Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Beginners

What Will You Learn?

• 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