Duration
2 days
Course Overview
Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Photoshop CS6 choose Adobe Photoshop CS6 Classroom in a Book from the Adobe Creative Team at Adobe Press. The 14 project-based lessons in this book show readers step-by-step the key techniques for working in Photoshop CS6 and how to manipulate images, edit motion-based content, and create image composites.
In addition to learning the key elements of the Photoshop interface, this completely revised CS6 edition covers new features, including precise cropping with multiple overlays, expanded content-aware toolkit with skin tone-aware selections and masking, three new blur effects, re-engineered design tools, adaptive Wide Angle adjustments, improved Camera Raw engine, improved auto corrections, Background Save and Auto-recovery, modernized user interface, intuitive video enhancements, simplified 3D interface, improved editing speed with real-time results, and more.
In addition to the lesson files, the companion DVD will feature 2 hours of free video tutorials from Adobe Photoshop CS6: Learn by Video by Adobe Press and video2brain, a great added value!
The Classroom in a Book series is by far the best training material on the market. Everything you need to master the software is included: clear explanations of each lesson, step-by-step instructions, and the project files for the students. -Barbara Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor, Rocky Mountain Training
Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, helps you learn the features of Adobe software quickly and easily. Classroom in a Book offers what no other book or training program does - an official training series from Adobe Systems Incorporated, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.
Course Content
- 1. Masks and Channels
- Working with masks and channels
- Getting started
- Creating a mask
- Refining a mask
- Creating a quick mask
- Manipulating an image with Puppet Warp
- Working with channels
- Review questions
- Review answers
- 2. Typographic Design
- About type
- Getting started
- Creating a clipping mask from type
- Creating type on a path
- Warping point type
- Designing paragraphs of type
- Review questions
- Review answers
- 3. Vector Drawing Techniques
- About bitmap images and vector graphics
- About paths and the Pen tool
- Getting started
- Using paths with artwork
- Creating vector objects for the background
- Working with defined custom shapes
- Importing a Smart Object
- Review questions
- Review answers
- 4. Advanced Compositing
- Getting started
- Assembling a montage of images
- Applying filters
- Hand-coloring selections on a layer
- Applying Smart Filters
- Adding drop shadows and a border
- Matching color schemes across images
- Automating a multistep task
- Stitching a panorama
- Finishing the image
- Review questions
- Review answers
- 5. Editing Video
- Getting started
- Creating a new video project
- Animating text with keyframes
- Creating effects
- Adding transitions
- Adding audio
- Muting unwanted audio
- Rendering video
- Review questions
- Review answers
- 6. Painting with the Mixer Brush
- About the Mixer Brush
- Getting started
- Selecting brush settings
- Mixing colors
- Creating a custom brush preset
- Mixing colors with a photograph
- Review questions
- Review answers
- 7. Working with 3D Images
- Getting started
- Creating a 3D shape from a layer
- Manipulating 3D objects
- Adding 3D objects
- Merging 3D layers to share the same 3D space
- Positioning objects in a scene
- Applying materials to 3D objects
- Lighting a 3D scene
- Rendering a 3D scene
- Review questions
- Review answers
- 8. Preparing Files for the Web
- Getting started
- Creating slices
- Exporting HTML and images
- Using the Zoomify feature
- Creating a web gallery
- Review questions
- Review answers
- 9. Producing and Printing Consistent Color
- About color management
- Getting started
- Specifying color-management settings
- Proofing an image
- Identifying out-of-gamut colors
- Adjusting an image and printing a proof
- Saving the image as a CMYK EPS file
- Printing
- Review questions
- Review answers
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.