Background

This course has been designed for anyone who needs to efficiently scan, manipulate, export or print digital images.

During the course you will learn how to scan, re-size, re-touch and export pictures for different media.

You will look at resolution theory, how to accurately adjust colours on-screen, exporting from Photoshop to QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign and how to ensure trouble-free printing.

Course Outline

• INTRODUCTION
  Understanding file formats
  Understanding resolution theory
  Dots per inch/lines per inch
  Understanding colour theory

  SCANNING TECHNIQUES
  Scanning into Photoshop
  The scanning options
  Making selections in Photoshop
  Feathering a selection
  Using the Path tool
  Creating clipping paths in Photoshop
  Cropping an image
  Using the magic eraser
  Retouching the edges of pasted
  objects so that they blend into the background

  MANIPULATING AN IMAGE
  Flipping, rotating, skewing and re-sizing
  What you should be aware of before re-sizing an image
  
  ENHANCING AND RETOUCHING AN IMAGE
  Lightening and darkening images
  Using levels and curves
  The Healing Brush tools
  The Histogram how to read it
  Adjusting localised areas of an image

  WORKING WITH FILTERS
  Using unsharp mask
  Using Gaussian and motion blur
  Adding noise
  Adjusting colours
  Using the Info palette
  Selecting colours in an image
  Using hue and saturation to match
  colours and alter tones

  PRINTING AN IMAGE
  Exporting an image to
  QuarkXPress or InDesign
  When to use different file formats
  Before you print: a print checklist

  PRACTICAL EXERCISES

  QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS