ExpertRating Online Photoshop Course - $99.99

Photoshop CS2 is the current and primary market leader for commercial bitmap and image manipulation.

Adobe Photoshop, or simply Photoshop, is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems. Photoshop CS2 contains some amazing new and improved features which include multitasking, automated batch processing, 32-bit High Dynamic Range (HDR) support and many more such features. This valuable tool helps you to be more efficient with tools editing, processing and file handling. One of the most prominent features of Photoshop CS is its ability to load unprocessed camera images into the Camera Raw module.

Photoshop CS2 contains some powerful editing tools, amazing compositing capabilities, and tools to enhance your productivity and workflow. The ExpertRating Photoshop CS2 Certification course will provide wings to your creativity by making you acquainted with this useful tool for digital photographers and graphic designers.

ExpertRating Online Photoshop Course (CS2-II) Coverage (6 weeks program)

Week One

Wednesday - Lesson 01

After you've learned how to do basic editing in Photoshop, the most critical skill you can learn is how to use layers. Knowing how to do this opens a whole new world of opportunities for fine-tuning your images whenever you wish. Unlike single layer images, an image with layers can be edited nondestructively at any point. This means you don't have to start over again if you make a mistake or need to change something. In this opening lesson, you'll learn what layers are and how to work with the Layers palette to create, view, or hide layers

Friday - Lesson 02

Now it's time to actually start using layers. However, to use them effectively, you need to know how you can manipulate them. So, in this lesson students will practice moving, copying, locking, dragging, and dropping layers in multiple images. You'll see how you can use layers to make an area of a photo pop out from the photo itself. This is a technique called screening back an image, and you'll enjoy using it.

Week Two

Wednesday - Lesson 03

This lesson is a student favorite. You'll learn how to apply special effects (called Layer Styles) such as drop shadows and embossing so that they can be altered at any time. You'll also get to play with some filters—and discover how you can structure an image project to add filters but still have the flexibility to back off and remove the filters at a later time. By altering the blend mode of an image, you can create either very wild graphics or make simple value corrections to an image.

Friday - Lesson 04

Did the dog eat grandmother's portrait? Or did time and water do that damage? No matter. Using layers makes it easier than ever before to restore some of your treasured family heritage. You'll get ample practice plus links to other sites on the Web that focus on image restoration. Once again, this lesson will focus on nondestructive editing—working in layers so that you can always change your mind about a correction without having to begin again.

Week Three

Wednesday - Lesson 05-

If you use the Levels command to alter the values in an image and then decide a week or so later that you made the image too dark, you're stuck. Each time you edit the Levels in an image, you lose quality. But what if there were a way to edit the Levels as much as you want and not hurt the image quality at all? There is! In this lesson, you'll discover Adjustment Layers. An adjustment layer makes no permanent change to an image—and you can stack them up as you wish. It's more nondestructive editing, and it's a technique that you'll wish you'd learned earlier. You won't ever want to apply regular Levels commands to an image again.

Friday - Lesson 06

Layer masks are another way that Photoshop lets you have your cake and eat it too. If you bring a picture of little Johnny onto a new background image and you erase all the stuff that was in Johnny's original background, what happens if you later decided you just have to have that red ball you got rid of a week ago? You'd better hope you have the original image around somewhere. And then you are in for a lot more work. However, you're going to find out about layer masks. If you use a layer mask, you will keep every pixel that's in the original image, but just hide the parts of the original that you no longer wish to see. If you change your mind about what you need to see, it's as easy as painting over some black pixels in the layer mask with white paint.

Week Four

Wednesday - Lesson 07

To help you see how far you've come, this lesson will reintroduce some of the compositing projects from the Introduction to Photoshop course. You'll work with Ian and the onions again and learn how you can do these projects nondestructively using layers and layer masking. If you prefer, you can work on your own images instead.

Friday - Lesson 08

Do you like the look of double-exposed images? Would you enjoy creating a seamless composite of your vacation images? Are you into scrap-booking? If so, then this is your lesson! It's one of the favorites in the whole course. Up to now, you have masked images so that you can either see the image in the layer or not. Now, you'll learn how you can let the images partially show. This can give you effects like placing a girl into the ocean so you can see her swimsuit a short ways under the water. You'll also get the chance to use your own images for a special project.

Week Five

Wednesday - Lesson 09

Photoshop has some special layers that let you create patterns, gradients, or solid colors and change them easily, any time you want. You'll see how easy it is to alter the look of a complex border or change composites. You'll also learn some excellent techniques to create seamless patterns, which is something that many students really enjoy.

Friday - Lesson 10

Now that you've learned how to move Johnny to a new background, what happens if you want to make Johnny's image a bit lighter, but you don't want to make the new background lighter at the same time? You could make a complex selection, of course, but You'll see that there's an easier way. It's called a clipping mask, and it lets you make any changes you want to Johnny's layer without affecting the layers below Johnny at all. It's a digital version of spreading glitter onto a paper that has a design in glue—the glitter only sticks to the glue. In this case, the new layers only stick to the base layer in the clipping mask.

Week Six

Wednesday - Lesson 11

Smart Objects are the most awesome and significant innovation in Photoshop since the Layers feature was introduced. In this lesson, you'll learn how to take advantage of them. One of the most exciting things you can do with a Smart Object is place a RAW format photo in them. If you take RAW digital photos, you'll be totally delighted at how easy it is to correct and composite a photo but still be able to go back any time you want and change the decisions you made about white balance or exposure. Even if you don't shoot RAW, you'll love the way Smart Objects let you make a protected package out of an image—and prepare you to resize or transform images nondestructively.

Friday - Lesson 12

It's taken a long time to reach the last lesson, but here you'll put together everything you've learned in the course as you see how you can make layers in an image larger or smaller, rotate them, or use the incredible new Warp command. You'll be able to reverse any of these changes if you make them into Smart Object layers—you can nondestructively change your mind as often as you need, and any time you want. The fun project here is learning to create a pear that, when cut open, reveals a new fruit—the pearnge (a pear with an orange inside of it). The lesson will finish up with another chance for you to use your newfound skills with a major project on your own images.

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