Course Description
In this course, you’ll learn skills that go beyond those covered in the Photoshop® 7.0: Level 1 course. You’ll further your understanding of isolating image areas by creating and saving masks with specialized tools, commands, modes, and layer elements. You’ll learn how to use vector paths for a variety of purposes, including masking, clipping paths, and illustration. You’ll also learn to create and apply creative elements such as gradients, patterns, and color overlays, and to save them along with effects in easy-to-apply layer styles. When you’ve completed the course, you’ll have a firm grasp on Photoshop concepts that are applicable to almost every facet of using the application, including Web design, preparing photographic images for printing, and illustration.
                                         
Target Student:  This course is designed for students who have completed the Photoshop® 7.0: Level 1 course, or who have equivalent knowledge, and who want to learn additional, more advanced Photoshop techniques.

Prerequisites:  To ensure your success, we recommend you first take the following Element K course or have equivalent knowledge:
·           Photoshop® 7.0: Level 1

 

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Performance-Based Objectives
·     Use Quick Mask mode, alpha channels, and layer masks to isolate image areas. Create clipping groups to use one layer’s contents to mask another’s.
·     Create vector paths as tools for selecting images, for creating transparent areas in images to be used with other applications, and for drawing shapes.
·     Create color swatches, gradients, and patterns, all of which can be saved and loaded in sets for convenience.
·     Create layer styles that can apply effects, colors, patterns, and gradients in one step.
·     Use the Background Eraser and the Extract command to create complex masks quickly and accurately, even for images with indistinct edges and very fine details.

 

Course Content

Lesson 1: Masking and Layers
Topic 1A: Editing Quick Masks and Alpha Channels
Topic 1B: Layer Masks
Topic 1C: Grayscale Masking
Topic 1D: Clipping Groups

Lesson 2: Vector Paths
Topic 2A: Vector Path Concepts
Topic 2B: Creating Vector Paths
Topic 2C: Editing Paths
Topic 2D: Using Paths for Masking

Lesson 3: Swatches, Gradients, Patterns
Topic 3A: Swatches
Topic 3B: Gradients
Topic 3C: Patterns

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lesson 4: Layer Types and Styles
Topic 4A: Fill Layers
Topic 4B: Drawing and Painting Shapes
Topic 4C: Layer Styles
                                               
Lesson 5: Advanced Masking
Topic 5A: The Background Eraser
Topic 5B: The Extract Command

Appendix A: Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) Program®
Adobe® Photoshop® 7.0 ACE Exam Objectives