Computer WorkGroup Training

Adobe Photoshop CS for the Web

Duration : 1 Day

Pricing : Basic - 1 person $750, 2 people $850 for both (see pricing page for full details)

Pre-requisites : Introduction to Windows or the Mac or equivalent experience.

For Whom: The course is intended for people who wish to create and optimise graphics for web pages and multimedia publications, create animated GIFs, and create image maps.

Course Objectives: At the conclusion of the training participants will be able to -

• Swap between Photoshop & Image Ready
• Crop & Deep Etch Images
• Select specific parts of an image
• Retouch scanned images
• Transform parts of an image
• Optimise GIF, PNG and JPEG files
• Create new, and import existing, images
• Create animations
• Rollovers & Slices
• Use the Photoshop & ImageReady tools.
• Create Image Maps

COURSE OUTLINE

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS for WEB - 1 DAY INTENSIVE INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION

• Web Image Files
• Photoshop & Image Ready
• Magnification
• The Toolbox
• The Ribbon
• Docking Palettes
• Moving Around

THE BUILDING BLOCKS

• Importing Images
• Scanning Images
• Pasting Images
• Painting
• Text Objects
• Rollovers
• Slicing images

OPTIMISING IMAGES

• Background to optimising
• File Formats
• Colour palettes
• Master palettes
• Transparency and mattes
• Dithering

ANIMATIONS

• Creating Animations
• Layers in animations
• Optimising and saving animated GIFs
• Working with existing animated GIFs

BASIC EDITING

• Erasing
• Cropping
• Resizing
• Correcting Mistakes
• History Palette
• Duplicating an Image

WEB SPECIALS

• Creating Rollovers
• Variables and Data sets
• Web content Palette

ADJUSTING IMAGES

• Adjusting the Tonal Range
• Adjusting Colour Balance
• Changing Colours
• Applying Special Effects

TRANSFORMING PARTS OF AN IMAGE

• Mirroring, Rotating, Scaling
• Free Tansform
• Skewing
• Adding Perspective
• Distorting

SPECIAL EFFECTS

• Blur Filters
• Stylising Filters
• 3-D Effects
• Liquify
• Extracting Backgrounds

TYPE

• Adding Text
• Character & Paragraph palettes
• Anti-Aliasing
• Layer Styles
• Warping Text
• Text as Vectors

COLOURS

• Colour Models
• Colour Palettes
• Web Safe Colours

EXPORTING

• Formats
• Exporting Selections
• Optimising Exports
• Image Maps
• Export to swf
• HTML Code
• Multiple rollovers