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This ten-hour, four day workshop will start with the very basics of and move to more complex graphics editing tools in Photoshop Elements. Students will be shown how to import, export, and edit bitmapped graphics files (like those created by digital cameras) and then encouraged to play.
The current version of Photoshop Elements is 6.
Recommended book: Teach Yourself VISUALLY Photoshop Elements 6 by Woolridge (view at Amazon)
Overview
- Drawing versus Bitmap graphics
- "It's Just a Bunch of Dots"
- Modes
- Resolution
New Document
- canvas size
- resolution
- mode
- Impact on quality and size of document
- Scanners and Digital Cameras
The interface
- tools on the left side
- Palattes on the right
- option bar on the top
Viewing a Document
- Zooming in and out
- Fit to Screen
- Using the space bar or hand tool to move around
Editing a Document
- resizing
- cropping
- rotating
Simple Editing
- Auto Fixes
- highlights, midtones, and shadows
- Red Eye
Painting tools
- setting color with color pickers
- setting color with eyedropper
- setting airbrush, pressure
- paint bucket
- pencil
- choosing brush type
- changing brush sizes with keyboard (with "[" and "]")
General Transformation Tools
- smudge
- blur
- sharpen
- burn
- sponge
- dodge
- erase
Cloning
- setting the source (option/ALT and mouse click)
- cloning
- impact of different brush settings
- aligned or not
Filters
Selecting
- marquee: rectangle and oval
- lasso: free, polygon, magnetic
- magic wand: tolerance, continguous
- adding and subtracting selection areas (shift and option/ALT)
- saving and applying selection areas
- inverting selection
- feathering a selection
Copying
- moving from one document to another
Layers
- What is a layer?
- Adjustment Layers
- Content Layers
- Changing the order of the layers
- Make layers visible, invisible
- Group, Flatten, Rename layers
Drawing Tools
- Free form pen tool
- bezier curves: hinge and rounded
- Object tools
Transforming a Selection
- rotating
- skew, distort, stretch, slant
- free transform
- nudging
- escaping or confirming transformation
Text tools
- vector versus bitmapped text
- Type Tool: options: color, font face, points
- Blend Mode
- Change Fill (option-delete to change)
- Transform Type with Free transform (scale, skew)
- Moving the text box (command-drag)
- Point text versus paragraph text
- Warped Text
- character tab on palettes
- paragraph tab on palettes
- font measurements in points versus pixels (pt vs px) also cm, in, mm
- anti-aliasing (makes font smoother, crisper, stronger, etc., more useful for smaller font sizes)
- Setting leading, kerning (use option + arrows to increment)
Photoshop Elements Organizer
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