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Photoshop® CS4
E-Learning: 40 hours
Photoshop® CS4: Level 1
Photoshop® CS4: Level 2
Photoshop® CS4: Photo Printing and Colour
Photoshop® CS4: Web Production
Plus
Books:
Photoshop® CS4: Level 1
Photoshop® CS4: Level 2
Photoshop® CS4: Photo Printing and Colour
Photoshop® CS4: Web Production
Outlines attached below
Title: Adobe® Photoshop® CS4: Level 1
Course Type: E-Learning + Book
Description:
As an aspiring graphic designer, you would like to familiarize yourself
with design creation and image editing using Photoshop. Understanding
the different tools and features available in Photoshop CS4 will help
you to maximize your creative potential. In this course, you will use
the various tools and features of Photoshop CS4 to work with images. You
will also gain familiarity with the Adobe® Bridge® CS4 application, a
key requisite for managing your assets efficiently. Adobe® Photoshop®
CS4: Level 1 is intended for a diverse audience including, but not
limited to, computer-saavy professionals who want to create and enhance
graphics for marketing materials, newsletters, blogs, and web sites;
photographers who want to work with and prepare photos for print or web;
students with an interest in graphic design or those with novice design
skills and professionals who want to learn and use Photoshop CS4 as a
complement to other CS4 programs, such as Illustrator.
Objectives:
In this course, you will explore the Photoshop CS4 interface, customize it and use tools for selecting parts of images. You will learn to use layers and to apply layer effects and filters for creating special effects. Additionally, you will use painting tools and blending modes to enhance the appearance of your design. Finally, you will save images in both print and web formats.
Title: Adobe® Photoshop® CS4: Level 2
Course Type: E-Learning + Book
Description:
You may want to enhance the images and work with videos. In this course,
you'll work with the advanced tools and features available in Photoshop
CS4. This course is intended for the intermediate and advanced users of
Photoshop.
Objectives:
In this course, you will enhance your ability to create accurate masks and image effects, to retouch images, to work with video files, automate repetitive tasks and integrate with other Adobe applications.
Title: Adobe® Photoshop® CS4: Photo Printing and Color
Course Type: E-Learning + Book
Description:
Applying the correct image and color correction process and techniques
ensures that you get the desired output while printing images for
commercial purposes. In this course, you will learn professional
techniques for obtaining consistent, predictable, high quality images
from Photoshop. You will learn a balanced approach, starting with system
calibration, through image enhancements, and color correction. You will
also create traditional printed effects such as duotones and spot color
overlays. This course is intended for photo professionals/enthusiasts
who have a basic foundation with Photoshop and are interested in using
Photoshop for printing and color correction.
Objectives:
In this course, you will use color management techniques and color correct images to ensure optimal print output.
Title: Adobe® Photoshop® CS4: Web Production
Course Type: E-Learning + Book
Description:
You want to specialize in creating web components and web pages. In this
course, you will use Adobe® Photoshop® CS4 Web Production to create and
optimize images for the web. You can choose to introduce dithering to
simulate colours that are missing in images, trim images to reduce the
file size, and alter images so that they appear consistently on
different platforms. You will also stage web page components, arrange
them aesthetically, and impart interactivity on them. Finally, you will
export the web page with interactive images so that you can view and
test their functionality in Internet browsers and also create innovative
content for a wide range of mobile phones using Device Central. This
course is intended for web professionals with a basic knowledge of
Photoshop who are interested in using Photoshop for web production.
Objectives:
In this course, you will set Photoshop’s unit preferences and save files in different formats to see how well each one balances image quality with file size reduction. You will then calibrate your system’s color display. You will also use Photoshop as part of creating finished web pages and export individual slices and create an HTML Web page that displays a table containing the sliced sections. Finally, you will use the Save for Web & Devices feature to create and optimize animations for the web and mobile devices.
Software: Adobe® Photoshop® CS4 Available as a trial download from the Adobe website.
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