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This course goes beyond Photoshop as a photography tool by teaching you to think differently about the way you approach your work. Whether you are a designer, photographer, or illustrator, there is something here for you. This DVD will cover some of the most eye-catching effects used in the digital arts today, and even a few things you—nor your clients—have ever seen before. This course is designed to give you the edge you need in this competitive market by teaching you how to bring together various elements for a resonating design aesthetic. You'll learn how to extract and distill what you need from photographs or—depending on the situation and your design's requirements—craft what you need from scratch.

Corey Barker — education and curriculum developer for NAPP — shows you through the basic essentials of Adobe® Photoshop®. Whether you are new to Photoshop® CS4 or even Photoshop in general, this course is the place to start learning. Not only will you learn the basics of the Photoshop core tools and functions, but by the time you finish this course you will be editing and compositing your images with ease. Even if you are somewhat familiar with Photoshop this course will be great to ******* or sharpen your skills.
In this DVD you will learn:

• How to set up your preferences and workspaces
• How to customize Photoshop to suit your needs
• How to create selections
• How to work with layers
• How to create text

As the course progresses and you get more familiar with the tools, we will venture into color correction, image retouching, and basic compositing techniques.
While this course is presented in Photoshop CS4 utilizing some of the new features, the core concepts are still relevant in earlier CS versions of Photoshop.