“Having Fun with Photoshop”

The course will be based on Photoshop Version 7.

THE TOOLS, FILTERS AND PROTOCOLS IN PS7 ARE PRETTY MUCH UNIVERSAL SO ANYTHING YOU LEARN IN THE COURSE SHOULD BE TRANSFERRABLE TO PHOTOSHOP CS.

And you’ll actually will have been shown enough basic PS skills to create artworks like the following samples… Yes, really!

AGENDA

SESSION 1

1. Overview of Course2. Introduction to Tools 3. Introduction to Layers

4. Introduction to PS History5. Homework assignment

“Photoshop 7 has more than 460 menu items in the main menu. Additionally it has 15 feature rich, tool palettes including the main Tool Palette with 60 tools; plus it offers a plethora of tool presets, colour swatches, actions, blend modes, and much more.”

Gregory Georges – “50 FAST PHOTODHOP 7 TECHNIQUES”

How am I going to learn all

that stuff?

Gregory Georges – “50 FAST PHOTODHOP 7 TECHNIQUES”

You use what you need to use…

“Photoshop 7 has more than 460 menu items in the main menu. Additionally it has 15 feature rich, tool palettes including the main Tool Palette with 60 tools; plus it offers a plethora of tool presets, colour swatches, actions, blend modes, and much more.”

Introduction to PS Tools

Introduction to PS Layers

Print Screen from Photoshop Elements showing essentially same Layers layout

Introduction to History

1. Use Crop Tools to create a vertical format image from a horizontal format image (or vice-versa)

2. Use Text Tool to put a title on a photo; also using the Eyedropper to select a colour for the text that is in the picture

Session #1 – Homework: