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New for spring 2003
* FrontPage 2002 online course
* Photograph Restoration and Retouching with Photoshop
* Web Graphics and Animation Workshop

These courses will only be taught at Community Education in spring 2003! They will not be offered again.

FrontPage 2002 Online Course
Learn at your convenience. This six week course is offered entirely on the Internet using Blackboard. Students should be familiar with Windows basics. For questions about the delivery of the class, contact Natalie at nickoln@nku.edu.

Class outline:

  • Introducing FrontPage 2002
  • Creating a website and a web page
  • Using lists, hyperlinks, pictures, and the tasks list
  • Creating tables and frames in a web page
  • Using pictures, shared borders, and themes
  • Publishing a website

What you need:

  • ability to download course files from the web onto your computer
  • FrontPage 2002
  • Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher
  • Microsoft Office

Textbook. Microsoft FrontPage 2002: Comprehensive by Jessica Evans. New Perspectives series. Course Technology, c2002. Check out Course Technology's website at: www.course.com.

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Photograph Restoration and Retouching with Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop is the image-editing program of choice for anyone in print publishing, web design, or multimedia production.

This is not an introductory class. You must be comfortable with the fundamentals of Photoshop, know where the tools are and what they do, and common tasks, such as how to activate a layer. Completion of Photoshop Basics is highly recommended.

The course covers the restoration and retouching of photographs, both historical and contemporary. It is geared toward the dedicated amateur or professional photographer, teacher, librarian, designer, or anyone interested in correcting images that have problems, such as:

  • poor exposure
  • bad color balance
  • distracting background
  • the inevitable wrinkle, pimple, or extra pounds.

The course is structured into four primary areas as presented in the textbook.

  1. brief overview of Photoshop essentials including file organization and the tools a retoucher uses most
  2. work with tone, contrast, exposure, and color correction
  3. remove dust and mold and repair damage
  4. professional portrait and fashion retouching techniques.

Photoshop list price: $609.00. Discounts and educational version available.

Students should be familiar with Windows and/or Macintosh basics. Photoshop works equally well, and is pretty much identical, on Windows and Macintosh platforms.

Textbook. Photoshop Restoration & Retouching by Katrin Eismann. Que Publishing, 2001. Check out Ms. Eismann's website that accompanies the book at: www.digitalretouch.org.

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Web Graphics and Animation Workshop

16 hours total. The class is offered on Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on May 15, 22, 29, and June 5. This is the only time this class will be offered at Community Education.

The class covers Photoshop, Image Ready, Fireworks, and Flash.

Textbooks:

  1. Photoshop 6/ImageReady 3 Hands-On Training by Lynda Weinman and Jan Kabili.
  2. Flash 5 Hands-on Training by Kymberlee Weil and Garo Green.

Web Graphics 101 (lecture)

  • Typography, readability vs. legibility, text alignment
  • Monitor resolution
  • Bit depth
  • Color; web-safe colors
  • Scanning and digital cameras; clip art
  • Web graphics file formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG).
Web Graphics Editors and Editing:
Part one: Photoshop
  • Introduction to using Photoshop for the web (lecture)
  • Editing a digital photo
  • Making selections: marquee and lasso tools; the magic wand
  • Enhancing selections: feather, the select menu
  • Adjusting image settings
  • Photoshop layers
  • Photoshop type
  • Photoshop filters
  • Optimizing for the web

Part two: Image Ready

  • Transparent GIFS
  • Image maps
  • Slicing
  • Rollovers
  • Layer-based rollovers
  • Animated GIFs
  • Importing/exporting

Part three: Fireworks

  • Introduction to Fireworks (lecture)
  • Fireworks overview
  • Fireworks tools
  • Creating, editing, and selecting vector objects/shapes
  • Trim and Fit Canvas
  • Changing document size and color
  • Using the styles library
  • Text editing
  • Layers and Frames. Hotspots and Slices
  • Create a ready-made button rollover
  • Create 2-State Button Rollovers

Part four: Flash

  • Introduction to Flash (lecture)
  • Animations with Flash
  • Interactivity with Flash

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