Course Contents (20 sessions of 3hrs each)
Photoshop Image Manipulation • Retouching and image size • Straightening and cropping an image, tonal range • Replacing colors in an image, Dodge tool, Sponge tool, • Unsharp Mask filter, four-color printing
Working with Selections • Selection tools, • Magic Wand tool, oval and circular selections, • Magnetic Lasso tool, lasso tools, and erasing within a selection
Layer Basics • Rearranging layers, Editing text • Flattening and saving files • Creating a layer set and adding a layer • Using layer comps
Masks and Channels • Working with masks and channels, • Creating a quick mask, • Saving a selection as a mask, applying an adjustment, • Creating a gradient mask, Applying effects using a gradient mask
Image Retouching and Repairing • Clone Stamp tool, Pattern Stamp tool, Healing Brush and Patch tools, Retouching on a separate layer
Painting and Editing • Custom workspace, • Blending an image with the background, history tools, • Brush tool, create a picture frame, Color Section
Basic Pen Tool Techniques • Pen tool, Drawing straight paths, • Drawing curved, Editing anchor points
Vector Masks, Paths, and Shapes • About bitmap images and vector graphics
Advanced Layer Techniques • Creating layer sets, adjustment layer, gradient layer, layer from another file, • Liquifying a layer, • Creating a border layer, • Flattening a layered image, • Duplicating and clipping a layer
Creating Special Effects • Changing the color balance • Applying filters
Preparing Images for Two-Color Printing • Printing in color, Using channels and the Channels palette, change color to grayscale, • Creating two-color Web graphics
Arranging Layer Objects in ImageReady • Duplicating and aligning layers, • Changing multiple lines of type
Creating Links within an Image • Slicing an image in Photoshop, • Working with slices in ImageReady, • Working with image maps (ImageReady)
Optimizing Web Images • Optimizing images using Photoshop or ImageReady • Optimizing a JPEG, GIF, • Controlling dither and reducing colors, dithered transparency
Producing and Printing Consistent Color • Reproducing colors, • Specifying color management settings, • Proofing an image
Flash Animations Flash Authoring Tool • Working with Flash Documents, Template, Document Properties, Rulers, Grids, and Guides, Snapping, • Magnifications, Panels, Property Inspector
Creating Simple Graphics • Tools, Creating Solid Colors and Gradients, Color Swatches, Color Sets, Fill Attributes, • Setting Stroke Attributes, Geometric Shapes, Freeform Shapes, Strokes and Fills
Working with Text • Text Tool, Paragraph Attributes
Modifying Simple Graphics • Setting Selection Preferences, Clipboard, Graphic Elements, Flipping, Rotating, and Skewing • Resizing, Positioning Graphic Elements, Modifying Fills and Strokes,
Complex Graphics on a Single Layer • Controlling Stacking Order, Aligning Elements, Combining Drawing-Objects
Graphics on Multiple Layers • Timeline's Layer Features, Layers and Folders, Layer Visibility in the Timeline, • Organizing Layers in Folders, Cutting and Pasting Between Layers, Guide Layers, Mask Layers
Working with Symbols Library Panel, Library Hierarchy, Converting Graphics to Symbols, Using Symbol Instances, Master Symbols, Converting Symbol Instances to Graphics, Editing Master Symbols, Copying Symbols Between Movies
Frame-by-Frame Animations • Timeline, Creating Keyframes, Manipulating Frames in One Layer, Removing Frames, • Making a Simple Frame-by-Frame Animation, Adding Keyframes, Onion Skinning, • Frame Rate, Varying the Speed of Animations
Animation with Motion Tweening • Creating a Bouncing Ball with Motion Tweening • Adding Keyframes to Motion Tweens • Animating Color Effects • Rotating and Spinning Graphics • Moving Graphics in Straight Lines • Changing Tween Speed
Animation with Shape Tweening • Creating a Bouncing Ball with Shape Tweening • Morphing Simple Lines and Fills • Shape-Tweening Multiple Shapes
Understanding Scenes • Manipulating Frames in Multiple Layers, Animating Multiple Motion Tweens, • Saving Animations As Graphic Symbols, Animated Graphic Symbols, • Movie-Clip Symbols, Animated Masks
Building Buttons for Interactivity • Creating a Basic Button Symbol, Button Symbols, Fully Animated Button Symbols, Movie-Clip Buttons
Actions Panel • Organizing Frame Actions, Adding Frame Actions, Adding Actions to Buttons, Changing Events,
Using Non-Flash Graphics • Importing Non-Flash Graphics, Turning Bitmaps into Vector Graphics, Bitmaps as Fills
Sounds • Adding Sound, Using Event Sounds, Behaviors to Control Sounds,
Flash Player Settings • Publishing HTML for Flash Player Files, Alternate Image Formats, Version Detection, • Creating Projectors, Creating Publishing Profiles, Exporting Flash to Other Formats
