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BVG Getting Started with Digital Photography

Manufacturer - BVG

Price £ 19.99    (£ 17.01 exc. VAT )


BVG - BVG Getting Started with Digital Photography

Description

The pack contains 2 training packages. Adobe Photoshop (basics, intermediate, advanced and web imagery. The other is Microsoft Windows XP (tools for the digital age).

Adobe Photoshop

The need for digital imaging presents itself to businesses and home users alike. But you've probably heard or have already learned first hand that knowing how to use Photoshop for anything beyond opening images, resizing them and saving them in different file formats is a giant learning curve. Using these courses you'll fly past that learning curve!

You'll learn how to make your images 'pop' using techniques that come from the pro's. Start with a digital picture or create your images from scratch. Design images for professional printing or for enhancing marketing materials you'll print yourself. You'll even be able to create the images and buttons needed to make a Website. And YES! These courses will even teach you to use the ImageReady program and create your own PDF files.

Basics
What 'digital imaging' is
Pixels, PPI, DPI, bits and resolution
Acquiring digital images
Photoshop toolbox & palettes
Use the File Browser
New! the painting engine
Image size/canvas size
Type text on an image
New! Photoshop spell checker
Saving image for Web
Add, rename, delete and rearrange layers
Colour Correction
Remove 'Red-Eye'
New! The Healing Brush
and much more

Intermediate
Image resolution and specifying image resolution
Copy objects from other images
Using the different
marquee tools
Arrange and merge layers
Apply filters
Artistic filters
Textures, lighting effects
Unsharp Mask filter
Apply Layer Styles: drop shadows, inner shadows, glows, and other effects.
How to create and apply a gradient
Warp text
and much more

Advanced
Tricks of the trade
Advanced image size methods
Resampling
Good colour tips
Make a purchase order
Image healing techniques
Create customized brush strokes
Shape dynamics: jitter, tilt scale and their diameter
Add textures to brushes
Add a watermark
Colour correction techniques
Install plug-Ins
and much more
Web Imagery
Webpage standards
Essentials for obtaining small image size
Optimizing images
Lossy formats
Creating buttons
Web safe colours
Preparing text on web images
Weighted optimization
Adjust compression levels
Unsharp Mask
Save as HTML and/or Images
Create thumbnail images
Transparencies and dithered transparencies
Animation in ImageReady
Animation effects and tweening animation effects
PDF files
and much more


The Windoows XP CD ROM basically teaches you how to use the windows tools that control digital cameras and scanners.

System Requirements

Windows95 or newer
16 MB RAM
CD ROM Drive 4x or greater
Pentium PC or Higher
16bit Sound Card
5MB available HD space
256 colour VGA monitor or greater

Release Date: Tuesday, 28th June 2005