Interaction Design, Social Media, Technology Education

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Photoshop: Introduction

Photoshop: Introduction

Learn the basic tools and operations of Photoshop, a powerful image editing program used by professional designers and photographers. In this introductory workshop, even average users can learn the fundamental techniques involved in improving family snapshots, creating web images, or even creating complex works of art. This workshop focuses on producing images for computer screens rather than for print.

Photoshop: Masks

Photoshop: Masks

This workshop examines the use of Photoshop masks to manipulate images. Among other benefits, masking allows users to alter an image without changing the original. Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to create a layer mask, hide and reveal portions of the mask, and use the masks to blend layers of several photos.

Windows Movie Maker

Windows Movie Maker

Learn the basics of video editing using Windows Movie Maker, a free product available in Windows XP. Windows Movie Maker makes home movies amazingly fun and extremely easy. With Movie Maker you can create, edit, and share your home movies right on your computer.

Flash: Introduction

Flash: Introduction

Flash is the industry standard application for creating animations and interactivity for websites, CD presentations, educational endeavors, game design, and more. This workshop provides an overview of Flash, explains the software interface, and provides a basic understanding of how to work in Flash.

Flash: Motion Tweening

Flash: Motion Tweening

Using keyframes, motion tweens, and motion paths, Flash users can create complex animations quickly and easily. This workshop covers some of the basic animation techniques used to create Flash movies for websites and CD presentations.

Flash: Navigation

Flash: Navigation

Flash action tools are extraordinarily flexible and can be used to make powerful navigation structures. Whether creating presentations from an existing PowerPoint file or building a presentation from scratch, Flash’s powerful scripting tools make it easy to create dynamic, non-linear navigation structures. This workshop builds on the material covered in the first two worshops.

Dreamweaver: Web design with Dreamweaver

Dreamweaver: Web design with Dreamweaver

Favored by many web design professionals, Dreamweaver is less user-friendly than FrontPage, but it is a powerful tool for creating web pages. This workshop introduces participants to the Dreamweaver interface and shows them how to use the program to create a simple web site.

Dreamweaver: Databases and Forms

Dreamweaver: Databases and Forms

This advanced Dreamweaver workshop teaches the basics of building web pages with dynamic database-driven content and is intended for individuals already familiar with the Dreamweaver interface, HTML, and CSS.

Dreamweaver: Designing with Cascading Style Sheets

Dreamweaver: Designing with Cascading Style Sheets

Style sheets allow web designers to more easily manage a large web site, create a unified look between web pages, separate content from design, and even create complex page designs without using tables. Participants in this workshop learn how to create, modify, and attach style sheets to web pages.

Creating PDF Documents

Creating PDF Documents

Learn to create PDF documents using Adobe Acrobat, a utility program that creates files (.pdf Portable Document Format) that are cross-platform and cross-media. This format was originally designed to assist publishers (including newspaper publishers) by keeping file sizes small while retaining the full layout and look of the document, including graphics, fonts, and links. The files can be optimized for print or for screen delivery.