most important aspects of photoshop

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I have to teach a group the very basics of photoshop in a three hour course.
what do you think I should teach them – we’re talking about students who have never
used Photoshop before.
Thanks for your ideas
john

What the tools do and what selections are all about.

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I have to teach a group the very basics of photoshop in a three hour course. what do you think I should teach them – we’re talking about students
who have never used Photoshop before.
Thanks for your ideas
john

o Image cataloging – keeping track of your images. Most basic – keep a folder for each date.
o Image preparation – cropping and leveling images, use of Auto Levels and Auto Contrast, other commands under the Image and Filters menu. I would including a brief glimpse of curves just to show the power. o Hands on. Each student should bring an image to the class, and spend some time working on it using the above techniques.
o Additional resources – how to use the help system, additional study, including Janee.com, and additional reading.

Consider teaching Elements instead of Photoshop
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Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com

Depends….why do they want to know anything about Photoshop? If its for people who have digital cameras you should teach them the digital photography workflow. If its for Middle School students then you need to teach making graphics for classes.

Frankly….3 hours is nothing! Maybe Photoshop is not the program you should be teaching to them.

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I have to teach a group the very basics of photoshop in a three hour course.
what do you think I should teach them – we’re talking about students who have never
used Photoshop before.
Thanks for your ideas
john

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I have to teach a group the very basics of photoshop in a three hour course.
what do you think I should teach them – we’re talking about students who have never
used Photoshop before.
Thanks for your ideas
john

In three hours, you will be able to but scratch the surface. I’d gear the presentation to what PS can do in their real-world photo-taking. I would limit it to a presentation of the power, and not spend any time on the actual GUI.

Take a few photos, that need correction: exposure, color, etc. and give a demo on how easily PS can make good images out of them. Do a simple composite, touching briefly on Masking/Selection and working with Layers. Drop in a beautiful sky, where none existed. Retouch out a lamp post, or No Parking sign. Keep it simple, and show the WOW. As has been stated, Elements might be the better program, but let them see the usefulness of PS/PE in that scant 3 hrs. They will never remember HOW you did it, and what Tools you used, but just exposure to its power will get their juices flowing. Most of all have fun, and let it show!

Hunt

Hello, !
You wrote on 26 Jan 2006 04:15:45 -0800:

One thing I would suggest be included in your class via a handout is a listing of free tutorial sites on the web. I am not an expert by any means having only had CS2 for a few months but I was amazed at how much self-learning is available from the community. They have been/are a great group and an asset to learning.

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Layers
Channels
Masks
Color/Exposure Tools

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I have to teach a group the very basics of photoshop in a three hour course.
what do you think I should teach them – we’re talking about students who have never
used Photoshop before.
Thanks for your ideas
john

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I have to teach a group the very basics of photoshop in a three hour course.
what do you think I should teach them – we’re talking about students who have never
used Photoshop before.
Thanks for your ideas
john

Layers.
Helen

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I have to teach a group the very basics of photoshop in a three hour course.
what do you think I should teach them – we’re talking about students who have never
used Photoshop before.

Layers.
Helen

File formats
Levels (Curves for intermediate)

*Not* channels.

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John McWilliams