| Description: | Are you a photographer or a graphic artist—or do you want to alter your old family photos for albums or scrapbooks? Then you need to learn Photoshop, the world's best graphics program. This hands-on, project-oriented course is filled with detailed, easy-to-follow instructions that teach you how to edit photos and create original images and basic paintings. Discover how to improve photographs by removing flaws, correcting for poor exposure, or adding elements using the newest techniques Adobe Photoshop CS5 has to offer. You’ll even learn how much fun it can be to paint again without the mess to clean up. And best of all, you don’t need any special artistic ability or prior Photoshop experience to take this course. Requirements: Adobe Photoshop CS5, Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended, or any version of Adobe Creative Suite CS5 that includes the Adobe Photoshop CS5 or Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended software (for either Windows or Mac); software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins; Windows 7, Windows XP, or Windows Vista; Mac OS X; Internet access, e-mail, the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox Web browser, and the Adobe Flash and PDF plug-ins (two free and simple downloads you obtain at http://www.adobe.com/downloads by clicking Get Adobe Flash Player and Get Adobe Reader). You must be able to download files in Zip format from the Internet and have a basic knowledge of how to use your computer. |
