Photoshop Advanced: Web and Video

This 2-day course provides a thorough overview for experienced users who wish to further their effectiveness on Photoshop. This class is aimed at the Photoshop professional who needs to enhance their knowledge to work with web and video images more effectively. This course is an ideal combination of instructor-led demonstration and hands-on practice.

• 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
• Photographers and artists who work with photographs

Photoshop Fundamentals: An Introduction to Photoshop class or equivalent experience. 

Lesson 1: Understanding How Digital Images Work

• Understanding RGB and CMYK color models (additive and Subtractive)
• Image size Vs. Resolution - What’s the difference?
• Pixel Aspect Ratio - Are all pixels square?
• Bits per channel - what does that mean?
• Alpha Channel - Why is this important to us?

Lesson 2: Vector Graphics

• Understanding Vector Images
• The Pen Tool
• Vector Shapes and Masks
• Using Vector Images in Video Editing applications (FCP, Premiere Pro)
• Using paths from Photoshop in After Effects

Lesson 3: Preparing Files for the Web

• Selecting a web design workspace
• Exporting HTML and images
• Using the Zoomify feature
• Creating a web gallery
• Save your files for the web
• 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: Animation

• Understanding animation
• Frame-based animation
• Timeline-based animation
• Animating a layer
• Animating a layer style
• Exporting your animation

Lesson 6: Editing Video

• Creating a video project
• The video timeline
• Importing & exporting video files
• Rotoscoping
• Retouching video
• Creating effects
• Transitions
• Adding Audio
• Rendering your video
• Using Photoshop layers in your nonlinear editor
• Using Photoshop with a video monitor

Lesson 7: Vanishing Point

• Setting up a Vanishing Point grid
• Adding Planes to the Grid
• Adjusting the angle of the grid
• Export for After Effects

Lesson 8: Actions

• Understanding Actions
• Using Actions
• Creating Actions
• Batch Processing
• Using Actions to create web galleries & PDF presentations
• Using Actions to modify files for your video projects

Lesson 9: 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 10: Device Central

• Designing for PDAs/smart phones
• Previewing your image
• Changing your device

Lesson 11: Introduction to 3D Images

• Creating a 3D shape from a layer
• Manipulating 3D objects
• Adding 3D objects
• Merging 3D layers to share the same 3D space
• Lighting a 3D scene
• Applying Materials
• Creating custom materials
• Painting on a 3D object
• Using Repoussé to create 3D text
• Using your 3D file in After Effects
• Rendering a 3D scene