CLassROOM IN a BOOK® INSTRUCTOR NOTES ADOBE® PHOTOSHOP® CS3 Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classroom in a Book • Lessons 3 and 7 cover related aspects of photo retouching. • Lessons 4 and 6 both are about making selections. Introduction Also, Lessons 6 and 11 cover effects that are based on- masking and selections. The Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 3 Classroom in a Book™ course presents students with tips, techniques, and • Lessons 5 and 10 deal specifically with layers, although solutions for using the Adobe Photoshop CS3 software. layering is a crucial element in almost every lesson following The Instructor Notes are intended to complement the Lesson 5. information in the Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classroom in a Book®. • Lessons 9 and 10 both cover vector graphics. If your students are already competent in the use of drawing The information is organized to follow the sequence of programs such as Adobe Illustrator, they may be able instruction in each lesson. to skip straight to the project with the Saucer.psd file inLesson 9. About the workbooks It is recommended that each student in the class have • Lesson 14 addresses printing issues and topics related an individual copy of the Adobe Photoshop CS3 Class- to color management; after basic photo correction, room in a Book. Students will use this book as you lead Lesson 2 touched on four-color printing. them through projects. Additionally, the book can be used as a self-paced tutorial. The following lessons cover enhanced or new features in Photoshop CS3: You can buy more copies • Lesson 1 covers the new interface, streamlined across of the Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classroom in a Book for the Adobe Creative Suite 3 products, and illustrates the your students, or you can refer them to a local book- updated toolbox. seller to purchase the book. • Lesson 7 details enhancements to the Adobe Camera For additional information, call Pearson Education at Raw 4 file format and Vanishing Point filter. It in- 800-922-0579. troduces students to Adobe Lightroom™, a new CS3 component that incorporates raw conversion into a Course strategy single workflow, and allows scrolling through dozens of If you’re teaching a 15-session class, you can teach images quickly, and branding and show casing them. It approximately one chapter of this book per class. The also includes valuable tips on setting up a proper work- book contains 14 lessons, some of which may take a flow. covers the Quick Selection tool and the enhanced while to complete. If you are teaching a 10-session Refine Edges feature. class, you may want to combine some of the lessons in a single class. For example: • Lesson 10 covers the new Auto Align Layer feature for aligning two similar, but offset layers. • Lessons 1 and 13 are both focused on learning about the Photoshop user interface (including Adobe Bridge). • Lesson 11 introduces Smart Filters, for applying non- However, because Lesson 13 also covers features in destructive filter effects to images. Photoshop CS3 Extended, it may be better suited for advanced users. • Lesson 12 features the Zoomify command for tiling that are outside the scope of the Classroom in a Book. and panning large files in a web browser, as well as the Printed copies of Adobe Photoshop CS3 Clone Source palette feature for cloning selections from documentation area vailable for purchase from a second image. www.adobe.com/go/buy_books. Application DVD The Adobe Photoshop CS3 application DVD contains the • Lesson 13 covers enhancements to Adobe Bridge and Adobe Technical Info folder, PDF versions of the User features in Photoshop CS3 Extended—a version of Guide and Quick Reference Card, tryout versions of Photoshop with additional functionality for the products by Adobe and other manufacturers, and the professional, scientific, and technical communities. Adobe Photoshop CS3 Software Development Kit for experienced programmers. We recommend that, at an absolute minimum, you teach Lessons 1 through 5. The majority of the most Adobe CS3 Video Workshop DVD basic Adobe Photoshop features and the Photoshop Included in the product box, this DVD provides 250 in- work environment are covered in these lessons. How- structional movies on Photoshop CS3 and other prod- ever, completing all the lessons through Lesson 10 ucts across the Adobe Creative Suite 3 lineup. Adobe would make a far superior introduction.Before begin- Web site The U.S. Adobe Web site at www.adobe.com ning a lesson, encourage students to browse through it, contains a variety of Photoshop training and support read any sidebars, and watch any movies suggested in resources, including the Adobe Studio Expert Center the text. for Photoshop. Quick Time movies are indicated by the filmstrip Many step-by-step tutorials, galleries, and other icon, and are located in the Movies folder on the resources are available at the Adobe Web site, and the Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classroom in a Book CD. User-to-User Forums are a great place for students to learn from more experienced users. Adobe Design Managing student projects Center provides hundreds of tutorials from experts and One way to simplify file storage and retrieval in class- authors in the community, as well as thoughtful articles room situations is to ask students to create a folder on about design and technology. their hard disks, name it [Student’s, for the student’s name] Lessons, and then copy each project folder into Go to: the main Lessons folder. Having students keep all their www.adobe.com/designcenter/.Adobe Certified Expert working files in their own Lessons folder makes it easy (ACE) program for you to clean up files when a class is over. This program is designed to validate an expert skill Additional resources level of Adobe PhotoshopCS3. Careful testing of can- Instructors and users of Adobe Photoshop rely on a didates ensures thateach ACE has demonstrated expert variety of resources to supplement their knowledge of product knowledgeof the current release of Adobe the program. You may find the following resources use- Photoshop, resulting in increased marketability and ful to explore. Photoshop Help The Help installed with an added credential. Training for the ACE program is Photoshop contains a complete descriptions of all fea- available through Adobe Authorized Learning Provid- tures, including topics not covered in the User Guide. ers (AALP) and self-study. It also contains links to movies that showcase new CS3 features, and techniques for using the software. For more information about this program, send an e-mail to [email protected] or visit theAdobe Adobe Photoshop CS3 User Guide Web site at: http://www.adobe.com. This guide, a subset of Help, contains feature descrip- tions. It’s useful for learning about areas of the program Note that several resources mentioned here are available directly from the Help menu in Photoshop, such as online LESSON 1 4 Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classroom in a Book Lesson 1: Getting to Know the Work Area The first lesson presents an introduction to the the names of the elements on the screen. For example, Adobe Photoshop CS3 software. Using the basic com- you may point out the title bar and remind the stu- mands, tools, and palettes, your students will learn dents that it indicates which publication is currently general techniques for understanding where they are, active. Then point out the menu bar, the rulers, the how to get information about the image in front of page icons, the palettes, and the toolbox. them, and how to select the tools or enter the values needed to change the image. Students may already be used to keyboard shortcuts as a simple alternative to using the mouse. Photoshop and Goals for this lesson other Adobe products are designed to allow keys to be How much time you should schedule for this lesson used simultaneously with the mouse. depends on whether all your students already have any knowledge of Photoshop, and on their com- A common working technique used by many puter skills in general. The overall objective for Lesson Photoshop professionals is to keep one hand on the 1 is to make them sufficiently familiar with the user mouse, and the other hand over the keyboard to switch interface that they can locate the controls they need to tools and modes. You may want to demonstrate how do the procedures in the rest of the lessons. In general, this method allows the mouse pointer to remain direct- they should be able to identify: ly over the part of the image that’s being edited, since you’re not always having to move the pointer back and • They should be able to find and name the key areas of forth between the image and the toolbox or menus. the interface, including the toolbar, palettes (in general), You don’t have to encourage students to work this way image windows, and the tool options bar. in the beginning. They probably won’t be ready to use • They should also be able to open not only the main the shortcuts until they have a good understanding of menus and submenus across the top of the work area when they’ll want to use each tool. (File, Edit, and so forth) but also context menus and palette menus. Subordinate to this goal is gaining a Selecting and using a tool from the toolbox familiarity with the different means of getting informa- It may be useful to point out that the View > Actual tion about Photoshop. Pixels command (same as double-clicking the Zoom tool) displays one image pixel for each monitor pixel, By learning how to help themselves, they gain confi- which also means that this magnification will display dence and independence.