Adobe Course Overview

In this course, you'll expand on the skills covered in the Photoshop® 7.0: Level 1 and Photoshop® 7.0: Level 2 courses by working on a variety of image types. While you'll learn to work with additional specific Photoshop commands and tools, you'll also study concepts that tie together multiple techniques you already know to create effects and make your work more efficient. You'll first work to clean up line art, and then use lots of shortcuts and styling techniques for layers. Then, you'll turn to photographic images, repairing an old damaged picture, softening the focus on one to add atmosphere, and will colorize grayscale images with a variety of techniques. You'll learn to create realistic three-dimensional effects by distorting layers and applying lighting effects. Lastly, you'll save multi-step processes as actions that you can apply later to any image.

Course Objective:

You will efficiently create, enhance, and access graphically rich and multimedia information within PDF documents for both interactive online use and commercial printing.

Target Student:

This course is designed for graphic designers and other serious users who work with Photoshop regularly.

Prerequisites:

To ensure your success, we recommend you first take the following courses or have equivalent knowledge:

• Photoshop® 7.0: Level 1
• Photoshop® 7.0: Level 2

After taking this course, students will be able to work more efficiently in Photoshop, improve damaged or poor quality images, and create a variety of interesting type effects and image effects.

Certification:

Photoshop® 7.0: Artistic Effects is one of five courseware titles that address the Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) Program objectives for the Photoshop 7.0 exam. The ACE Program is for graphic designers, Web designers, developers, systems integrators, value-added resellers, and business professionals who seek recognition for their expertise with specific Adobe products. Certification candidates must pass a product proficiency exam in order to become an Adobe Certified Expert.

What's Next:

After taking this course, students who want to learn techniques for preparing Photoshop images for print can take the Photoshop® 7.0: Color Correction and Printing course. Students who want to learn techniques for preparing images for the Web can take the Photoshop® 7.0: Web Production course.

Delivery Method:

Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom delivery learning model with structured, hands-on activities.

Course duration:

1 day.

Hardware/Software Requirements:

You will need:

• A PowerPC-based Macintosh computer.
• Mac OS version 9.1, 9.2, or Mac OS X version 10.1.3.
• At least 128 MB of RAM (192 MB recommended).
• At least 320 MB of free hard-disk space to install software, and an additional 25 MB to run the course.
• A color monitor with 16-bit or greater video card (24-bit color recommended).
• A CD-ROM drive.
• Adobe® Photoshop® 7.0.

• Clean up jagged line art and accurately replace colors in line art with soft edges.
• Apply time-saving shortcuts for selecting, stacking, and blending layers.
• Precisely control layer styles with contours and with combinations of layer effects, as well as by splitting layer effects onto multiple layers.
• Repair and retouch old damaged photos efficiently and accurately.
• Create atmosphere in an image by applying a soft focus effect and adding emphasis to the foreground.
• Colorize grayscale images with a variety of techniques to create hand-tinted and sepiatone effects.
• Wrap a two-dimensional object around a three-dimensional one realistically.
• Use lighting effects and create cast shadows to further simulate three dimensions.
• Transform a photographic image into a painted one with brushes, filters, and blending modes.
• Combine multiple steps into one by saving them as actions.

Lesson 1: Working with Line Art

• Topic 1A: Cleaning Up Low Resolution Art
• Topic 1B: Changing Line Art Color