Course number: 078828

Course length: 1 day

Software: Photoshop 7.0

Certification: Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) Photoshop 7.0

In this course, you'll expand on the skills covered in the Photoshop® 7.0: Level 1 and Photoshop® 7.0: Level 2 courses by working on a variety of image types. While you'll learn to work with additional specific Photoshop commands and tools, you'll also study concepts that tie together multiple techniques you already know to create effects and make your work more efficient. You'll first work to clean up line art, and then use lots of shortcuts and styling techniques for layers. Then, you'll turn to photographic images, repairing an old damaged picture, softening the focus on one to add atmosphere, and will colorize grayscale images with a variety of techniques. You'll learn to create realistic three-dimensional effects by distorting layers and applying lighting effects. Lastly, you'll save multi-step processes as actions that you can apply later to any image.

Target Student: This course is designed for graphic designers and other serious users who work with Photoshop regularly.

Prerequisites: To ensure your success, we recommend you first take the following courses or have equivalent knowledge:

· Photoshop® 7.0: Level 1

· Photoshop® 7.0: Level 2

Delivery Method: Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

Benefits: After taking this course, students will be able to work more efficiently in Photoshop, improve damaged or poor quality images, and create a variety of interesting type effects and image effects.

What's Next: After taking this course, students who want to learn techniques for preparing Photoshop images for print can take the Photoshop® 7.0: Color Correction and Printing course. Students who want to learn techniques for preparing images for the Web can take the Photoshop® 7.0: Web Production course.

Photoshop® 7.0: Artistic Effects is one of five Element K courseware titles that address the Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) Program objectives for the Photoshop 7.0 exam. The ACE Program is for graphic designers, Web designers, developers, systems integrators, value-added resellers, and business professionals who seek recognition for their expertise with specific Adobe products. Certification candidates must pass a product proficiency exam in order to become an Adobe Certified Expert.

• Clean up jagged line art and accurately replace colors in line art with soft edges.

• Apply time-saving shortcuts for selecting, stacking, and blending layers.

• Precisely control layer styles with contours and with combinations of layer effects, as well as by splitting layer effects onto multiple layers.

• Repair and retouch old damaged photos efficiently and accurately.

• Create atmosphere in an image by applying a soft focus effect and adding emphasis to the foreground.

• Colorize grayscale images with a variety of techniques to create hand-tinted and sepiatone effects.

• Wrap a two-dimensional object around a three-dimensional one realistically.

• Use lighting effects and create cast shadows to further simulate three dimensions.

• Transform a photographic image into a painted one with brushes, filters, and blending modes.

• Combine multiple steps into one by saving them as actions.

Blending Modes

Adobe® Photoshop® 7.0 ACE Exam Objectives