Event Details

Course Description
In this course, experienced Photoshop professionals will enhance their skills to work with web and video images more effectively. This course is an ideal combination of instructor-led demonstration and hands-on practice.
You will learn, step-by-step, the key techniques for working in Photoshop CS5. In addition to learning the key elements of the Photoshop interface, you will learn how to edit images with precise selection control, correct a wide range of lens-based errors, interactively transform images with the new Puppet Warp tool, and easily remove or replace image elements with the new Content-Aware Fill mode. You will cover new, powerful painting effects to artistically enhance images, and you will learn how to combine multiple exposures into a single image.

Who Needs to Attend:
Those involved in any area of digital media, including desktop publishing, multimedia design, web design, digital video editing, and other disciplines for which Photoshop is the industry standard

Prerequisites:
Practical working knowledge of Mac OS X
Photoshop Fundamentals: An Introduction to Photoshop or equivalent experience.
Course Outline:
Note: The curricula below comprise activities typically covered in a class at this skill level. The instructor may, at his/her discretion, adjust the lesson plan to meet the needs of the class.

*Lesson 1: How Digital Images work
Understanding image size and resolution
Understanding DPI and PPI
Understanding additive and subtractive colors
Understanding bit depth
The additive color model
Web-safe colors
Hexadecimal color codes
Web and video resolution
Video safe colors
Pixel aspect ratio and how it can affect your image

*Lesson 2: Vector Graphics
Understanding Vector Images
The Pen Tool
Vector Shapes and Masks
Using Vector Images in Video Editing applications (FCP, Premiere Pro)

*Lesson 3: Preparing Files for the Web
Selecting a web design workspace
Exporting HTML and images
Using the Zoomify feature
Creating a web gallery
PNGs, JPGs & GIFs- the right file type for the right job
Designing in Photoshop for Flash

*Lesson 4: Slices
Laying out a web page in Photoshop
Layer-based slices
Hyperlinks & rollovers (rollovers explained partly in Fireworks, Dreamweaver or Flash)

*Lesson 5: Video and Animation
Adding animation
Animating a layer style
The video timeline
Importing & exporting video files
Rotoscoping
Retouching video
Exporting Photoshop layers to your nonlinear editor
Using Photoshop with a video monitor

*Lesson 6: Vanishing Point
Setting up a Vanishing Point grid
Adding Planes to the Grid
Adjusting the angle of the grid
Export for After Effects (VPE)

*Lesson 7: Actions
Understanding Actions
Using Actions
Creating Actions
Batch Processing
Using Actions to create web galleries & PDF presentations

*Lesson 8: Designing graphics for video
Aspect ratio- square vs. nonsquare pixels
Previewing video images in Photoshop
Broadcast legal colors (Vectorscope and Waveform Monitor)
Understanding interlaced / Progressive frames
Action safe & title safe guides
Creating DVD menus in Photoshop (for Encore)

*Lesson 9: Device central
Designing for PDAs/smart phones
Previewing your image
Changing your device

*Lesson 10: Introduction to 3D Images
Getting Started
Creating a 3D shape from a layer
Manipulating 3D objects
Using the 3D panel to adjust lighting and surface texture
Merging two-dimensional layers onto 3D layers
Importing 3D files
Merging 3D layers to share the same 3D space
Adding a spot light
Painting on a 3D object
Using Repoussé to create 3D text
Creating a 3D postcard

Price: $1,095.00
Duration: 2 days
Time: 10am - 6pm

Contact: Cari Jones, Corporate Account Manager
Email: CariJ@fmctraining.com
Phone: 407-354-4866

FUTURE MEDIA CONCEPTS, INC., the nation's premier digital media training center, provides manufacturer-authorized training in all areas of digital media including digital video and film editing, web design and development, sound design, DVD authoring, 3D animation, motion graphics, desktop publishing, architectural and mechanical design and Mac IT. FMC is an authorized training provider for Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, Avid, Boris FX, Digidesign, NewTek and Softimage. Founded in 1994, FMC has training centers located in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Orlando, Chicago and Dubai. www.fmctraining.com