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Photoshop 6.0: Tips & Tricks
(16 hours)

Course Description
Expansion of the skills covered in the Beginning and Intermediate Photoshop courses will be taught by working on a variety of image types. While you will learn to work with additional specific Photoshop commands and tools, you will also study concepts that tie together multiple techniques you already know to create effects and make your work more efficient. Prerequisites: Completion of the Beginning and Intermediate Photoshop 6.0 courses or equivalent knowledge. (Text is included with the course fee)

Performance-Based Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
· Clean up jagged line art and accurately replace colors in line art with soft edges.
· Apply timesaving shortcuts for selecting, stacking, and blending layers.
· Precisely control layer styles with contours and with combinations of layer effects, as well as by splitting layer effects onto multiple layers.
· Repair and retouch old damaged photos efficiently and accurately.
· Create atmosphere in an image by applying a soft focus effect and adding emphasis to the foreground.
· Colorize grayscale images with a variety of techniques to create hand-tinted and sepia tone effects.
· Wrap a two-dimensional object around a three-dimensional one realistically.
· Use lighting effects and create cast shadows to further simulate three dimensions.
· Transform a photographic image into a painted one with brushes, filters, and blending modes.
· Combine multiple steps into one by saving them as Actions.

Course Content
Lesson 1: Working with Line Art
· Cleaning Up Low Resolution Art
· Changing Line Art Color

Lesson 2: Layer Shortcuts &Techniques
· Layer Shortcuts
· Layer Styling Techniques

Lesson 3: Photographic Techniques
· Cropping Tricks
· Photo Restoration
· Making Focus Adjustments to Images
· Colorizing Grayscale Photos

Lesson 4: Creating Realism
· Simulating Three Dimensions
· Lighting Effects
· Simulating Painted Effects

Lesson 5: Actions
· Creating Actions
· Working with Actions

Text
Photoshop 6.0 Tips & Tricks for Windows by Element K Press

Course Requirements
Students must complete at 80% of the scheduled course, and score a minimum of 70% on a final end of course test.