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Computing Workshop Descriptions - Photoshop

Photoshop: The Basics

Photoshop is an ideal application for creating high quality digital images for print or the web. This workshop provides participants with little or no experience in Photoshop with a comprehensive introduction to its basic features and capabilities. Participants learn how to paint new content, touch up digital photographs, create pixel selections, composite images, and apply numerous creative effects, such as filters.

Participants will:

  • work with Photoshop's toolbar and palettes
  • understand image, monitor, and output resolution
  • retouch and blend two images
  • manage layers
  • use effects and filters
  • use the History Palette and History Brush
  • add a border and text to an image
  • output a file in the TIFF graphic format

Participants should already be able to:

  • use the mouse
  • work with windows and menus
  • save, copy, and organize documents in a Windows or Macintosh environment
  • work with Microsoft Word and PowerPoint

The materials handout for this workshop are also available for download at: http://ittraining.iu.edu/online/tutorials/

Photoshop CS4: Retouching & Color Correction

In this workshop, participants will learn how to do photo retouching and color correction in Photoshop. Working with three digital camera projects, participants will enhance snapshots by adjusting color and contrast and removing red eye. Using layer blending and masking techniques, participants will learn to selectively apply effects to different parts of a photo. Users will learn to work with three different techniques for color correction, and will also add color to a grayscale photo.

Participants will:

  • remove red eye and other defects from a photo
  • use the Quick Selection Tool
  • colorize grayscale photos using adjustment layers
  • learn how Photoshop stores image information in the Channels palette
  • perform color correction using Curves, Levels and the Info Palette
  • make complex selections with the Magnetic Lasso tool
  • create special effects using Filters

Participants should already be able to:

  • work with Photoshop's toolbox, Options bar, and palettes
  • make basic pixel selections
  • use filters
  • work with layers

Photoshop CS4: Restoring & Blending Images

This workshop is especially for people who want to learn to create photo collages and for those who are interested in refurbishing digital images of aging photographs. Designed for people with some experience using Photoshop, this workshop delves more deeply into Photoshop image-editing strategies and practices. Participants will learn the most beneficial way to modify images, using channels and masks to preserve and edit their work. While doing the exercises, participants will save and re-use complex pixel selections, colorize grayscale photographs, learn the best method to create collages, and explore the ways Photoshop digitizes color.
Note: If you have already attended Photoshop: Editing and Compositing Images, this workshop covers many of the same concepts and many of the exercises in this workshop will be the same.

Participants will:

  • Restore digital scans of aging photographs
  • Sharpen a blurry image
  • Create a true black and white image from a yellowing photo
  • Blend two images together with a gradient mask
  • Create sepia tone effects with a Duotone
  • Colorize a grayscale image
  • Create a photo collage

Participants should already be able to:

  • Work with Photoshop's toolbox, Options bar, and palettes
  • Make basic pixel selections
  • Use filters
  • Work with layers

Photoshop CS4: In-depth Healing Tools

In this workshop, participants will be challenged to master the various Healing Tools Photoshop offers. The Healing Tools in Photoshop enable users to remove damaged or distracting portions of an image, and even replace sections of an image that may be missing. Participants will spend time in this workshop learning how each tool behaves and examine situations in which it would be the most appropriate tool to use. Participants will also spend plenty of time practicing with these tools and mastering the techniques required to get the most out of them.

Participants will:

  • use the Clone Stamp Tool, Healing Brush, Spot Healing Brush, and Patch Tool
  • use the Vanishing Point filter to remove damage in perspective
  • use the Crop tool to minimize work
  • repair torn and cracked images
  • remove spots and distracting elements from images
  • learn to use the best tool for different types of damage to the image

This workshop is only available for self-study. Contract the Training Coordinator for information.

Participants should already be familiar with the features covered in:

  • Photoshop CS4: The Basics
  • Photoshop CS4: Retouching & Color Correction

Photoshop Elements 7 & Google Picasa 3: The Basics

This workshop introduces techniques for editing and managing digital photos using Photoshop Elements and Google Picasa. During this workshop, participants will edit flawed photos taken with a digital camera. These images will be straightened, cropped, and resized, and corrected for contrast, color, blemishes, and dark areas. Finally, participants will save the finished images for print, email, and Web.

Participants will:

  • Organize a group of photos
  • Straighten an angled photo
  • Crop a photo
  • Sharpen the focus
  • Correct blemishes
  • Adjust photos with poor exposure and lighting
  • Check for resolution and dimensions
  • Save images for print, email, or web

Participants should already be able to:

  • use the mouse
  • work with windows and menus
  • save, copy, and organize documents in a Windows or Macintosh environment

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Contact the Training Coordinator, , in Hawthorn  108B or call 980-6960
if you have questions or wish to register for a workshop.

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