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Adobe Photoshop, Foundation Level-Course Contents
Session 1
WORKSPACE AND WORKFLOW
Installing Adobe Photoshop
About Adobe certification
Get Started with Photoshop
Photoshop workspace
Workspace overview
Manage windows and panels
Save and switch workspaces
Hide tool tips
Tool Galleries
Panels and menus
Enter values in panels, dialog boxes,
and the options bar
Working with sliders
Working with pop-up panels
Display and define menus

Session 2
IMAGE SIZE AND RESOLUTION
About pixel dimensions and printed
image resolution
About bitmap images
About vector graphics
Combining vector graphics and
bitmap images
Color channels
Bit depth
Convert between bit depths
File size
About monitor resolution
About printer resolution
Determine a suggested resolution for
an image
View the print size on-screen
Resampling

Session 3
WORKING WITH IMAGES
Create an image
Duplicate an image
Open files
Open PDF files
Open an EPS file
Change the screen mode
View another area of an image
Use the Rotate View tool
Use the Navigator panel
Zoom in or out
Resizing images
Session 4

MAKING SELECTIONS
About selecting pixels
Select, deselect, and reselect pixels
Selecting with the marquee tools
Select with the Lasso tool
Select with the Polygonal Lasso tool
Select with the Magnetic Lasso tool

Session 5
ADJUSTING PIXEL SELCTIONS
Move a selection
Copy selections
Copy between applications
Delete selected pixels
Move, hide, or invert a selection
Adjust selections manually
Expand or contract a selection by a
specific number of pixels
Create a selection around a selection
border
Expand a selection to include areas
with similar color
Clean up stray pixels in a color-based
selection
Refine selection edges

Session 6
LAYER BASICS
About Photoshop layers
Photoshop Layers panel overview
Convert background and Photoshop
layers
Duplicate Photoshop layers
Sample from all visible Photoshop
layers
Change transparency preferences
Rename a layer or layer group
Assign a color to a layer or group
Rasterize layers
Delete a layer or group
Export layers
Merging layers

Session 7
TRANSFORMING OBJECTS
Free Transform command
Apply transformations
Select an item to transform
Set or move the reference point for a
transformation
Scale, rotate, skew, distort, apply
perspective, or warp
Flip or rotate precisely
Repeat a transformation

Session 8
FORMATTING CHARACTERS
Select characters
Character panel overview
About Dynamic Shortcuts
Specify type size
Change the type color
Change the color of individual letters
Underline or strike through text

Session 9
RETOUCHING AND REPAIRING IMAGES
Modify rectangles and rounded
rectangles
Set shape stroke options
About the Clone Source panel
Retouch with the Clone Stamp tool
Set sample sources for cloning and
healing
Retouch with the Healing Brush tool
Retouch with the Spot Healing Brush
tool
Patch an area

Session 10
FILTER EFFECTS
TList of filters supporting 16-
bit/channel and 32-bit/channel
documents
Artistic filters
Blur filters
Brush Stroke filters
Distort filters
Noise filters
Pixelate filters

Session 11
SAVING A DOCUMENT
Save a file
Set file saving preferences
Save large documents
Export layers to files
Supported File Formats

Adobe Photoshop, Advance Level-Course Contents

Session 1
COLOR MANAGEMENT
Understanding color
Color models, spaces, and modes
Adjusting color hue, saturation, and
brightness
RGB Color mode
CMYK Color mode
Lab Color mode
Grayscale mode
Bitmap mode
Duotone mode
Indexed Color mode

Session 2
COLOR AND SWATCHES PANEL
Color panel overview
Select a color in the Color panel
Select a color in the Swatches panel
About foreground and background colors
Choose colors in the toolbox
Choose colors with the Eyedropper tool
Adobe Color Picker overview
Choose a color with the Adobe Color Picker
Choose a color while painting
Choose web-safe colors
Customize indexed color tables
Change the Color Picker
Add and delete color swatches
Manage swatch libraries
Share swatches between applications

Session 3
CONVERTING BETWEEN COLOR MODES
Convert an image to another color mode
Convert an image to Bitmap mode
Convert a color photo to Gray scale mode
Convert a Bitmap mode image to Gray scale mode
Convert a gray scale or RGB image to indexed color
Mix color channels

Session 4
IMAGE INFORMATION
Work with the Info panel
Display file information in the document window
View images in multiple windows
Match zoom and location in multiple images
Change the screen mode
View another area of an image
Use the Rotate View tool
Disable trackpad gestures (Mac OS)
Use the Navigator panel
Zoom in or out

Session 5
BLENDING MODES
Blending mode descriptions
Blending mode examples
Base Color
Blend Color
Result Color

Session 6
CREATE SMART OBJECTS
Video | Linked smart objects in Photoshop 14.2
Understanding Smart Objects
Create embedded Smart Objects | CC, Cs6
Create linked smart objects | Photoshop CC
Filter the Layers panel by smart objects | Photoshop CC
Duplicate an embedded smart object
Edit the contents of a Smart Object

Session 7
MASKING LAYERS
About layer and vector masks
Add layer masks
Unlinking layers and masks
Disable or enable a layer mask
Apply or delete a layer mask
Select and display the layer mask channel
Change the layer mask rubylith color or opacity
Masking layers with vector masks
Editing layer masks
Change the stack order of layers and groups
Move the content of layers
Rotate a layer
Lock layers
Revealing layers with clipping masks
Rename a layer or layer group
Assign a color to a layer or group
Rasterize layers
Delete a layer or group
Export layers
Merging layers

Session 8
CHANNEL BASICS
About channels
Channels panel overview
Show or hide a channel
Show color channels in color
Select and edit channels
Rearrange and rename alpha and spot channels
Delete a channel
Channel calculations
Blending layers and channels
Blend channels with the Apply Image command
Blend channels with the Calculations command
Add and Subtract blending modes
Duplicate, split, and merge channels

Session 9
ADJUSTING PIXEL SELECTIONS
Move, hide, or invert a selection
Adjust selections manually
Expand or contract a selection by a specific number of pixels
Create a selection around a selection border
Expand a selection to include areas with similar color
Clean up stray pixels in a color-based selection
Refine selection edges
Move a selection
Copy selections
Copy between applications
Delete selected pixels
Selecting a color range in an image
Extract an object from its background

Session 10
RESHAPING AND TRANSFORMING
Crop or remove part of an image
Crop tool updates | Creative Cloud only
Straighten an image
Transform perspective while cropping
Resize the canvas using the Crop tool
Crop images
Transform perspective while cropping | Cs5
Crop and straighten scanned photos
Straighten an image
Rotate or flip an entire image
Change the canvas size
Make a frame
Vanishing Point

Session 11
WORKING WITH TEXT
Formatting paragraphs
Formatting Characters
About fonts
Previewing fonts
Video | Finding the right font in Photoshop
Choose a font family and style
Change the font on multiple layers
About missing fonts and glyph protection
Open Type fonts
Set leading
Kern and track
Shift the baseline
Turn fractional character widths off or on

Adobe Photoshop, Expert Level-Course Contents

Session 1
WEB GRAPHICS
Web graphic formats
JPEG optimization options
GIF and PNG-8 optimization options
Optimize transparency in GIF and PNG images
View the color table for an optimized slice
Copy CSS from layers
Creating rollover images
Export to Zoomify
Working with hexadecimal color values

Session 2
SLICE WEB PAGES
Slice types
Slice a web page
Convert auto and layer-based slices to user slices
View slices and slice options
Display the Slice Options dialog box
Specify a slice content type
Rename a slice
Choose a background color for a slice
Assign URL link information to an Image slice
Specify browser messages and Alt text
Add HTML text to a slice
Select one or more slices
Move, resize, and snap user slices
Divide user slices and auto slices
Duplicate slices
Copy and paste a slice
Combine slices
Change the stacking order of slices

Session 3
CREATING WEB PHOTO GALLERIES
Convert an image to another color mode
Convert an image to Bitmap mode
Convert a color photo to Grayscale mode
Convert a Bitmap mode image to Grayscale mode
Convert a grayscale or RGB image to indexed color
Mix color channels

Session 4
AUTOMATION
About actions
Actions panel overview
For more information about actions
Guidelines for recording actions
Record an action
Record a path
Insert a stop
Change settings when playing an action
Exclude commands from an action
Insert a non-recordable menu command
Add a conditional mode change to an action
Adding conditional actions

Session 5
PRINTING SPOT COLORS
Printing Basics
About spot colors
Create a new spot channel
Convert an alpha channel to a spot channel
Edit a spot channel to add or remove color
Change a spot channel s color or solidity
Merge spot channels
Adjust overlapping spot colors
Printing with color management
Preparing images for press
Set output options
Print separations from Photoshop
Prepare an image with spot channels for printing from another application
Create a color trap
Determine scan resolution for printing

Session 6
FILTERS AND EFFECTS
Filter Basics
About layer effects and styles
Apply preset styles
Layer Style dialog box overview
Apply or edit a custom layer style
Layer style options
Modify layer effects with contours
Set a global lighting angle for all layers
Add Lighting effects
Photographic blur gallery
Adaptive wide angle filter
Oil Paint filter
Load images and textures for filters
Set texture and glass surface controls
Defining undistorted areas
Apply the Dust And Scratches filter
Apply the Displace filter
Apply the Color Halftone filter
Apply the Extrude filter

Session 7
VIDEO AND ANIMATION
Video & Animation overview
Importing video and animation files and image sequences
Saving & exporting video & animation
Editing video and animation layers
Painting frames in video layers
Creating timeline animations
Creating images for videos
Creating frame animations

Session 8
DRAWING & PAINTING
About drawing
Painting tools
Creating and modifying brushes
Editing paths
Erasing parts of an image
Creating patterns
Filling and stroking selections, layers and paths
Managing paths
Painting with the mix brush
Creating textured brushes
Brush presets

Session 9
3D painting
3D painting basics
3D panel enhancements
Understanding and displaying 3D files
3D object and camera tools
3D Axis
Essential 3D concepts and tools
Creating 3D objects and animations
Change 3D render settings
Render a 3D file for final output
Saving and exporting 3D files
3D panel overview
3D Scene settings
3D Mesh settings
3D Materials settings
3D Lights settings

Session 10
WORKING WITH COLOR PROFILES
About color profiles
About monitor calibration and characterization
Calibrate and profile your monitor
Install a color profile
Embed a color profile
Color-managing imported images
Color-managing documents for online viewing
Color-managing PDFs for online viewing
Color-managing HTML documents for online viewing