Learning PhotoShop 7
Self-Paced 4 CD course!
The need for digital imaging presents itself to businesses of all sizes and home users alike. But you’ve probably heard or have already learned first hand that knowing how to use Photoshop for anything past opening images, resizing them and saving them in different file formats takes a big hunk of a learning curve.
Using these courses you’ll fly past that learning curve!
You’ll learn how to make your images “pop” using techniques that only come from the pro’s. Start with a digital picture or create your images from scratch. Design images for professional printing; even for enhancing marketing materials you’ll print yourself. You’ll even be able to create the images and buttons needed to make a website.
And YES! These courses will even teach you to use the ImageReady program and create your own PDF files.
Lesson Topics:
CD 1: Photoshop 7 - The Basics
- Approx. 3 hours of training
- What ‘digital imaging’ is
- Pixels, PPI, DPI, bits and image resolution
- Kinds of digital file formats
- Acquiring digital images
- Image resolution – high res. versus low res. images
- The Photoshop window
- The Photoshop toolbox & palettes
- Open images
- Use the File Browser
- Foreground/background color
- New! the painting engine
- Finding and adjusting an image’s resolution
- setting
- Image size/canvas size
- Fundamentals of image editing: color, painting, transparency, etc.
- Type text on an image
- Edit text: font, size, alignment, color and move text
- New! Photoshop spell checker
- Add, rename, delete and rearrange layers
- Select using the marquee tool
- Fill an area
- Saving image for Web
- Color Correction
- Remove ‘Red-Eye’
- New Feature: The Healing Brush
- Selection tools for Editing
CD 2: Photoshop 7 - Intermediate
- Approx. 3 hours of training
- Image resolution and specifying image resolution
- Auto resolution and half tone screen settings
- Copy objects from other images
- Scale
- Use the different marquee tools
- Open multiple files at once
- Arrange and merge layers
- Flatten an image
- Adjust Layer Properties
- Apply filters: artistic filters, textures, lighting effects and more.
- Soften hard edges with the blur filter
- Blurring filters
- Sharpening
- Unsharp Mask filter
- Apply Layer Styles: drop shadows, inner shadows, glows, etc.
- Invert a selection
- Install new filters
- Adjust color balance
- Create and apply a gradient
- Apply a shape
- Create a fill layer
- Channels
- About faux styles and text
- Warp text
- Paragraph text
CD 3: Photoshop 7 - Advanced
- Approx. 3 hours of training
- Tricks of the trade
- Advanced image size methods
- Print Preview
- Resampling
- Good color tips
- Creating a work path: pen tool, auto add/delete and the direct selection tool
- Image healing techniques
- Align sample areas
- Patch tool
- Healing brush
- Create customized brush strokes
- Shape dynamics: jitter, tilt scale and their diameter
- Scatter brush strokes
- Add textures to brushes
- Protect texture
- Liquify
- Advanced features and filters
- Create a logo
- Link and merge layers
- Add a watermark
- Digimark ID
- Compatibility with other programs
- Color correction techniques
- Install plug-Ins
- Use Eye Candy filters
- Save as PDF – Portable Document Format
- Viewing PDF documents online
CD 4: Photoshop 7 - Web Imagery
- Approx. 3 hours of training
- Acceptable webpage loadtimes
- Webpage standards
- Essentials for obtaining small image size
- Optimizing images
- Image file types for online use
- Compressed image formats
- JPEG, GIF and PING images
- Lossy formats
- Dithering
- Creating buttons
- Apply a color fill, layer styles and add text to buttons
- Web safe colors
- 256 color versus high color
- Preparing text on web images
- Weighted optimization
- Adjust compression levels
- Masking
- Unsharp Mask
- Down sampling
- Save as HTML and/or Images
- Preview images
- Save for Web
- Create thumbnail images
- Transparencies
- Dithered transparencies
- Animation in ImageReady
- Add frames
- Animation effects and tweening animation effects
- PDF files
- Image Maps
Order on line or call (800) 321-2155 and ask for course 02-317 today!
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