Introduction The Photoshop Workspace - navigation, the tools, palettes, arranging document windows. All about pixels, resolution and colour depth. Understanding and using colour modes-RGB, CMYK and Greyscale. Using Adobe Bridge.

Basic Techniques Using brushes. Choosing colours. Sampling colours from an image. Using Pantone colours. Multiple undo and taking snapshots using the History palette. Cropping and rotating images. Changing image size and resolution.

Retouching Techniques Fixing images using the Clone Stamp tool and the Healing tools. The History brush. The Red-Eye and Colour Replacement tools.

Selection Techniques The Marquee and the Lasso tools. The Magic wand tool. The Quick Selection tool.

Working in Quick Mask mode. Adding and Subtracting selections. Saving a selection.

Composition and design Techniques Working with layers - moving content to new layers, Opacity, Transforming layers. Creating reflections and other effects. ransformations - scaling and rotating. Using Colour Fill layers. Using Gradients and Patterns. Combining images with Layer Masks. Applying a Mask to an Adjustment layer.

Colour Correction Using the Levels command - Histograms. Curves and Exposure. Using the Colour Balance command to modify colour casts. Adjusting Vibrance, Hue and Saturation: general and specific colour range adjustments, Colourising. Working with type Working with type layers. Formatting type. Converting type to pixels. Effects and Filters Working with Layer Styles - drop shadows, glows, bevels etc. Using filters - corrective and creative filtering techniques, using the Filter Gallery.Production Importing and exporting images - the mainstream file types and their uses. Web graphics - using the Save For Web command - optimisation and file formats. Printing - recognising non-printable colours, converting images to CMYK, saving for print.