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| Starting up | |
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| About Digital Classroom | |
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| Prerequisites | |
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| Adobe Photoshop CS6 versions | |
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| System requirements | |
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| Starting the Adobe Creative Suite | |
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| Design & Web Premium applications | |
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| Resetting Adobe Photoshop CS6 preferences | |
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| A note about color warnings | |
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| Resetting the Dreamweaver workspace | |
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| Resetting the Flash workspace | |
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| Resetting Adobe Illustrator CS6 preferences | |
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| Resetting the InDesign workspace and preferences | |
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| Fonts used in this book | |
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| Loading lesson files | |
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| Working with the video tutorials | |
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| Additional resources | |
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| Taking Advantage of Adobe Bridge | |
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| Starting up | |
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| What is Adobe Bridge?12 | |
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| Navigating through Bridge | |
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| Using folders in Adobe Bridge | |
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| Making a Favorite | |
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| Creating and locating metadata | |
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| Using keywords | |
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| Creating a Metadata Template | |
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| Opening a file from Adobe Bridge | |
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| Searching for files using Adobe Bridge | |
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| Searching by name or keyword | |
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| Using the Filter panel | |
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| Saving a Collection | |
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| Automation tools in Adobe Bridge | |
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| Batch renaming your files | |
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| Additional Photoshop Tools | |
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| Automated tools for Photoshop: Web Photo Gallery | |
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| Saving or uploading your Web Gallery | |
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| Automated tools for Photoshop: PDF contact sheet | |
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| Changing the view | |
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| Self study | |
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| Review | |
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| Exploring Photoshop CS6 | |
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| Starting up | |
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| Taking a look at the final project | |
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| Experimenting with new Vector capabilities | |
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| Filling a vector shape with a pattern | |
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| Adding a mask to a Vector layer | |
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| Using the new brush tips | |
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| Saving the new Brush | |
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| Adding strokes to vector images | |
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| Cloning your new snowflake | |
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| Adding Text layers from another document | |
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| Updating text styles | |
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| Cropping an image | |
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| Self study | |
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| Review | |
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| Getting to Know the Workspace | |
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| Starting up | |
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| Opening an existing document in Mini Bridge | |
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| Discovering the Tools panel | |
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| Selection, Cropping, and Measuring Tools | |
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| Retouching and Painting Tools | |
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| Drawing and Type Tools | |
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| Navigation Tools | |
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| Accessing tools and their options | |
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| Using panels | |
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| Putting the panel system to use | |
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| Choosing other panels | |
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| Expanding and collapsing your panels | |
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| Customizing your panels | |
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| Hidden tools | |
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| Navigating the image area | |
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| Using the Zoom tool | |
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| Using the Hand tool | |
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| Tabbed windows | |
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| Maximizing productivity with screen modes | |
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| Self study | |
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| Review | |
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| Photoshop Basics | |
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| Starting up | |
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| A look at the finished project | |
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| Opening an existing document | |
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| Understanding document settings | |
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| Viewing an image’s size and resolution | |
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| Combining the images | |
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| Using Copy and Paste | |
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| Dragging and dropping to copy an image | |
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| Transforming and editing combined images | |
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| Changing the size of a placed image | |
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| Removing a background | |
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| Understanding the stacking order of layers | |
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| Refining the edges of copied images | |
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| Adding text | |
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| Saving files | |
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| Understanding file formats | |
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| Choosing a file format | |
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| Saving a JPEG file | |
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| Saving for print | |
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| Changing the color settings | |
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| Adjusting image size | |
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| Saving a Photoshop PDF file | |
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| Self study | |
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| Review | |
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| Making the Best Selections | |
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| Starting up | |
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| The importance of a good selection | |
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| Using the Marquee tools | |
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| Creating a square selection | |
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| Creating a selection from a center point | |
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| Changing a selection into a layer | |
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| Working with the Magic Wand tool | |
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| The Lasso tool | |
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| Adding to and subtracting from selections | |
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| Saving a selection | |
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| Feathering the selection | |
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| Using the Quick Selection tool | |
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| Making difficult selections with the Refine Edge feature | |
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| Using Quick Mask | |
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| Saving selections | |
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| Copying and pasting a selection | |
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| Using the Pen tool for selections | |
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| Using the Pen tool to select an area of an image | |
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| More Pen tool selection techniques | |
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| Converting a path to a selection | |
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| Self study | |
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| Review | |
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| Painting and Retouching | |
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| Starting up | |
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| Setting up your color settings | |
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| Color primer | |
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| Understanding color gamut | |
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| The RGB color model | |
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| The CMYK color model | |
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| Working in the RGB mode | |
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| Editing color settings | |
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| Selecting colors | |
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| Starting to paint | |
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| Using the Color panel | |
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| Using the Brush tool | |
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| Changing opacity | |
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| Save time-learn the shortcuts | |
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| Using the Brush Presets | |
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| Using the Airbrush feature | |
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| Creating a Border using the Bristle brushes | |
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| Applying color to an image | |
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| Changing blending modes | |
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| The Eyedropper tool | |
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| Retouching images | |
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| Using the Clone Stamp tool | |
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| Repairing fold lines | |
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| The History panel | |
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| The Spot Healing Brush | |
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| The Healing Brush | |
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| Using the Patch tool | |
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| Using the Clone Source panel | |
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| Cloning from another source | |
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| Self study | |
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| Review | |
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| Creating a Good Image | |
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| Starting up | |
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| Choosing your color settings | |
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| Opening the file | |
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| Why you should work in RGB | |
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| Reading a histogram | |
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| Making the Curve adjustment | |
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| Defining the highlight and shadow | |
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| Locating the White and Black Point | |
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| Inputting the white and black point values | |
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| Adjusting the midtones | |
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| Setting the neutral | |
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| Sharpening your image | |
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| Comparing your image with the original | |
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| Taking care of red eye | |
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| Using the Camera Raw plug-in | |
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| Using Camera Raw controls | |
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| Saving a DNG file | |
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| Reopening a DNG file | |
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| Self study | |
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| Review | |
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| Dreamweaver CS6 Jumpstart | |
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| Starting up | |
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| What is Dreamweaver? | |
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| Design and layout tools | |
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| Site management and File Transfer Protocol | |
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| Coding environment and text editor | |
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| Mobile design and development features | |
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| Who uses Dreamweaver? | |
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| Dreamweaver’s workspace features | |
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| Live View and Live Code | |
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| CSS Inspection and the Enable/Disable Feature | |
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| Related files | |
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| Code Navigator | |
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| Photoshop smart objects | |
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| Support for Content Management Systems | |
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| HTML5, CSS3, and PHP code hinting | |
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| HTML and CSS Starter Pages | |
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| Subversion | |
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| Business Catalyst integration | |
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| How websites work | |
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| A simple flow chart | |
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| Domain names and IP addresses | |
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| Servers and web hosts | |
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| The role of web browsers | |
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| An introduction to HTML | |
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| Tag structure and attributes | |
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| The structure of an HTML document | |
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| Placing images in HTML | |
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| Colors in HTML | |
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| Case sensitivity and whitespace rules | |
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| Element hierarchy | |
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| XHTML 1.0 Transitional | |
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| What’s the difference? | |
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| Explorations in code | |
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| A look at the Welcome Screen | |
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| Creating, opening, and saving documents | |
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| Creating new documents | |
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| Self study | |
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| Review | |
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| Setting Up a New Site | |
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| Starting up | |
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| Creating a new site | |
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| Advanced site-creation options | |
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| Adding pages | |
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| Saving a page to your site | |
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| Defining page properties | |
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| Work views | |
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| A deeper look into the Files panel | |
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| Viewing local files | |
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| Selecting and editing files | |
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| Self study | |
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| Review | |
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| Adding Text and Images | |
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| Starting up | |
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| Typography and images on the Web | |
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| Adding text | |
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| An introduction to styles | |
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| Previewing pages in a web browser | |
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| Understanding hyperlinks | |
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| Creating hyperlinks | |
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| Relative versus absolute hyperlinks | |
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| Linking to an e-mail address | |
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| Creating lists | |
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| Using the Text Insert panel | |
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| Inserting images | |
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| Image resolution | |
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| Image formats | |
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| Creating a simple gallery page | |
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| Linking images | |
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| Using image placeholders | |
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| Editing images | |
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| Adjusting brightness and contrast | |
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| Optimizing images | |
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| Updating images | |