Photoshop Basics – Interface and Tools
Introducing the Adobe Photoshop environment
Using the tools and changing tool options
Using floating palettes: Layers, Swatches, History, etc.
Keyboard shortcuts for navigation and zoom

Cropping & Rotating
Cropping images to remove unwanted areas
Rotating or flipping an image

Colour Adjustment
Adjusting the brightness & contrast with Levels
Adjusting image colours
Creating a tinted image

Text
Creating text, setting text attributes, choosing colours
Applying drop shadow and emboss effects to text

Colours
Using the colour picker
Choosing RGB colours
Choosing web safe colours
Storing colours for later use
Filling areas with solid colour or gradient

Layers
Introduction to the use of Layers – organising, deleting, layer visibility

Vector shapes
Creating vector shapes using the built in shapes
Creating customised shapes or using a shape created in Illustrator
Changing the colour of a vector shape
Modifying a vector shape

Filters
Filters for image enhancement – sharpening and blurring

Resizing Images for your web site
Correctly re-sizing images so that you don’t get blurred or distorted images
Use Image Size, Canvas Size, and the Crop tool to resize your images to an exact size
Keeping image quality as good as possible when resizing

Designing simple web graphics
Creating some simple web graphics such as buttons or tiles
Creating a simple repeating designs for web page backgrounds

Colour Modes
Colour modes used for web graphics files – RGB and Indexed – the differences and limitations of each

Saving images and graphics for web sites
File formats and compression settings – the correct ones to use
Image optimisation and choosing the correct file format and settings

Day 2 – Photoshop Web Images Course Outline

Photoshop techniques to prepare images and simple artwork for your web sites, social media sites, marketing emails, or other digital marketing purposes.

Colour Adjustment
Changing the colour balance or removing a colour cast
Using the colour adjustment tools to create artistic colour changes
Setting areas of an image to pure black or pure white

Layers
Organising layers and the content on them
Copying layers to other open documents
Using and editing layer masks
Using opacity and layer blending modes to obtain different effects

Selection Tools
Selection tool options, cropping to a selection – fixed aspect ratio selection
Saving selections – reloading and modifying saved selections later
Making a mask from a selection

Actions and Batch processing
Recording a series of steps to be performed on a number of images, such as image resizing or colour adjustments.
Use Actions to resize images – create a set of images of the same dimensions
Naming, editing, saving, loading and running actions
Batch processing a complete folder of files

Designing web images and graphics
Create some web images and graphics, combining photographs, logo, graphics and text into the designs.
Design an advertising banner or tile.
Create a header design to fit at the top of a web page or email.
Bring Illustrator artwork and graphics into Photoshop

This is typical course outline, but the exact course content may vary depending on the requirements and needs of those being trained.