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