Introduction to Photoshop

Photoshop is the industry standard photo image editing software for print and digital output. In this hands-on introductory workshop, we will walk through Photoshop's basic capabilities and use tools and techniques to edit images and create visual design mock-ups - no design experience required!

This workshop will help students visualise products and designs using Photoshop and learn some basic visual design tips.

Content:

• Introduction to raster and vector graphics, pixels and resolution
• Image size and file types for print and screen• grid structure of a page layout
• White space and hierarchy of information - less is more
• How we read the page
• The photoshop tool box
• Selection and move tools
• Working in layers, labelling and grouping
• Isolating an object from it's background using masks
• Retouching or extending a background
• Creating gradients, shadows and reflections
• Transforming an object
• Lockups and alignment
• Type, legibility and placeholder text
• Logos on products and mock-ups
• Doing a resize - using transparency to help position and scale an image in context

Takeaways

After this workshop participants:

• Understand the basic capabilities of Photoshop.
• Understand the basic concept of image editing
• Are equipped with image editing skills to mock-up and visualise their products or ideas

Prereqs & Preparation

Please attend with your laptop (mac or pc is fine) and have Adobe Photoshop installed and ready to run before the class commences (you can download a free trial version of Photoshop if you don't have one yet). It will be beneficial if you bring a mouse (or even a Wacom tablet if you have installed and used one before) for image editing, but it is not mandatory.