Course Content
Digital Images
- RGB and CMYK color models
- Additive and subtractive
- Image size vs. resolution
- Pixel aspect ratio
- Bits per channel
- Alpha channel
Vector Graphics
- Vector images
- Pen tool
- Vector shapes and masks
- Using vector images in video editing applications (FCP and Premiere Pro)
- Using paths from Photoshop in after effects
Preparing Files for the Web
- Selecting a web design workspace
- Exporting HTML and images
- Using the Zoomify feature
- Creating a web gallery
- Saving your files for the web
- PNGs, JPGs, and GIFs
- Designing in Photoshop for Flash
Slices
- Laying out a web page in Photoshop
- Layer-based slices
- Hyperlinks and rollovers
- Fireworks, Dreamweaver, or Flash
Animation
- Frame-based animation
- Timeline-based animation
- Animating a layer
- Animating a layer style
- Exporting your animation
Editing Video
- Creating a video project
- Video timeline
- Importing and exporting video files
- Rotoscoping
- Retouching video
- Creating effects
- Transitions
- Adding Audio
- Rendering your video
- Using Photoshop layers in your nonlinear editor
- Using Photoshop with a video monitor
Vanishing Point
- Setting up a vanishing point grid
- Adding planes to the grid
- Adjusting the angle of the grid
- Exporting for after effects
Actions
- Using actions
- Creating actions
- Batch processing
- Using actions to create web galleries and PDF presentations
- Using actions to modify files for your video projects
Designing Graphics for Video
- Square vs. nonsquare pixels
- Previewing video images in Photoshop
- Broadcast legal colors
- Vectorscope and Waveform Monitor
- Interlaced and progressive frames
- Action safe and title safe guides
- Creating DVD menus in Photoshop
- Encore
Device Central
- Designing for PDAs and smart phones
- Previewing your image
- Changing your device
3D Images
- Creating a 3D shape from a layer
- Manipulating 3D objects
- Adding 3D objects
- Merging 3D layers to share the same 3D space
- Lighting a 3D scene
- Applying materials
- Creating custom materials
- Painting on a 3D object
- Using Repouss to create 3D text
- Using your 3D file in after effects
- Rendering a 3D scene
