Adobe Photoshop Essentials

Course Overview

This fundamental course covers Adobe Photoshop CC's most commonly used tools, menus and panels. You'll learn all the basics of Photoshop to effectively work with selection and editing tools, layers and masks to edit, retouch and enhance existing images or create your own composite digital art work. Impress your business organization, friends and family by enhancing their phtoos and create magazine cover quality enhanced images.

*Access to Adobe Photoshop software required.

Course Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Perform basic to intermediate image correction to existing images
• Enhance images using advanced editing tools to create magazine covers
• Work with the Type tools and panels to type, insert and manage text
• Work with layers and masks to manage your projects efficiently
• Create composite images using multiple images

Course Objectives

• To learn about Adobe Photoshop CC interface and work with menus, tools and panels.
• To learn how to open, crop, transform and edit existing images
• To learn how to apply advanced editing features to enhance photos
• To learn working with text and formatting tools and panels
• To learn how to add multiple images to create a collage

Note: This program qualifies as one of the three core programs required to earn the Graphic Design Software Essentials Certificate.