Creative Arts

About the course

Throughout this course you will examine the manipulation, retouching, editing, and the preparation of original images to suit the page makeup/publishing process. This course is taught on Apple Macintosh computers - necessary instruction in the use of a Mac computer is included in the course. Use of the Adobe Photoshop program is virtually identical on a Mac or PC platform.

Skills you will gain from this course

Central's creative industries short courses are the best way of developing skills in a creative area of your choice. You'll get to experience the purpose built arts facilities boasting state of the art equipment and the convenient location in the heart of Perth's cultural centre. Central's fashion and textile short courses provide you with specialist skills in the areas of fashion that you're interested in. Central's media short courses will give you specialist skills in adventing technology for the workforce or personal development.

Skills you will learn:

• Photoshop Toolbox Keyboard Shortcuts

• Macintosh and PC

• Understanding Bitmap versus Vectors Colour

• CMYK vers RGB Resolution and image size

• Making and refining selections

• Transforming selections - rotation, scaling, perspective

• Basic photo retouching

• Using layers, creating, activating, re-stacking, deleting, linking, locking, layer management

• Photomerge Tips and tricks