Course Description

You have familiarized yourself with the basic image editing tools of Adobe® Photoshop® CS2. Now, you may want to enhance the images by creating appropriate masks, applying special effects and retouching them. In this course, you'll work with the advanced tools and features available in Photoshop CS2 to enhance your images.

Course Objective: You will learn skills to enhance your ability to create accurate masks, image effects; retouch images; and automate repetitive tasks.

Target Student: This course is intended for new users of Photoshop.

Prerequisites: To ensure students' success with this course, we recommend that they are familiar with Photoshop CS2: Level 1 Second Edition.

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Performance-Based Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• work with advanced tools and techniques to create accurate masks and for better image editing flexibility.
• create, edit, and save vector paths; and also convert a path to a clipping path to prevent pixels outside it from being printed.
• create and save swatches, gradients, and patterns to fill image areas.
• use Photoshop's wide range of tools and techniques to create special effects in images.
• use the Actions palette to combine a series of commands into a single command and to create keyboard shortcuts for frequently used commands.

Course Content

Lesson 1: Masking and Clipping Layers
Topic 1A: Erase a Background
Topic 1B: Edit a Selection by Painting a Quick Mask Overlay
Topic 1C: Save and Edit a Selection in an Alpha Channel
Topic 1D: Work with Layer Masks
Topic 1E: Make Areas Within a Layer Semitransparent
Topic 1F: Clip a Layer to the Shape of Another

Lesson 2: Masking with Vector Paths
Topic 2A: Create Vector Paths
Topic 2B: Edit paths
Topic 2C: Mask an Image with a Path

Lesson 3: Filling Image Areas
Topic 3A: Fill Image Areas with Swatch Colors
Topic 3B: Create Gradients
Topic 3C: Create Patterns

 

 

 

 

 

Lesson 4: Creating Special Effects
Topic 4A: Distort Editable Type
Topic 4B: Warp an Image
Topic 4C: Create Layer Comps
Topic 4D: Crop Images Precisely
Topic 4E: Restore Photographs
Topic 4F: Simulate Painted Effects

Lesson 5: Automating Tasks
Topic 5A: Create an Action
Topic 5B: Manage Actions

Appendix A: Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) Objectives Mapping

Appendix B: Adobe® Photoshop® CS2: New Features Mapping

Appendix C: Blending Modes