Photoshop Basics
• Basic procedure

The Toolbox
• What the tools do
• Photoshop toolbox, keyboard shortcuts
• Toolbox groups, toolbox flyouts
• Toolbox tool tips

The Options Palette
• Opening the Palette

Selecting Colours

Keyboard Shortcuts

Photoshop Preferences
• General preferences and resetting preferences
• Saving Files
• Transparency and gamut – units and rulers
• Plug ins and scratch disks, guides and grids
• Memory and memory cache, physical memory usage

Painting Tools
• Airbrush & Paintbrush
• Pencil & Line tool
• History Brush & Rubber stamp tool
• The Rubber Stamp tool in action

Working Views in Photoshop
• Monitor colour depth and resolution
• The Navigator palette
• The Zoom tool and the hand tool

Making selections
• Magic Wand tool
• Modifying selections
• Quick Mask mode, quick mask options
• Useful conversions

Layers

Layer tips
• Copying and duplicating a layer
• Changing the layer palette thumbnail size

Layer modes
• Merge modes and Opacity

Bitmap file formats
• File compression
• Photoshop, PSD, Adobe Illustrator
• Amiga IFF, Windows BMP
• CompuServe GIF, EPS
• Filmstrip FLM, JPEG (JPG)
• Kodak PhotoCD (PCD), MacPaint
• PCX, PICT, PIXAR, PixelPaint
• RAW, Scitex CT, Targa TIFF