Web Graphics

Course Syllabus:

Get a thorough grounding in Adobe Photoshop CS4, the must-have digital imaging program for today’s web and print designers.  Hands-on projects include working with layers, making selections, incorporating color technique, creating special effects with filters and more. Create complex web graphics such as rollovers and animations.

Textbook Required: 

    Adobe Photoshop CS4 Revealed, Elizabeth Reding

Course  Outcomes:

1. Students will create and modify bitmap artwork for print and the web

2. Students will modify photographic images.

3. Students will apply planning and decision making skills to graphic       creation/modification

UNITS:

•     The platform interface
•     Working with layers
•     Making selections
•     Incorporating color technique
•     Placing type in an image
•     Using painting tools
•     Working with special layer functions
•     Creating special effects with filters
•     Enhancing specific
•     Adjusting color
•     Using clipping masks, paths, and    shapes
•     Transforming type
•     Liquefying an Image
•     Image modification
•     Annotating and automating an image
•     Creating images for the web