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Adobe Photoshop 6.0 Training Courses on Videos or DVDs
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PhotoShop 6 Training DVDs
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Creating Web Graphics with PhotoShop 6 Training Videos
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Photoshop 6.0 Training Videos or DVDs Course Tutorials |
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Photoshop Fundamentals
Program 1 The Basics
Getting Around Photoshop
Setting up Photoshop: settings, preferences, & memory allocation; Launching the program;
Color Settings; Introduction to layers; Screen modes & image viewing options; Displaying & hiding palettes; Changing intermediate background colors; Gradient tool; Magnifying & Hand tools
Resolution, Rotate, & Crop
Arranging your palettes; Rulers & Units; What is resolution; Image Size & Canvas Size;
Navigator palette; Saving your image; Rotate & straighten; Two ways to crop: Rectangular Marquee tool or the Crop tool
Annotating & Saving
Annotation Tools: Note & Audio tools; Hiding & saving annotations; Image formats & saving options; Saving layers
Program 2 Selecting Stuff
Define Selections
Intro to selections; The Marquee tools: Rectangular & Elliptical; The Selection tools: Lasso,
Polygon, & Magnetic Lasso; Using selections to effect different layers; Magic wand tool; Contiguous & Discontiguous; Inversing your selection; Utilizing the Eye dropper tool to expand
& contract selection; Fade command;
Modify Selections
Fine tuning your selections using option and menu bar commands; Using Grow & Similar
commands; Expanding & Contracting selections; Smoothing Magic Wand selections; Hue & Saturation; Add & Subtract from selection commands; Defringe command; Feather command; Trim command
Move & Transform
Transform command for scaling & distorting; Transforming options; Nudging from the
keyboard; Compositing images: Moving & Cloning; Intro to layer masks; Creating a basic layer mask
Program 3 Paint, Color, & Retouch
Fill, Stroke, & Color
Color theory in Photoshop: RGB & CMYK; Defining foreground & Background colors; Using
the Color Palette; Applying Fills, Blend modes & Gradients; Using the stroke option
Painting & Brushes
Airbrush tool; Brush pressures and modes; Brush options & custom palettes; Working with
the standard brush palettes; Paintbrush tool; Pencil tool; Painting with a pressure sensitive tablet; Paint Bucket tool; Colorizing & shading
The Edit Tools
Using the Edit tools: Blur, Sharpen & Smudge; Working with Dodge, Burn & Sponge; Use All Layers option
Using the Rubber Stamp
Using the Pattern & Clone Stamp Tools; Cloning across images; Working with Cloning
options: "Aligned" check box; Dust & Scratches Filter; Retouching with the Clone Stamp Tool
Program 4 Working With layers
Introducing Layers
What's a layer; Viewing layers; Linking layers; The Background layer; Fading a layer; Creating
floating layers & new layers from a selection; Naming a layer; Moving & arranging layers; Activating a layer
Working with Transparency
What is a transparency; Customizing your transparency background; Modifying transparency
opacity; Duplicating layers; Transparency Masks; Move tool & Scissors; Coloring within a transparency mask; Creating new background layers
Layer Hodgepodge for $500, Alex
Transforming layers; Linking layers for transforming multiple layers; Perspective distortion on
multiple layers; Creating layer sets; Merging layers; Deleting multiple layers; Transplanting linked layers into separate images
The Big Layer
Rasterizing type; Reveal All command; Image crop command; Delete & Hide buttons; Cropping the Canvas Size
Essential Photoshop
Program 5 Extract & Mask
Automatic Masking
Introduction to Color Range command; Magic wand tool vs. Color Range command; Color
Range dialog box; Inverting color range mask; Using Color Range for automatic masking; Eraser Tools: eraser, magic eraser, & background eraser; Background eraser options; Using
the Extract command dialog box: tools & options
Basic Masking
Using the Quick Mask mode; Saving quick mask as a selection outline; Saving selection
outlines as masks; Alpha Channels; Using multiple masks; Saving images with masks; Combining multiple masks to a single selection; Editing masks; viewing image with the mask; Loading mask as selection
Real World Masking
Creating a mask from scratch; Using RGB channels to create a mask; Using dodge & Burn
tools to edit your RGB channel mask; Touching up halo effect using blend modes & layers; Layer masking; Grouping & ungrouping layers; Masking using clipping groups
Program 6 Blend & Stylize
Blend Mode Overview
Introduction to the Blend Modes: Normal, Multiply, Screen, Overlay, Hard light, Soft Light,
Color Dodge, Color Burn, Darken, Lighten, Difference, Exclusion, Luminosity, Color, Hugh & Saturation
Screen, Multiply & Blending Options
Working with the Screen & Multiply blend modes; Intro to the Blending Options Dialog Box;
Using the Knockout & Fill Opacity options; Applying Blending Options
Layer Effects
History of the Drop Shadow; Making Drop Shadows in Photoshop 6 using Layer Styles Dialog
Box; Using Layer Effects: Drop Shadows, Inner Shadows, Glows, Bevel & Emboss, Satin, & Overlay; Creating a Layer Style
Program 7 Shapes & Paths
Vector-Based Shapes
Overview of the shape tools; What is a vector based shape; Change Layer Content command:
dynamic fills options; Shape layers; Clipping Paths; Deleting shapes; Shape options bar: layers style; Loading a style library from disk; Shape tool options: rectangular, elliptical,
rounded rectangle, circle, polygon, line, & custom shape
Create & Edit a Shape
Using the Custom Shape tool; Applying blend modes & layer styles to your Custom shape;
Shapes option bar: creating more than one shape, adding to the existing shape layer, shape intersection options; Transforming a custom shape; Show Bounding Box option; Define
Custom Shape command; How layer styles update; Saving vector shapes; Rasterizing & Flattening vector shapes; Scaling layer effects
Vector Masks
Creating Vector Masks; Selection tools: white arrow & black arrow; Rasterize Fill Content
command; Masking an image with a shape; Creating a New Work Path; Clipping image to a work path; Pen tool; Transferring a clipping path to other applications; Naming a work path;
Clipping Path dialog box; Saving a clipping path
Program 8 Create & Edit Type
Fun with Vector Type
What is vector type; Text tool; Transforming type; Masking type; Add a Mask button to;
Editing type; Adding a new text layer; Formatting type; Point text; Paragraph text; Navigating the text bounding box; Text options bar: text layer, create a mask, horizontal & vertical; Rotating type
Formatting Attributes
Text tool options bar: font options; True Type vs. Postscript Type; ATM; Text tool options bar:
font style, font size, anti-aliasing; Docking palettes in the options bar; Character Palette: fractional widths; Character Palette: type size, leading, kerning, tracking, vertical scale,
baseline shift, color, faux bold & faux italic; Paragraph Palette; alignment & justification
Excellent Type Effects
Text options bar: create warp text button; Warp Text Palette; Applying a Gradient Map to text;
Tips on removing anti-aliasing artifacts from text; Adding a drop shadow to text; Example of using layer effects to create a 3D look
Photoshop at Its Best
Program 9 Correcting Colors
Color Manipulations
Introduction & critique of Adjust commands: Equalize, Posterize, Brightness Contrast &
Levels; Variations command dialog box; Removing color cast & improving brightness & saturation using variations; Hue & Saturation command dialog box; Adjusting selected
portions of an image using Hugh & Saturation; Solving compression artifacts; Colorizing a grayscale image using Hugh & Saturation
Red-eye & Levels
Eliminating Red Eye using the Channel Mixer command & Brushes; Auto Levels, & Auto Contrast; Levels command dialog box
Curves
When to use Curves instead of Levels; Curves command dialog box; Setting preference for
automatically adding extension to file name when saving (Mac only); Color correction using layers & Color blend mode
Program 10 Adjustment Layers & Corrective Filters
Adjustment Layers
What are Adjustment layers; Setting preferences for saving adjustment layers; Change Layer
Content command; Constraining adjustment layers to sets & individual layers; Create New Fill or Adjustment Layer button; Converting text to shapes
Introducing Filters
What is a filter; Filter plug-ins; Pluses & Minuses of dialog boxes: Gaussain Blur filter dialog
box; Pinch filter dialog box; Extrude filter dialog box; Modifying filters with blend modes & commands; Float & filter technique; Reapplying filters
The Sharper Image
Sharpen filters: sharpen, sharpen edges, sharpen more, & unsharp mask; Unsharp Mask
dialog box: amount, radius & threshold; Practical application of Unsharp mask
Blurring & Averaging
Blur filters: blur, blur more, gaussian, motion, radial, & smart; Gausian blur dialog box; Motion
blur dialog box; Radial blur dialog box; Practical applications of gaussian blur; Dust & scratches filter; Median filter; Combining filters to sharpen a jpeg artifact ridden image;
Minimum filter dialog box; Maximum filter dialog box; Edge masking: creating a better threshold through masking; Find edges filter
Program 11 Distortions & Custom Effects
Fun with Distortions
Distort filters: pinch, sherize, twirl, zigzag, ripple, glass, ocean ripple, & wave; Combining
filters; Shear filter; Polar coordinates filter
Synthetic Effects
Creating textures & backgrounds with filters; Noise filters: add noise; Emboss filter; Using
Hugh & Saturation to colorize filter effects; Clouds filter; Effects of Foreground & background colors on Clouds filter; Difference Clouds filter; Applying combinations of filters
Liquify & Displace
Liquefy dialog box: warp tool, twirl clockwise tool, pucker tool, sherize tool, bloat tool, shift
pixels tool, reflection tool, reconstruction tool, freeze tool, & thaw tool; Float & Filter technique; Displace filter; What is a displacement map; Displace filter dialog box; Creating a
displacement map; Gradient tool; Gradient Editor dialog box; Gradient tool option bar: Dither; Saving a displacement map; Applying the displacement map
Lighting FX & More
Combining displacement maps with the lighting effects filter; Bump map; Raise & light letters:
displace filter, lighting filter; Lighting filter dialog box: soft spotlight mode, texture channel; Crystallize filter; Stained Glass filter; Custom filter; Effects of custom filter; Creating your own
custom filter
Program 12 History, Actions, & Color Management
A Lesson in History
What is the History Palette; Changing preferences for Redo key; Changing number of history
states tracked; History Palette Snapshots; History Palette options; Non-Linear History; RAM & the History palette; Saving a state
The History Brush
History Brush options; Using the History brush; Art History Brush: Fill from history
Actions
What is the Actions Palette; Default actions; Assigning keys to actions; Creating new actions; Recording action sets; Button mode; Chrome action
Color Management
Color theory overview: RGB vs. CMYK; Characterizing your monitor; Setting the Gamma; Color setting command
PhotoShop 6.0 Web Graphics Videos Curriculum |
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Creating Web Graphics with Adobe Photoshop 6 is the powerful new follow-on to the
popular and comprehensive training for PhotoShop 6. In this 7-hour, 4-tape or 2 DVD series, Photoshop expert Deke McClelland shows the professional way to prepare graphics for the
web with Photoshop 6. Follow along with Deke, and work with the same images he does from the CD included with every series. Return again and again to any segment in the series to
re-learn and refresh your knowledge. Even if you are an experienced print professional, Creating Web Graphics for Photoshop 6 has something for you. Expand your capabilities
and revenue potential by learning how to create web graphics that meet your standards as a pro.
Program 1: Web Graphic Essentials
Small is Beautiful
Keeping your web images small; two measures of image size: pixels, and file size; previewing an image in a web browser; resizing images; the JPEG Options dialog box; resolution and the
web browser; cropping & downsampling; the Crop tool; the Image Size dialog box; changing your canvas color; the Paint Bucket tool; optimum file size for the web; what is compression;
applying compression when saving
Predicting Color Variations
Accounting for monitor variations; RGB; previewing different monitor screen views; gamma;
assigning actions to screen preview commands; recording actions; embedded profiles; proof colors
Color Management
The Color Settings dialog box; Color Management options; reasons for Color Management; characterizing your monitor; Color Management policies; the Embedded Profile Mismatch
options; the Conversion options; tagging a profile to an image
Web File Formats
Minimizing your file size for the web; insuring cross-platform views; the Saving Files preferences; the Save As dialog box; thumbnails & image previews; 3 file formats for the web:
JPEG, GIF & PNG; when to use the JPEG format; the JPEG Options dialog box: quality & the format options; when to use the GIF format; what is a PNG; the Elliptical Marquee tool; saving a PNG; the PNG options
Program 2: Indexing & Optimizing
Indexing Colors for GIF
When are images suited to the GIF format; saving an RGB image as a GIF; introduction to the
Indexed Color dialog box; indexing colors before you save; reducing colors using the Colors option; knowing your Bit Depth Tables; the Indexed Color dialog box: the Forced pop-up menu;
the Indexed Color dialog box: Dither & Amount
Harvesting Color Palettes
The Indexed Color dialog box: the Palette pop-up menu; indexing colors using the Web Safe
palette; Color Profiles; the Indexed Color dialog box: Uniform, Local & Master palettes; using the GIF format to support transparencies & opacities; the Indexed Color dialog box: the matte option
Side-By-Side Comparisons
The Save for Web dialog box: viewing options, image size, changing the settings of a quadrant, lossy compression, the Web Snap option, selecting colors to make them web safe,
Repopulate View command, the JPEG option settings, the PNG options, Optimizing to File Size command, the Preview menu settings, browser dither preview setting; saving from the preview settings
Capturing Images
Selecting & using a digital camera
Program 3: Welcome to ImageReady
Dr. Shop & Mr. Ready
Introduction to ImageReady; switching back & forth between ImageReady & Photoshop; the
Jump to ImageReady button; editing in ImageReady: clipping paths; translating edits in ImageReady back to Photoshop; differences between ImageReady & Photoshop: tool box
tear-off menu, added tab options in palettes, more palettes
A Brief Tour of ImageReady
Operations inside ImageReady: the Image Size dialog box, getting rid of red-eye, using Levels,
adjusting saturation; the Burn tool; matching ImageReady colors to Photoshop's colors: preview settings, Proof Colors setup, assigning color profiles & the Use Embedded Profile command
Live Optimization
Saving for the web in ImageReady; the Save Optimized command; optimizing before saving; live dynamic optimization; the Optimize palette; setting file size values; cropping inside
ImageReady; selective compression or optimizing using alpha channels; using the Lasso tool inside ImageReady; saving optimization settings; editing images in ImageReady; the Save Optimize As command
Batching & Automation
Droplets; recording actions for batch processing; displaying dialog boxes selectively during
batch processing; creating a Droplet from an action; batch processing inside ImageReady
Program 4: Dicing, Slicing & Animation
Image Maps
ImageReady & HTML code; what is an Image Map; creating an Image Map; using Image Map tools to create buttons; the Shape tools; the Image Map Select tool; the Bring Image Map to
Front button; assigning meaning to buttons; the Image Map palette; saving the Image Map; converting layers to buttons; the Slice tool in ImageReady; optimizing the Image Map
Using the Slicing Tools
Roughing out web pages inside Photoshop; creating layer sets inside Photoshop; Setting boundaries for the slicing; the Slice tool; automatic slices; the Slice Select tool; the Slice
options dialog box; the Promote to User Slice button; the Toggle Slices Visibility icon; the Slice palette; making automatic slices transparent; the Slices menu; the Combine Slices
command; optimizing & saving slices; linking slices; the Output Settings dialog box; viewing the saved web page; applying filters
Rollovers & Animation
What is a Java Script rollover; creating a Java Script rollover; the Rollover palette; previewing
rollovers in ImageReady; GIF animations; rollover animations; the Animation palette
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