Learn Adobe Photoshop

When you open up Adobe Photoshop for the first time, the complex toolbar can stop you in your tracks. The reason Adobe Photoshop is the industry leader in photo-editing, however, is precisely because of their plethora of tools, daunting as they may seem. Whether your photo-editing goals are as simple as removing a few cases of “red-eye” from a vacation shot, or as lofty as creating your own personal brand of modern digital art, a solid basic instruction in Adobe Photoshop will serve you well.

Video Professor’s Learn Adobe Photoshop is just the source you need for a photo-editing knowledge base. With a program as visual as Adobe Photoshop, Video Professor’s What-You-See-Is-What-You-Do method is a must-have for any aspiring Photoshop guru. By watching and replicating the actions seen on the video lesson, you are creating Photoshop products while you learn! With Video Professor, you learn by doing—from the very beginning. How many traditional classes or how-to manuals can promise the same?

There are many different versions of Photoshop, and with Video Professor you’ll have your pick of which version (CS, CS2, or 7.0) you’d prefer to master. Whether you’re a photo-editing beginner or a wizened web wizard, Video Professor’s 3-CD lessons will give you the extra boost you need to improve your Photoshop skills.

In Lesson One of Learn Photoshop, you’ll cement the basic skills required to edit photos. In Lesson One, you’ll master such valuable skills as:

The Photoshop Window
Opening Image Files
The File Browser
Creating New Files
The Work Area
Using the Toolbox
Working With Palettes
The Layers Palette
Managing Multiple Layers

Building on the knowledge you develop through Lesson One, Lesson Two takes those skills a step further, allowing you to incorporate what you’ve just learned into new tasks. Lesson Two gives you hands-on practice in:

Making Selections
Transforming Images
Advanced Compositing
Quick Mask Mode
Retouching Images
Color Balance
Working With Text
Vector Shapes

In just a few hours, you’ll have progressed rapidly from a lower to an exponentially higher level of knowledge of Photoshop by the time you arrive (at your own pace) to Lesson Three. In this final CD, you’ll demonstrate how far you’ve come by absorbing the directions for:

Setting Preferences
Color Management
Selecting Colors
The Actions Palette
Automating Functions
Using Filters
Rollovers & Image Maps
Animation in ImageReady®
Optimizing web Graphics

With Video Professor’s Learn Adobe Photoshop, you’ll be editing and changing your photos like an expert in no time!