Photoshop CS6 for Web Designers

Course details

Why take the course and how much time it takes to complete?

Adobe Photoshop was developed 24 years ago and is still predominant among millions of Users. It is used for optimizing and editing images. It has got various features like Slicing, Marquee, Lasso, etc. One of the most useful tool for graphic designers, website designers. It finds its place wherever there is use of an image as it can enhance, edit and merge images and lot more which you can learn in this course.

The duration of the course is 2 hrs and 5 hrs of lab-work from our mini challenges.

In this course you will learn:

• Photoshop Basics: Style panels and how to use them. Managing different layers. Layers are the backbone of your image, they help you work on individual parts of the image without affecting the rest of the image. Then there is Lorem Ipsum which acts as a filler text for visual presentation. More features like vector, Trim.
• Color & Creating New Document: How to use color in your documents, web designs, mobile documents and email newsletters. The Hex Color system and making new colors by changing the proportion of RGB.
• Guide, Grids and Rulers: Create documents and make use of Grids which helps bring symmetry to your documents and easily help place different layers and images at appropriate places. Ruler tool which helps you calculate the distance between two points.
• Layer Style: In this section you will learn how to add buttons to your document. And to make your text in the document look better by adding shadows and textures.
• Our Simple Website: In this section you will learn about creating master elements which remain static throughout your document. Placing your logo which is the brand of your website. Then creating a navigation bar for your website, creating contact us page, buttons and more. One of the most important tool for a designer, Slice Tool which helps cut the images before exporting.
• Save For Web & Sprite: You must have come across dialog boxes on websites. In this section we will show you to design the dialog box in detail. Moving to Sprite, the favorite among many users. Sprites are used to create 2D images which acts as standalone artwork in comics, video games, raster graphic. Sprites accelerates the page loading speed when created in CSS of the webpage. Thus the amount of data required by the browser to load the website reduces.

You will come across challenges in between, where you can practice what you have learned. There are video solutions for the challenges for you to watch if you get stuck.

This is a fast-paced lean program of 2 hrs. with tricks meant. Watch the preview video to get a flavor the program's uniqueness and relevance.