Helping computer rookies transform into web, graphic, and ecommerce wizards, the techie experts at Systematic Professional and Financial Services bring classrooms into the home through webbased training. Customers can get savvy in their own time with 24 hour access to course materials, while a helpline is available around the clock for IT emergencies. Taking heed of the basics for beginners or technical snippets for the more advanced, students can master mousebased artistry and hone their image editing skills. Content includes a basic introduction to the software and understanding layers and text effects, as well as more complex trickery like exposure correction and erasing unsightly backgrounds. Each course will be available for a 12 month period, allowing guests to ponder over materials as and when they please. Course content Photoshop Basics Quick tour Combining text with shapes Creating custom shape sets Creating custom shapes in Photoshop Creating type on a path Custom colour swatches and sets Essential layering Layer opacity or fill Moving photos between documents Open multiple images as Photoshop layers Repeating patterns Understanding layer masks Zooming and panning in Photoshop Photoshop actions, brushes, layers, selections, shapes and type Text Effects Apply multiple strokes to text Colourful light burst text Create simple 3D text Faking text wrap in Photoshop Metal text effect Place an image in text Placing multiple images inside text Rotate, flip and scale individual letters in text Stroke text with a brush Text perspective shadow effect Text reflection effect Textured text effect Wrapping text in 3D Digital Photos Adding contact and copyright info to photos Benefits of working with 16bit images How to resize images in Photoshop Image resizing or resampling Image resolution and print quality Image resolution pixel dimensions and document size Photoshop essential file formats RGB and colour channels in Photoshop explained Saving photos for email or the web Seeing the difference with jpeg compression Understanding image pixels Photo Editing Background eraser tool Black and white conversions Brighten underexposed photos with screen Changing eye colour in a photo Colour replacement tool Crop, straighten, and open multiple scanned images Cropping photos to specific frame sizes Dual view photo editing in Photoshop Five essential blend modes for photo editing Fixing tone and colour with levels Improving image tone with levels Perspective correction in Photoshop Reducing Photoshop file sizes with adjustment layers