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Adobe Photoshop CS4 for the Web

by Geoff Blake
105 lessons16 chapters7 hReleased 20103 free
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Photoshop, the de facto graphics application in the world of print design, turns its sights on web design! In this course, Geoff Blake will demonstrate many practical and useful techniques for working with Photoshop in a web design capacity. You\'ll learn the fundamentals of web design, including HTML and CSS basics, the challenges of web browsers, and how monitor resolution affects design. Geoff will also demonstrate how to coordinate Photoshop and Dreamweaver so that you can edit layout images in Photoshop. You\'ll master Photoshop selections, how to use layers to organize your layouts, and how color works in an online environment. Finally, you\'ll construct an entire layout from scratch in Photoshop and discover techniques for exporting it for online use. To begin learning today, simply click on the movie links.

Course content

Introduction & Setting Up3 lessons
Internet & Web Design Fundamentals5 lessons
Photoshop Basics10 lessons
Getting Around4 lessons
Understanding Web File Formats6 lessons
Resizing Images for Web Output3 lessons
Working with Selections10 lessons
Organizing Web Projects with Layers15 lessons
Color on the Web4 lessons
Optimizing Images5 lessons
Creating Backgrounds & Textures3 lessons
Building a Full Layout8 lessons
Adding Content to the Layout10 lessons
Slicing a Photoshop Layout9 lessons
Exporting a Photoshop Layout8 lessons
Conclusion2 lessons