BASIC PHOTO CORRECTIONS

• Image menu

• Color mode

• Image resolution and size

• Straighten and crop image

• Rotate cropped image

• Automatic adjustments

• Auto color—removes color cast

• Manually adjusting color cast

• Manually adjusting tonal range

• Replacing color

• Clone tool

• Spot healing brush

• Healing brush

• Patch tool

• Content-aware fill (NEW TO CS5!)

LAYERS

• Background layer

• Isolating part of image

• Hide, view, reposition, delete, rename, merge

• Lock layers

• Convert background layer to regular layer

• Convert regular layer to background layer

• Layer styles

• Applying layer styles to multiple layers

CORRECTING/ENHANCING DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHS

• Shadows and highlights adjustment

• Correcting Red Eye

• Sharpening Edges

• Correct Image Distortion

• Adding Depth of Field

TYPE IN PHOTOSHOP

• Point v Paragraph Type

• character panel

• paragraph panel

• Type on a Path

• Warping Type

• Creating work path from type

• Convert type to shapes

• Horizontal/Vertical Type Mask Tool

• Create a selection in the shape of type

• Clipping Mask w/ Type

• Open Type

CREATING VECTOR GRAPHICS IN PHOTOSHOP

• Bitmap v. Vector?

• Pen Tool

• Magnetic and freeform pen tool

• Using pen tool as selection tool

• Converting selections to paths

• Converting selection to layer

• Shape layers

• Smart Objects