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Adobe Training Description
In this course, you?ll learn skills that go beyond those covered in the Photoshop® 7.0: Level 1 course. You?ll further your understanding of isolating image areas by creating and saving masks with specialized tools, commands, modes, and layer elements. You?ll learn how to use vector paths for a variety of purposes, including masking, clipping paths, and illustration. You?ll also learn to create and apply creative elements such as gradients, patterns, and color overlays, and to save them along with effects in easy-to-apply layer styles. When you?ve completed the course, you?ll have a firm grasp on Photoshop concepts that are applicable to almost every facet of using the application, including Web design, preparing photographic images for printing, and illustration.
Adobe Training Certification
Photoshop® 7.0: Level 2 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.
Adobe Training Prerequisites
To ensure your success, we recommend you first take the following course or have equivalent knowledge:
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Delivery Method
Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.
Benefits
After completing this course, students will be able to use advanced techniques to isolate image areas with precision and efficiency. Students will be able to use several techniques to create complex masks. Students will also use layer styles to apply effects, colors, patterns, and gradients efficiently.
Target Student
This course is designed for students who have completed the Photoshop® 7.0: Level 1 course, or who have equivalent knowledge, and who want to learn additional, more advanced Photoshop techniques.
Hardware/Software Requirements
You will need
- An Intel Pentium class III or 4 processor.
- Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows NT with Service Pack 6a, Windows 2000 with Service Pack 2, or Windows XP.
- At least 128 MB of RAM (192 MB recommended).
- At least 280 MB of free hard-disk space to install software, and an additional 25 MB to run the course.
- A color monitor with 256-color (8-bit) or greater video card (24-bit color recommended).
- A mouse or compatible tracking device.
- A CD-ROM drive.
- Adobe® Photoshop® 7.0 and Adobe ImageReady 7.0.
Performance-Based Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Use Quick Mask mode, alpha channels, and layer masks to isolate image areas. Create clipping groups to use one layer?s contents to mask another?s.
- Create vector paths as tools for selecting images, for creating transparent areas in images to be used with other applications, and for drawing shapes.
- Create color swatches, gradients, and patterns, all of which can be saved and loaded in sets for convenience.
- Create layer styles that can apply effects, colors, patterns, and gradients in one step.
- Use the Background Eraser and the Extract command to create complex masks quickly and accurately, even for images with indistinct edges and very fine details.
What"s Next
- After completing this course, students can move on to any or all of the following courses:
- Photoshop 7.0: Web Production
- Photoshop 7.0: Artistic Effects
- Photoshop 7.0: Color Correction and Printing
Adobe Training Course duration
1 Day
Adobe Training Course outline
Lesson 1: Masking and Layers
- Topic 1A: Editing Quick Masks and Alpha Channels
- Topic 1B: Layer Masks
- Topic 1C: Grayscale Masking
- Topic 1D: Clipping Groups
Lesson 2: Vector Paths
- Topic 2A: Vector Path Concepts
- Topic 2B: Creating Vector Paths
- Topic 2C: Editing Paths
- Topic 2D: Using Paths for Masking
Lesson 3: Swatches, Gradients, Patterns
- Topic 3A: Swatches
- Topic 3B: Gradients
- Topic 3C: Patterns
Lesson 4: Layer Types and Styles
- Topic 4A: Fill Layers
- Topic 4B: Drawing and Painting Shapes
- Topic 4C: Layer Styles
Lesson 5: Advanced Masking
- Topic 5A: The Background Eraser
- Topic 5B: The Extract Command
Appendix A: Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) Program®
- Adobe® Photoshop® 7.0 ACE Exam Objectives
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