Photoshop has become an indispensible tool for photographers, designers, and all other creative professionals, as well as students. Photoshop CS4 Essential Training teaches a broad spectrum of core skills that are common to many creative fields: working with layers and selections; adjusting, manipulating, and retouching photos; painting; adding text; automating; preparing files for output; and more. Instructor Jan Kabili demonstrates established techniques as well as those made possible by some of the new features unique to Photoshop CS4. This course is indispensable to those who are new to the application, just learning this version, or expanding their skills. Example files accompany the course. Topics Include:
Learning and customizing the interface and workspace
Utilizing various manual and guided selection techniques
Working with Adobe Camera Raw
Adding special effects with layer styles and Smart Filters
Creating Photomerge panoramas
Optimizing photos for the web and creating web galleries
Duration: 8.25 hours On 1 DVD-ROM System RequirementsMacintosh Requirements
In Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac Essential Training, Ted LoCascio teaches casual photographers how to organize, edit, and share their digital image libraries using this powerful software package from Adobe. He tours the included Adobe Bridge application, used for importing and organizing photographs, and explores every feature of Elements itself. He demonstrates how to navigate the Elements workspace, which is used to correct and improve images, combine them into projects, and produce slideshows, photo books, web galleries, and more. Ted also explains how to get the most out of each editing mode, and shares tips for correcting, retouching, and sharpening photographs. Example files accompany the course. Topics Include:
Identifying photos by name, keyword, rating, and label
Locating photos with searches, filters, collections, and stacks
Using automated red-eye correction and sharpening tools
Making detailed color and tone corrections
Using Photomerge on faces and groups
Working with filters, artwork, and other image customizations
Scrapbooking
Duration: 8.5 hours On 1 DVD-ROM System RequirementsMacintosh Requirements
OS 10.3.9 or higher
DVD-ROM drive
1024×768 resolution
24-bit video support
QuickTime 7 or higher
Windows Requirements
XP or Vista
DVD-ROM Drive
1024×768 resolution
24-bit video support
PC sound card/speakers
QuickTime 7 or higher (included)
.NET 2.0 or higher (included)
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac
As I am a newbie to photoshop elements, I found this tutorial to be outstandingly clear and informative. As the title suggests, it is essential training. It will get you up and running using the program. Since Photoshop Elements has so many features that simply cannot be covered in a single 8 hour video.[...] I look forward to purchasing it when (and if) it becomes available.
Photoshop Lightroom is a powerful new photographic workflow application designed to help photographers expand their creative potential. Photoshop Lightroom Essential Training is all about using this revolutionary new tool to its full potential. One of the main challenges of photography is dealing with the sheer volume of images that result from each shoot. In Photoshop Lightroom Essential Training , instructor and professional photographer Chris Orwig explains how browsing, organizing, and adjusting images in Photoshop Lightroom dynamically improves photo management, processing, and presentation. The training empowers photographers to establish a more effective and creative workflow so they can focus on what it s all about, the photo! Exercise files (full resolution raw files) accompany the tutorials.Topics Include:
Understanding the core features and workflows of Photoshop Lightroom
Organizing, rating, filtering, and managing a robust image database
Processing raw images
Using essential time-saving shortcuts
Using Lightroom and Photoshop effectively
Designing slideshow presentations
Printing and layout techniques
Creating and publishing effective web galleries
Streamlining the photographic workflow
Duration: 6.5 hoursOn 1 DVD-ROM
User Ratings and Reviews
1 Star hard to review a training dvd that is so buggy
First off, the disk comes in a normal dvd case with a folded card that gives the chapters and times they last, thats it, no instructions, nothing else other than a brag page for the author on the back.
I tried to watch the dvd the first time, only to have it crash at the end of the first chapter. I downloaded the newest quicktime, and hoped that would help. I started the disk again, and it crashed at the end of the chapter again. This is where the real problems begin with this disk, I was looking for an interactive tutorial, what I got was a disk that is anything but interactive. You can’t pause or fast forward, just start a chapter and watch. This makes it very hard to follow along with lightroom open and do any of the things talked about in the disk.
I can’t say how good the training is, since somewhere around chapter 5 the end of chapter crashes finally got to be too much and I quit trying to even watch any more of it.
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1 Star WORTHLESS
THE SPEECH ON THIS DVD IS SO FAST IT CAN NOT BE UNDERSTOOD. YOU CAN SPEED IT UP EVEN FASTER BUT YOU CAN NOT SLOW IT DOWN. THE WHOLE THING IS WORTHLESS.
UPDATED: JUNE 25
THE AUTHOR “Chris Orwig” HAS NOT RESPONDED. Lynda.com OFFERED SOME “FREE” ON LINE TRAINING FOR 3 MONTHS WITH SOME OF THEIR “OTHER PROGRAMS?” MAYBE THE THEY THINK I WOULD BUY SOMETHING ELSE? HA! BLOW ANOTHER $100 BUCKS…?
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