Perform Image Editing Functions (Adobe Photoshop)

Imaging Concepts

• Digital Images
  • Identify common uses of digital images like: web and print publishing, distribution by e-mail and mobile phone, home printing, digital photo frames.
  • Understand the terms pixel, resolution and identify the key features of a digital image: composed of discrete pixels, represented digitally in binary code.
  • Understand the terms lossy, lossless image file compression.
  • Understand the term copyright and the implications for image use. Understand the terms royalty-free images and rightsmanaged images. o Understand the terms contrast, brightness, gamma.
  • Understand the term transparency.

Image Capture

• Capturing Images
  • Save an image from a digital camera to a location on a drive.
  • Use the print screen facility to capture a full screen, active window.
  • Save an image from an image library, web page to a location on a drive.
  • Open a scanning application and scan an image: preview, set scanning parameters, scan, save.

Using the Application

• Image Creation
  • Open, close an image editing application. Open, close image files.
  • Create a new image file and set options: colour model, size, resolution, background colour.
  • Create a new image file from clipboard.
  • Switch between open image files.
  • Save an image to a location on a drive.
  • Save an image under another name to a location on a drive.
  • Save, export an image as another file type like: jpeg, gif, tiff, png.
• Settings
  • Set background colour, foreground colour.
  • Set grid properties: units, horizontal spacing, vertical spacing, colour.
• Enhancing Productivity
  • Set basic options/ preferences in the application like: transparency, grid settings, measurement units.
  • Use available Help functions.
  • Use magnification/zoom tools.
  • Use the undo, redo command. Use the undo history.
  • Display, hide built-in toolbars, palettes, windows.

Working with Images

• Selection
  • Add a line to an image: straight line, free drawn line, curves. Set, modify line weight, style and colour.
  • Add a shape to an image: rectangle, ellipse, n-shaped polygon. Set, modify line, fill style and colour.
• Painting Tools
  • Pick up a colour value with the dropper.
  • Fill a portion of an image with the gradient tool, selecting opacity/transparency, radial, linear,
    position, rotation.
  • Colour a portion of an image with the paintbrush tool, selecting colour, shape, size.
  • Erase a portion of an image with the eraser tool, selecting its shape and size.
  • Fill a portion of an image with colour using the paint bucket tool.
  • Clone a portion of an image using a clone tool, selecting size, opacity.

Prepare Outputs

• Setup
  • Preview an image.
  • Select appropriate colour depth, resolution, image size, graphic format for web, screen, print use.
• Print
  • Change print output orientation: portrait, landscape. Change paper size.
  • Print an image to an installed printer using defined options, default settings.
• Graphic Formats
  • Understand the terms raster and vector graphics and distinguish between them. Identify common raster (jpeg, gif) and vector (svg, eps) formats.
  • Recognize proprietary digital image editing application formats: psd, psp, xcf, cpt.
• Colour Concepts
  • Understand the term colour model and recognize common colour models: RGB, HSB, CMYK, grayscale.
  • Understand the terms colour palette, colour depth.
  • Understand the terms hue, saturation, colour balance. o Select an entire image, layer(s).
  • Set selection tool properties: relationship between multiple selections,feathering, antialiasing, width, height.
  • Select part of an image using selection tools: rectangular, elliptic, magic wand, magnetic lasso, freehand image.
  • Inverse a selection.
  • Save a selection, load a saved selection.
• Image Manipulations
  • Change the canvas size of an image.
  • Resize an image in pixels, measurement units.
  • Crop an image.
  • Copy, move image(s), selection within an image.
  • Rotate, mirror an image, selection within an image.
• Layers
  • Define and understand the term layer.
  • Create, copy, delete a layer.
  • Set layer properties: name, hide, show,lock, opacity, blending mode.
  • Arrange, merge, link, flatten layers.
  • Transform layer(s): scale, rotate, flip, move, trim.
  • Convert a drawn object to a raster layer.
  • Create an animated gif from layers.
• Text
  • Add, edit, delete text.
  • Copy, move text.
  • Align text: left, centre, right, justified.
  • Apply text formatting: font sizes, font types, font colour.
  • Apply a text warp.
• Effects and Filters
  • Apply artistic, distortion effects: pixelate, emboss, wind, ripple, twirl, desaturate.
  • Apply blur effects: gaussian, motion.
  • Apply lighting effects: lighting, flare.
  • Apply adjustments: brightness-contrast, hue-saturation, colour balance.
  • Apply sharpen, unsharpen mask.
  • Apply red eye reduction.

Drawing and Painting

• Drawing Tools
  • Add a line to an image: straight line, free
    drawn line, curves. Set, modify line
    weight, style and colour.
  • Add a shape to an image: rectangle,
    ellipse, n-shaped polygon. Set, modify
    line, fill style and colour.
• Painting Tools
  • Pick up a colour value with the dropper.
  • Fill a portion of an image with the gradient tool, selecting
    opacity/transparency, radial, linear, position, rotation.
  • Colour a portion of an image with the paintbrush tool, selecting colour, shape, size.
  • Erase a portion of an image with the eraser tool, selecting its shape and size.
  • Fill a portion of an image with colour using the paint bucket tool.
  • Clone a portion of an image using a clone tool, selecting size, opacity.

Prepare Outputs

• Setup
  • Preview an image.
  • Select appropriate colour depth,
    resolution, image size, graphic format for
    web, screen, print use.
• Print
  • Change print output orientation: portrait, landscape. Change paper size.
  • Print an image to an installed printer using defined options, default settings