Adobe® Office PhotoShop CS2 2nd Edition: Level 2

Course Specifications

Course Length:  1 Day, 8:30 am – 4:30 pm

Location: Entre Technology Services, LLC  1501 N. 14th St. West, Suite 1511

Registration: Call your Account Manager at 406.256.5700 or use our Registration Forms

Course Description

You have familiarized yourself with the basic image editing tools of Adobe® Photoshop® CS2. Now, you may want to enhance the images by creating appropriate masks, applying special effects and retouching them. In this course, you'll work with the advanced tools and features available in Photoshop CS2 to enhance your images.

Course Objective:  

You will learn skills to enhance your ability to create accurate masks, image effects; retouch images; and automate repetitive tasks.

Target Student:  

This course is intended for new users of Photoshop.

Prerequisites:  

To ensure students' success with this course, we recommend that they are familiar with Photoshop CS2: Level 1 Second Edition.

Delivery Method:  

Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

Performance-Based Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Work with advanced tools and techniques to create accurate masks and for better image editing flexibility.

Create, edit, and save vector paths; and also convert a path to a clipping path to prevent pixels outside it from being printed.

Create and save swatches, gradients, and patterns to fill image areas.

Use Photoshop's wide range of tools and techniques to create special effects in images.

Use the Actions palette to combine a series of commands into a single command and to create keyboard shortcuts for frequently used commands.

Course Content

Lesson 1: Masking and Clipping Layers

Topic 1A: Erase a Background

Topic 1B: Edit a Selection by Painting a Quick Mask Overlay

Topic 1C: Save and Edit a Selection in an Alpha Channel

Topic 1D: Work with Layer Masks

Topic 1E: Make Areas Within a Layer Semitransparent

Topic 1F: Clip a Layer to the Shape of Another 

Lesson 2: Masking with Vector Paths

Topic 2A: Create Vector Paths

Topic 2B: Edit paths

Topic 2C: Mask an Image with a Path 

Lesson 3: Filling Image Areas

Topic 3A: Fill Image Areas with Swatch Colors

Topic 3B: Create Gradients

Topic 3C: Create Patterns 

Lesson 4: Creating Special Effects

Topic 4A: Distort Editable Type

Topic 4B: Warp an Image

Topic 4C: Create Layer Comps

Topic 4D: Crop Images Precisely

Topic 4E: Restore Photographs

Topic 4F: Simulate Painted Effects 

Lesson 5: Automating Tasks

Topic 5A: Create an Action

Topic 5B: Manage Actions 

Appendix A: Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) Objectives Mapping

Appendix B: Adobe® Photoshop® CS2: New Features Mapping