This is a course for those with no prior knowledge of digital image manipulation. It introduces you to the premier Windows (and Macintosh) tool for 'high end' raster image manipulation - Adobe Photoshop - part of the Adobe Creative Suite CS.

We show you how to design and build a comprehensive range of illustrations, starting with straightforward photographs and scanned material, leading to more complex multi-layer 'publications'. 

You will learn to download images from a digital camera, accept material from professional photographers and graphic artists, scan prints of your own 35mm photographs and manipulate images of these using Photoshop.

We will add and manipulate text, enhancing images by applying filters and illustrate the use of different printing techniques. One of the prime aims is to prepare material suitable for inclusion in desktop publishing software such as Adobe's InDesign andAdobe PageMaker.

At the end of the course, we will work with you build at least one illustration which is focussed on your own particular interests.

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