Starting With Blank Canvas 1.11.2005-21.12.2005

Week1 * Shapes
Color Schemes, Web-safe colors, Printing Gamut Concerns, Vector vs. Raster Graphics, Photoshop's Shape Tools, Compound Shapes, Combining Path Components, Making your own Shape Library, Creating a Custom Shape, Line Tool options and arrows, Filling the canvas with lines, gradients, Plaid, Halftone, Patterns, Grids

Week 2 * Love Your Pen
The pen tool options, What's so great about the Pen Tools, Making a path with pen tools ,Placing anchor points, Manipulating the Breezier handles, Filling & Stroking a Path, Making a Path into a Selection, Using a Vector Mask, Defining a Custom Shape from a path, Saving a Path, Saving a File with a Path, Compound Paths, Using a Pen tools to clean up a logo, Combining path components

Week 3 * Textures
Making a Stone filling the canvas with several filters, Using Lightning Effects, Making a Wood Using the Fibers filter, Using the Liquify filter, Making a Pattern Layer Style, Making a Pattern, Making a Layer Style from our own Pattern, Painting with a Layer Style, Making a Marble, Primordial soup, "Plant" Photoshop Grass, Using Photoshop's brushes

Week4 * Type
Typesetting's, Choosing fontage & sizes, The Character Palette, Kerning, Tracking, Leading, Vertical Scale, Baseline Shift, Text and Paths, Text on a path, Text in a circle, Warps, Converting text to a path, Manipulating text the shapes of letters, Filling type with type, Special Text Effects, Postcard text, Carving effects.

Week5 * Taste of reality
Making a ball, Using radial Gradient, Using a Highlight brush, Building boxes, Making perspective lines, Another way to mark vanishing points, Using Guidelines, Select & Fill using Gradients, Making Pipes, Creating a Custom Gradient, Editing a Gradient, Saving a Gradient, Using complex selection and guideline, Creating Wires & Hoses, Stroking a path, Moving a path, Making a shading brush, Creating a Brush Preset, Working with selections, Making and using a Layer Set, Building Cones, Using Distortion Transformation.

Week 6 * The Wonder of it All
Creating an Action to mark the center of the canvas, Amazing Gradients, Using Guidelines, Marking the Center of the Canvas, Using Gradients, Using Blending Modes, Iterative Transformation, Performing a transformation, Repeating a transformation onto a single layer, Snowflakes, Using just a part of the path, Compound paths (reprise), Duplicating a path, Transforming a path, Combining a path, Filling a path, Spirals, Finger painting in Photoshop, Using the noise Filter, Using the Crystallize Filter, Using the Liquify Filter