Adobe Photoshop CS2: Color Printing ACE Edition Study Guide

1-4188-8846-X © 2007 Publish date: April 18, 2006 196 pages

 

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CBT Planet brings you another one of our exciting computer training books, the Photoshop CS2: Color Printing ACE Edition study guide.

This highly-rated course has a ranking of 4.9/5.0 in overall quality from the professionals at ProCert Labs. You'll use the Photoshop CS2: Color Printing ACE Edition courseware to build upon the knowledge you acquired after studying the basic and advanced Photoshop CS2 courses. You will learn the basics of color management required for printing, as well as techniques used to enhance photographic images. In addition, you'll study color correction, color adjustment techniques, and sharpening. You'll also work with grayscale images and applying spot colors and duotones to an image.

We're proud of the features that this Photoshop CS2: Color Printing ACE Edition courseware is loaded with including expert authoring, high-quality instruction, section reviews, and interactive exercises. It also integrates the Adobe Certified Expert exam objectives so that you will learn what you need in order to prepare yourself for passing the ACE exam. As if that's not enough to get you ready for success in the exam room, we've even included CertBlaster exam prep software to further assist you in mastering the material.

After you've completed the courseware, keep the study guide as a valuable reference tool that you can refer to on an ongoing basis as you work within Photoshop CS2.

Course Objectives

You'll learn to calibrate and profile monitors, work with images with color profiles that are different from the current color space, and how to proof image colors on screen.

The course discusses maximizing digital image quality, using photo filters, adjusting image colors, using filters for counteracting lens distortions and various effects, merging images into panoramas, color correction principles, shadows and highlights, color values, maximizing contrast, retouching color and contrast by hand, and replacing specific colors.

You'll also be able to specify color settings, separate images into CMYK, correct colors, and sharpen images. You'll learn about using the Channel Mixer, using spot channels, and converting grayscale images into duotone images.

Course Contents

Unit 1 covers color management

• Color management basics
• Calibration
• Color space conversion
• Printing

Unit 2 discusses photographic techniques

• Photo quality
• Adjustments
• Lens adjustments
• Merging images

Unit 3 goes over RGB image adjustments

• Color correction concepts
• Color measurements
• Automatic adjustments
• Curves adjustments
• Retouching color
• Color replacement

Unit 4 covers CMYK separations

• Prepress color settings
• How to create color separations
• CMYK image adjustments
• Sharpening

Unit 5 covers grayscale and spot colors

• Grayscale conversion
• Spot color images
• Duotones