Welcome to Introduction to Photoshop!

Week 1 Lesson Plan:

This week, we'll start by going through Photoshop's applications in the industry. Then we will get familiar with what it can produce and show you a few inspirational links.

Skills:
We'll Introduce the Tool Bar, Menus, Pallettes, Contextual Toolbar, Filters, File Browser, Layers, History, Photo Manipulation tools and other Photoshop interface features. We'll also explain their functions.

Concepts:
We will explain how Photoshop manipulates images and explain the concepts of distortion and artifacts.

We'll also explain keyboard shortcuts and talk about 5 of the often-used shortcuts.

Exercise:
We will go through the Photo retouching tutorial together.

Wrap-up:
We'll remind you of the resources available and briefly go through the ones posted. As well, there will be time for students to ask questions and play around in the software.