Photoshop for Web Graphics
Creating Web Graphics
- Producing effective banners
- Making buttons from images
- Vignetting or dissolving edges on images
- Combining images into a photo montage
- Creating navigational bars
- Saving and optimizing images properly
- Slicing an image and saving the HTML code
- Acquiring images from the web, digital cameras, or other sources
- Creating rollovers
- Cropping and trimming an image
- Creating transparent backgronds
- Creating the image for a solid or patterned web background
- Scanning an image for the web
- Stylizing type
- Using vector shapes to create images
- Generating titled web backgrounds
- Scaling and sharpening images
- Batch processing files
- Automating repeated tasks
- Producing motion and simple animations
Using Color in Web Graphics
- Understanding the RGB color mode, color tables and web safe
- Colorizing a grayscale to create a navigational bar
- Using color reduction to get the smallest file size
- Correcting overall color in a photo for the web
- Adjusting, replacing and changing colors
Information compiled and updated by
Design Desk on 10/08/2009
Photoshop for Photographers
Editing and Retouching an Image
- Using the editing tools to sharpen, blur, dodge, and burn
- Enhancing facial features
- Eliminating imperfections, scratches and dust
- Subduing or blurring the background to change focal point
- Creating a sepiatone look
Modifying and Editing Images
- Simulating motion in a photo
- Removing unwanted objects
- Replacing part of an image
- Creating vignettes and silhouetting images
- Creating a soften focus effect
- Combining photos using layer masks
- Changing the directional lighting
- Cropping, resizing and resampling an image
- Reducing the film grain effect
Color Correcting an Image
- Understanding Color Management
- Calibrating your monitor
- Adjusting the highlight, shadow and mid-tones of an image using levels
- Changing the tonal range of an image using curves
- Correcting the image's overall color balance
- Modifying or replacing color in selected areas
- Increasing and decreasing exposure in selected areas
- Storing all color correcting information in adjustment layers
- Placing all cloning and image editing on separate layers
- Understanding the effects of sharpening an image
- Printing and producing consistent color
Photoshop for Digital Cameras
Working with a Digital Camera
- Preparing images for the web or color printer
- Resizing and resampling images for different usages
- Understanding the importance of exposure
- Working with minimal lighting situations
- Comparing digital images to 35mm images
- Understanding the capabilities of different digital cameras
Modifying and Editing Images
- Sharpening or blurring areas of the image
- Increasing or decreasing exposure using blending modes
- Using the toning tools to dodge and burn
- Removing unwanted objectes
- Replacing parts of an image
- Adding simple text to an image
- Joining a sequence of photos into one continuous image
- Blurring and altering backgrounds
- Retouching images
- Correcting imperfections in your images
- Taking images and then combining them into a montage
Color Correcting an Image
- Understanding Color Management
- Calibrating your monitor
- Adjusting the highlight, shadow and mid-tones of the image
- Changing the tonal range of an image using curves
- Correcting the image's overall color balance
- Modifying or replacing color in selected areas
- Increasing and decreasing exposure in selected areas
- Storing all color correcting information in adjustment layers
- Placing all cloning and image editing on separate layers
- Understanding the effects of sharpening an image
- Producing and printing consistent color