Adobe® Photoshop® 2020: Part 2
Course Description Overview
Adobe® Photoshop® is a leading graphic creation application, popular among graphic designers, illustrators, and photographers. Photoshop's numerous features work together to provide a comprehensive toolset for you, the design professional. This course delves into some of the more advanced image creation and editing techniques, and offers you hands-on activities that demonstrate how these techniques can be used in combination to create exciting visual effects.
This course is a great component of your preparation for the Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) Visual Design Using Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 exam.
This course will prepare you to use the most common basic features of Adobe Photoshop.
In this course, you will:
- Use brushes, gradients, and tool presets to create raster images.
- Apply vector paths, shape drawing tools, type, and type special effects.
- Apply advanced layer techniques with masks, filters, layers, and smart objects.
- Apply actions and batch processing to automate tasks.
- Edit video by using timelines, transitions, graphics, titles, and animation.
- Set project requirements by identifying the purpose, audience, copyright rules, and project management tasks.
To ensure your success in this course, you should have experience with the following tasks:
- Identify the basic components of Adobe® Bridge and the Photoshop workspace.
- Define image size and resolution.
- Add and modify Photoshop layers.
- Use tools to select, crop, and move images.
- Work with image adjustment properties to correct and retouch photographic images.
- Open and modify an image in Adobe® Camera Raw.
- Prepare images for print and web.
To meet these prerequisites, you can take the United States Career Campus course:
- Adobe® Photoshop® 2020: Part 1
- Microsoft® Windows® 10 (64-bit)32-bit Windows systems are no longer supported.
- Adobe® Photoshop® 2020 (You might also see this version referred to as the November 2019 release or version 21.0.)
- Adobe® Bridge
- If necessary, software for viewing the course slides (instructor machine only)
In November 2019, Adobe updated Photoshop to the 2020 Release. This book is based on version 2020 and will refer to the software as Photoshop 2020.
This course was created and keyed using Windows 10.
For this course, you will need one computer for each student and one for the instructor. Each computer will need the following minimum hardware configurations:
- Intel® Core™ 2 or AMD Athlon® 64 (or compatible) processor; 2 GHz or faster processor
- 2 gigabyte (GB) RAM (8 is recommended)
- 3.1 GB available hard disk space for 64-bit installation, and additional free space required during installation
- Graphics card with 2 GB of dedicated video RAM
- 1,024 x 768 resolution monitor (1,280 × 800 recommended) with 16-bit color and megabyte (MB) or more of dedicated VRAM; 2 GB is recommended
- OpenGL 2.0-capable system
- Internet connection and registration necessary for required software activation, membership validation, and access to online services
- Keyboard and mouse (or other pointing device)
- Projection system to display the instructor's computer screen
Lesson 1: Creating Raster Images
Topic A: Draw with Brushes
Topic B: Create Gradients
Topic C: Apply Tool Presets
Lesson 2: Applying Vector Image Tools
Topic A: Create Images with Vector Paths
Topic B: Apply the Shape Drawing Tools
Topic C: Work with Type
Topic D: Apply Type Special Effects
Lesson 3: Applying Advanced Layer Techniques
Topic A: Modify Images with Masks
Topic B: Apply Special Effects by Using Filters
Topic C: Apply Special Effects to Layers
Topic D: Apply Smart Objects for Nondestructive Editing
Lesson 4: Automating Tasks
Topic A: Create and Apply Actions
Topic B: Batch Process Files with Photoshop and Adobe Bridge
Lesson 5: Editing Video
Topic A: Edit Video
Topic B: Add Graphics, Titles, and Animation to Video
Lesson 6: Setting Project Requirements
Topic A: Identify Purpose, Audience, and Audience Needs
Topic B: Adhere to Copyright Rules for Artwork, Graphics, and Graphics Use
Topic C: Determine and Evaluate Project Management Tasks and Responsibilities