The tutorials can be used onscreen next to the software package, from a tablet or printed. Assignments are provided at the end of each chapter and the multi-user version provides projects at the end of each module.
Support files that provide all the images and data required to complete the activities are included with the product.
Module 1
Introduces the Adobe Photoshop CS6 basics including layers, workspaces, drawing tools, selection techniques, modifying images, applying filters including the Liquify and Oil Paint filters, creating artistic sketches, combining shapes and photographs, adding text to designs, adjusting the look of photographs, using masks and Adjustment layers, saving files in different formats and for the web.
Module 2
Covers advanced Adobe Photoshop CS6 features including cloning parts of images, applying Content Aware Move, applying full and partial blur filters to images, refining selections, selecting skin tones, improving photographs of faces, creating 3D shapes, using Bristle Tip and Mixer Brushes, working with perspective, adjusting the colour in photographs, creating animations, creating artwork, the Magnetic Lasso tool, the Puppet Warp tool, replacing colours in images and Content Aware Scaling.
Module 3
Provides some applications of Photoshop CS6 including the use of reflection, creating three-dimensional objects such as spheres and boxes, creating and saving 3D styles, creating graffiti on a brick wall and on a building, creating accurate designs, displacing one image into another to add depth and motion to a 2D image, animation exercises using frames and the timeline panel, creating videos for YouTube and other media, creating shapes with the Pen tool and using the History panel.
Module 1 Chapter Descriptions
Chapter
1: Introduction to Photoshop CS6
This chapter introduces the
Photoshop CS6 basics such as the screen sections, the Tools panel,
Zoom tools, the navigation techniques, adjusting workspaces, the screen interface and
how to use layers, including how to turn layers on and off, add
new layers, delete,layers, name layers, change the layer order
and change the layer opacity.
Chapter
2: Selecting parts of Images
This chapter demonstrates
how to select parts of images and photos. This includes using
the Edit Marquees, the Lasso tools, the Quick Selection tool,
the Magic Wand and the Quick Mask tool which are used to select
a cat in one photo and transfer it to another.

Chapter
3: Modifying Images
Demonstrates how to apply
effects to photos using the Liquify Tool, the Filter Gallery and the Oil Paint Filter.

Chapter
4: Creating a Detailed Sketch
Demonstrates how to use the
drawing and painting tools to create the following artwork. The
Brush tool is used to create the outline of the sketch, the Paint
Bucket tool is used to fill the sections with colour and layers
are duplicated and modified to produce the road lines and white
posts..

Chapter
5: Drawing Shapes
Demonstrates how to use the
drawing tools such as rectangles, ellipses, lines and custom
shapes, then adding effects to those shapes. Students are shown
how to combine photos with shapes, for example, placing a photo within
a frame shape.

Chapter
6: Adjusting Shapes
Demonstrates how to combine
shapes and photos together to create designs. As an example, students are shown
how to magnify a cat's head then draw a magnifying glass over
it.

Chapter
7: Adding Text to Designs
This chapter shows students
how to enter text and apply effects to that text such as colour,
text warp, style effects, 3D effects, typing text along a
path and more detailed text formatting. Text is then added to photos and images, for example the following poster is created:

Chapter
8: Adjusting the Look of Images
Shows students how to edit
and improve photographs using the many tools that Photoshop
provides. Some of the tools used include the Blur tool, the Sharpen
tool, the Smudge tool, the Sponge tool, the Dodge tool, the Burn
tool, Gradient Fills, the Red Eye Reduction tool, Brightness/Contrast
Adjustment layers, Colour Balance Adjustment layers and removing
background tools.

Chapter
9: Combining Photographs
Demonstrates how to use the
Photomerge tool to combine multiple photos. Students are then shown how to adjust the combined photos to
improve the panoramic effect and how to use the Crop Tool to exclude parts of the combination that are not needed.

Chapter
10: Creating Clipping Masks
Introduces students to the
concept of masks so that just wanted parts of images are displayed. Different types of objects are used as masks, including marquee selections, custom shapes and text.

Chapter
11: Adjustment Layers
The applications of Adjustment
layers are demonstrated to improve the appearance of photographs.
The examples covered are Exposure layers, Levels layers, Brightness/Contrast
layers and Black & White layers.
For example, dark buildings in a photo are lightened whilst maintaining
the original sky colour.

Chapter
12: Saving Files
Students are shown a variety of different ways Photoshop
documents can be saved and exported, including saving TIFF files,
JPEG and GIF formats, the Save for Web command and
saving individual layers.
Project
1:
Create a Poster
The Multi-user version provides
a project that gets students to apply the Photoshop skills that
they have developed to produce a poster on a topic of their choice
Module 2 Chapter Descriptions
Chapter
13: Repairing Images and Moving Content
Students are shown how to repair scratch marks and to remove an
object (a cat) from the front of the car using the Patches tool and the Healing Brush
tools. A sticker is removed from the front of the car, other
scratch marks repaired and the cat is moved away from the front of the car using the Content Aware Move tool.

Chapter
14: Cloning Images
The same car from the previous
chapter is repaired using the Clone Stamp
tool. The car is then cropped to straightened it and to remove
parts of the background.

Chapter
15: Refining Edges
This chapter demonstrates
how to use the Refine Edge dialogue box to accurately make selections
of objects in a photo, in particular how to select fuzzy areas
such as people's hair or animal's fur. The edge detection brushes
and colour contamination tools are used to select a girl from
one background and place her over another. Also, how to select skin tones automatically is demonstrated.

Chapter
16: Advanced Layer Uses
This chapter demonstrates
how to use layers to enhance the photograph of a face, including
softening skin tones, whitening teeth, highlighting eyes and
changing eye colour.

Chapter
17: Creating 3D Shapes
Introduces students to the
3D tools that Photoshop provides to convert custom shapes into 3D
objects, use the preset mesh 3D shapes to create shapes such as spheres or cylinders and to convert 2D text into 3D text. Students are also shown how to apply materials to sides, adjust lighting effects, adjust shadows and extrusion depths, along with adding bevels, resizing shapes and rotating shapes on their axes.

Chapter
18: Applying Filters
Filters including Motion Blur,
Gaussian Blur, Reduce Noise and Sharpen are applied to a photo
to improve it. The use of Smart Filters is demonstrated
which allow applied filters to be edited at a later date and lighting
effect filter is applied to the image, then edited. Also, the new Iris Blur, Tilt-Shift and Field Blur filters are demonstrated.

Chapter
19: Applying
Artistic Filters
Demonstrates how to use the filters within Photoshop
to create artistic sketches. A shipwreck viewed through the porthole of another ship is created.

Chapter
20: Artistic
Brushes
Demonstrates how to use the different brushes that
photoshop provides to create artwork. The difference between Regular
brushes and Bristle Tip brushes is demonstrated and students practice
using brushes by colouring in the following image.

Chapter
21: The
Mixer Brush
Demonstrates how to use the Mixer Brush tool to
mix brush colours and canvas colours. Students use the Mixer Brush
tool to convert a photo of a 1000 year-old church into artwork.

Chapter
22: Working With Perspective
In this chapter students are
shown tools that allow the editing of photos, whilst maintaining
the 3D perspective of the photo. The Ruler tool, the Lens Correction
filter and the Vanishing Point filter are used to straighten
images and remove shadows from the following building.

Chapter
23: Colour Adjustments
Students are shown some of the professional colour
adjustment tools that Photoshop provides to repair the colour in
poorly taken photos. The Match Colour tool the Vibrance tool and
the Curves tool are used to repair the following photo of a building
which had a bluish tinge to it.

Chapter
24: Animations
This chapter shows students how to create QuickTime
Movies, Flash Video and Animated GIFs within Photoshop. A time-lapse
photography animation and the following animated logo for a decorating
company are created. 
Chapter
25: Useful Tools
To complete the module some of Photoshop's handy
tools are demonstrated, including the Magnetic Lasso tool to select
objects within a photo, the Puppet Warp Tool, the Replace Colour
tools the resize image and canvas tools and the Content Aware Scale
tool. The following cat is selected from a background then recoloured
and resized.

Project
2: VicSports
The Multi-user version provides a project that requires
students to create two pages for VicSports, a government organiisation
set up to promote sport in schools. Students are required to produce
the first page of a web site and an advertising collage poster.
Module 3 Chapter Descriptions
Chapter
26:
Using Reflections
Demonstrates the use of reflections
to add depth and realism to images.

Chapter
27: Creating 3D Styles
Demonstrates how to create
accurate three dimensional objects by applying a range of styles
to them. Those styles are then saved so that they can be applied
to other objects and text.

Chapter
28:
Graffiti on a Brick Wall
Demonstrates how to create
a brick wall from the Texturizer filter then add some graffiti
text to it and apply some lighting effects.

Chapter
29:
Graffiti on a Building
Demonstrates how to add some
graffiti text to a building so that the text matches the perspective
of the building. The text is then moved behind some branches
and snow to make the text look realistic.

Chapter
30:
Creating Balls and Spheres
Demonstrates how to quickly
create balls that can be duplicated, resized and have their colour
adjusted.

Chapter
31:
Creating Accurate Shapes
Demonstrates how to create
three-dimensional boxes using Rulers, Grids and Guide lines.
The following product box for a software company is created.

Chapter 32:
Creative Text Effects
Demonstrates how to combine
text effects into a scene with lighting effects.

Chapter
33: Displacing Images
Demonstrates how to add depth
and motion to an image by displacing an image with curves into
a 2D flag.

Chapter
34: Blur Animations
Demonstrates how to use blur
effects within an animation to create a short advertisement.

Chapter
35: Timeline Animations
Demonstrates how to use the
Timeline panel to create animated GIFs.
Bouncing icons and an animated mask are created.

Chapter
36: Creating Vidoes
Demonstrates how to use the Timeline panel to create videos that can be exported for uploading to YouTube, smart phones, tablets or media players. The supplied video clips of the day in the life of a cat are edited, have transitions added to them, have a music sound track included before the clips are exported.

Chapter
37: The Pen Tool
This chapter demonstrates
how to use the Pen tool to draw straight paths, curved paths
and paths that combine straight and curved paths. Shapes that
are created are converted to filled shapes, outlines and selections.

Chapter
38: The History Panel and History Brush
Students are shown how to
use the History panel to remove previous steps or remove individual
steps, save snapshots at particular stages of a production, create
new documents at particular stages and how to use the History
Brush tool.