An image editing software developed and manufactured by Adobe Systems Inc. Photoshop is considered one of the leaders in photo editing software. The software allows users to manipulate, crop, resize, and correct color on digital photos. The software is particularly popular amongst professional photographers and graphic designers. Photoshop was originally conceived as a subset of the popular design software Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe expected to sell a modest several hundred copies per month. Expectations for Photoshop’s success were tempered by concerns over the capabilities of personal computers (PCs) in the early 1990s to run the program because it required more computer memory than most PCs came with or even, in some cases, than could be installed.

• Introduction to Photoshop
• Improving Images with Levels and Curves
• Image Retouching Techniques
• Manipulating Color
• Masking Images with Layer Masks
• Layer Masks: Creative Applications
• Layer Clipping Groups and Texture Channels
• Saving a Selection as a Mask Channel
• Selecting like a Pro: The Pen tool
• Color for the Web
• Optimizing Images
• Mocking up a Website Design
• Buttons and Navigation Graphics
• Getting Creative with Layer Styles
• Understanding Slicing
• Working with the GIF File Format
• Animating GIFs
• Creating and Saving Transparent Graphics
• Creative Backgrounds

Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Adobe Systems. The latest version, Illustrator CC, is the seventeenth generation in the product line. Unlike PhotoShop, which deals in pixels (raster images), this one deals in lines and algorithms for various shapes. It functions by generating curved paths connected by modifiable anchor points. These anchors, with their handles, are ultimately editable and never “leave” the structure of the file. Adobe Illustrator is a professional quality graphic art program. Its applications are diverse, from creating print to web graphics and, for our purposes, posters. Although the program is complex and requires a significant amount of time to truly master, it is quite easy to learn the basics and create work with a professional appearance. Introduction to Illustrator’s authoring environment

HTML 5 is a revision of the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), the standard programming language for describing the contents and appearance of Web pages.HTML5 was developed to solve compatibility problems that affect the current standard, HTML4. One of the biggest differences between HTML5 and previous versions of the standard is that older versions of HTML require proprietary plugins and APIs. (This is why a Web page that was built and tested in one browser may not load correctly in another browser.) HTML5 provides one common interface to make loading elements easier. For example, there is no need to install a Flash plugin in HTML5 because the element will run by itself.One of the design goals for HTML5 is to support for multimedia on mobile devices. New syntactic features were introduced to support this, such as video, audio and canvas tags.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for describing the look and formatting of a document written in a markup language.With CSS, designers and users can create style sheets that define how different elements, such as headers and links, appear. These style sheets can then be applied to any Web page. The term cascading derives from the fact that multiple style sheets can be applied to the same Web page. CSS was developed by the W3C.CSS gives more control over the appearance of a Web page to the page creator than to the browser designer or the viewer.

JavaScript is an interpreted programming or script language from Netscape. It is somewhat similar in capability to Microsoft’sVisual Basic, Sun’s Tcl, the UNIX-derived Perl, and IBM’s REXX. In general, script languages are easier and faster to code in than the more structured and compiled languages such as C and C++. Script languages generally take longer to process than compiled languages, but are very useful for shorter programs. JavaScript is used in Web site development to do such things as Automatically change a formatted date on a Web page, Cause a linked-to page to appear in a popup window, Cause text or a graphic image to change during a mouse rollover etc.

jQuery is a concise and fast JavaScript library that can be used to simplify event handling, HTML document traversing, Ajax interactions and animation for speedy website development. jQuery simplifies the HTML’s client-side scripting, thus simplifying Web 2.0 applications development.jQuery is a free, open-source and dual-licensed library under the GNU General Public License. It is considered one of the favorite JavaScript (JS) libraries available today. As of 2012, it is used by more than half of the Web’s top sites. To implement jQuery, a web developer simply needs to reference the jQuery JavaScript file within the HTML of a webpage. Some websites host their own local copy of jQuery, while others simply reference the library hosted by Google or the jQuery server.

Every web developer should know how to properly code a responsive website. Bootstrap 3 is an ultimate framework that learns you how to think when coding responsive websites and makes their creation much easier and faster. When I was learning Bootstrap 3, I was looking for a simple list of basic Bootstrap 3 classes with description and there were none - only a few lists for Bootstrap 2, without any description, therefore pretty useless for my intentions. So I created this list of Bootstrap 3 CSS classes with so much desired description - I hope it’s comprehensive. Keep in mind that it’s not a documentation, it’s just a quick hint to help you understand the meaning of each mentioned class.

• Bootstrap Scaffolding
• Bootstrap CSS
• Bootstrap Layout Components
• Bootstrap JavaScript Plugins
• Using Bootstrap