Creating Web Graphics
- Producing effective banners
- Making buttons from images
- Vignetting or dissolving edges on images
- Combining images into a photo montage
- Creating navigational bars
- Saving and optimizing images properly
- Slicing an image and saving the HTML code
- Acquiring images from the web, digital cameras, or other sources
- Creating rollovers
- Cropping and trimming an image
- Creating transparent backgronds
- Creating the image for a solid or patterned web background
- Scanning an image for the web
- Stylizing type
- Using vector shapes to create images
- Generating titled web backgrounds
- Scaling and sharpening images
- Batch processing files and automating repeated tasks
- Producing motion and simple animations
Isolating a Portion of the Image
- Making selections with the marquee tools and lasso
- Using the magic wand
- Using the pen tool
- Using color range or a printing channel to make a selection
- Adding to and subtracting from a selection
- Combining or transforming selections
- Creating, editing and using masks
- Using masks to create transparent backgrounds
- Extracting a subject from the image
Working with Layers and Text
- Converting selections into layers using Layer via Copy
- Using blending modes, opacity and preserve transparency
- Creating layer mask to achieve soft transitions
- Manipulating photo collages for seamless transitions
- Managing multiple layers into sets
- Adding layer styles to produce drop shadows
- Determining beveling and embossing values
- Creating a text layer and applying text attributes
- Transforming a layer or an object on the layer
- Flattening and merging layers when saving the file
Painting and Modifying an Image using Color
- Understanding the RGB color mode, color tables and web safe
- Colorizing a grayscale to create a navigational bar
- Using color reduction to get the smallest file size
- Correcting overall color in a photo for the web
- Adjusting, replacing and changing colors
- Painting in an image
- Using a color background layer
- Colorizing a grayscale image
- Using gradients to modify color in an image
- Modifying or replacing color in selected areas
- Quickly changing the color of your type or of a fill layer
- Using adjustment layers to add or modify colors