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Adobe Photoshop is the image-editing program of choice for anyone in print publishing, web design, or multimedia production. Discover the basics of bitmap editing, Photoshop layers and filters, selections, fix imperfections in an image, and work with colors.
Photoshop ships with ImageReady, which lets you tailor images and graphics specifically for the web by creating buttons, slices, rollovers, and animations. Photoshop and ImageReady share similar tools and features, such as the toolbox and most palettes. Most features work identically, while some are located in different parts of the work area. In ImageReady you can optimize images, create a button for a web page, generate slices in a document, create a rollover, create basic animation, add tweening and frame delay.
Photoshop list price: $609.00. Discounts and educational version available. Photoshop 7 is now available. Check out Evany Thomas's Webmonkey Photoshop 7 overview. If you can use version 6, you should have no trouble upgrading to version 7.
Students should be familiar with Windows and/or Macintosh basics. Photoshop and ImageReady work equally well on Windows and Macintosh platforms.
| Textbook. Adobe Photoshop 6.0: Introductory Course by Elizabeth Eisner Reding. Design professional edition. Course Technology, c2001. Check out Course Technology's website at: www.course.com. Also includes a brief handout detailing how to edit a scanned photograph. |  |
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.
- brief overview of Photoshop essentials including file organization and the tools a retoucher uses most
- work with tone, contrast, exposure, and color correction
- remove dust and mold and repair damage
- 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.
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Textbook. Photoshop Restoration & Retouching by Katrin Eismann. Que Publishing, 2001. Check out Ms. Eismann's website that accompanies the book at: www.digitalretouch.org. |
Photoshop Elements
If you cannot afford the full version of Photoshop, check out Adobe Photoshop Elements. Elements includes about 90 percent of the features found in Photoshop. Elements does not support CMYK color space or individual color channel editing, which most people do not make use of anyway.
Elements does offer several tools Photoshop does not, such as a built-in file browser, a stitching tool for panoramic images, and redeye removal. Elements has a interface very much like Photoshop, but adds a user-friendly toolbar to provide quick access to filters, effects, and other tools.
Elements list price: $99.00.
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