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LEARN SOME OF WHAT IS TAUGHT IN THE LESSONS!
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LEVEL 1
Lesson one
1 How to center an image in the header
2 Use the dropper to select the
background
color
3 How to select a font and font color
4 Add a footer note with a hyperlink
5 How to save your stationery to
both Letter Creator and to IncrediMail!
6 Learn to Undo.... Ctrl + Z or Edit >
Undo
Lesson 2
1 How to open a transparent image.
2 How to adjust the view size of what
you are working on! - +
3 How to Select Foreground and
Background colors
4 How to select and use the
Foreground-Background Gradient
5 How to use the FloodFill Tool
6 How to make a Scrolling Stationery
Where the text moves but the background
remains in place.
7 How to change the color of your text
in Letter Creator
Lesson 3
1 How to make a
duplicate of your graphic
2 How to Add Borders, selecting the
color and size to make a frame around
a graphic.
3 What the symmetric setting is used
for.
4 How to select a border using the
Magic Wand Tool
5 Learn what Marching Ants are
6 How to add an Inner Bevel effect
7 How to save and select Presets
8 How to set the effects to the Default
settings
made by the manufacturer!
Lesson 4
1 How to make a Seamless Background
Tile
from the graphic that you used for your
framed image.
2 What is a Background Tile
3 How to make a BG Tile Seamless
4 How to use the Preview Screen
5 What is a Text Friendly Background
6 How to change the Layer Opacity
7 How to make it tile in Letter Creator
Lesson 5
1 Flood Fill Tool: Fill
Selections
2 Use the Geometric Circle Effect
for 2 different purposes.
3 More resizing practice
4 Purpose of Sharpen
5 How to select an odd shape with the
magic wand
6 How to save a partial transparency
explained
7 Jaggies and how to help prevent them!
8 Using Keyboard Shortcuts
9 Making a corner from your graphic
Lesson 6
1 How to make a corner
from your framed
image
2 Placement method to put one in each
corner of your frame.
Lesson 7
1 Make a simple background tile
2 Practice changing font type
3 Changing Font size
4 Changing colors for the text, link and
signature
5 Placement method of side border icons
6 How to copy and paste icons from the
Left to the Right side
In this lesson we put all the parts
into
Letter Creator and make stationery from
what we have done in Lessons 5 & 6.
Lesson 8
1 Keyboard Shortcut to
duplicate graphic
2 How to find the center of a
graphic using
the Ruler
3 How to draw an ellipse
selection from
the center.
4 How to use the feather with
the selection
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LEVEL 2
Lesson 9
1 What Side Border Stationery is
and
how to make one of them.
2 How to paste into a selection...
aka
putting a square into a round shape!
3 Use a circle selection shape
4 Using the Canvas option to
enlarge
your image.
5 Use the twirl and pixelate
effects to
make a background from a graphic
6 Use Edge Enhance for more
definition
7 Introduction to Layer Modes
8 Using the graphic to determine
your
font color
9 Setting the text placement margin
Lesson 10
1 Learn to draw different Selection
Types
2 Use the Mover Tool to move active
Selections
3 Learn to modify Selection sizes
Lesson 11
1 How to set your effects to the
Default setting.
2 Duplicate a layer
3 Introduction to using the Custom
Selection
4 How and when to use the Marquee
function.
5 Using the Keyboard Keys to move
an active selection.
6 Floating selection layer function
explained.
7 How to see the preview windows in
your layer palette so see the layers
contents.
Lesson 12
1 Shortcut from the layer palette.
2 How to make effective looking
cutouts.
3 Learn about the Freehand
Selection Tool
Lesson 13
This lesson will teach you how to
manipulate vectors!
Lesson 14
1 Learn to make Cutouts both in
color
and clear tones.
2 Selection from a Vector object
3 Practice combining Selections
Lesson 15
1 How to buttonize
2 Use the Text Tool
3 Automatically center a vector
4 How to make a footer for
yourself
5 JPEG or GIF?
How to decide which one to use!
6 Breaking out to be creative
Lesson 16
1 Make preset shapes
2 Save your Preset Shape so you
can
use it over and over in the
future!
3 Use preset shapes to make a
Vector Frame!
4 Shortcuts from your Layers
Palette!
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LEVEL 3
Lesson 17
1 How to add fonts to Letter
Creator
2 How to do a screen capture shot
3 First use of the (R) Crop Tool
shown.
4 Common sense philosophy about
fonts and their use.
Lesson 18
1 Why font effects are so important
2 How to set up autosize options
3 How to use Autosave
4 How to save your font settings as
a preset
5 How the font settings effect your
results.
Lesson 19
1 Text on a path variations
2 Using Text on a path with a
graphic
3 Importance of Alignment selection
4 Removing the shape
5 Using Drop Shadow with a
transparent
gif.. strategy explained.
6 How to get rid of excessive
transparent
areas.
7 Using the Layer Opaque option
8 Introduction to using the
Colorize
option.
Lesson 20
1 How to make a Picture Tube
2 Two ways to save a tube
3 How to make and save a watermark
4 Have fun adding Callout Preset
shapes
to your tubes!
5 Make a matching footer from your
tube
6 Use two different alignments in
your
footer!
Lesson 21
1 Importance of Color Depth
2 How to use Animation shop to help
tube
3 How to change the color scheme of
your transparency grid.
4 Learn the importance of Tolerance
settings.
5 Advanced tubing techniques
6 Use the Eraser Tool
7 Use the Hue Brush Tool
8 Use the Deformation Tool
9 How to make a reflective image
Lesson 22
1 Use the Freehand Selection
Tool
to help make a Picture Tube
2 Make a Custom Brush and use it!
Lesson 23
1 How to Mask from Image
2 Colorizing your drop shadows
in a creative way
3 Using the handle in the drop
shadow
settings instead of typing numbers.
4 Adding Drop shadows to Drop
Shadows
5 Create a Colorful Header using
Drop Shadows
6 Apply the Canvas Size function in
several ways.
7 See some ways to use
the Shadow
on new layer function to your
advantage.
8 More tricks using the Deform
tool.
9 Make borders NOT using the
symmetric
function.
Lesson 24
1 How to save collections in LC
and how to convert individual files
into IM format that will
automatically
create a folder and download the
contents
into it!
LEVEL 4
Lesson 25
1 Learn about masks
2 What they are
3 How to use them
4 How to make them yourself!
Lesson 26
1 How to add shortcuts to your
toolbar
2 Make your icons Big or Small
3 How to save your Workspace
Lesson 27
1 Make a transparent Marquee Banner
and some about Animation Shop!
Lesson 28
1 How to add text to an animation in
AnimationShop
Lesson 29
1 Basics about plugins aka filters
2 Make a BG tile using Simple
Filters
3 Make a Frame using Simple
Filters
Lesson 30
1 Manually moving layers
2 Click and Drag instead of
edit > copy
Edit > paste > paste as new
layer
3 Renaming layers
Lesson 31
1 Creating with slats
2 Side Border Icons made with slats
**Lesson 32**
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