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October 2, 2006

Photoshop Web Graphics Tutorial and Slides

This tutorial and slide presentation teaches you how to use Photoshop with web graphics. They contain illustrated explanations of the web graphics features being taught, giving you step-by-step instructions for creating compelling graphics for your web sites.

Photoshop Web Graphics Tutorial and Slides

  • Web Graphics with Photoshop Tutoral  [pdf, 8 pages, 168kb]
    • Saving Images for the Web
      • Tools
      • Tabs
      • Zoom Level Display
      • Image Size tab
      • JPEG images
      • GIF images
    • Images in HTML
    • Background Images
    • Transparency in Images
      • Transparent Image Wizard
      • The Background Eraser
      • The Magic Eraser
      • The Extract Command
  • Web Graphics with Photoshop slides  [ppt, 10 slides, 41kb]
    • Graphics on the Web
    • File Size and Resolution
    • Image Size Suggestions (pixels)
    • Web Safe Colors
    • File Types on the Web
    • JPEG – Joint Photographic Experts Group
    • GIF – Graphic Interchange Format
    • PNG – Portable Network Graphics

Popularity: 21% [?]


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    October 9, 2006

    Word Workshop Tutorials

    These Workshop Tutorials will teach you how to use Microsoft Word. Each Word tutorial contains illustrated explanations and examples of the features being taught, followed by detailed learning activities. In the classes taught here you will learn the basic skills for using and understanding Word’s features and commands. West Virginia University provides these free computer and software training workshops and materials (most are in pdf format).


    Word Workshop Tutorials

    • Word XP Intro (also good for Word 2003, 20 pages, 245kb)
      • Margins
      • Ruler
      • Format Paragraph
      • Alignment
      • Hanging Indent
      • Format Font
      • Default Font
      • Format Painter
      • Styles
      • Modify Existing Heading Styles
      • Tabs with Dot Leaders
      • Table of Contents
      • Document Map
      • Insert Date
      • Insert Breaks
      • Keep lines of a paragraph together
      • Keep a heading with its first paragraph
      • Widows and Orphans
      • Headers and Footers
      • Tables
      • Mail Merge for Word XP
      • Labels1
      • Create a Template for Future Use
      • Tips for Success
      • Word XP Options

    • Word Mail Merge (Word XP and 2003, 5 pages, 220kb)
      • Mail Merge is a function of Microsoft Word that allows you insert data from a table (Access) or spreadsheet (Excel) into a Word document, field by field. This is used to format and print labels, envelopes, and letters.
    • Word Styles (10 pages, 149kb)
      • What are styles?
      • What good are styles?
      • How are styles applied?
      • What is a template?
      • Activity 1: Viewing styles
      • How do I work with styles in Word?
      • Creating a new style
      • Changing a style
      • Activity 2: Changing and creating styles
      • Moving styles to other documents or templates
      • Replacing multiple instances of a style
      • Activity 3: Replacing and moving styles
      • Styles in Action
      • Step-by-step: Creating a Table of Contents
      • Activity 4: Table of contents..8 ii Using Word with Style

    • Word Skills for ETD Submission (12 pages, 165kb)
      • The content of this course is based on our experience in OIT with assisting graduate students in preparing and submitting their theses and dissertations.
      • The Golden Rule of Word Processing
      • Breaking, Widows, and Orphans
      • Page Breaks
      • Section Breaks
      • Paging ETD, Paging ETD
      • Step-by-step: Page numbering
      • Activity 1: Pagination
      • Word Processing with Style
      • Applying a Style
      • Changing a Style
      • Contentment
      • Step-by-step: Creating a Table of Contents
      • Updating the Table of Contents
      • Activity 2: Table of Contents

    Popularity: 21% [?]


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    Adobe Acrobat Workshop Tutorials

    These Workshop Tutorials will teach you how to use Adobe Acrobat. Each Acrobat tutorial contains illustrated explanations and examples of the features being taught, followed by detailed learning activities. In the classes taught here you will learn the introductory and intermediate skills for using and understanding Acrobat’s features and functions. For reasons why creating PDF documents is a good idea, please see below

    Adobe Acrobat Software Components:

    • Adobe Reader – freely distributed from adobe.com, read and print PDF files
    • Acrobat - read, print, combine, annotate, and enhance PDF files
    • Acrobat Distiller – convert PostScript files to PDF files
    • Acrobat Paper Capture – convert scanned files to PDF
    • Acrobat Web Capture – create a PDF version of a web site or collection of web pages.
    • Acrobat Catalog – create a full-text index of a PDF collection

    Adobe Acrobat Workshop Tutorials
    • Introduction to Acrobat Tutorial (20 pages, 267kb) 
      • Why Create PDF documents?
      • Different methods to create a PDF file
        • Print to the Distiller Printer Driver
        • Using PDFMaker Macro with Microsoft Word
        • Import an image file
      • Enhance a PDF file
      • Acrobat Toolbars
      • Acrobat Reader Tools
        • Scrolling and magnifying
        • Go to a Page
        • Find Tool
      • Bookmarks
      • Changing Text Attributes
      • Change Text Content
      • Adding and Modifying Hyperlinks
      • Pages
        • Insert pages
        • Delete pages
        • Renumber pages
        • Rotate pages
        • Crop pages
      • Preferences
      • Ways to Learn More about Acrobat
      • Introtoduction to Acrobat Data Files [zip]

    • Intermediate Acrobat Tutorial (17 pages, 143kb)
      • Forms: Format, Verify and Calculate
        • Calculate a total
      • Forms: Dates, Combo Boxes, Buttons, Tab Order
        • Date
        • Radio Buttons
        • Combo Box
        • Reset Button
        • Print Button
        • Tab Order
      • Graphics and Acrobat PDF files
        • Image Considerations
        • Compression Options
        • Sources for Images
        • Photographs
        • Screen Snapshots
        • Excel Charts: 3 Techniques
        • Line Drawings
      • Adding Media to a PDF File
        • Add a Sound Annotation
        • Add a Sound File via a Link
        • Sound Notes
      • Adding Annotations
      • Add a movie
      • Catalog Feature
      • Ways to Learn More about Acrobat
      • Intermediate Acrobat Data Files [zip]


    Why create PDF documents?


    General:
    • A PDF file will look pretty much the same on other computers and print the same on printers other than the one that was used by the author.
    • Those who are reading the document do not have to have the original software used to create the file; they just need a copy of the freely distributed Adobe Reader software.
    • Adobe Acrobat PDF files are cross platform; this means that people who are using Macintosh, Windows, and Unix computers can all view and print the same PDF files.
    • Often, a PDF file is smaller than the original document used to create it.
    • Risk of virus transmission is much smaller when using PDF for document exchange via email as opposed to Microsoft Office files.
    • You can embed links to multimedia such as sound files and movie clips; color pictures can be easily and cheaply included.
    • If you complete a PDF form created by someone else, you can save the form for future use. You can export data from a saved form and import data to a new form.
    • With the Professional version of Acrobat, you can create your own forms that look like the originals; when opened in Adobe Reader, the user can complete the form and print it out-it will then appear as if the person used a typewriter.
    Pre-Press: Adobe Acrobat PDF documents are useful for those who send their brochures, newsletters, journal articles, etc. off to be printed by a professional printing company or a publisher. The printer can send you back a PDF version of what the item will look like when it is published; this method is often faster and more accurate than paper drafts or page proofs. Some printers accept PDF files as the source material for their printing; the printer then doesn’t have to have the fonts or original application that was used to create the document.

    Collaborative Writing: PDF files are a useful way to jointly edit a document. The files can be easily shared via email attachments or from a web server. Acrobat tools such as sticky notes, highlighter, and pencil can be used to add comments or call attention to items that need correction. All collaborators who want to mark up the PDF file must have a copy of the Adobe Acrobat software.

    Popularity: 24% [?]


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    October 10, 2006

    Microsoft Project Slides, Examples, and Tutorial

    These Workshop Slides, Examples, and Tutorial will teach you how to use Microsoft Project. The Project tutorial contains illustrated explanations and examples of the features being taught, followed by detailed learning activities. These slides, examples and tutorial will help you will learn the basic skills for using and understanding Project’s features and functions.


    Project Management Workshop Slides, Examples, and Tutorial

    • Project Management Concepts Presentation – 42 Slides
      • Project Management Concepts
      • Why bother?
      • Survey Results
      • Projects, Programs, and Operations
      • What is a Project?
      • Why Projects Fail
      • Golden Rules of Project Success
      • Golden Rules (continued)
      • Purpose of Project Management
      • Project Management
      • Stakeholders
      • Success of a Project
      • Communications Channels
      • Successful Project Manager
      • Basic Project Management Step
      • Initiate the Project
      • Plan
      • Implement
      • Close
      • Project Life Cycle
      • Task Definition
      • Work Breakdown Structure: Outline FormWork Breakdown Structure: Hierarchical Form
      • Common Project Management Diagrams: Gantt Charts,  Calendars, PERT Charts & Critical Paths
      • Project Tracking

    • Introduction to Microsoft Project (pdf, 32 pages, 212kb)
      • Project Environment
      • File Management
        • Creating a new project
        • Opening an Existing Project
        • Saving a Project
      • Project Templates
      • Project Views
      • Tasks
        • Types of tasks
        • Tasks Entry Form
        • New Tasks
        • Moving Tasks
        • Recurring Tasks
        • Deleting Tasks
        • Linking Tasks
      • Resources
        • Adding Resources
        • Removing a Resource
        • Assigning Resources
        • Removing Resource Assignments
        • Viewing Resource Information
      • Data Storage
      • Viewing Project Data
        • Calendar View
        • Gantt Chart
        • Network Diagrams
      • Maintaining your project
        • Creating a baseline
        • Viewing your baseline task sheet
        • Updating Tasks
        • Updating Tasks
        • Tracking Gantt Chart
      • Tools
        • Spell Check
        • AutoCorrect
      • Project Reports
        • Standard Reports
        • Viewing Standard Reports
    • Microsoft Project Class Files [zip] (9 .mpp documents, 176kb)
    Example Reports: Project Plan Template
    • Template Outline is as follows: Executive Summary, Scope, Limitations, Description of Work, Baseline Schedule, Resource Requirements, Cost Analysis, Progress Reports, Attachmentes / References.
    • PDF Version (4 pages, 10kb)
    • Word Version (4 pages)

    Popularity: 98% [?]


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    October 16, 2006

    Word, Excel, and Powerpoint Animated Lessons

    The Instructional Technology Group at the University of Nebraska Lincoln provides the following animated Microsoft Office Tutorials for Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. Each tutorial lesson for these applications is flash-based, and contains text captions explaining the functionality being demonstrated with the mouse and keyboard.

    Microsoft Word Animated Lessons

    Getting Started – Interface

    Creating, Saving and Opening Files

    Navigating and Selecting Text

    Using Cut, Paste and Undo

    Using Spell Check

    Using AutoCorrect

    Printing Envelopes and Labels

    Formatting Text

    Formatting Paragraphs

    Inserting Headers and Footers

    Protecting Your Document

    Margins and Page Setup

    Tabs

    Tab Leaders

    Tables 1

    Tables 2


    Microsoft Excel Animated Lessons

    Getting Started – Interface

    Cursors and Selecting Cells

    Formatting

    Worksheets

    Charts and Objects

    Formulas

    Printing and Page Setup


    Microsoft PowerPoint Animated Lessons

    Auto Content Wizard

    Explore

    Slideview and Navigating

    Editing Slides

    Working with Text

    Slide Transition

    Slide Master

    Graphics and Drawing

    Animation

    Speaker’s Notes and Print Options

    Popularity: 41% [?]


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    Photoshop Animated Lessons

    The Instructional Technology Group at the University of Nebraska Lincoln provides the following animated Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements Tutorials. Each Photoshop tutorial lesson is flash-based, and contains text captions explaining the functionality being demonstrated with the mouse and keyboard.


    Adobe Photoshop Animated Lessons

    Introduction to PhotoShop

    Selection Concepts

    Image Adjustments

    Color Concepts and Brushes

    Cloning and Erasing

    Layers

    Gradients, Text and History Features

    Zooming, Resizing and Saving Files


    Adobe Photoshop Elements Tutorials

    Startup Wizard

    The interface

    The HowTo Palette

    Opening a photo

    The Toolbar

    Selections

    Selections part 2

    Cropping and Autolevels

    Fixing a bad photo

    Fixing a bad photo part 2

    Shapes and Layers

    Photo merge

    Special Effects

    Popularity: 21% [?]


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    Flash Animated Lessons

    The Instructional Technology Group at the University of Nebraska Lincoln provides the following animated Macromedia Flash Tutorials. Each Flash tutorial lesson is flash-based, and contains text captions explaining the functionality being demonstrated with the mouse and keyboard.


    Macromedia Flash Animated Lessons

    Stage Area

    Line Tool

    Oval Tool

    Rectangle Tool

    Timeline Overview

    Layers

    Keyframes and Frames

    Motion Tween

    Motion Tween with Different Size

    Motion Tween with Rotation

    Motion Tween with Rotation 2

    Motion Tween with Alpha

    Guided Motion

    Shape Tween Changing Objects

    Shape Tween Changing Colors

    Shape Tween Changing Text

    Mask Layer

    Creating an Object Button

    Creating an Invisible Button

    Popularity: 20% [?]


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    Fireworks Animated Lessons

    The Instructional Technology Group at the University of Nebraska Lincoln provides the following animated Macromedia Fireworks Tutorials. Each Fireworks tutorial lesson is flash-based, and contains text captions explaining the functionality being demonstrated with the mouse and keyboard.


    Macromedia Fireworks Animated Lessons

    What is Fireworks?

    Working with Photos

    Bitmap and Vector Images

    The Toolbar

    Working with the Canvas

    The Property Inspector Panel

    Working with Text, Objects & Styles

    Text Styles Part 2

    Creating an Image Map

    Creating a Button Bar

    Using Fireworks Files in Dreamweaver

    Popularity: 24% [?]


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    Dreamweaver Animated Lessons

    The Instructional Technology Group at the University of Nebraska Lincoln provides the following animated Macromedia Dreamweaver Tutorials. Each Dreamweaver tutorial lesson is flash-based, and contains text captions explaining the functionality being demonstrated with the mouse and keyboard.


    Macromedia Dreamweaver Animated Lessons

    Introduction to Dreamweaver

    Defining a Site

    Creating New Files

    Inserting and Formatting Text

    Inserting Images

    Aligning Images

    Working with Files

    Tables

    Links

    E-mail Link

    Page Properties

    Templates

    Rollover Button

    Creating an Image Map

    Creating a Web Album

    The Remote Site

    Popularity: 24% [?]


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    October 18, 2006

    Free Microsoft Word 2000 Course

    Here is a free web-based training course for Microsoft Word 2000. This course covers how to create and edit documents, how to automate text entry, formatting, and tracking changes, how to format and print a document, and how to use word styles and enhance document layout.

    Free Microsoft Word 2000 Course

    1. Introducing Word 2000
    Features of Word 2000
    Getting Started
    Quiz

    2. Creating and Editing Documents
    Creating a Document
    Editing a Document
    Quiz

    3. Proofreading Documents
    Searching and Proofreading
    Automating Text Entry and Formatting
    Tracking Changes
    Quiz

    4. Formatting and Printing Documents
    Formatting a Document
    Printing a Document
    Quiz

    5. Advanced Formatting
    Using Word Styles
    Enhancing Document Layout
    Quiz

    Popularity: 20% [?]


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