Module 1: PhotoShop Tutorials

Module 1: Overview

There are three lessons within this module. Each lesson is comprised of a PhotoShop tutorial. The tutorials are excerpts taken from Adobe's Adobe Photoshop Classroom in a Book ® by permission from Adobe Systems and are not intended for reproduction with out expressed written permission from Adobe Systems Inc. The turorials were originally designed specifically for PhotoShop 5.0 and 5.5. They have been revised so that they reflect the version changes in Photoshop 6.0+. Links to the 5.0 and 5.5 version of these files are also included. If your students use another graphics program, you will want to carefully review these lessons to see if modifications are in order.

Students are expected to retrieve files from specific folders, so copies of the files need to be saved on a public drive or at least a folder on which students are allowed access.

By the time your students complete these tutorials they will have a fairly good foundation for PhotoShop and be ready for the next module in which they apply the skills to their personal web site.

Module 1: List of Lessons

• Lesson 1: Working with Selections (Lesson length 100 minutes)
• Description: In this lesson, students will use Adobe's PhotoShop tutorial to learn about the marquee, lasso, magic wand, and move tools.
• Learner Outcome: According to the Adobe tutorial, the student will be able to-
• Use the marquee, lasso, and magic wand tools to select parts of an image in various ways.
• Reposition a selection marquee.
• Deselect a selection.
• Move and duplicate a selection.
• Constrain the movement of a selection.
• Adjust a selection with the arrow keys.
• Add to and subtract from selections.
• Rotate, scale, and transform a selection.
• Combine selection tools.
• Crop an image.
• Activities:
  • Copy the contents of the Lesson01 folder from our CD (Unit3_Image_Preparation\Module_1\Lesson01. This folder contains all the Adobe PhotoShop tutorials for lesson 1.) Paste the contents of the Lesson01 on a public drive that provides students read and write access. The tutorial will instruct students to open PhotoShop files, so you will need to make the path to these files avalable to your students. We recommend saving back-up copies of these files in case students corrupt the original by mistake.
  • Have students save a working copy of these two files on a secure drive: Start01 and End01.
  • The Adobe Acrobat Document or PDF file titled Lesson01 (5.0 and 5.5 version) contained in that folder has the step by step directions.
• Handout/Resources Needed:
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader
  • Adobe PhotoShop 5.0 or more recent versions
• Suggested Assessment: Check student monitors to see if they successfully replicated the model.
• Lesson 2: Layer Basics (Lesson length 100 minutes)
• Description: In this lesson, students will use Adobe's PhotoShop tutorial to learn about layers, one of the most powerful tools in the PhotoShop program.
• Learner Outcome: According to the Adobe tutorial, the student will be able to-
• Organize artwork on layers.
• Create a new layer.
• View and hide layers.
• Select layers.
• Remove artwork on layers.
• Reorder layers to change the placement of artwork in the image.
• Apply modes to layers to vary the effect of artwork on the layer.
• Link layers to affect them simultaneously.
• Apply a gradient to a layer.
• Add text and layer effects to a layer.
• Save a copy of the file with the layers flattened.
• Activity:
  • Copy the contents of the Lesson02 folder from our CD (Unit3_Image_Preparation\Module_1\Lesson02. This folder contains all the Adobe PhotoShop tutorials for lesson 2.) Paste the contents of the Lesson02 on a public drive that provides students read and write access. The tutorial will instruct students to open PhotoShop files, so you will need to make the path to these files avalable to your students. We recommend saving back-up copies of these files in case students corrupt the original by mistake.
  • Have students save a working copy of these three files on a secure drive:Clock.psd, End02.psd and Start02.psd
  • The Adobe Acrobat Document or PDF file titled Lesson02 (5.0 and 5.5 version) contained in that folder has the step by step directions.
• Handout/Resources Needed:
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader
  • Adobe PhotoShop 5.0 or more recent versions
• Suggested Assessment: Check student monitors to see if they successfully replicated the model.
• Lesson 3: Photo Retouching (Lesson length 100 minutes)
• Description: In this lesson, students will use Adobe's PhotoShop tutorial to learn techniques for modify or retouching images.
• Learner Outcome: According to the Adobe tutorial, the student will be able to-
  • Choose the correct resolution for a scanned photograph.
  • Crop an image to final size.
  • Adjust the tonal range of an image.
  • Remove a color cast from an image using an adjustment layer.
  • Use the Replace Color command to change the hue and saturation of a selected color in a photograph.
  • Adjust the saturation and brightness of isolated areas of an image using the sponge and dodge tools.
  • Use the rubber stamp tool to eliminate an unwanted object from an image.
  • Replace parts of an image with another image.
  • Apply the Unsharp Mask filter to finish the photo-retouching process.
  • Save an Adobe Photoshop file in a format that can be used by a page layout program.
• Activity:
  • Copy the contents of the Lesson03 folder from our CD (Unit3_Image_Preparation\Module_1\Lesson03. This folder contains all the Adobe PhotoShop tutorials for lesson 3.) Paste the contents of the Lesson03 on a public drive that provides students read and write access. The tutorial will instruct students to open PhotoShop files, so you will need to make the path to these files avalable to your students. We recommend saving back-up copies of these files in case students corrupt the original by mistake.
  • Have students save a working copy of these three files on a secure drive: Clouds.psd, End03.psd and Start03.psd.
  • The Adobe Acrobat Document or PDF file titled Lesson03 (5.0 and 5.5 version) contained in that folder has the step by step directions.
• Handout/Resources Needed:
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader
  • Adobe PhotoShop 5.0 or more recent versions
• Suggested Assessment: Check student monitors to see if they successfully replicated the model.