Video#1: Understanding Adobe Photoshop Features You Will Use
(9 minutes and 38 seconds)
Adobe Photoshop can be a complex tool only because you can do so much with it, however in this video series, we're going to keep it as simple as possible. In fact, in this video you'll see an overview of the few tools and Adobe Photoshop features we will use. When you see this video, you'll see how you can do so much with so few features, but you'll learn how to use them in depth in the future videos.
Video#2: Importance of Royalty Free Images and How to Find Them
(7 minutes and 39 seconds)
When you create your own minisites, you'll need to have access to professional photography to make your designs look great for whatever subject matter. Well, in this video, you'll learn the importance of using Royalty free images and how you can find them to fulfill your needs.
Video#3: How to Use the Adobe Lasso and Crop Tool
(7 minutes and 35 seconds)
The Adobe Photoshop lasso and crop tools are the tools that you'll use to take people and objects out of regular pictures and put into your minisite designs. I'm sure you've seen headers with people or objects in them right? We'll that's where the lasso tool and crop tools come into play. So you'll learn what they can do for you, but most importantly how to use them correctly.
Video#4: How to Work with Layers to Make Art Creation Easier
(5 minutes and 40 seconds)
Layers are the big secret to making photos come to life. In Photoshop you can take several photos and merge them together to make it looks like it's one picture. At the same time, layers will make your life as a minisite creator so much easier, you'll save lots of time. In this video, you'll learn how to use layers to your advantage.
Video#5: How to Understand the Art of Balancing Your Designs
(7 minutes and 59 seconds)
Do you remember looking at a picture and saying to yourself, nice picture, it looks right. Or maybe you thought, "that picture doesn't look right". We'll this is when balancing your designs comes into play. If you learn how to balance your headers, footers, ecovers, more correctly you'll learn how to make your minisites look right when people look at them.
Video#6: How to Create a Minisite Header
(11 minutes and 14 seconds)
Here's the fun part. You were shown videos 1-5 for a reason, that is, to help you understand the basic fundamental concepts before you got started creating the actual designs. The best part, is that you can take videos 1-5 and apply them to other things besides just minisites! So with that said in this video, you'll learn how to create a professional minisite header using the tools in Adobe Photoshop and what you learned earlier.
Video#7: How to Create a Minisite E-Book, DVD, E-cover
(9 minutes and 47 seconds)
Just as it says, you'll learn how to take the header you designed in the previous video and create an ebook or dvd ecover. You see, creating the header first allows you to understand how to easily transfer the designs to the ecover and balance it out.
Video#8: How to Create a Minisite Background and Footer
(6 minutes and 41 seconds)
Lastly, you'll learn how to create the final touches of the minisite, which is the background and the footer. These two are very easy to create, because you can use your learning experience from videos 6 and 7 to transfer those ideas to video 8.
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