Week 1
Lesson 1
Introduction to the Work Space
Objective: Students will learn the basic layout and functions of the Photoshop Work Space and will create a project using a limited selection of tools.
Activities:
  - Introduction to the workspace: Saving, image sizing, tool location, menus.
  - Demonstration of framing tools: Cutting surfaces from background, layers, blending options and color adjustments.
  - Application: Create a series of framed images using a variety of techniques.
 Week 2
Lesson 2
Pop Art Portraits
Objective: Students will discover how to crop images, adjust the visible layers and utilize the liquify tools through a Pop Art inspired project.
Activities:
  - Introduction of cropping images, adding multiples images to one composition, using grids for alignment.
  - Practice the liquify tool for a variety of effects.
  - Application: Pop Art inspired project.
 Week 3
Lesson 3
Creating a Magazine Cover
Objective: Students will learn how to organize images, text and shapes to create a Magazine Cover composition that focuses on balance and marketing.
Activities:
  - Image sizes/pixels, filing a composition, how to add text.
  - How to create shapes, adjust coloring and create gradient effects.
  - Application – create a Magazine Cover utilizing the practiced tools and strategies
 Week 4
Lesson 4
Images That Lie (Fool the eye)
Objective: Students will explore how to blend environments and elements together to create fantastical realities.
Activities:
  - Introduction to Images that Lie compositions
  - Image sizing: Using photos that match in pixels and size.
  - Project: Create a composition that bends reality.
 Week 5
Lesson 5
Images That Lie (Fool the eye) Part 2
Objective: Students will explore how to create a series of compositions based on a similar theme.
Activities:
  - Introduction to working with a theme.
  - Review of techniques from previous class.
  - Project: Create 2 pieces that continue the theme created in the original Image That Lies from the previous week.
 Week 6
Lesson 6
Mythological Creatures
Objective: Students will learn how to use blending techniques to seamlessly link images together to create a realistic mythological creature.
Activities:
  - Introduction to blending images together (transparent eraser, layering, color adjustment)
  - Demonstration/discussion of which images work best together (sizing, body placement, coloring, texture)
  - Project: Create a mythological creature with well blended parts.