60 Lessons
Daily doses of smart.™

Art and design lessons tailored for the classroom:

• 45-minute daily lessons
• 10 lessons per unit
• 60 lessons per course
• Instructor guides with assessment rubrics
• Unit reviews
• Unit projects
• Unit quizzes

Proposed Subjects:

• Photoshop
• Illustrator
• Dreamweaver
• HTML and XHTML
• CSS
• drawing
• and more!

The 60 Lessons Vision

The lessons at 60Lessons.com are designed specifically for the classroom. They are intended to be 45-minutes long, and grouped into 10 lessons at a time as lesson units.

Units will also have the following materials available: review lessons, projects, assessment rubrics, and quizzes. These materials will help a teacher provide exercises which integrate lessons with broader design topics, and to conduct formative and summative assessments.

This 10-pack structure makes it easy to organize lessons into two-week blocks, with one week following for review, projects and assessment. In this way, 6 units will span a typical school semester of 18 weeks.

Home-schooling parents and teachers can similarly make use of 60Lessons.com, allowing the student to complete lessons on his/her own and turn in the completed lesson files for grading.

The 60Lessons.com curricula are based on real college standards for their respective subjects. Because of this, they might later be adapted for a college credit-earning system. Accreditation and live instructors would be needed for transformation of 60Lessons.com into an online school. Alternately, 60Lessons.com might be contracted by existing colleges to provide online coursework.

Course Topics

Photoshop Level I [PS I]

• Unit 1: Image Basics [PS I-1]
  1. rearranging and saving workspaces
  2. menus and panels
  3. basic tools and the Control panel
  4. preferences and keyboard shortcuts
  5. new, open, duplicate, and save as
  6. navigating in an image
  7. arranging windows
  8. file formats and bitmap versus vector
  9. Canvas Size, Image Size and resolution
  10. Crop and straighten
• Unit 2: Luminosity and Color [PS I-2]
  1. grayscale, levels and histograms
  2. RGB, CMYK, indexed and Lab
  3. basic color theory
  4. Color Picker, Color and Swatches panels
  5. auto corrections
  6. Hue/Saturation and colorizing
  7. Variations, Match Color, Curves, and Shadows & Highlights
  8. Red Eye, Eyedropper, and Color Sampler tools
  9. channels basics
  10. brush basics
• Unit 3: Painting and Filters [PS I-3]
  1. history panel
  2. fill and stroke
  3. brush options
  4. cloning, healing and retouching
  5. gradient basics
  6. Art History brush
  7. Eraser tools
  8. sharpening and blurring
  9. Dodge, Burn, Sponge, and Smudge tools
  10. Liquify and Filter Gallery
• Unit 4: Selections [PS I-4]
  1. Move tool
  2. Lasso tools
  3. Marquee tools
  4. Magic Wand and Quick Selection
  5. adding to, subtracting from, and intersecting
  6. Select menu and refining selections
  7. Refine Edge
  8. Color Range
  9. loading and saving selections
  10. Transform
• Unit 5: Layers [PS I-5]
  1. adding, moving, deleting, merging and grouping
  2. visibility, opacity and locking
  3. layer effects
  4. blend modes
  5. layer masks
  6. adjustment layers
  7. clipping masks
  8. Blend If sliders
  9. Smart Objects
  10. Smart Filters
• Unit 6: Text, Shapes and Paths [PS I-6]
  1. text basics
  2. warped and vertical text
  3. Character and Paragraph panels
  4. good typography
  5. basic shapes
  6. custom shapes
  7. vector masks
  8. paths panel
  9. Path Selection and Direct Selection tools
  10. pen tool basics

Photoshop Level II [PS II]

• Unit 1: Work Flow [PS II-1]
  1. Adobe Bridge
  2. Camera Raw
  3. printing and prepress
• Unit 2: Color [PS II-2]
  1. advanced gradients
  2. duotone and other modes
  3. channels
  4. Calculations
  5. color management
  6. color correcting with Lab
• Unit 3: Layers [PS II-3]
  1. advanced gradients
  2. advanced layer styles
  3. clipping masks and blending sliders
  4. advanced layer effects
  5. advanced layer masks
• Unit 4: Painting [PS II-4]
  1. advanced filters
  2. patterns and offset
  3. custom brush settings
  4. advanced retouching/restoration
  5. advanced cloning
• Unit 5: Vector [PS II-5]
  1. Pen tool
  2. advanced paths
  3. text on a path
  4. advanced typography
• Unit 6: Special Features [PS II-6]
  1. Save for Web
  2. Actions and batch
  3. annotation

Photoshop Level III [PS III]

• Unit 1: Work Flow [PS III-1]
  1. working with Illustrator
  2. working with InDesign
• Unit 2: Image Manipulation [PS III-2]
  1. advanced textures
  2. advanced photo collage
  3. advanced photo manipulation
  4. graphic design projects
• Unit 3: Special Features [PS III-3]
  1. content-aware scaling
  2. Automated commands
  3. plugins
• Unit 4: Web [PS III-4]
  1. animation
  2. Web graphics
  3. Web layouts
  4. Slicing
  5. Save for web
• Unit 5: 3D [PS III-5]
  1. Vanishing point filter
  2. 3D menu
  3. 3D tools
• Unit 6: Special Projects [PS III-6]
  1. artistic collage
  2. marketing campaign
  3. photography portfolio

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