Unit 1: INTRODUCTION TO ADOBE PHOTOSHOP
• About Photoshop
• Navigating Photoshop
• Menus and panels
• Opening new files
• Opening existing files
Unite 2: GETTING STARTED WITH PHOTOSHOP
• Exploring the Toolbox
• The New CS4 Applications Bar & the Options Bar
• Exploring Panels & Menus
• Creating & Viewing a New Document
• Customizing the Interface
• Setting Preferences
Unit 3: WORKING WITH IMAGES
• Zooming & Panning an Image
• Working with Multiple Images, Rulers, Guides & Grids
• Undoing Steps with History
• Adjusting Color with the New Adjustments Panel
• The New Masks Panel & Vibrance Color Correction Command
• The New Note Tool & the Save for Web & Devices Interface
• The New Auto-Blend & Auto-Align Layers Commands
• The New 3D Commands
Unit 4: RESIZING & CROPPING IMAGES
• Understanding Pixels & Resolution
• The Image Size Command
• Interpolation Options
• Resizing for Print & Web
• Cropping & Straightening an Image
• Adjusting Canvas Size & Canvas Rotation
Unit 5: WORKING WITH BASIC SELECTIONS
• Selecting with the Elliptical Marquee Tool
• Using the Magic Wand & Free Transform Tool
• Selecting with the Regular & Polygonal Lasso Tools
• Combining Selections
• Using the Magnetic Lasso Tool
• Using the Quick Selection Tool & Refine Edge
• Modifying Selections
Unit 6: GETTING STARTED WITH LAYERS
• Understanding the Background Layer
• Creating, Selecting, Linking & Deleting Layers
• Locking & Merging Layers
• Copying Layers, Using Perspective & Layer Styles
• Filling & Grouping Layers
• Introduction to Blending Modes
• Blending Modes, Opacity & Fill
• Creating & Modifying Text
Unit 7: PAINTING IN PHOTOSHOP
• Using the Brush Tool
• Working with Colors & Swatches
• Creating & Using Gradients
• Creating & Working with Brushes
• Using the Pencil & Eraser Tools
• Painting with Selections
Unit 8: PHOTO RETOUCHING
• The Red Eye Tool
• The Clone Stamp Tool
• The Patch Tool & the Healing Brush Tool
• The Spot Healing Brush Tool
• The Color Replacement Tool
• The Toning & Focus Tools
• Painting with History
Unit 9: INTRODUCTION TO COLOR CORRECTION
• Color Spaces & Color Modes
• The Variations Command
• The Auto Commands
• Adjusting Levels
• Adjust Curves, Non-Destructively, with Adjustment Layers
Unit 10: USING QUICK MASK MODE
• Quick Mask Options
• Painting a Selection
• Saving & Removing a Selection from the Background
Unit 11: WORKING WITH THE PEN TOOL
• Understanding Paths & the Pen Tool
• Creating Straight & Curved Paths
• Creating Combo Paths
• Creating a Clipping Path
Unit 12: CREATING SPECIAL EFFECTS
• Getting Started with Photoshop Filters
• Smart Filters
• Creating Text Effects
• Applying Gradients to Text
Unit 13: EXPORTING YOUR WORK
• Saving with Different File Formats
• Saving for Web & Devices
• Printing Options
• Credits
Unit 1: GETTING STARTED WITH COREL DRAW
• Introduction to Corel Draw
• Features of Corel Draw
• Corel Draw Interface
• Tool Box
• Moving from Adobe Illustrator to Corel Draw
• Common Tasks
Unit 2: DRAWING AND COLORING
• Introduction
• Selecting Objects
• Creating Basic Shapes
• Reshaping Objects
• Organizing objects
• Applying color fills and Outlines
Unit 3: MASTERING WITH TEXT
• Introduction
• Text Tool
• Artistic and paragraph text
• Formatting Text
• Embedding Objects into text
• Wrapping Text around Object
• Linking Text to Objects
Unit 4: APPLYING EFFECTS
• Introduction
• Power of Blends
• Distortion
• Contour Effects
• Envelopes
• Lens effects
• Transparency
• Creating Depth Effects
• Power Clips
Unit 5: WORKING WITH BITMAP COMMANDS
• Introduction
• Working with Bitmaps
• Editing Bitmaps
• Applying effects on Bitmaps
• Printing
Unit 6: COREL DRAW- WEB RESOURCES
• Introduction
• Internet Tool bar
• Setting your webpage
• Exporting files
• Creating buttons with rollover effects
Unit 1: GETTING TO KNOW THE WORKSPACE
• Choosing a workspace
• Opening a file
• The document window
• Using Artboards
• Navigating multiple artboards
• Using the new Artboards panel
• Creating New Artboards
• Switching screen modes
• Changing your view
• Preview versus Outlines
• Zooming and scrolling
• Scrolling with the Hand tool
• Changing views with the Navigator panel
• The Tools panel
• Using tools and panels
• The Control panel
• Moving the Control panel
• Panel groups and the dock
• Custom workspaces
• Saving workspaces
• Using the Manage Workspaces dialog box
Unit 2: ILLUSTRATOR ESSENTIALS
• Using the shape tools
• Repositioning and visually resizing the rectangle
• Finding or changing the shape’s dimensions using the Transform panel
• Rotating and shearing using the Transform panel
• Constraining a shape
• Entering exact dimensions
• Selecting artwork
• Helpful keyboard shortcuts for selections
• The selection tools
• Using shape and transform tools to create artwork
• Using the transform tools
• Adding a fill color
• Viewing in Outline view
• Using layers when building an illustration
• Creating a new blank layer
• Cutting and pasting objects
• Moving objects from one layer to another
Unit 3: ADDING COLOR
• Basics of the Appearance panel
• Changing colors
• Adding Effects
• Creating a colorful illustration
• Using Live Paint
• Adding a symbol to your artwork
• Expanding the symbol
• Saving swatches
• What is a Global Color?
• Selecting the Same color
• Saving a set of colors as a group
• Creating a color group from selected colors
• Using the Color panel
• Adding Pantone colors
Unit 4: WORKING WITH THE DRAWING TOOLS
• Working with the Pen tool
• Drawing straight lines
• Drawing curved lines
• Drawing hinged curves
• Drawing curved lines to straight lines
• Drawing straight lines to curved lines
• Shape Tools
• Using the Eraser tool
• Editing existing paths
• Adding and removing points
• Cutting and joining paths
• Working with Live Trace
• Expanding Live Traced artwork
• Working with Live Paint
• Combining shapes using the new Shape Builder tool
• Subtracting with the Shape Builder tool
Unit 5: WORKING WITH TEXT
• Formatting type
• Paragraph formatting
• Formatting imported type
• Paragraph and character styles
• Text on a path
• Warping text
• Text in a shape
• Creating outlines
• Check spelling
• Find and Replace
Unit 6: Working with Symbols
• Cleaning out the symbol library
• Creating symbols
• Editing symbols
• Importing a symbol library
• Using the symbol sprayer tools
• Editing nested symbols
• Replacing symbols
Unit 7: SAVING AND EXPORTING
• Saving using the AI file format
• Saving an illustration with layers
• Saving a layered PDF
• Integration with other applications
• Saving as EPS
• Save for Web
Unit 8: WHATS NEW
• Getting into perspective
• Defining the grid
• Changing the plane
• Using the Perspective Selection tool
• Creating shapes with the
• Shape Builder tool
• To combine shapes
• To delete shapes
• To divide overlapping shapes
• New Brush Controls
• Advanced drawing controls
• Artboard panel
• Touch Type Tool
• Images in Brushes
• Font Search
• Font Sync
• Multiple-file place
• CSS Extraction
• Color Sync
• Area and Point Type Converion
• File packaging
• On-art free transform