Photoshop CS4 Online Training Course
Course Topics: 13
Estimated Time Needed: 25 hour(s)
Audience: This training course is for anyone who wants to learn about Adobe Photoshop CS4, and see procedures and techniques developed on and for a Windows PC.
Course Description: Adobe Photoshop CS4 is the leading digital image editing software. The Photoshop CS4 interface lets you work intuitively to design and manipulate images for print layouts, web publishing, multimedia, video, and photography. Photoshop CS4 is the perfect tool for establishing a workflow that can help you express creativity in visual form. The procedures and techniques you see in this course were developed on and for a Windows PC.
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Course Tutorials Include:
Photoshop CS4: 1 Getting Started with Photoshop CS4
Description
This course explains some of the hottest new features available in this version of Photoshop. This course steps you through creating a 3D postcard. The composition for the postcard will come from several different sources, allowing you to use some of the new cloning, masking, and adjustment features.
Objectives
- Compose an image
- Use the Mask panel
- Add graphics with the Clone tool
- Add an adjustment layer
- Add a text layer
- Make a 3D image
Photoshop CS4: 2 Exploring the Workspace
Description
This course familiarizes you with the features of Adobe Photoshop CS4 that allow you to customize the workspace as you see fit.
Objectives
- Identify common tools on the Tools panel
- Zoom in and out of a document with the Zoom tool
- Rotate the image view of a document with the Rotate View tool
- Distinguish the differences between three available screen modes
- Access panels in the panel docking area with the Basic workspace
- Save a custom workspace
Photoshop CS4: 3 Using Adobe Bridge
Description
This course explains the use of Adobe Bridge in relation to the other CS4 applications and Adobe Photoshop. Bridge is a central hub that you can use to locate, organize, and browse the documents you need to create print, Web, video, and audio content.
Objectives
- Navigate Adobe Bridge
- Create and work with folders in Adobe Bridge
- Create and locate metadata
- Add keywords to images
- Use Bridge to create a Web gallery
- Build a PDF contact sheet
Photoshop CS4: 4 Understanding Photoshop Basics
Description
This course explains several of the fundamental uses of Adobe Photoshop CS4. This course teaches about combining images by working with layers. This course also features information on the different image file formats that can be used in Photoshop.
Objectives
- Describe document settings
- Remove backgrounds
- Save files
- Combine images
- Work with layers
- Soften hard image edges
- Add text to images
- Describe different image file formats
- Change color settings
Photoshop CS4: 5 Making the Best Selections
Description
This course explains the options that are available for making selections in Photoshop CS4. Building up skills with the selection tools is critical to making natural-looking manipulations and adjustments to an image. This course provides many methods that can be used individually or combined to create the best selection.
Objectives
- Use the selection tools
- Refine your selections
- Transform selections
- Use the Pen tool
- Save selections
Photoshop CS4: 6 Painting and Retouching
Description
This course explains the RGB and CMYK color models and how to use them in Adobe Photoshop CS4. This course also discusses how to retouch images using cloning and healing tools.
Objectives
- Select colors
- Use the Brush tool
- Apply transparency
- Use the blend modes
- Retouch images
Photoshop CS4: 7 Creating a Good Image
Description
This course explains several different settings you can use to correct color, lighting, or sharpness in order to get the best picture possible.
Objectives
- Use color settings and the histogram
- Discover a neutral
- Use curves
- Use Unsharp masking
Photoshop CS4: 8 Working with Layers
Description
This course provides comprehensive information on using layers in Adobe Photoshop CS4. Layers are most helpful to build and use when creating professional composite images.
Objectives
- Describe and use layers
- Select and move layers
- Use layer masks
- Create compositions
- Apply clipping masks
Photoshop CS4: 9 Doing More with Layers
Description
This course discusses creating adjustment layers, layer styles, and other advanced layer options. The topics discussed in this course are geared towards maintaining original image information while applying effects.
Objectives
- Make color changes with adjustment layers
- Use the Black and White adjustment layer
- Combine layer effects
- Apply layer fill and opacity settings
Photoshop CS4:10 Using Smart Objects
Description
This course covers using Smart Objects to retain an image's original information, even after a filter has been applied. It also covers placing graphics as Smart Objects, converting them to Smart Objects right in Photoshop, and even combining Smart Objects for greater flexibility and creativity.
Objectives
- This course covers using Smart Objects to retain an image's original information, even after a filter has been applied. It also covers placing graphics as Smart Objects, converting them to Smart Objects right in Photoshop, and even combining Smart Objects for greater flexibility and creativity.
- Open an image as a Smart Object
- Convert a layer to a Smart Object
- Place and edit a Smart Object
- Replace the contents of a Smart Object layer
Photoshop CS4:11 Using Filters
Description
This course explains the fundamentals of applying filters, and shows how to use advanced filter features, like the Filter Gallery and Vanishing Point.
Objectives
- This course explains the fundamentals of applying filters, and shows how to use advanced filter features, like the Filter Gallery and Vanishing Point.
- Work with filters and the Filter gallery
- Fade filter effects
- Take advantage of Smart Filters
- Use Vanishing Point
Photoshop CS4:12 Creating Web and Video Images
Description
This course explains how to use Photoshop CS4 to style and distribute text, edit image slices for use with a Web page, and create video files and animations.
Objectives
- This course explains how to use Photoshop CS4 to style and distribute text, edit image slices for use with a Web page, and create video files and animations.
- Create Web and video presets
- Save a still image for use on the Web
- Save a still image with transparency for video
- Build animation for Web and video
Photoshop CS4:13 Working with 3D Objects
Description
This course explains how to convert a standard two-dimensional image into a 3D image by creating a 3D object and adjusting the lighting.
Objectives
- This course explains how to convert a standard two-dimensional image into a 3D image by creating a 3D object and adjusting the lighting.
- Prepare an image for 3D
- Create a 3D object
- Adjust 3D lighting
- Animate a 3D object
Features
- Flash and audio provide animated, interactive Lesson Introductions, Activities, and Simulations.
- Streaming video scenarios illustrate real world issues and solutions discussed in the course.
- Audio accompanies each lesson page throughout the course.
- MindNotes provide printable quick-reference sheets and other files to be used as learners apply their skills on the job.
- Show Me Hows allow learners to access instructional demonstrations from all courses in the series.
- Simulations teach learners to perform specific tasks in applications through guided, multi-step exercises.
- Activities allow learners to apply course concepts in an interactive questioning environment.
- Full-page images allow learners to experience an application as if it were open on their computer.
- Exercises allow learners to practice in the actual application being studied.
- Supplied sample files include sample documents, application files, programs, and programming code that enable learners to practice with these files, enhancing the learning experience.
- A Course Topics list contains active hyperlinks, permitting quick access to specific topics.
- Find-A-Word allows learners to look up an unfamiliar term in the Glossary, on the Web, or in a dictionary. In addition, it lets them find other occurrences of the term in the same course.
- Search text enables learners to rapidly search all text within a course to easily retrieve information required.
- Courses challenge the learner with a variety of question formats, including multi-step simulations, true/false, multiple choice, and fill-in-the-blank.
- A skill assessment generates a customized learning path based on the results of a pre-test.
- A glossary provides a reference for definitions of unfamiliar terms.
- Bookmarking tracks the learner's progress in a course.
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