Training: ICDL STANDARD – Image Editing – SM5

Chapter 1: Imaging Concepts

• Module 1: Digital Images
  • Identify common uses of digital images like: web and print publishing, distribution by e-mail and mobile phone, home printing, digital photo frames
  • Understand the terms pixel, resolution and identify the key features of a digital image: composed of discrete pixels, represented digitally in binary code
  • Understand the terms lossy, lossless image file compression
  • Understand the term copyright and the implications for image use. Understand the terms royalty-free images and rights-managed images
• Module 2: Graphic Formats
  • Understand the terms raster and vector graphics and distinguish between them. Identify common raster (jpeg, gif) and vector (svg, eps) formats
  • Recognize proprietary digital image editing application formats: psd, psp, xcf, cpt
• Module 3: Colour Concepts
  • Understand the term colour model and recognize common colour models: RGB, HSB, CMYK, grayscale
  • Understand the terms colour palette, colour depth
  • Understand the terms hue, saturation, colour balance
  • Understand the terms contrast, brightness, gamma
  • Understand the term transparency

Chapter 2: Image Capture

• Module 1: Capturing Images
  • Save an image from a digital camera to a location on a drive
  • Use the print screen facility to capture a full screen, active window
  • Save an image from an image library, web page to a location on a drive
  • Open a scanning application and scan an image: preview, set scanning parameters, scan, save

Chapter 3: Using the Application

• Module 1: Image Creation
  • Open, close an image editing application. Open, close image files
  • Create a new image file and set options: colour model, size, resolution, background colour
  • Create a new image file from clipboard
  • Switch between open image files
  • Save an image to a location on a drive. Save an image under another name to a location on a drive
  • Save, export an image as another file type like: jpeg, gif, tiff, png
• Module 2: Settings
  • Set background colour, foreground colour
  • Set grid properties: units, horizontal spacing, vertical spacing, colour
• Module 3: Enhancing Productivity
  • Set basic options/ preferences in the application like: transparency, grid settings, measurement units
  • Use available Help functions
  • Use magnification/zoom tools
  • Use the undo, redo command. Use the undo history
  • Display, hide built-in toolbars, palettes, windows

Chapter 4: Working with Images

• Module 1: Selection
  • Select an entire image, layer(s)
  • Set selection tool properties: relationship between multiple selections, feathering, antialiasing, width, height
  • Select part of an image using selection tools: rectangular, elliptic, magic wand, magnetic lasso, freehand image
  • Inverse a selection
  • Save a selection, load a saved selection
• Module 2: Image Manipulations
  • Change the canvas size of an image
  • Resize an image in pixels, measurement units
  • Crop an image
  • Copy, move image(s), selection within an image
  • Rotate, mirror an image, selection within an image
• Module 3: Layers
  • Define and understand the term layer
  • Create, copy, delete a layer
  • Set layer properties: name, hide, show, lock, opacity, blending mode
  • Arrange, merge, link, flatten layers
  • Transform layer(s): scale, rotate, flip, move, trim
  • Convert a drawn object to a raster layer
  • Create an animated gif from layers
• Module 4: Text
  • Add, edit, delete text
  • Copy, move text
  • Align text: left, centre, right, justified
  • Apply text formatting: font sizes, font types, font colour
  • Apply a text warp
• Module 5: Effects and Filters
  • Apply artistic, distortion effects: pixelate, emboss, wind, ripple, twirl, desaturate
  • Apply blur effects: gaussian, motion
  • Apply lighting effects: lighting, flare
  • Apply adjustments: brightness- contrast, hue-saturation, colour balance
  • Apply sharpen, unsharpen mask
  • Apply red eye reduction

Chapter 5: Drawing and Painting

• Module 1 : Drawing Tools
  • Add a line to an image: straight line, free drawn line, curves. Set, modify line weight, style and colour
  • Add a shape to an image: rectangle, ellipse, n-shaped polygon. Set, modify line, fill style and colour
• Module 2: Painting Tools
  • Pick up a colour value with the dropper
  • Fill a portion of an image with the gradient tool, selecting opacity/transparency, radial, linear, position, rotation
  • Colour a portion of an image with the paintbrush tool, selecting colour, shape, size
  • Erase a portion of an image with the eraser tool, selecting its shape and size
  • Fill a portion of an image with colour using the paint bucket tool
  • Clone a portion of an image using a clone tool, selecting size, opacity

Chapitre 6: Prepare Outputs

• Module 1: Setup
  • Preview an image
  • Select appropriate colour depth, resolution, image size, graphic format for web, screen, print use
• Module 2: Print
  • Change print output orientation: portrait, landscape. Change paper size
  • Print an image to an installed printer using defined options, default settings