In this special edition of Photoshop: The Basics for the Strategies in Retail Promotion class, you'll learn the basics of how to use Adobe Photoshop, the premiere image editing application. As part of the training, you'll learn how to perform basic photo retouching tasks, including cropping photos, recoloring photos, and creating a collage, all while exploring the Photoshop interface and becoming more familiar with the program. You'll also work on a more complex photo compositing project, and learn about layers, selections, healing tools, and image adjustments.
While you're waiting for today's session to start:
Download the excercise files in the following section and extract them to the desktop on your computer. (Need help with this? Read the instructions for downloading and extracting exercise files on the page Getting Started with Exercise Files.)
Open Photoshop on your computer and log in to your Adobe account, if necessary. (Make sure to log in with [your IU username]@iu.edu instead of @indiana.edu!)
Explore how to use adjustments to change the lighting in an image, and gain a deeper understanding of the difference between destructive and non-destructive edits.
In this section, learn how to use the Black and White adjustment to convert an image to black and white, as well as how to adjust the intensity of shades of gray used for the adjustment.
In this section, we'll create a collage of photos of our friend's pets, including pictures of Angelica the dog we edited previously in the course, as well as photographs of our friend's two cats, Eliza and Peggy.
In this section, learn more about image resolution and how it's affected by what you'll be using your image for. Additionally, you'll learn more about how to save images for both print and web use.
There's more to Photoshop: The Basics than what we'll be covering in Monday and Wednesday's sessions! If you want to check out the content we didn't cover (including how to remove unwanted items from photos or how to add text to an image), or if you'd like to earn a certificate for having worked through the training's content, learn more and check out the full version of Photoshop: The Basics here.
