GRAPHICS AND IMAGE MANIPULATION SOFTWARE

Basic Concepts: Image Fundamentals, Digital Images representation format- TIFF, BMP, JPG/JPEG, GIF, PNG, PDF, PSD. Importance of file formats. Bitmap Images and Vector Graphics, Image Size and Resolution,

Creating, Opening and saving files, Menus, Selection, Image Handling: Cropping an image, adjusting image size, and increasing the size of the work canvas, saving an image. Optimizing images for Web Publications: Choosing right graphic Format 

Tool Box, Brush tool, Clone stamp tool, pen tool, Opacity, pressure, or exposure, paint fade-out rate, making selections, using selection tools, Selection menu, adjusting selections, softening the edges of a selection, hiding a selection border, moving and copying selections, extending and reducing selections, pasting and deleting selections. Measuring Tools: Eyedropper, Color Sampler, Ruler, Note and Count. Retouching Tools, Brush Tools, Gradient and Paint Bucket.

Layers: Adding layers, dragging and pasting selections on to layers, dragging layers between files, viewing and hiding layers, Editing layers, rotating selections, scaling an object, preserving layers transparency, moving and copying layers, duplicating layers, deleting layers, merging layers, using adjustment layers, Styles

Image adjustment menu, Hue saturation, contrast, Curves, levels, Type tools, Gradient tool

Palette Painting and Editing: Brushes palette, brush shape, creating and deleting brushes, creating custom brushes, setting brush options, saving, loading and appending brushes.

Effects & filters, Video formats, Define patterns, Channels and Masks, Channel palette, showing and hiding channels, creating a quick mask, editing masks using quick mask mode, Slice Tool, Slice Select, Palettes: History Palette, Action Palettes, Color, Swatches, Slice Tool, Slice Select, Palettes: History Palette, Action Palettes, Color, Swatches.