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Creating Web Graphics with Paint Shop Pro 8
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| Price: |
$99.00 |
| Business Focus: |
Web Graphics & Multimedia |
| Instructor: |
Craig Power |
| Course Code: |
gr8 |
| Delivery Method: |
Instructor-led Online Course |
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| Course Overview: |
| Learn how to create stunning titles, banners, icons, buttons, menu bars, backgrounds, animated images, text effects, drop shadows, 3-D effects, and more! You'll also learn the difference between the GIF and JPEG formats and how to work effectively with both. You'll learn about interlacing, transparent backgrounds, animation, creating imagemaps, and retouching digital photographs and scanned images. Finally, you'll learn several exciting tips that will help you keep your image sizes small and your web pages loading fast! |
| Instructor Biography: |
| Craig Power is a UCLA graduate who created custom accounting software for government agencies and developed an online course delivery and marketing platform used by more than 1000 colleges and universities around the world. He served as the science department chair at a Los Angeles high school, wrote and co-directed an interactive cellular biology video for the Los Angeles Unified School District, taught technology courses for a San Diego college, started a nationwide training network, and has worked in adult continuing education for more than fifteen years. He currently serves as an Executive Vice President for a large and well-known academic publisher that specializes in the areas of technology, law, science, health, and finance. |
| Course Syllabus: |
| Lesson 1 Syllabus |
GIF vs JPEG |
| Lesson 2 Syllabus |
Keeping Your Graphics Lean |
| Lesson 2 Objective |
Understand how a monitor uses pixels to create images. Be able to distinguish between the dominant Web image formats. |
| Lesson 3 Syllabus |
Text Effects |
| Lesson 3 Objective |
Be able to articulate the relationship between file size and download time. Discover a variety of techniques to reduce the file size of an image. |
| Lesson 4 Syllabus |
3-D Text Effects |
| Lesson 4 Objective |
Learn how to create a variety of dazzling text effects. |
| Lesson 5 Syllabus |
Color Palettes and Transparency |
| Lesson 5 Objective |
Gain an ability to create professional-looking text-based logos and buttons. |
| Lesson 6 Syllabus |
Buttons |
| Lesson 6 Objective |
Understand the cause and prevention of dithering in an image. Be able to make the background color of an image appear transparent. |
| Lesson 7 Syllabus |
Icons and Backgrounds |
| Lesson 7 Objective |
Learn to construct three-dimensional shapes, such as a sphere. |
| Lesson 8 Syllabus |
Retouching Photographs |
| Lesson 8 Objective |
Discover how to create three-dimensional buttons and icons. Convert an image or pattern into a seamless background. |
| Lesson 9 Syllabus |
Advanced Retouching Techniques |
| Lesson 9 Objective |
Find out how to correct a discolored, underexposed, or overexposed photograph or add special effects to an image. |
| Lesson 10 Syllabus |
Animation |
| Lesson 10 Objective |
Be able to remove or replace the background in a photograph. Learn how to hide an unwanted element in a photograph. |
| Lesson 11 Syllabus |
Animated Banners |
| Lesson 11 Objective |
Learn to create simple animated images. |
| Lesson 12 Syllabus |
Imagemaps |
| Lesson 12 Objective |
Become adept at modifying existing animated images, creating banners, and building transitions. |
