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Classes :: class description : Graphic Design (level I)
Upon completion of this curriculum, the student will obtain the necessary knowledge and skill to perform the daily tasks of an entry-level graphic designer with the Photoshop environment.
Students must be familiar using the computer.
Module 1: Setting up a new document, Selection tools, Quick mask, Pixel, Cropping, Zoom tool. 1. What are Resolution, Pixel, and Environment? A. The Menu: an Overview. B. The Tool Box: an overview. Activate the tools with keyboard short cuts. C. The Palettes: opening, close, customize groups.
2. Selection tools & techniques A. Marquee: Rectangular, Elliptical, Horizon. & Vertical lines. B. Lasso: freehand, Polygon, and Magnetic. C. Wand. D. Tool Options palette for each of the above tools. E. Select Menu: Grow, Select all, Similar and Modify commands. F. Feather via the Options palette & by Select Feather in menu. 3. Masking, and drawing with selections A. Quick mask B. Make a complex selection using Quick Mask. C. Change the color of the quick mask 4. Crop, Move and copy A. Crop tool and its options. B. Move tool. C. Copy using key command. D. Copy using Move tool and Option Drag. 5. Navigate in Photoshop A. Use the Navigator. B. Zoom tool. C. Hand tool. D. Zooming in and out via the View Menu. 6. Project: Create a drawing using the Marquee tools. Rectangular, Elliptical, fill and stroke it with color. Module 2: Moving objectives, understanding color and transforming, Layers 1. Understanding to color A. What is RGB? B. What is cmyk? C. What is grayscale? D. What is bitmap? 2. Select, mix and save colors A. Foreground & Background Colors. B. Default Colors. C. Selecting colors: Swatches & Color palettes, Color picker. D. Sample colors with the eyedropper. E. Save Color Swatches. 3 Transformations A. Scale an item to make it bigger or smaller. B. Rotate an object. C. Skew, distort or add perspective to an object. 4. Layers A. The layer Palette in detail. B. The background Layer differences. C. Transparency: Preserving & Mask. D. Working with Layers: create, change, move, name, delete, duplicate, and group. E. Using Opacity effectively. F. Apply Blending modes. G. Merge layers. H. Considerations when merging layers. I. Flatten images. Module 3: Understanding brushes, and type tools. Painting tools. Channel and Masking 1. Brushes A. Make a new brush. B. Change an existing brush. C. Soft and hard-edged brushes. D. Make unique brush shapes. E. Load and saving brushes. F. Delete and replacing brushes. 2. Type A. Create and rendering type. B. Layer Effects with type. C. Fonts. D. Track, Kern, and Baseline Shift type E. Mask type. F. Warp type. C. Fonts and sizes D. Color Type. E. Selecting and moving individual characters. 3. Painting Tools & Techniques A. Paintbrush tool. B. Pencil tool. C. Paint Bucket tool. D. Line tool. E. Eraser tool. F. Back Ground Eraser tool. G. Magic Eraser tool. Tool options for each tool.
4. Image & Color adjustments A. The Contrast and Brightness B. The Variations command. C. The Threshold command. D. The Posterize command. E. Levels. F. Curves. G. Hue/Saturation. H. Color Balance. I. Color Range. 5. Channels & Masks A. Understand color Channels. B. Use Alpha Channels. C. Blurring tool. D. Sharpening tool. E. Smudge tool. F. Cloning stamp tool. G. Pattern stamp tool. H. Healing Brush tool. Module 4. Eraser tools, retouching tools. Project design Hawaii poster 1. Image Repair & retouching A. Dodging tool. B. Burning tool. C. Blurring tool. D. Sharpening tool. E. Smudge tool. F. Cloning stamp tool. G. Pattern stamp tool. H. Healing Brush tool. I. Patch Brush tool. Tool options for each tool. 2. Image & Color adjustments A. The Contrast and Brightness B. The Variations command. C. The Threshold command. D. The Posterize command. E. Levels. F. Curves. G. Hue/Saturation. H. Color Balance. I. Color Range. 3. Project: Design a Hawaii Poster using techniques and tricks learned in last lesson (Layer, Selection, Color, and Type). Students will also learn how to move layer from one project to another do minor retouching, and use some filters. Module 5. Gradients, Patterns, Pen tools, Adjustment Layers 1. Gradients & Patterns A. Different types of gradients: liner, Radial etc. B. Pre-set Gradients C. Creating a pattern with the Pattern Stamp tool. 2. Pen tool How do Corner points, smooth points work? How to add and subtract points? How to convert points and control handles. 3. Custom Shape tools 4. Slice tool & slice selection tool 5. Guides & Grids 6. Duotones, Tritones & Quadtones A. Create a Duotone. B. Select Duotone colors. C. Set Curves for each color. D. Save & Load Duotone settings. 7. Adjustment Layers A. Add, change and delete. B. Using adjustment layer to correct color. 8. Layer masks A. What is a Layer Mask? B. Create and using a Layer mask. C. Change, apply, remove Layer Masks. 9.Filters Overview of the filters. 10. Project: Poster using layer mask
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