WHAT IS PHOTOSHOP CS5 BASIC?

Photoshop Creative Suite 5 (CS5) is designed to help educators when they prepare their students with the skills in digital communication and creativity that they will need in the technology-driven world of today.  Whether you are a student or a teacher, you can now create content for print, web, mobile video and audio using tools that are industry standard. 

You can use Photoshop CS5 to select complex images, to paint realistic pictures and to do intelligent retouching on any picture. 

With the Quick Image Corrections feature, you can use the automatic lens correction tool to save you the time of correcting distortions manually.  The Lens Correction filter tool allows you to correct colour aberrations in no time.  The Straighten Image tool lets you straighten an image by just drawing a straight line from the ruler tool and your image will follow.  You can also use the Gradient tool for neutral density.

With the Professional Colour and Tone Control feature you can draw photo-realistic images or create high dynamic range (HDR) images, you can easily convert an image from colour to black-and-white and back again, you can enhance any photograph with realistic colours or HDR colours and you can use colour correction tools.

The State-of-the-art processing with Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 6 feature allows you to do noise removal, better conversions with demosaicing, you have support for many different cameras and you get Photoshop Lightroom software.  You can add life-like grain to the picture to make it look more like it came from a film-camera and you can apply post-cropping vignetting.

The Intelligent Image Editing and Enhancement feature allows you to make better selection with the Truer Edge tool and you can decontaminate colour.  You can also use refinement tools to make better selections, you can use Content-Aware Fill to fill spaces when you deleted something form a picture.  You can use the Puppet Warp feature to for example change a person’s posture or attitude in a picture.  Content Aware Scaling, Expert Retouching and Smart Filters are just a few more tools in this feature.

The Extraordinary Painting and Drawing Toolset feature uses mixer brushes and bristle tips to make painting more realistic and lifelike.  CPU-accelerated drawing tools lets you adjust and change whatever you need to to create the perfect image.  This feature also supplies a rich and varied toolset for drawing and painting.

The Advanced Compositing feature allows you to Paste in Place – that means that you can paste something from an original picture in exactly the same spot on a different picture.  The Multi-layer Opacity and Multi-layer Fill lets you change the opacity and fill many layers at once.  You can also auto-blend many different pictures with this tool.  You can use this feature to manage your layers more easily and to align them automatically.

The Creative Tools and Content feature contains many new shapes, swatches and gradients and has a great variety of brushes and actions available.

The Easy Access to Core Editing Power feature allows you to make adjustments and create and store masks quickly and easily without destroying your original picture.

The Efficient and Flexible Work Environment feature contains many tools to help you in your project, like the workspace switcher, the live workspaces and powerful printing options.  You also get smoother cropping, fluid canvas rotation and smooth panning and zooming.  Everything in this feature was designed to make your work much easier.

The Time Savers feature in Photoshop CS5 allows you to do flawless 16-bit to JPEG conversions, file closing enhancements and saving shortcuts to name but a few. This feature is there to save you time, and it does so wonderfully.

COURSE STRUCTURE SUMMARY

In order to successfully complete Photoshop CS5 Basic, all of the following subjects must be completed:

Unit 1:    Project management

Topic A: Project plans
A-1: Discussing project management

Topic B: Layer comps
B-1: Creating layer comps
B-2: Exporting layer comps

Topic C: Design principles
C-1: Discussing design principles

Unit 2: Color management

Topic A: Color management basics
A-1: Examining RGB and CMYK gamuts
A-2: Examining color space differences

Topic B: Color space conversion
B-1: Opening images with mismatched profiles

Topic C: Printing with color management
C-1: Proofing colors onscreen
C-2: Printing with a color management profile
C-3: Proofing by using a simulated device

Unit 3:    Photographic techniques

Topic A: The camera raw format
A-1: Adjusting settings for camera raw images
A-2: Applying camera raw settings in Adobe Bridge

Topic B: Photographic adjustments
B-1: Applying photo filters
B-2: Matching colors in multiple images

Topic C: Lens adjustments
C-1: Correcting lens distortions
C-2: Simulating depth-of-field effects
C-3: Counteracting focus blur

Topic D: Merging images
D-1: Creating a panorama with Photomerge
D-2: Creating an HDR image
D-3: Viewing and converting an HDR image

Unit 4:    RGB image adjustments

Topic A: Color correction principles
A-1: Determining the necessary adjustments

Topic B: Measuring color
B-1: Setting up the workspace for measuring color
B-2: Locating shadows and highlights

Topic C: Automatic adjustments
C-1: Comparing automatic adjustment methods
C-2: Setting target points with eyedroppers
C-3: Correcting shadow and highlight problems

Topic D: Curves adjustments
D-1: Adjusting contrast with curves
D-2: Adjusting specific tones
D-3: Correcting flesh tones

Topic E: Hand-retouching color
E-1: Using the Burn tool to darken image areas

Topic F: Color replacement
F-1: Replacing a color throughout an image
F-2: Replacing a color by painting

Unit 5:    CMYK separations

Topic A: Prepress color settings
A-1: Discussing CMYK conversion
A-2: Choosing RGB and CMYK color spaces for prepress
A-3: Choosing custom CMYK ink options
A-4: Setting separation options
A-5: Separating an image

Topic B: CMYK image adjustments
B-1: Adjusting CMYK curves

Topic C: Sharpening
C-1: Applying the Unsharp Mask filter

Unit 6:    Grayscale and spot colors

Topic A: Grayscale conversion
A-1: Creating a grayscale image
A-2: Converting an image from RGB to Grayscale

Topic B: Spot-color images
B-1: Adding a spot-color channel
B-2: Saving a DCS file

Topic C: Duotones
C-1: Creating a duotone
C-2: Adjusting duotone curves

Unit 7:    Web and video images

Topic A: Web image size
A-1: Discussing Web image size
A-2: Downsampling images
A-3: Trimming images
A-4: Exporting an image with Zoomify

Topic B: Optimizing images for the Web
B-1: Optimizing with the JPEG format
B-2: Optimizing with the GIF format

Topic C: Fine-tuning quality
C-1: Optimizing to a target file size
C-2: Changing lossiness

Topic D: Creating transparency
D-1: Creating transparent GIF images
D-2: Choosing matte colors for GIF and JPEG images
D-3: Simulating partially transparent areas

Topic E: Preparing images for video
E-1: Viewing pixel aspect ratios
E-2: Creating an image for video
E-3: Scaling a square-pixel image for video

ASSESSMENT AND AWARD

You have to successfully complete and submit assignments in order to pass this course. Once you have successfully completed the assignments prescribed by College SA, you will be awarded a College SA Certificate of completion in Photoshop CS5 Basic.

WHY SHOULD I STUDY PHOTOSHOP CS5 BASIC?

Photoshop CS5 is the newest and best in drawing technology.  If you are a photographer (casual or professional) and would like to do touch-up work on your pictures, this is the course for you.  If you are interested in graphic design or in 3D drawing or just painting electronically (much cleaner that way!), this is the program for you.

IS PHOTOSHOP CS5 BASIC THE RIGHT COURSE FOR YOU?

1.    Would you like to be able to manipulate photos and other images with the touch of a button?
2.    Are you already editing and manipulating photos and other images?
3.    Do you need to be able to do photo manipulation for you job?
4.    Is it your dream job to edit and manipulate photos?
5.    Are you a photographer and would like to make your pictures extra special?
6.    Would you like to assist a photographer in editing his or her photos?
7.    Would you like to learn how to use Photoshop CS5?

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