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Certificate in Adobe Photoshop CS (CAP)

Course Explanation

With e-commerce the order of the day, it is not surprising to note that each brochure and means of communication has to do with some sort of graphic design. A course in the same light is much preferred if you need to keep pace with the rest of the world. A tutor-led course, the 3 months 6 day in every week as per 1 hours each can equip you with a plethora of things needed to master the course.

Sessions of Photoshop image manipulation can actually make you feel on top of the world, editing text, layering images, masking and applying gradient effects to images make you a master, with good reason of course. You get access to the proverbial magic wand and painting and pen techniques will simply be your best bet in creating a custom made image. Of course there’s arranging layer objects in ImageReady, slicing an image in Photoshop and flash animations in store; but that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Course Contents
(• 3 months • 6 days a week • Classes : 1 hr. Theory & 1hr. Practical)

Photoshop

Photoshop Image Manipulation
• Retouching and image size
• Straightening and cropping an image, tonal range
• Replacing colors in an image, Dodge tool, Sponge tool,
• Unsharp Mask filter, four-color printing

Working with Selections
• Selection tools,
• Magic Wand tool, oval and circular selections,
• Magnetic Lasso tool, lasso tools, and erasing within a selection

Layer Basics
• Rearranging layers, Editing text
• Flattening and saving files
• Creating a layer set and adding a layer
• Using layer comps

Masks and Channels
• Working with masks and channels,
• Creating a quick mask,
• Saving a selection as a mask, applying an adjustment,
• Creating a gradient mask, Applying effects using a gradient mask

Image Retouching and Repairing
• Clone Stamp tool, Pattern Stamp tool, Healing Brush and Patch tools, Retouching on a separate layer

Painting and Editing
• Custom workspace,
• Blending an image with the background, history tools,
• Brush tool, create a picture frame, Color Section

Basic Pen Tool Techniques
• Pen tool, Drawing straight paths,
• Drawing curved, Editing anchor points

Vector Masks, Paths, and Shapes
• About bitmap images and vector graphics

Advanced Layer Techniques
• Creating layer sets, adjustment layer, gradient layer, layer from another file,
• Liquifying a layer,
• Creating a border layer,
• Flattening a layered image,
• Duplicating and clipping a layer

Creating Special Effects
• Changing the color balance
• Applying filters

Preparing Images for Two-Color Printing
• Printing in color, Using channels and the Channels palette, change color to grayscale,
• Creating two-color Web graphics

Arranging Layer Objects in ImageReady
• Duplicating and aligning layers,
• Changing multiple lines of type

Creating Links within an Image
• Slicing an image in Photoshop,
• Working with slices in ImageReady,
• Working with image maps (ImageReady)

Optimizing Web Images
• Optimizing images using Photoshop or ImageReady
• Optimizing a JPEG, GIF,
• Controlling dither and reducing colors, dithered transparency

Producing and Printing Consistent Color
• Reproducing colors,
• Specifying color management settings,
• Proofing an image

Free Lab Access