Photoshop- Course Description and Outline
Platt High School

Adobe Photoshop– Outline

The primary objective of this course is, upon completion, the student will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the basic processes involved in creating, importing, editing, repairing, retouching, compositing and selecting images and photographs in Adobe Photoshop.

This course is one semester, 90 days, one half credit. The second half of the year the class concentrates on Web Design and development.

Overview

What is Photoshop?

How PC’s process information

Technology terminology– file formats

Where images come from

Photoshop Interface

Photo Corrections

Filters

Retouching and Repairing

Selections

Layers

Masks and Channels

Type Design

Vectors

Compositing

Files for the Web