If you understand the program foundations, you will want to learn more skills. and Adobe Photoshop CS3 Intermediate is your choice. It will improve your efficiency.
Are you ready to learn additional skills? Are you an instructor? Are you sure that your students to improve their skills? Instructors all over the world have been using our pre-written, customizable courseware since 1998.
There is a lot to learn. Here are just a few of the topics and lessons covered in this courseware:
- Arranging Screen Components
- Hiding and Displaying Windows
- Navigation, Notation, and Colour Tools
- Alignment Tools, Grids, Rulers, and Guides
- Selection Rotations
- What is RGB Colour?
- Using the Colour Palette and the Colour Ramp
And many more topics.
Our courseware is fully customizable so the instructor can add whatever content they deem necessary (or take away whatever is not).
Section 1: Using Layers
Lesson 1.1: Using Layers
What Is A Layer?
Using the Layers Palette
Hiding and Displaying Layers
Changing Layer Opacity
Arranging Layers
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Lesson 1.2: Working with Layers
Creating Basic Layers
Deleting Layers
Renaming a Layer
Creating a Layer via Cut
Creating a Layer via Copy
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Lesson 1.3: More on Layers
Making Adjustments with Layers
Using Fill Layers
Using Layer Styles and Effects
Adding a Color Stroke to a Layer
Grouping Layers
Step-By-Step
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Lesson 1.4: Advanced Layers
Using Auto-Align
Using Auto-Blend
Linking Layers
Duplicating Layers
Merging Layers
Exporting Layers
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Section 1: Case Study
Section 1: Review Questions
Section 2: Retouching Images
Lesson 2.1: Working with Retouch Tools
What is Retouching?
The Blur Tool
The Sharpen Tool
The Smudge Tool
Step-By-Step
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Lesson 2.2: More Retouching Tools
The Dodge Tool
The Burn Tool
The Sponge Tool
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Lesson 2.3: Working with Color, Brightness, and Contrast
What are Hue, Saturation, and Brightness?
Working with Hue
Working with Saturation
Working with Lightness
Working with Brightness and Contrast
Working with Shadows and Highlights
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Lesson 2.4: Retouching With Stamps and Brushes
The Healing Brush
The Patch Tool
The Clone Stamp
The Pattern Stamp Tool
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Section 2: Case Study
Section 2: Review Questions
Section 3: Getting Creative
Lesson 3.1: Working with Brushes
Using the Paint Bucket
Using the Brush
Working with Custom Brushes
Using the Airbrush
Using the Pencil Tool
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Lesson 3.2: Using Type Tools
Working with Horizontal Type
Working with Vertical Type
Modifying Type
Performing a Spell Check
Working with the Character Palette
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Lesson 3.3: More Photoshop Drawing Tools
Working with Lines and Shapes
Working with Custom Shapes
Using Pens
Using the Freeform Pen
Adding or Deleting Anchor Points
Adding Curves to Your Path
Converting a Path to a Selection
Working with Paths
Step-By-Step
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Lesson 3.4: Rasterization
Understanding Rasterize
Using Rasterize
Undoing Rasterize
Flattening the Image
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Section 3: Case Study
Section 3: Review Questions
Section 4: Working with Masks, Channels, and Filters
Lesson 4.1: Using Masks
What is a Mask?
Using Quick Mask
Using Layer Masks
Using Vector Masks
Using Clipping Masks
Step-By-Step
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Lesson 4.2: Working with Channels
What are Channels?
Types of Channels
Using the Channels Palette
Creating an Alpha Channel
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Lesson 4.3: Modifying Images with Filters
What Are Filters?
Using the Photoshop Filter Gallery
About Smart Filters
Working with the Sharpen Filter and Sharpen Edges Filter
Working with Blur Filters
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Lesson 4.4: Using Effects Filters
Using the Artistic Filters
Using the Distort Filters
Using the Pixelate Filters
Using the Noise Filters
Using Other Filters
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Lesson 4.5: Advanced Filter Tasks
Liquifying an Image
Using the Pattern Maker
Embedding a Watermark in an Image
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Section 4: Case Study
Section 4: Review Questions
Index
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