Agenda: Photoshop Basics:
Lower East Side Prep, May 28, 2009

1) What is Photoshop? What Can it Do? (Short slide show presentation)

2) Famous Photoshopped Images/Photofakery

3) Getting Into the Program:

1.    Intro to the Interface & toolbar

2.    Dealing with digital images: file types & formats

3.    Online photo sharing/photo correction: flickr, photoshop.com, picasa

4.    Downloading photos from the web: image searches--Google images, for example

5.    Resizing, renaming, and rotating

6.    Lighting and level adjustment

7.    Color correction/de-saturating

8.    Fun with filters

9.    Adding text to photos/intro to layers

10.   Cropping and selecting (cut and paste, the fill tool, the cloning tool)

11.   Fixing problem areas: red eye, shine--eyedropper tool

12.    Project: do a before and after. Download two photos and alter them, either blend them or alter them both. Then email them to me and we’ll show them. Email to gmail: sscragg@gmail.com