Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 Certification - Syllabus
 
Section I - The interface of Adobe® Photoshop
lesson 1
The Welcome Screen, Color Spaces, Document Window
lesson 2
The Toolbox, Menus, Palettes
lesson 3
Options Bar, Workspaces
lesson 4
Adobe Bridge, Metadata, Keywords and Ranking
lesson 5
Adobe Stock Photos pt. 1, pt. 2
lesson 6
Document Settings, Resizing Documents, Canvas Size

Cropping, Navigation, Color Tools & Selections

Section II - Cropping, Navigation, Color Tools & Selections
lesson 1
Raster vs. Vector, Dragging and Dropping
lesson 2
Crop Tool, Crop and Rotate, Crop Perspective
lesson 3
Navigation and Viewing
lesson 4
Color Palettes, Creating Swatches, Color Picker and Eyedropper
lesson 5
Selection Tools, Marquees and Strokes
lesson 6
Magic Wand, Lasso Tools, Pasting Into and Inverting
lesson 7
Feathering and Anti-aliasing, Adding and Subtracting

Masks, Type, Layers, Painting & Brushes

Section III - Masks, Type, Layers, Painting & Brushes
lesson 1
Understanding Masks
lesson 2
Clipping Masks, Quick Mask, Layer Masks
lesson 3
The Type Tools, Fonts and Colors
lesson 4
Type on a Path, Type as a Mask
lesson 5
Editing and Rasterizing
lesson 6
How Layers Work, Add / Delete / Merge, Layer Styles
lesson 7
Layer Options, Opacity and Fills, Blend Modes pt. 1, pt. 2
lesson 8
Painting Tools, Gradients, Dodge / Burn / Sponge
lesson 9
Smudge / Sharpen / Blur, Defining Patterns
lesson 10
Defining a Brush, Brush Dynamics

Drawing, Filters and Effects

Section IV - Drawing, Filters and Effects
lesson 1
The Pen and Paths, Editing Paths, Clipping Paths
lesson 2
Vector Shapes
lesson 3
Filters Explained & Filter Gallery
lesson 4
Blurs, Lens Blur
lesson 5
Textures, Lighting Effects
lesson 6
Smart Sharpen, Drop Shadows
lesson 7
Styles
lesson 8
Liquefy pt. 1, Liquefy pt. 2

Transformation Tools & Design

Section V - The Transformation Tools & Designing
lesson 1
Transform, Free Transform
lesson 2
Warping, Arbitrary Rotation
lesson 3
Smart Objects pt. 1, pt. 2
lesson 4
Guides and Annotation, Notes/Audio Annotation
lesson 5
Camera Raw
lesson 6
Color Correction - Histogram, Curves, Replace Color, Matching Color, Red Eye
lesson 7
Retouching - Retouching Tools, Clone Stamp, Clone with Two Images
lesson 8
Patch Tool, Healing, Dust and Scratches
lesson 9
History, Art History Brush
lesson 10
Vanishing Point pt. 1, pt. 2
lesson 11
The Channels Palette, Alpha Channels
lesson 12
Actions, Recording Actions

Automation, Saving and Exporting, Scanning

Section VI - Automation, Saving and Exporting, Scanning
lesson 1
Batch Rename, PDF Presentation
lesson 2
Droplets, Contact Sheets
lesson 3
Picture Package, Web Photo Gallery
lesson 4
Photomerge
lesson 5
Saving Documents, Flattening
lesson 6
Exporting to Illustrator, PDF
lesson 7
Using in 3D Applications
lesson 8
Scanning in Artwork
lesson 9
Output to Printing, File Formats

Web Preparation, Xebronics Project & Assignment

Section VII - Web Preparation, Xebronics Project & Assignment
lesson 1
The Slice Tool, Slice Options
lesson 2
Save for Web, Optimizing Graphics
lesson 3
Browsers and FTP
lesson 4
Resources - Magazines & Websites
lesson 5
Project & Assignment - Recoloring / Distortion, Stock Photos
lesson 6
Adding Scars, Bolts, Creating Lightning, Background
lesson 7
Angry Fire, Making a Reflection, Adding Vintage Text & Final Composition
 
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