Essentials
• The Photoshop Screen
• Getting to know the Tools & Palettes
• Using guides, grids and rulers
• Navigation and Zoom shortcuts

Selections
• Why use Selections?
• Creating selections using Marquee tools
• The Lasso tools
• The Magic Wand and Quick Selection tools
• Adding or Deleting from selections
• Saving and Loading selections
• Controlling Tonal Values
• Creating Toned and Tinted Images
• Selecting by colour range
• Feathering selections
• Quick Mask mode Correcting an Image
• Using the Histogram palette
• Fixing colour with variations
• Using Levels and Curves to fix tone & contrast
• Colour balance and variations
• Hue and saturation controls
• The Vibrance command Re-Touching Techniques
• Custom colours
• Dodge and burn tools
• Crop and rotate artwork
• Sharpen and Blur filters
• Focus tools
• The Clone & Heal tools
• The Healing Brush tools
• The Colour Replace tool
• Red eye reduction
• Digital darkroom techniques
• Creating and editing gradients Filters, Painting and Drawing
• Using Filters and Plug-ins
• Using the Unsharp Mask
• Cloning Images
• Using the Burn/Dodge/Sponge Tool
• Mixing and applying paint and fill colours
• Print and web safe colours
• Using the Airbrush, Pencil, Paintbrush and Eyedropper tools
• Using the Paint Bucket tool
• Drawing shapes
• Creating vector shape layers
• Polygon, line and custom shape tools
• The add, subtract, intersect commands
• Editing vector shapes using the pen tools
• Adding colour fills, gradients and patterns

Working with Layers
• Creating and Viewing multiple Layers
• Moving, scaling and rotating layers
• Linking & aligning Layers
• Merging, Flattening and Saving Layers
• Locking and protecting layers
• Layer groups
• Applying and editing type
• Rasterizing shape and text layers
• Saving and flattening layered files

Merging layers
• Applying transparency
• Basic layer blending modes
• Text layers
• Adjustment layers
• Special effects
• Drop shadows, glows and embossing
• Layer masks Working with Text
• New Features
• Creating a Text Layer
• Text Paragraphs
• Adding Text Effects
• Painting Text
• Text anti-aliasing Special Effects
• Using Photoshop filters
• Working with the Filter Gallery
• Fading the effects of filters

Saving Files
• File formats
• Choosing the right colour mode
• Adjusting resolution and image size
• Cropping or enlarging the canvas

Printing and Optimising Documents
• Colour modes, resolution & image size
• Printing from Photoshop
• Printing from other applications
• The Save for web command
• Creating transparent GIF files