TotalTraining.com: Photoshop CS3 Essential DVD original

Description: If you are just starting out with Photoshop or you need a refresher on keyboard shortcuts, the basics of selecting colors or elements in photos, special effects and layering, then the Photoshop CS3 Essential tutorials cover what you need to know to make your images dazzle.

By the end of this course you will be proficient at: understanding the toolbars and interface, navigating documents, the fundamentals of color correction, layering, doctoring images, filters and special effects. You will not be a Photoshop expert but you will have the foundations to manipulate images and the comfort of understanding the tools and interface of Photoshop CS3.

Discover best practices for architecting a Flex application. Learn how to connect a Flex application to server side data including web services and remote methods. Understand how to customize a Flex application to give it a unique look and feel.

Get your designs from the rest of the CS3 suite out to the web and ready for the masses with Adobe Fireworks CS3. This program picks up where Adobe's old ImageReady left off and comes packed with new features to set your designs up using html, java, and even CSS. With John Ulliman as your guide, you'll learn how to adjust, crop, and use filters on your digital pictures, scans and stock art. Plus, how to create composite images using layer techniques, adjustments and effects.

Discover the power of Dreamweaver, an award-winning Web design program with this in-depth tutorial. From the basics of how to create Web pages, set links, and insert images, to more advanced techniques for creating page layouts with tables and CSS, you'll learn everything you need to create and publish a web site. You'll also learn how to use Dreamweaver's more advanced features to insert Flash, video, and audio files, and use Dreamweaver's JavaScript behaviors to create interactive effects, like rollovers and image swaps. With these easy to follow lessons, you'll get up to speed quickly with Dreamweaver CS3.

 Explore new territories in the land of data handling and user interface (UI) design with ActionScript 3 language in Flash CS3. With John Ulliman as your guide, this video series provides plenty of hands-on experience as you learn how to design a typical shopping application, handle external graphic data, and learn how to draw and manipulate graphs and display text data. You’ll also look at different types of data and how to load and use them in your Flash applications, and discover how to use the new Component elements in Flash CS3.

Advance your knowledge and use of ActionScript 3 by taking a specific look into Animation and Game Design. Instructed by John Ulliman, this series which is available online and on DVD-ROM, goes step-by-step through the new ActionScript 3 structure and classes. You'll also get some hands-on experience by building several typical games using Flash CS3 and ActionScript. Plus, you will also learn how to build your own ActionScript 3 custom class files.

Highlights

• Go beyond the basics of Shape and Motion Tweens taking a look at all the properties of both.
• Discover how to nest your animations using multiple timelines for more advanced movement and control.
• Understand Easing controls – from the basic easing to the advanced custom easing feature.
• Learn how to apply traditional animation techniques like squash and stretch or anticipation to your characters.
• Build your own characters and set up advanced animations like walk cycles and lip sync.

Presenter: John Ulliman

John Ulliman is an Adobe Authorized Instructor and Certified Expert for the Creative Suite of tools, and principal of his own project development company. John has been teaching since the 1st version of Flash. His seminars for designers and animators focus on productivity, animation skills, and advanced navigation techniques. He also works closely with major multimedia studios helping integrate dynamic media solutions.

Go beyond the basics of Shape and Motion Tweens taking a look at all the properties of both.
Discover how to nest your animations using multiple timelines for more advanced movement and control.
Understand Easing controls – from the basic easing to the advanced custom easing feature.
Learn how to apply traditional animation techniques like squash and stretch or anticipation to your characters.
Build your own characters and set up advanced animations like walk cycles and lip sync.

Become a pro with ActionScript by watching interactive, work-along lessons that walk you through the necessary steps of using the built-in classes, new objects, or making your own custom classes and components. You'll also learn the new advanced features of Flash Pro 8 that are only available to ActionScript users including the Drawing API, Bitmap API, and the matrix transformations and displacements. Plus, you'll get a preview of how to use ActionScript in development of mobile applications.

Highlights

* Learn how to use event handlers to associate ActionScript code with a particular object and event. For example, when a user clicks a button on the Stage, you might advance the playhead to the next frame.
* Discover how to use Custom Classes to create a small application in Flash. Your classes compile into the SWF file when you publish the document, allowing everything to work together.
* Use the Custom Component Live Preview in the authoring environment to see what a component will look like when it is active in the presentation.
* Understand how to collect data about color transformations and coordinate transformations with Transform Class.
* Dive into one of the most significant additions to Flash Player 8, bitmap caching. This feature gives you the power to greatly increase the speed at which large amounts of objects are updated and drawn onto the Stage by the renderer.

Highlights:

Learn how to create and animate graphics with new Shape Layers.
Find out how you can bring you animation to life with the new Puppet Tool.
Conjure up some suggested variants in your animations with the new Brainstorm user interface.
Discover how to master some of the new Effects in After Effects CS3.
Experience a streamlined workflow as you learn how to import your exising Photoshop layers.