Adobe Mac/PC Training for Everyone - CS3 / Acrobat / Illustrator / InDesign / Photoshop / Dreamweaver / Coldfusion / Flash / Flash Lite / Flex / XML

Adobe Photoshop CS3 - Intermediate

Duration: 2 days

Overview

Photoshop is the industry standard image editing program for Graphics Professionals.

Photoshop CS3 links seamlessly with all Adobe software for media editing, animation, and authoring. Files in Photoshop’s native format, .PSD, can be exported to and from Adobe ImageReady, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign and also with After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Adobe Encore DVD to make professional standard DVDs and provide non-linear editing and special effects services, such as backgrounds, textures for Television, Film, Print Design and the Web.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 software accelerates your path from imagination to imagery with a wealth of productivity and workflow enhancements, unrivalled editing power and breakthrough compositing capabilities.

Work more productively with a more efficient and flexible work environment provided by a Streamlined interface and improved palette management system.

Maximize screen space for editing while keeping essential tools accessible. Palettes are now arranged in convenient, self-adjusting docks that can be widened to full size or narrowed to icons or even a thin, self-revealing strip at the edge of your monitor.

Faster, more flexible asset management with Adobe Bridge CS3 allows you to organize and manage images more efficiently with Adobe Bridge CS3 software, which now delivers improved performance, a Filter panel for easier searching, the ability to group multiple images under a single thumbnail, the Loupe tool and offline image browsing.

To Streamline workflow you can Customise menus, shortcuts, and workspaces. Set up and save custom menus, keyboard shortcuts, and workspaces for faster access what you need.

Process raw images with increased speed and superior conversion quality using the Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in, which now adds support for JPEG and TIFF formats; new tools including Fill Light and Dust Busting; compatibility with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software with support for over 150 camera models.

Enhanced PDF support means you can work more easily with Adobe PDF-based content. Precisely control the size of PDF pages opened in Photoshop. Add security controls and metadata, such as copyright and exposure details, to images within PDF presentations and create a richer image display in PDF presentations and documents.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom support allows you to jump from Photoshop Lightroom software to Photoshop CS3 in one click for advanced editing of your digital photos.

Enhanced printing features improve control over print quality with colour management, a larger print preview window, and more controls in one place so you have complete print management in fewer steps.

Make sophisticated colour adjustments automatically with one-click presets in Curves, the Channel Mixer, and the new Black and White conversion dialogue box.

You can also automate common production tasks in a variety of ways, set up event-based scripts, record a series of steps as an Action for efficient batch processing, and design repetitive graphics faster with Variables.

With the new History palette and Edit History log Undo and Redo any set of editing steps in an open image with the History palette, and automatically track all editing steps within your files with the Edit History log. Export steps to a text file or save them as part of image metadata for easier documentation of your work, file audits, and more.

Import and export a wide range of file formats, including PSD, BMP, Cineon, JPEG, JPEG2000, OpenEXR, PNG, Targa, and TIFF.

Create compelling mobile content, such as wallpapers and screensavers, and then visually preview how it will render on mobile devices using the built-in Adobe Device Central CS3. Tune your designs for mobile screen sizes and lighting conditions.

Take advantage of Adobe Flash and Zoomify technology to export high-resolution images to the web for viewing through Adobe Flash Player software. Flash Player displays your image quickly and efficiently, letting viewers zoom in on details with minimal delay.

Edit with unrivalled power using Non destructive editing. Add, adjust, and remove filters from an image without having to re save the image or start over to preserve quality. Non destructive Smart Filters allow you to visualize changes without altering original pixel data. Perform non destructive scaling, rotating, and warping of raster and vector graphics with Smart Objects. Even preserve the editability of vector data from Adobe Illustrator software.

Take advantage of precision colour correction made faster and easier. Brightness / Contrast now provides better results from the same intuitive interface, and enhanced Curves controls let you make automatic adjustments with included presets or those you create; convert to black-and-white with point sliders; and use a histogram, colour channel lines, and a clipping preview.

Black-and-white conversion allows you to convert colour images to rich black-and-white and adjust tonal values and tints with this new tool. Experiment with the included black-and-white presets, or create and save your own custom presets to achieve the best results.

Take advantage of new functionality and a host of presets that make the Channel Mixer easier to use for black-and-white conversion. Enhanced 32-bit high dynamic range (HDR) support allows you to create and edit 32-bit images and combine multiple exposures into a single, 32-bit image that preserves the full range of a scene—from the deepest shadows to the brightest highlights. New image processing and alignment algorithms deliver superior results all round.

Intelligent image editing and enhancement tools means you have more powerful cloning and healing tools at hand. Experience greater control when retouching images with cloning tools and the Healing Brush. See source pixels under your tool or brush for more precise positioning; preview changes to source content live; and set multiple source points, scale, and rotate in the new Clone Source palette.

Rich painting and drawing toolset allows you to create or modify images with a wide assortment of professional, fully customisable paint settings, artistic brushes, and drawing tools.

Take perspective-based editing to a new level with the enhanced Vanishing Point, which lets you create multiple planes in an image, connect them at any angle, and then wrap graphics, text, and images around them to create packaging mock-ups and more.

Advanced compositing means you can create more accurate composites by automatically aligning multiple Photoshop layers or images based on similar content. The Auto-align Layers command quickly analyses details and moves, rotates, or warps layers to align them perfectly, and the Auto-blend Layers command blends the colour and shading to create a smooth, editable result.

Take advantage of refined Photomerge technology, which uses new layer-alignment and layer-blending capabilities to let you automatically stitch horizontal or vertical photos into seamless panoramas.

Quick Selection and Refine Edge tools allow you to make selections in a snap. Loosely draw on an image area, and the Quick Selection tool automatically completes the selection for you. Then fine-tune your selections with the Refine Edge tool.

Composite images, text, and effects on hundreds of layers for extraordinarily sophisticated results. Organize layers with up to five levels of nesting, and save in different combinations as Layer Comps.