Here is a nice Photoshop Elements Tutorial, at the University of the Incarnate Word. This Photoshop Elements tutorial includes instructions on how to scan images, and will give you insight into techniques for editing graphics using Photoshop Elements. The various scanning processes for different scanners are explained with screenshots. This tutorial teaches various features of Photoshop elements, as listed below, and also provides some tips for editing images in Office. The document is 4.10 Mb in size, is in pdf format, and contains 57 pages.


Photoshop Elements Tutorial
 - Photoshop and Scanners
 - Epson Scanning Basics
 - The HP Scanner
 - Scanning Images
 - Adobe Photoshop Elements
   - The Organizer, Photo Browser View
   - Editing images and graphics
   - Edit Window
   - Quick Fix Window
   - The Photo Organizer Find Menu
   - The Photo Editor
   - Editing Tools and Toolbars
   - The File, Image, and Enhance Editor Menus 
   - Editor Layer, Select, and Filter Menus
   - Editor View and Window Menus
   - Templates
 - Image Editing in Office
   - Screen Captures
   - Pasting Images
   - Resizing
   - Cropping

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Here are 6 freely available ebooks covering 5 Adobe applications as linked here. These are Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, Flash, and Dreamweaver.


Adobe Application eBooks:

 - Photoshop Quick Reference ebook

 - Adobe Illustrator ebook

 - Fireworks ebook

 - Flash MX ebook

 - Flash ebook 2

 - Dreamweaver ebook

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Here are 3 Photoshop eBooks, one for Photoshop CS and two covering Photoshop CS2. These will teach you many of Photoshop’s features and tools and how to use them. The CS ebook deals mainly with photographs, the CS2 ebooks cover editing graphics and photos, and using many of the editing tools available in the application. These Photoshop ebooks are in pdf format.


 - Photoshop CS eBook

 - Photoshop CS2 eBook 1

 - Photoshop CS2 eBook 2

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Here are some excellent Dreamweaver Course Materials at University of Minnesota. Dreamweaver is a web development application for Mac and Windows operating systems. These Dreamweaver course materials describe some of Dreamweaver’s new features, tips to quickly create and manage websites, incorporating Dreamweaver with an already existing site, using CSS and designing page layouts.


Dreamweaver CS3: Creating Basic Web Sites 7.67 Mb, 113 Pages
This Dreamweaver course materials discusses the creation of a new website, the use of a template, using formats and editing web pages.

 - LESSON 1 – CREATE A NEW SITE
 - LESSON 2 – CREATE A NEW PAGE
 - LESSON 3 – CREATE A PAGE HEADER
 - LESSON 4 – CREATE A PAGE BODY
 - LESSON 5 – CREATE A PAGE FOOTER
 - LESSON 6 – CREATE A CLASS STYLE
 - LESSON 7 – UPLOAD A NEW SITE TO A WEB SERVER
 - LESSON 8 – CREATE A TEMPLATE
 - LESSON 9 – USE A TEMPLATE
 - LESSON 10 – UPDATE A TEMPLATE
 - LESSON 11 – APPLY OTHER COMMONLY USED FORMATS TO CONTENT
 - LESSON 12 – SYNCHRONIZE A SITE
 - LESSON 13 – DETERMINE A WEB SITE’S FORMATTING
 - LESSON 14 – SET UP DREAMWEAVER TO WORK WITH AN EXISTING SITE
 - LESSON 15 – EDIT WEB PAGES FORMATTED WITH HTML
 - APPENDIX A – TURN OFF THE CSS EDITING OPTION
 - APPENDIX B – RGB HEX TRIPLETS


Dreamweaver CS3: Creating Basic Web Pages Intro Handout 803.6 Kb, 2 Pages
This Dreamweaver course material explains to users how quickly create web pages along with their structure, containers, content and the best practices followed in designing them.

 - THE BASIC EQUATION FOR A WEB PAGE
 - STRUCTURE / CONTAINERS
 - CONTENT
 - BEST PRACTICES


Dreamweaver CS3: CSS for Presentation 1.46 Mb, 79 Pages
This Dreamweaver course material provides information on using CSS within Dreamweaver, CSS features, its basics, and how to implement control over various functionalities of a web page.

 - LESSON 1 – CASCADING STYLE SHEET BASICS
 - LESSON 2 – CREATE A NEW STYLE SHEET
 - LESSON 3 – CREATE CLASS STYLES
 - LESSON 4 – CREATE CSS STYLE RULES FOR HYPERLINKS
 - LESSON 5 – ADDING STYLE SHEET TO ADDITIONAL PAGES
 - LESSON 6 – USE CSS TO CONTROL BACKGROUND IMAGES (OPTIONAL)
 - LESSON 7 – ADD CSS TO A SITE THAT PREVIOUSLY USED HTML FORMATTING (OPTIONAL)
 - APPENDIX A – CSS PROPERTIES
 - APPENDIX B – GLOSSARY


Dreamweaver CS3: CSS for Page Layout 8.29 Mb, 184 Pages
This 184 page Dreamweaver course material discusses the preparation of web page layout using CSS, column creation, creation of a printer style sheet and creating a callout box.

 - LESSON 1 – PREP A TABLE-BASED LAYOUT FOR A CSS LAYOUT
 - LESSON 2 – APPLY CSS RULES FOR A BASIC FIXED-WIDTH CSS LAYOUT
 - LESSON 3 – REFINE THE FOOTER LAYOUT
 - LESSON 4 – CREATE THE TWO COLUMNS
 - LESSON 5 – CREATE A FAUX COLUMN
 - LESSON 6 – CREATE A HORIZONTAL NAVIGATION BAR
 - LESSON 7 – CSS FOR DESIGN: AN UNORDERED LIST INCOGNITO
 - LESSON 8 – CREATE A PRINTER STYLE SHEET
 - LESSON 9 – CREATE A 3 COLUMN LAYOUT
 - LESSON 10 – SET A MINIMUM WIDTH FOR A LIQUID LAYOUT
 - LESSON 11 – CREATE A CALLOUT BOX WITH ROUNDED EDGES
 - LESSON 12 – CREATE A VERTICAL NAVIGATION BAR (EXTENDED LESSON)
 - APPENDIX A – DON’T REINVENT THE WHEEL: RESOURCES ON WHICH TO BUILD YOUR CSS LAYOUT
 - APPENDIX B – THE BOX MODEL
 - APPENDIX C – GREAT RESOURCES FOR CSS LAYOUTS


Class Files (.zip)
This section contains the class file for the above course materials that can be downloaded and view at leisure later.

 - Dreamweaver CS3: Creating Basic Web Pages
 - Dreamweaver CS3: CSS for Presentation
 - Dreamweaver CS3: CSS for Page Layout

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Here are 3 Photoshop Tutorials, hosted at the University of Pennylvania Library. Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program and is the current market leader in image manipulation software. These Photoshop tutorials discuss the basics of Photoshop, and also several intermediate features, such as Layers and the Crop Tool in Photoshop.


Photoshop Basics
This tutorial discusses the bare basics for Photoshop, such as what Photoshop is, where to get it, different file formats, image resolution and selection tools. This tutorial can be downloaded for later reference. The course explains the below features of Photoshop.

 - What Photoshop is and where to get it
 - The basics of image resolution and file formats
 - How to use the Photoshop interface
 - How to paint and erase
 - How to use the selection tools
 - Basic techniques for retouching your photos and improving image quality


Photoshop, Beyond the Basics: Intro to Layers
This tutorial discusses Layers in Photoshop and how it is used effectively in images. Layers are used to add opacity, masks and styles. This section also explains the different types of layers, such as normal, background, type and adjustment layers. The workshop hand outs can be downloaded here. This workshop explains the below topics.

 - What layers are and why they are useful
 - How to use the Layers palette
 - How to create, move, reorder, and align/distribute layers
 - About layer opacity
 - About different types of layers, such as the background, normal layers, and type layers, and adjustment layers.
 -  About layer masks
 - How to add layer styles


Using the Crop Tool in Photoshop
This tutorial imparts knowledge on the Crop tool and how it is effectively used to crop sections of an image. This tutorial can be downloaded for later use.

Popularity: 40% [?]