Adobe Online for beginners by Palium

Essentials
o The Photoshop Screen
o Getting to know the Tools & Palettes
o Using guides, grids and rulers
o Navigation and Zoom shortcuts

Selections
o Why use Selections?
o Creating selections using Marquee tools
o The Lasso tools
o The Magic Wand and Quick Selection tools
o Adding or Deleting from selections
o Saving and Loading selections
o Controlling Tonal Values
o Creating Toned and Tinted Images
o Selecting by colour range
o Feathering selections
o Quick Mask mode

Correcting an Image
o Using the Histogram palette
o Fixing colour with variations
o Using Levels and Curves to fix tone & contrast
o Colour balance and variations
o Hue and saturation controls
o The Vibrance command

Re-Touching Techniques
o Custom colours
o Dodge and burn tools
o Crop and rotate artwork
o Sharpen and Blur filters
o Focus tools
o The Clone & Heal tools
o The Healing Brush tools
o The Colour Replace tool
o Red eye reduction
o Digital darkroom techniques
o Creating and editing gradients

Filters, Painting and Drawing
o Using Filters and Plug-ins
o Using the Unsharp Mask
o Cloning Images
o Using the Burn/Dodge/Sponge Tool
o Mixing and applying paint and fill colours
o Print and web safe colours
o Using the Airbrush, Pencil, Paintbrush and Eyedropper tools
o Using the Paint Bucket tool
o Drawing shapes
o Creating vector shape layers
o Polygon, line and custom shape tools
o The add, subtract, intersect commands
o Editing vector shapes using the pen tools
o Adding colour fills, gradients and patterns

Working with Layers
o Creating and Viewing multiple Layers
o Moving, scaling and rotating layers
o Linking & aligning Layers
o Merging, Flattening and Saving Layers
o Locking and protecting layers
o Layer groups
o Applying and editing type
o Rasterizing shape and text layers
o Saving and flattening layered files

Merging layers
o Applying transparency
o Basic layer blending modes
o Text layers
o Adjustment layers
o Special effects
? Drop shadows, glows and embossing
o Layer masks
Working with Text
o New Features
o Creating a Text Layer
o Text Paragraphs
o Adding Text Effects
o Painting Text
o Text anti-aliasing

Special Effects
o Using Photoshop filters
o Working with the Filter Gallery
o Fading the effects of filters

Saving Files
o File formats
o Choosing the right colour mode
o Adjusting resolution and image size
o Cropping or enlarging the canvas

Printing and Optimising Documents
o Colour modes, resolution & image size
o Printing from Photoshop
o Printing from other applications
o The Save for web command
o Creating transparent GIF files