Photoshop for Teaching and Learning

Learn key techniques to successfully use Photoshop for teaching and learning. Learn how to navigate the interface, fix common image problems, create web graphics, and more.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Why Photoshop for teaching and learning?
• Exercise files
• What you need to know

1. Getting Started with Photoshop

• Mastering the Photoshop user interface
• Working with layers
• Making selections
• Masking basics
• Making selective adjustments
• Scaling images
• Using actions for repetitive tasks
• Quickly exporting images
• Working with Bridge

2. Image Basics for Teaching and Learning

• Capturing good image compositions
• Creating clean compositions
• Creating breathing and looking room
• Using leading lines
• Understanding image types
• Raster vs. vector images

3. Fixing Common Image Problems

• Cropping images
• Straightening images
• Repairing an image basics
• Repairing an image with masks
• Fixing image exposure with Camera Raw
• Fixing image exposure in Photoshop
• Making editable adjustments
• Using layer masks to obscure identity
• Removing objects from images
• Challenge: Fix a scanned image
• Solution: Fix a scanned image

4. Preparing Images for Presentations

• Presentation resolutions and load times
• Scaling images for presentations
• Modifying slide backgrounds
• Using vector masks
• Creating presentation color pallets
• Matching looks with a custom 3D LUT
• Challenge: Prepare a slide image
• Solution: Prepare a slide image

5. Creating Web Graphics

• Preparing images for use on the web
• Using artboards
• Finding appropriate image sizes
• Using Smart Objects
• Working with type
• Using layer styles
• Using type in Smart Objects
• Generating web graphics
• Challenge: Create course banner graphics
• Solution: Create course banner graphics

6. Videos, Animations, and 360 Media

• Extracting a still image from video
• Making an animated GIF
• Refining an animated GIF into a meme
• Making a time-lapse video
• Creating 360 VR panoramas
• Working with text in 360 panoramas
• Challenge: Create a 360 image from video
• Solution: Create a 360 image from video

7. Exporting Images

• Exporting images for the web
• Exporting multiple versions of an image
• Maintaining transparency during export
• Exporting layers to separate files
• Using the Image Processor
• Challenge: Prepare images for PowerPoint
• Solution: Prepare images for PowerPoint
• Extra challenge solution: Prepare images for PowerPoint

Conclusion

• Next steps