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Graphics Design

The document provides a comprehensive guide to using Adobe Photoshop, covering installation, navigation, and essential tools for photo editing and graphic design. It details working with layers, text, shapes, and various editing techniques, including image correction and retouching. Additionally, it includes instructions on using auto commands, saving projects in different formats, and printing designs.

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Graphics Design

The document provides a comprehensive guide to using Adobe Photoshop, covering installation, navigation, and essential tools for photo editing and graphic design. It details working with layers, text, shapes, and various editing techniques, including image correction and retouching. Additionally, it includes instructions on using auto commands, saving projects in different formats, and printing designs.

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COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND PHOTO EDITING

Getting Started
 Installing and loading Adobe Photoshop
 Navigating the Adobe Photoshop interface.
 Menu bar, Workspace, panels and context menus.
 Setting-up the document
 Creating a New file
 Opening an existing file from a disk (Fixed or portable media)
 View open documents or files
 importance of the Toolbox
 Selection Tools (Move, Marquee, Crop, Magic wand, Lasso, Brush, eye dropper)
 Paint Tools ( Healing brush, Clone stamp, Eraser, paint bucket, blur and Colour)
 Drawing tools (Path, pen, Shape and Text)
 View Tools (Free hand, Magnify and background/foreground colour)
 Customising the Workspace
 Paper orientation, size, and colour mode
 Setting general preferences
 Using Keyboard Shortcuts

Working with Layers and Panels


 Creating new layer, Duplicate layer and Turning a selection into a layer
 Moving, aligning, applying style or transform layers
 Deleting, Locking/unlocking
 Merging layers
 Applying pre-set styles to a layer
 Copying layer styles
 Filling and grouping layers (Opacity, Tolerance, Foreground/background Colour and gradient
overlay styles)
 Using blending modes
 Applying design and style effects
 Adjusting Colour brightness/contrast (using levels and curves)

Working with Layers


 Zooming and Panning images
 Resizing digital photos
 Rotating and aligning images
 Moving images
 Merging images
 Image Correction using;
- Removing an object from an image
- Adjusting contrast and brightness using curves
- changing background and foreground colours
- Changing image Colour (Colour vs black and white)
- Improving faint images (Adding flash and removing red eye)
- using swatches to customize colours
 Retouching photos:
- Smoothening photos
- removing the Red eye
- Removing Hot spots
 Adding flash light

Working with Text and Shapes


 Typing in a design area
 Creating a text path
 Drawing shapes (circle, rectangle, square)
 Typing text along a circular text path
 Formatting text (Font style, size and colour)
 Applying design effects to text
 Designing business documents (Logos, badges, stamps, certificates, invitation cards,
receipts, banks lips, book covers)
 Painting images/shapes

Using Auto Commands, Saving and Printing


 Auto Tone, Colour and Contrast.
 Colour swatches
 Creating and using gradients.
 Saving into different file formats (JPEG, PDF, print applications).
 Printing
 Creating email account. emailing a designed project

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