learn a professional graphic application, focusing on core photo editing workflows and practical handling of bitmap images. It covers essential skills for everyday image adjustments and retouching.

Through hands-on lessons you will learn layers, non-destructive editing, selections and printing preparation. The course includes retouching, color correction, histograms and curves, filters, transformations and exporting for web or print to produce usable images.

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The course:

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  • Image theory
    1. Raster and vector graphics
    2. File formats
    3. Color and color models
    4. Basic concepts
  • Introduction to the application
    1. Main parts of the program and their purpose
    2. Program workspace
    3. Program settings
    4. Help
  • Program interface
    1. Application window
    2. Menu bar
    3. Tools panel
    4. Working with windows and panels
  • Working with files
    1. New file
    2. Open file
    3. Save file
  • Non-destructive edits
    1. Undo
    2. History panel
    3. Layers panel
    4. Adjustment layers
  • Selections
    1. Select all
    2. Selections by shape
    3. Selections by color similarity
    4. Working with selections
  • Basic image operations
    1. Rotate, flip and straighten the image
    2. Crop and straighten the image
    3. White balance
    4. Adjust exposure
  • Image retouching
    1. Removing unwanted elements
    2. Clone stamp
    3. Moving regions
    4. Background fill
  • Color adjustments
    1. Color adjustments
    2. Brightness adjustments
    3. Contrast adjustments
    4. Shadows and highlights: purpose, display, adjustments
  • Histogram
    1. Purpose and display (Levels window)
    2. Adjusting the histogram
    3. Histogram adjustment layer
  • Curves
    1. Purpose and display (Curves window)
    2. Editing with curves
    3. Curves adjustment layer
  • Layers
    1. Purpose and display
    2. Usage
    3. Layers panel
    4. Adjustment layers
    5. Working with layers
  • Text
    1. Adding text
    2. Editing text
    3. Spell check
  • Further image adjustments
    1. Perspective distortion
    2. Chromatic aberration
    3. Transformations
    4. Filters
    5. Panoramas
    6. Black and white photography
    7. Border/frame
  • Final adjustments
    1. Noise reduction
    2. Sharpening photos
  • Printing
    1. Prepress preparation
    2. Printing
  • Additional information
    1. Further information
    2. Relevant websites
Assumed knowledge:
Basic Windows skills; prior experience with any graphics editor is beneficial.
Recommended subsequent course:
Adobe Photoshop - Advanced (AP2)
Schedule:
2 days (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM )
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