Photoshop ACA Jumpstart: Zero to Hero

Description
Zero to Photoshop Hero in just 5 days and become an Adobe Certified Associate(ACA)

This class provides you with the concepts and skills to use Adobe Photoshop effectively. You get hands-on practice working with basic through advanced techniques to get the most out of your experience. You will learn layer basics, photo retouching and image editing. Whether you are a designer, illustrator, photographer, video artist, webmaster or just a beginner, Photoshop offers you many opportunities to make your images look great.

You will be prepared for and take the Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) exam at the end of this course.

Get recognised for the new skills you’ve just gained: Get Certified!

Earn your Green and then Red Belt in Adobe Photoshop
Prerequisites
This class is for all levels of Photoshop users. From complete novices to seasoned users who may wish to take this class in to rid themselves of bad Photoshop habits. Target customers are Advertising Agencies, Marketing Agencies, Production Houses, or departments that work in such disciplines within larger organisations.

Assumed Knowledge
Before taking this course, you should have a basic understanding of your computers operating system. For example,you should know how to launch an application, create and save files, and copy files from CD and other media.

Skills
Enhance an image by removing colour cast
Compensate for flash lightning and red eyes
Increase/Decrease the contrast and brightness of your artwork
Create simple compositions by blending images together or selecting only parts of an image
Use colour in Photoshop effectively
Create type and produce simple adverts
Output an artwork for web
Produce advanced face retouching & manipulation techniques
Use colour in Photoshop effectively
Maximise the potential of Photoshop Brush engines
Work with advanced compositions
You will also be prepared for and take the Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) exams in Photoshop. Get recognised for the skills you’ve just gained: Get Certified!
Earn your Yellow and then Green Belt in Adobe Photoshop

• Course content

  Managing the Adobe Photoshop Environment

  Exploring default Workspace & Bridge
  Introduction to the Toolbar
  Palette management & Screen real estate
  History Palette & Undoing Actions
  Navigation shortcuts
  Working with Selections

  Creating Selections using Magic Wand
  Adjusting Selections
  Quick Selection and Lasso tools
  Combining Selection tools for complex objects
  Saving and Reloading a Selection
  Enhancing an Image

  Using Levels and Curves
  Compensate for flash with Shadow & Highlight
  Variations to quickly decide about a colour cast
  Hue & Saturation controls
  Blurring and sharpening using Filters
  Painting and Retouching Images

  Digital darkroom techniques
  Clone Stamp and Heal tools
  Creating, saving and loading custom colours
  Painting with Paintbrush, Pencil or Paint Bucket tool
  Introduction to Gradients and painting with Gradients
  Working with Quick Mask mode & Layer Masks
  Working with Layers

  Importing images, Layers and Selections
  Transforming Layer Objects & using the Smart Objects
  Starting to build layered compositions
  Applying Transparency
  Basic Blending Modes
  Other goodies as Text Layers, Adjustment Layers and Layer Styles
  Outputting your artwork

  Colour modes, Resolution and Image Size
  Cropping an image Vs Extending the Canvas
  File formats & optimizing artwork for Web
  Managing the Adobe Photoshop Environment

  Working with Tool Presets
  Using Layer Comps for layouts
  Exploring default Preferences
  Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts
  Camera Raw files functionality
  Colour management
  Actions, Droplets & Batch processing
  Advanced Image Adjustments

  Face Retouch & Manipulation
  Sharpening with Lab Mode
  Greyscale with Black & White Conversion
  Advanced effects with Gradient map
  Photo Filters
  Creating Panoramic images with Photomerge
  Affect Perspective using Vanishing Point
  Advanced Painting & Retouching

  Exploring the Brush Engine and creating custom Brushes
  Working with Patterns
  Using Smart Filters
  Liquify Techniques
  Lighting effects and 3D Textures
  Advanced Layer Compositions

  Replace colour & Colour Range vs Extract
  Selecting Pixels using Paths
  Advanced Masking with Calculations
  Advanced use of Blending Modes
  Knockouts and Clipping Masks
  Type on a Path
  Advanced Outputting features

  Animated bitmaps
  Combining Photoshop and Illustrator
  Creating Multi Package
  Getting It Right In Print
  Adobe Certification Prep and ACA Exam day

  Take Practice exam
  Work through exam preparation sheet
  Any other questions?
  Photoshop ACA Exam
  Pass or fail?