Photoshop - Beginners

This course is suitable as a progression route for students who have completed the digital photography for beginners course, and who wish to extend their artistic skills in the direction of computer based treatment of images. This course will cover the basic principals and techniques used in manipulating an existing image as well as the creation of graphics from scratch. Whether you wish to create artwork for print purposes, for use within WEB pages or simply manipulating images and preparing them to send to friends via email, this series of short introductory workshops and practical set assignments will enable you to understand, explore and use some of the tools and techniques available. By the end of the course you will have been given the opportunity to: Scan a photograph, Manipulate an existing image, to add text and graphics such as a logo and company information, Distort and replace elements from a picture and edit the colour palette, Use Photoshops drawing tools and create artwork from scratch, Cut and paste elements from different digital images to use within your own Photoshop work, Understand image resolution and the differences in file sizes.