| Course Title | Level | Duration | Released | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| InDesign CS2 Professional Typography | Intermediate | 6h 56m | 11/2005 | {8} | |
| InDesign CS3 Professional Typography | Intermediate | 6h 33m | 02/2008 | {8} | |
| InDesign CS3 Long Documents | Intermediate | 5h 57m | 05/2008 | {8} | |
| Designing a Business Card | Intermediate | 36m 7s | 09/2008 | {8} | |
| Designing a Logo | Intermediate | 2h 57m | 09/2008 | {8} | |
| Designing a Poster | Intermediate | 2h 16m | 03/2009 | {8} | |
| Designing a Brochure | Intermediate | 3h 19m | 04/2009 | {8} | |
| Designing a Magazine Layout | Intermediate | 3h 25m | 05/2009 | {8} | |
| Designing a Newsletter | Intermediate | 3h 22m | 06/2009 | {8} | |
| Photoshop for Designers: Type Essentials | Intermediate | 2h 37m | 06/2011 | {8} | |
| InDesign CS4: Typography | Intermediate | 7h 4m | 09/2009 | {8} | |
| Designing a Book Cover | Intermediate | 2h 46m | 08/2010 | {8} | |
| Designing a CD Cover | Intermediate | 3h 10m | 09/2010 | {8} | |
| Photoshop for Designers: Layer Effects | Intermediate | 3h 3m | 05/2011 | {8} | |
| Photoshop for Designers: Textures | Intermediate | 4h 38m | 09/2011 | {8} | |
| Photoshop for Designers: Shape Layers | Intermediate | 2h 53m | 08/2011 | {8} | |
| Photoshop for Designers: Color | Intermediate | 5h 18m | 01/2012 | {8} | |
| Photoshop for Designers: Type Effects | Intermediate | 4h 36m | 07/2012 | {8} | |
| Designing a Restaurant Menu | Appropriate for all | 2h 46m | 01/2012 | {8} | |
| InDesign Typography | Intermediate | 8h 20m | 08/2012 | {8} | |
| Designing a Magazine Cover | Intermediate | 2h 45m | 10/2012 | {8} | |
| Developing a Style Guide | Appropriate for all | 23m 25s | 10/2012 | {8} | |
| Photoshop for Designers: Working with Illustrator | Intermediate | 3h 6m | 06/2013 | {8} | |
| Designing a Book | Intermediate | 4h 13m | 05/2013 | {8} | |
| Designing a Logo for a Media Company | Intermediate | 53m 51s | 03/2013 | {8} | |
| Photoshop for Designers: Filters | Intermediate | 5h 37m | 04/2013 | {8} | |
| Designing an Invitation | Intermediate | 1h 16m | 03/2013 | {8} | |
| Designing a Photo Book | Appropriate for all | 46m 22s | 05/2013 | {8} | |
In this Photoshop for Designers course, Nigel French focuses on the tools and features in Photoshop designed for choosing, applying, and editing color. The course looks at concepts such as the color wheel and color harmonies as well as the practicalities of using the Color Picker, leveraging the power of color channels, and the characteristics of different color modes in Photoshop. The course includes exercises on correcting color, enhancing color, shifting and replacing colors, working with spot color channels, hand coloring black and white images, and designing with a reduced color palette.
Topics include:
- Defining color terms
- Using Kuler to create color palettes
- Understanding additive and subtractive color
- Understanding color management
- Using the Levels, Curves, Auto Tone, and Auto Contrast adjustments
- Color correction
- Selecting color—from the Magic Wand to Color Range
- Neutralizing blacks and whites with blend modes
- Matching colors
- Saturating and de-saturating colors
- Increasing saturation with Vibrance
- Designing with spot color
- Colorizing images
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