Adobe Photoshop CS3 Complete Course

Introduction to Photoshop CS3, new features, starting the program, workspace overview and exiting the program

On screen options like the Menu Bar, Toolbox, Palettes, and The Status Bar

Opening, creating, saving files, also find out about different file formats and how to view file info

Customize the Toolbox and Palettes, choose a screen mode and save your workspace

Using help menu, help, how to and online help

Learn the toolbox through selection, crop and slice, retouching, painting and other types of tools

Save, access and delete presets, along with using the preset palette

Explore different palette options like navigator and info palettes and more

View rulers, set up guides, view the grid, and set snap options

Print your pictures through page setup, print command, print dialogue box, and printing single copies

Understand pixels, bitmap and vector images, find out pixel information with info palette and basic anatomy of images

Understand Image Resolution, change image size through pixels, image resampling, using auto resolution, dimension constraints, and changing the image document size

Understand, flip and rotate canvas; and further work with canvas size, colour, and anchor point

RGB and CMYK colours, colour setting and modes

Using colour palette, ramp, picker and swatches

Select complete images; use marquee, lasso, quick selection and refine edge tool; magic wand; and selection through colour range

Add or subtract from selection, modify selections through moving, rotating, resizing, scaling, inverting, skewing and feathering options

Save selected regions, cut, copy, paste, delete selections along with deselect and history palette

Crop and trim images, adjust exposure, and convert to black and white

Use basic editing tools like undo, redo, clear, duplicate and place

Understanding Layers, using layers palette, hiding and displaying layers, changing layer opacity, and arranging layers

Create, delete and rename layers; also create layers using cut or copy options

Make adjustments with layers, use fill layers, layer style and effects, add colour stroke, and group layers

Utilize Auto-Align and Auto- Blend options, link, duplicate, merge and export layers

Understand retouching and use the blur, sharpen and smudge tools

Best ways to work with Hue, saturation, lightness, brightness and contrast, and shadows and highlights

Retouch photos with healing brush, patch tool, clone stamp, and pattern stamp tool

Best practices to use paint bucket, brushes, custom brushes, airbrush, and pencil tool

Working with horizontal, vertical, modifying type tools; while performing spell checks and using the character palette

Working with lines, shapes, custom shapes, utilizing pens and freeform pens, adding or deleting anchor points and curves, converting path to a selection, and working with paths

Understanding, using, undoing rasterize, and flatting image

Using quick, layer, vector, and clipping mask options

Types of channels, using channels palette, and creating alpha channel

Changing images through the Photoshop filter gallery, and smart filters like sharpen, sharpen edges, and blur filters

Using artistic, distort, pixelate, noise and other types of effects filters

Liquifying an image, using pattern maker, and embedding watermarks in images

Understand, record, play and edit actions

Undo actions using history, saving and using actions, and clearing and resetting actions pallete

Batch processing multiple images, understanding and utilizing droplets

Layer scripts, exporting layers to files, and using scripts event manager

Examine Adobe bridge, learn to open and close it, use the interface, filter and sort images

Preview and open photos, set camera raw preferences, download photos from cameras, and search for specific photos

Discover how to rotate images, customize the content pane, rate pictures, and change views

Get an overview of the bridge workspace, saving, deleting and accessing custom workspaces

Explore stacks, how to create them, expanding and collapsing options, ungrouping, moving photos to top of stacks and playing stacks

Understand Metadata, and furthermore create, edit and apply Metadata template

Rename batch, colour management using Bridge, preview files in device central, and purging the cache

Merge to HDR, create PDF presentations and web photo gallery, and use the image processor

Understanding device central, opening it and choosing a device

Understanding plug-ins, reviewing installed plug-ins, accessing more plug-ins and using them

Opening and working with PDF documents in Photoshop, working with PDF documents, saving them, adding security controls and creating PDF presentation

Setting up your preferences, using adobe presets, opening the preset manager, saving and loading presents

Understanding smart objects, converting layers to smart objects, creating them via copying and from files

Editing smart object contents, replacing the contents, resizing objects and exporting smart objects

Saving for the Web, Optimizing JPEG and GIF Images, using zoomify options and creating rollovers

Creating simple frame animations, playing the frames, managing them, enhancing animation with tweening and saving animations

Utilizing slices in a variety of different ways

Using photomerge, understanding HDR and creating HDR images

Understanding Grayscale, converting images to grayscale, using spot colour, working with colour balance and variations

Soft proofing images, printing colour separations, creating contact sheet and picture package

At the end of the course, you will be required to sit for an online MCQ test. Your test will be assessed automatically and immediately. You will instantly know whether you have been successful or not.

Before sitting for your final exam you will have the opportunity to test your proficiency with a mock exam.

After completing and passing the course successfully, you will be able to obtain an Accredited Certificate of Achievement.

Certificates can be obtained either in hard copy at a cost of £39 or in PDF format at a cost of £24.