Photoshop Requirements

Please read each question below. Evaluate your current level of knowledge and experience. If you do not feel completely comfortable with any of the elements listed, or if you can not answer in the affirmative, we suggest that you speak with a member of our digital lab staff, before you attend an intermediate-level Photoshop workshop. Contact Dottie Lopez or Susan Thelwell at (505) 983-1400, ext. 17.

• Can you download your files from a CD, jumpdrive or cardreader to a new folder on the desktop?
• Can you navigate through the Finder, Bridge and/or Lightroom to find your files?
• Do you confidently understand how to use the Photoshop tools
within the application Toolbox to accomplish basic-level image
manipulation?
• Can you use appropriate selection tools and commands to select areas within an image?
• Can you use appropriate selection tools and commands to add to, subtract from, or manipulate that selection?
• Do you understand the basic functions of the layers palette, including how to create, delete, view, move, edit, reorder, merge, and flatten?
• Are you comfortable with using the various image adjustments such as levels, curves, and color balance?
• Are you familiar with the common terms related to Photoshop like masking and channels?