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Module 1: Making Selections

• Select tools from the toolbox
• Navigate in an image
• Work with palettes
• Use selection tools
• Move and duplicate selections
• Add and subtract from selections
• Rotate, scale and transform selections
• Crop an image

Module 2: Layers & Tools

• Work with layers
• Add an image to a layer
• View, hide and reorder layers
• Work with text
• Adjust size and resolution
• Use painting tools
• Change brush options
• Select colors
• Save and load swatches and brushes

Module 3: Masks & Channels

• Refine a selection with quick masks
• Save a selection as an alpha channel
• Use filters to create special effects
• Advanced layer techniques
• Create layer masks and clipping groups
• Align artwork across layers
• Create special effects on type layers
• Distort text by warping

Module 4: Correcting Images

• Choose color settings for printed images
• Adjust tonal range using levels
• Remove a color cast with an adjustment layer
• Replace colors in an image
• Adjust saturation and brightness
• Use the clone stamp tool to remove objects
• Sharpen an image with the unsharp mask filter
• Use the healing brush tool to improve areas of an image
• Distort an image with the liquify filter
• Use the vanishing point filter to clone in perspective
  Save files in appropriate format

Module 5: Working with Digital Images

• Adobe Bridge
• Photomerge
• Automatically Crop and Straighten
• Recording Actions
• Removing Red-eye
• Working with black and white photos
• Using the Channel Mixer to Create Black & White Photos
• Colorize Black & White Photos
• Color Replacement Tool
• Match Color
• Batch Processing
• Automation

Module 6: Creative Features & Techniques

• Use vector-based shape tools
• Use layer styles and the styles palette
• Use shape layers
• Create a custom shape
• Text on a Path
• Filter Gallery
• Creating and Using Patterns
• Use the history brush to undo specific areas of an image
• Color Correction Techniques
• Shadow/Highlight Adjustment

Module 7: Creating Web Graphics

• Zoom it!
• Web Photo Gallery in Bridge
• Overview of web page design
• Optimizing web graphics
• JPEG and GIF settings
• Set transparency and matte color
• Create buttons and interface elements
• Introduction to slicing

Module 8: Prepping Web Designs for the Web

• Slice elements into HTML tables
• Export HTML & image files
• Create animated GIFs