This course consists of 2 modules: Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator. Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator are the industry standard and professional softwares which are commonly used in managing photo/image and creating graphic design.

Adobe Photoshop can let designers easily and freely revamp their productions by using the functions including color correction & adjustment, retouching & repairing images, layer effect & styles, and using masks etc. It eliminates the effort and cost on editing photos by using traditional film processing work. The powerful editing functions can produce many special image effects which are hardly replaced or substituted by other softwares.

The diversified features of Illustrator can help designers create their design works with many special graphic effects. Designers can make use of the toolbars to draw lines & shapes, and to select the font style & size and colours to create graphic illustrations. Further, it is compatible with word processing, layers and other special features to enrich your productions. Hence, Illustrator is the pioneer software tool to produce poster, company logo, leaflet and all printing designs, product design, and the graphic illustration of advertising and multimedia web. Apart from the design functions, Adobe Illustrator is also compatible of various file formats and output of different softwares.

Module 1: Photoshop 

Using the drawing aids 
   

• About rulers, grids and guides
• Change a ruler’s zero origin
• Change the unit of measurement
• Specify columns for an image
• Position with the ruler tool
• Position with guides and the grid
• Use snapping
• Show or hide Extras

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File formats discussion  
   

• DNG, RAW, TIFF, JPEG,PDF and EPS

Making selections 
   

• About selecting pixels
• Select, deselect, and reselect pixels
• Select with the marquee tools, lasso tool, polygonal lasso tool
• Select with the quick selection tool and magic wand tool

Modifying selections 
   

• Move, hide, or invert a selection
• Adjust selections manually
• Expand or contract a selection by a specific number of pixels
• Create a selection around a selection border
• Expand a selection to include areas with similar colour
• Clean up stray pixels in a colour-based selection
• Refine selection edges
• Soften the edges of selections
• Remove fringe pixels from a selection
• Move and copy selections

More on selection techniques 
   

• Marquee, lasso, quick selection and magic wand tools
• Adding, subtraction and intersection
• Moving selection
• Defringe, feather
• Selecting areas by using ‘similar’ and ‘grow’ functions

About colour 
   

• Understanding colour
• Colour models, spaces, and modes
• Adjusting colour hue, saturation, and brightness

Choosing colours  
   

• About foreground and background colours
• Choose colours in the toolbox
• Choose colours with the Eyedropper tool
• Adobe Colour Picker overview
• Choose a colour with the Adobe Colour Picker
• Choose web safe colours
• Change the colour picker
• Colour palette overview
• Select a colour in the Colour palette
• Select a colour in the Swatches palette
• Add, replace, and delete colour swatches
• Manage swatch libraries

Transforming selection 
   

• Crop images
• Distort, skew, perspective, scale
• Crop and Straighten photos
• Rotate or flip an entire image
• Change the canvas size

Retouching and repairing images  
   

• Retouching using clone stamp tool
• Retouch with the healing brush tool
• Retouch with the spot healing brush tool
• Heal and patch an area
• Remove red eye
• Sharpen image areas
• Dodge or burn areas
• Adjust colour saturation in image areas

Colouring images 
   

• Discussion on different colour models, CMYK, RBG and HSB
• Ways to prepare colour
• Using eyedropper
• Paint Bucket tools
• Fill command

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Understanding various kinds of fill contents  
   

• White, black and gray
• Foreground and background
• History and pattern
• Blending
• Opacity
• Modes like (Colour, Dissolve)
• Gradient creation
• Gradient pattern

Preparing type  
   

• How to change the fonts, size and other type attributes
• Type effects

Determine image resolution for high quality printing 
   

• Image resolution versus print quality
• dpi = (1.5 - 2) *lpi (lines per inch)

Layer Basics  
   

• About layers
• Layers palette overview
• Convert background and layers
• Create layers, group and duplicate layers
• Show or hide a layer, group, or style
• View layers and groups within a group
• Sample from all visible layers
• Change transparency preferences

Working with layers 
   

• Add layers to a group
• Link and unlink layers
• Change the stack order of layers and groups
• Show layer edges and handles
• Move the content of layers
• Align objects on different layers
• Distribute layers and groups evenly
• Rotate a layer
• Lock layers

Setting opacity  
   

• Specify opacity for a layer or group
• Specify fill opacity for a layer
• Specify a blending mode for a layer or group
• Filling new layers with a neutral color

Managing layers  
   

• Rename a layer or group
• Assign a color to a layer or group
• Rasterize layers
• Delete a layer or group
• Export and merge layers

Layer effects and styles 
   

• About layer effects and styles
• Apply preset styles
• Layer styles dialog box overview
• Apply or edit a custom layer style
• Layer style options
• Modify layer effects with contours
• Set a global lighting angle for all layers
• Display or hide layer styles
• Create and manage preset styles
• Copy layer styles
• Remove layer effects
• Convert a layer style to image layers

Correcting mistakes  
   

• Use the undo or redo commands
• Revert to the last saved version
• Restore part of an image to its previously saved version
• Receive notification when an operation is completed
• Work with the history palette
• Make a snapshot of an image
• Work with history brush

Colour correction and adjustment  
   

• Levels overview
• Adjust tonal range using Levels
• Adjust colour using Levels
• Curves overview
• Adjust colour and tonality with Curves
• Colour correct using the eyedroppers
• Adjust hue and saturation
• Convert a colour image to black and white
• Improve shadow and highlight detail
• Add contrast to a photo
• Using colour balance
• Using exposure

Channels(advanced topic) 
   

• About channels
• Channels palette overview
• Show or hide a channel
• Show colour channels in colour
• Select, edit and delete channels

Saving selections and using masks (advanced topic) 
   

• About masks and alpha channels
• Create a temporary quick mask
• Create and edit alpha channel masks
• Save and load selections

Module 2: Illustrator 

• Working with templates and artwork
• Illustrator Interface
• Artboard size setting
• Changing document viewing mode (artwork, template, preview)
• Managing multiple windows

• Basic designing techniques
• The pen tool
• Selecting and arranging objects
• Using the selection tools
• Grouping and ungrouping objects
• Locking and unlocking objects
• Hiding ad showing objects
• Adjusting paths

  

  

• Moving, copying, and deleting objects

• Objects Transformation
• Scale, Rotating, Skew

• Drawing with Pen tool

• Layers

• Logo drawing

• Masking

• Compounding

• Blending

• Using the measurement tools
• Using the rulers
• Using gridline

  

• Setting the cursor key distance
• Using guide objects
• Setting snap to point option

• Painting
• Filling and stroking paths and type
• Looking at the current paint attributes
• Setting paint attributes

• Using type
• Using the type tool to create type
• Entering text in a irregularly shaped area
• Wrapping text around a path
• Entering text along a path
• Setting type attributes (fonts, size, leading,etc.)
• Converting text objects to editable path outlines

• Using patterns

• Printing documents

• Working with other applications

• Placing Illutrator artwork into other applications

• File Formats
• PDF and EPS

  

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