Adobe Photoshop CS2: Web Design ACE Edition Study Guide

1-4188-8843-5 © 2007 Publish date: April 18, 2006 162 pages

 

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CBT Planet has the Photoshop CS2: Web Design ACE Edition study guide to help you master your ACE certification. Use this highly-rated course to build on your skills you learned in the basic and advanced courses. This Photoshop CS2: Web Design ACE Edition courseware has earned a 4.9/5.0 in overall quality rating from ProCert Labs.

By following this manual, you will learn advanced techniques for optimizing images for use on the Internet. You will also study the advantages that slicing techniques offer as well as how links are created and rollover effects are used in Web images.

Finally, the book shows you how to automate various Internet tasks, how to create droplets and photo galleries, as well as how to make animations.

Like all of CBT Planet's offerings of computer training books, this study guide can be used alone or with another training program. It features five comprehensive units written by a Photoshop expert. All units are logical and flow from topic to topic. The Photoshop CS2: Web Design ACE Edition closely follows the Adobe Certified Expert exam objectives so that you are completely ready to face the exam.

In addition, we have bundled this with the CertBlaster exam prep software as an added bonus. You'll be completely ready to succeed in the exam room and in the workplace using Photoshop CS2.

Course Objectives

By following this courseware, you will learn to downsample and trim your images to decrease their file size, optimize images for Web use and for target size, and use transparency and simulated transparency.

Your web page layouts skills will include the ability to align elements, create, edit, and optimize image slices, and work with sliced images. You'll work with image maps, rollovers, droplets, photo galleries, and animations.

Course Contents

Unit 1 covers optimizing web images

• Web image sizes
• Optimization techniques
• Fine tuning quality
• Transparency

Unit 2 discusses slicing images

• Full page designs
• Basic slicing
• Advanced slicing
• How to export web pages

Unit 3 goes over links and rollover effects

• Links and status bar messages
• Image maps
• Rollovers

Unit 4 covers automating Web tasks

• Color and size adjustments
• Droplets
• Photo galleries
• Data-driven graphics

Unit 5 covers animation

• How to create animations
• Animation output options