Course Specifications

Course Number:

092014

Course Length:

1 day

Course Description

Overview:

Adobe® Photoshop® is a leading graphic creation application, popular among graphic designers, illustrators, and photographers. Photoshop's numerous features work together to provide a comprehensive toolset for you, the design professional. This course delves into some of the more advanced image creation and editing techniques, and offers you hands-on activities that demonstrate how these techniques can be used in combination to create exciting visual effects.

This course is a great component of your preparation for the Adobe Certified Professional (ACP) in Visual Design Using Adobe Photoshop exam.

Course Objectives:

This course will prepare you to use the most common basic features of Adobe Photoshop.

In this course, you will:

• Use brushes, gradients, and tool presets to create raster images.
• Apply vector paths, shape drawing tools, type, and type special effects.
• Apply advanced layer techniques with masks, filters, layers, and smart objects.
• Apply actions and batch processing to automate tasks.
• Edit video by using timelines, transitions, graphics, titles, and animation.
• Set project requirements by identifying the purpose, audience, copyright rules, and project management tasks.

Target Student:

Target students include professional or amateur photographers who want to use the robust features of Photoshop to enhance, modify, and organize their photographs, and anyone interested in working toward the Visual Communication with Adobe Photoshop exam certification.

Prerequisites:

To ensure your success in this course, you should have experience with the following tasks:

• Identify the basic components of Adobe® Bridge and the Photoshop workspace.
• Define image size and resolution.
• Add and modify Photoshop layers.
• Use tools to select, crop, and move images.
• Work with image adjustment properties to correct and retouch photographic images.
• Open and modify an image in Adobe® Camera Raw.
• Prepare images for print and web.

To meet these prerequisites, you can take the Logical Operations course:

• Adobe® Photoshop® CC: Part 1

Course-specific Technical Requirements

Hardware:

For this course, you will need one computer for each student and one for the instructor. Each computer will need the following minimum hardware configurations:

• Sufficient processor speed, RAM, and disk space for good system performance when running Microsoft Windows 10 and Adobe Photoshop.
• Mouse, keyboard, and monitor
• High-speed, stable Internet connection
• For the instructor's computer, a method to project and/or share the screen as needed for local and remote class participants.

Software:

• Microsoft® Windows® version 1909 or later
• Adobe® Photoshop® : Photoshop Plan
  

  NOTE: You might also see this version referred to as the October 2022 release, Photoshop 2023, or version 24.0.

• Adobe® Bridge
• If necessary, software for viewing the course slides (instructor machine only)

NOTE: In October 2022, Adobe updated Photoshop. This course is based on the Photoshop Plan. This course was created and keyed using Windows 10.

NOTE: The course was not tested on Windows 11 or using the Photography Plan or the All Apps Plan, so if you are using any combination of those versions, be sure to test the activities before class begins.

Course Content

Lesson 1: Creating Raster Images

Topic A: Draw with Brushes

Topic B: Create Gradients

Topic C: Apply Tool Presets

Lesson 2: Applying Vector Image Tools

Topic A: Create Images with Vector Paths

Topic B: Apply the Shape Drawing Tools

Topic C: Work with Type

Topic D: Apply Type Special Effects

Lesson 3: Applying Advanced Layer Techniques

Topic A: Modify Images with Masks

Topic B: Apply Special Effects by Using Filters

Topic C: Apply Special Effects to Layers

Topic D: Apply Smart Objects for Nondestructive Editing

Lesson 4: Automating Tasks

Topic A: Create and Apply Actions

Topic B: Batch Process Files with Photoshop and Adobe Bridge

Lesson 5: Editing Video

Topic A: Edit Video

Topic B: Add Graphics, Titles, and Animation to Video

Lesson 6: Setting Project Requirements

Topic A: Identify Purpose, Audience, and Audience Needs

Topic B: Adhere to Copyright Rules for Artwork, Graphics, and Graphics Use

Topic C: Determine and Evaluate Project Management Tasks and Responsibilities

Appendix A: Mapping Course Content to the Adobe Certified Professional in Visual Design Using Adobe Photoshop Exam