Course Content

The course is divided into 9 lessons as follows:

1. Learning the menus: This lesson will familiarize the student with all of the main menu options and their basic functions.

2. Working with digital image files: This lesson provides an overview of the major digital file types, as well as how to resize an image and save from one file type to another.

3. Understanding the Tool Palette: This lesson teaches the student the various uses of the major Photoshop tools for creating and manipulating artwork, photos and digital compositions.

4. Using Layers, Actions and History: This lesson explores the capabilities of the Photoshop Layers palette, which is the foundation of why Photoshop is such a powerful creative tool.

5. Digital painting, shapes and colours: This lesson begins to explain the basic concepts of colour. The lesson continues by walking the student through a “How-to” guide to creating simple original artwork.

6. Selecting, Resizing, Transforming and Masking: This lesson explores the tools available for manipulating and transforming various components of an image or composition.

7. Adjustments and modifications: This lesson lists the steps required to improve the quality of an image by applying adjustments and modifications.

8. Adding Filters and Styles: This lesson will focus on the various styles and effects that can be applied to an image or composition.

9. Preparing files for print and web: This lesson will list the steps required to prepare the finished files for use in print, web, or email.

WHAT WILL YOU DO IN THIS COURSE?

During the course, the student will:

• Learn the major menu options and what they mean
• Open and save files in different formats and learn what the differences are
• Scan or download photos from a digital camera and edit them
• Prepare images for email
• Use the major Photoshop tools and improve understanding of how graphics are created
• Create multiple layered compositions and explore movement and position
• Understand colour
• Create original graphics and artwork
• Add exciting effects to images
• Format files for the web and print

What Are the Advantages of Studying with ACS Distance Education?

• You can start at any time to suit you.
• The courses are self-paced.
• You can study when and where suits you. They are flexible to fit in around you and your lifestyle.
• Keep up to date on your learning.
• Update your CV.
• It is not just a course, it is a package of learning that includes – course notes, tutor feedback, self-assessment tests, research tasks and assignments.
• Our tutors are all experts in their field, with years of experience in their field.
• They are also keen and enthusiastic about their subject and enjoy working with students to improve their knowledge and skills.
• Courses are also updated regularly to meet the demands of the changing needs for knowledge and to keep our courses up to date.

Introduction to Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is a raster program, also known as a paint or image manipulation program. It is the industry standard software of raster programs. There are many other image manipulation programs include Macromedia's Xres, Paint Shop Pro and Corel's Photo Paint, all similar in content to Photoshop. 

Paint and image-editing software, such as Adobe Photoshop, generate bitmap images. Also called raster or pixel-based imagery. The images use a grid of small squares, known as pixels, to represent graphics. Each pixel in a bitmap image has a specific location and colour value assigned to it. For example, a bicycle tyre in a bitmap image is made up of a collection of pixels in that location, with each pixel part of a mosaic that gives the appearance of a tyre.

When working with bitmap images, you edit pixels rather than objects or shapes. Because they can represent subtle gradations of shades and colour, bitmap images are the most common electronic medium for continuous-tone images, such as photographs or images created in painting programs. Bitmap images are resolution dependent; they represent a fixed number of pixels. As a result, they can appear jagged and lose detail if they are scaled on-screen or if they are printed at a higher resolution than they were created for. Bitmap images are good at reproducing the subtle shading found in continuous-tone images, such as photographs. However, bitmap images do not enlarge well and can show jagged edges when magnified or output to higher-resolution devices.

What Next?

Photoshop has been a standard software tool for processing digital images, for a long time. As with all software, Photoshop software is constantly being updated, sometimes as often as monthly; but once you learn the concepts and techniques of one version; you then have an excellent foundation for working with any version.  This course is regularly updated by graphic designers and photographers.

The purpose of this course is to teach you the fundamentals of Photoshop, so you can apply your skills and knowledge to any version.   This is a great course for anyone who uses images in their hobby or work.

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