Photoshop Special FX

This class is running for the last time in May 2008

Come learn how to make great special effects in Photoshop! We will learn to make and save Layer Styles and Brushes, as well as many image effects like fading images together and using a hidden gem: the 3D transform filter!

Prerequisites:

1. Students must have Photoshop installed. This class will be written with Photoshop CS and CS2, but prior versions will also be able to follow the class.

2. Students must be familiar with their operating systems. This means you must know how to unzip and file and open the file in Illustrator, you must understand what a menu is, and basic commands like copying and pasting, as well as Save and Save As.

3. You will need some sort of web presence to post homework. You can post them to your own web site or utilize the Student Upload Area (SUA). Details are available in the classroom.

Enrollment

Classes are $25 each, and $20 for returning students.(Note new prices for September 2003 session). A returning student is one who has previously taken any LVS Online class. Sessions run throughout the year, and run for 6 weeks each. Lessons will be posted every Saturday during the session.

Syllabus

Lesson 1:

Installing the Extra Filters and Textures from the CD
Adobe Color Picker vs. the System Color Picker
Clipping Groups, Clipping Masks: You Say To-may-to, I Say To-mah-to
The Eyedropper Tool Trick
Duplicating Images Tips and Tricks
History Logging
It's Easter and the Eggs are Hidden!
Transferring Activation: What to Do if you Get a New Computer
The Scrubby Slider on Steroids
Working with Layer Styles: Adding, Editing, Creating and Saving Sets
An Introduction to Channels: Neon Type Effect

Lesson 2:

Hot Spots
Copying and Pasting into a New Image
The Reselect Command
Restoring Order When Palettes Go Wild
Reset Buttons in Dialog Boxes
Floating the Options Bar
Collapsing the Options Bar and Toolbox to Make More Work Area
Working with the Plastic Wrap Filter
Correcting Perspective with the Lens Distortion Filter in CS2
Adjustment Layers
Dreamy Porcelain Images
Using the History Palette
Faking Holga Images
Layer Blend Modes

Lesson 3 :

Turning off Font Preview
Saving Custom Workspaces
Pasting and dragging & Dropping Objects to Another Image: Some Tricks!
Work Area too Cluttered?
Grayscale vs. Desaturation
Podcasts: Audio and Video Tutorials for Photoshop
Isolating Highlights and Shadows in an Image
Understanding Levels
Creating Duotone Images
Quick and Easy Sepia Images
Using the Texture Grain Filter to Create a Paper Texture
Saving Patterns
Making Seamless Tiles (And a Big Secret too!)
Photos in Type
Glowing Photo Type

Lesson 4:

Adjustment Layers: Keeping Down FIle Sizes
Fast Copyright and Trademark Symbols
Saving Custom Pattern Sets
Photoshop's Clouds Filter
Using the Fill Dialog
Parchment Paper Fill
Woven Fabric Texture
Stamp Visible
Home on the Range: Cowhide and Pinto Pony Texture
Cowhide or Pinto Photo Frame
Cropping to the Rule of Thirds
Soft Focus Effect

Lesson 5:

Temporary Move Tool
Shapes Palette at your Fingertips
Fill Keyboard Shortcuts
Deleting Text when you Make a Mistake
Setting Brush Sizes on the Fly
Changing Foreground Color on the Fly
Making an Instruction Layer
When Tools Attack: Setting Tools to Default Settings
Finding and Marking the Center of an Object
Finding and Marking the Center of an Image
Reveal All
Trim
Adding Notes and Audio Annotations to Photshop Documents
Quick Grunge Text
3D transform Filter: Making a Photo Cube
3D Transform Filter: Sphere
Robot Man

Lesson 6:

Resize Pasted Images Automatically
More Image than Window?
Modifying Selections Using Quick Mask
Rounded Rectangle Trick
Make a New Layer go Down Under
Quick Mask: for Selections, Edges, and Vignettes
Layer Masks: Effects, Painted Photo Edges, and Vignettes
Blending Photos
Painted Edgings with a Reverse Mask
Vector Masks
Double Stroke Style
Comic Style Background
Drawing Outside the Box: Out of Bounds Images

To enroll, please go to LVS Online.