Adobe Photoshop CS2: Advanced Study Guide

1-4188-4810-7 © 2006 Publish date: August 29, 2005 166 pages

 

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CBT Planet is proud to bring you this Adobe Photoshop CS2 Advanced study guide. You can use this course to build on the concepts and skills you learned from the Adobe Photoshop CS2: Basic course. You'll learn advanced concepts and techniques and build your knowledge of how to best use Photoshop to create and edit professional looking images.

By carefully following the Adobe Photoshop CS2 Advanced courseware, you will learn advanced skills such as creating and using masks and vector paths, and creating fills and overlays for the enhancement of images. Everything is clearly organized, making study logical and progressive. The book is broken down into five units with review questions and exercises to reinforce the subject matter.

Our computer training books are designed as stand alone course materials however they can also be used to complement your studies while using other training methods.

The Adobe Photoshop CS2 Advanced courseware also covers the automation of repetitive tasks, applying creative special effects to images, and applying effects to text. This training manual is ideal for quick scanning during your studies and for use afterwards as an excellent reference book when using Photoshop CS2. Interactive exercises are included to ensure your learning.

Course Objectives

Upon completing the study guide you will know how to add colors to the Swatches palette as well as how to apply colors to selections and as fill layers. You'll work with patterns and gradients and be able to use overlay layer styles.

We'll show you how to paint in Quick Mask mode as well as in an alpha channel to specify selections, create layer masks, create grayscale masks, and use clipping masks. You'll use path tools and commands for creating and editing vector and clipping paths as well as work with paths in the creation of vector-based artwork.

The courseware covers painting tools, filters, and blending modes, how to warp text and image layers, how to group layers and create Smart Objects, and how to create layer comps.

Finally you'll learn how the Actions palette is used to record, play, and edit actions, how to display actions as buttons, how to organize actions into action sets, and how to customize keyboard shortcuts and menus.

Course Contents

Unit 1 covers masking

• How to mask channels
• Layer masks
• Grayscale masks
• Clipping layers

Unit 2 discusses vector paths

• How to create vector paths
• How to edit vector paths
• Vector masks
• Type paths

Unit 3 goes over fills and overlays

• How to fill image areas
• Creative fill types
• Layer overlays

Unit 4 covers automating with actions

• Actions
• How to organize actions

Unit 5 covers creative images

• Using layer comps
• How to distort type
• Painted styled effects