"Hands-On Photoshop is a great tool to learn the many uses of Photoshop."
-Randall Hurley

Course Description
Students should be familiar with opening and saving Adobe Photoshop files. This course examines specific Photoshop tools and explores how to use different techniques to create graphics.

Learning Objectives
After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Create and modify accurate image selections
• Effectively use filters, levels, and curves to correct and alter color and sharpness
• Use layers, blend modes, masks, and color channels to enhance images
• Combine layering and masking techniques to isolate and retouch portions of an image

Prerequisites
Students should be familiar with opening and saving Adobe Photoshop files. This course examines specific Photoshop tools and explores how to use different techniques to create graphics.

Required Software
Adobe Photoshop 4.0 (or greater)

Platform Support
You can take this course on computers running Windows, Macintosh, or UNIX. To complete the exercises, however, you must have access to a computer running Windows or a Macintosh.

Instructor
Deke McClelland is the world's best-selling author on computer graphics, with more than 2.5 million books in print worldwide. His titles include Macworld Photoshop 5 Bible, Photoshop 5 for Windows Bible, Photoshop Studio Secrets, Web Design Studio Secrets, and Real World Illustrator 8. He serves as contributing editor for both Macworld and Publish magazines.

Course Access
Each student has access to the course for a period of 6 months from the day of enrollment in the course. Please read our Courseware License for more details.