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Course Description: PhotoImpact: Fun with Paths - Virginia Miller and Sharon Cataldo

This is a six-week course revolving around PhotoImpact's Path Tools. We will have six weeks of lessons, where you will have several exercises each week. The final certificate will be granted upon completion of each week's homework. There is a seventh week for review, sharing new creations, and finishing up any unfinished exercises.

You will need a copy of PhotoImpact, preferably Version 8 or later. You may use a trial version but it will not carry you through the entire course. You must be versed in the basics of PhotoImpact. You should know where the tools are and be reasonably comfortable using them. If you are new to PhotoImpact, please consider the Beginner's Workshop before signing up for this course.

Lessons

Week 1

Overview of the Path tools
Raster... Vector... is there a difference?
Path, Outline, Line & Arrow, Path Edit tools
Make a Path Shape
A look in-depth:
The Attribute Bar
The Path Panel
The Material Panel

Week 2

The Easy Palette:
Text/Path Effects
Using & customizing PI's presets
Creating your own presets
Learning to share, and be shared with
Using the Text Style & Type Galleries
Fun with Wrap & Deform

Week 3

Path Editing
Creating Custom Path Shapes
Trace Tool
Using clipart or your own photographs
Horizontal & Vertical Deform
Continue Draw
Creating a kit to save or share (like the watering can)
Using Text as Path

Week 4

These tools really do work:
The Spline
The Bezier
The Freehand

Week 5

How to Z-merge... and why
The Layer Manager
Finishing touches
Using the retouch & paint tools
Using Path tools elsewhere
Creating a selection

Week 6

The Final Exercise

Week 7

Wrap up and Review

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