Below are some excerpts from the course syllabus.
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Course Description:
Take charge of your images with Photoshop--the leading image creation, correction, and manipulation software--used to prepare images for multimedia, websites, and print projects. Become proficient in image preparation and selection techniques through hands-on practice. Discover resizing, resampling, transforming, cropping, exporting, color modes, and file formats. Learn how to prepare work for print, Web, and graphic presentations. Building on these basics, learn intermediate manipulation functions including layers, textures, filters, layer styles and masks, adjustment layers, clipping groups, blending modes, alpha channels, useful correction techniques, photo compositing, vector paths, and lighting effects.
Course Objectives:
This
course will give the student a foundational understanding of the Adobe
Photoshop program and how Photoshop tools can enhance, retouch and prepare
photographs for a variety of output usages.
At
the conclusion of this course, the student will have:
· Gained a working
knowledge of the Adobe Photoshop program software
· Created a thoughtful
connection between the ethics of image design and image manipulation
· Established a
foundational understanding of the technical aspects of digital image workflow
through lectures, demonstrations, and assignments
· Become skilled in
downloading imagery from either a scanner or a digital camera into a computer,
editing it via Adobe Photoshop, and preparing it for digital output
· Acquired first hand experience and knowledge of Mac
platform computer systems
Martin Evening Adobe
Photoshop CS6 for Photographers, Focal Press, May 2012 ~$32
Scott Kelby The
Adobe Photoshop CS6 Book for Digital Photographers, New Riders, July
2012 ~$32
Adobe Creative Team Adobe
Photoshop CS6 Classroom In A Book, Adobe Press, June 2012 ~$29
Elaine Weinmann & Peter Lourekas Photoshop
CS6, Visual QuickStart Guide, June 2012 ~$24
