I’m working on an introduction to Photoshop class I’ll be teaching later this summer for several of my co-workers. I am by no means an expert at Photoshop. Maybe an advanced novice? I used to sit next to several graphic designers at my last job and those ladies could fly through the Adobe Suite, using it to wield all sorts of power. I define my skill set as more of the putting-your-friend’s-head-on-someone-else’s-body variety. An import skill to have though, right?
The people with whom I will be working want a basic summary. I am trying to simplify this complex tool as much as I can without, I hope, dumbing it down too much. The topics I am going to cover in my class are:
- Basics
- Pictures for print versus web
- Cropping and Resizing images
- Balancing color
- Using the Clone Tool
- Color Match
- Copy pieces from one image to another
- Applying aftereffects
As I get each section ready I plan to post it here. If you have comments about what I share or suggestions of things that have helped you learn Photoshop more easily, I’d love to hear them. Also, if there was one thing you wish you could do with Photoshop, what would it be?
Mandy
I’d like to know how to do the bocca (sp) effect and the macro lens effect. You can fake those with photoshop right?