Ted LoCascio has been a professional graphic designer for more than ten years, and is an expert in Photoshop, Elements, InDesign, Illustrator, and QuarkXPress. He served as senior designer at KW Media and the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) for several years, and has created layouts and designs for many successful software training books, videos, and magazines, as well as for advertising and marketing materials.

Ted is the author of InDesign CS2 at Your Fingertips; The InDesign Effects Book; and Combining Images with Photoshop Elements: Selecting, Layering, Masking, and Compositing. He has contributed articles to Photoshop User magazine and InDesign Magazine, and his designs and illustrations have been featured in several national magazines, including Photoshop User, Mac Design (now Layers), Nikon's Capture User, Great Output, AAA Going Places, and Florida Trend. Ted has taught at Photoshop World, and also teaches a digital graphics course at St. Petersburg College in Seminole, Florida.

A Chicago native (born a hopeless Cubs fan) and Columbia College alumnus, Ted relocated to the Tampa Bay area in 1994. He currently resides in Tarpon Springs, Florida, with his wife Jill and their son Enzo.

With literally thousands of fonts now available for download, it's no wonder that nearly every designer needs a system for managing them. In Font Management, Ted LoCascio discusses various font types, where to download both free and for-purchase fonts online, and how to manually manage fonts on both the Mac and Windows platforms. He also profiles a number of third-party font management applications, including Suitcase, FontAgent Pro, Font Book, Font Reserve, and Linotype FontExplorer, and explains how to handle fonts for print output and electronic distribution.

Canadian
$ 105.95

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02NYL544

8.7 Hrs
2 CD's

Desktop / Web Publishing • Illustration

In Photoshop CS3 for Designers, instructor Ted LoCascio teaches graphic designers how to effectively use Photoshop for image manipulation and processing. He covers how to incorporate raw images into design workflows, use tools for special effects and retouching, integrate Photoshop with other Adobe applications, and save images for print. Photoshop CS3 for Designers guides graphics professionals through every step of the production workflow.
Note: Exercise files accompany the course.

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$ 105.95

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02NYL709

9.0 Hrs
1 DVD

It’s already a major accomplishment if you’ve mastered any one of the many applications in the Adobe Creative Suite. It’s quite another to know how to use Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat Professional, and Adobe Bridge together effectively and efficiently. In Creative Suite 2 Integration: Print Project Workflow, veteran graphic designer Ted LoCascio guides you through designing and producing a promotional brochure from start to finish. He shares expert techniques for the creation of individual elements in Photoshop and Illustrator - photographs, illustrations, and information graphics - and then brings the project together by importing and laying out these elements in InDesign. Once finished, Ted reveals how to best prepare and manage a design review with a client using Adobe Acrobat Professional.
Note: Exercise files accompany the training videos, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.

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$ 52.95

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02NYL409

10.5 Hrs
2 CD's

In Illustrator CS2 Creative Techniques, instructor and graphic designer Ted LoCascio shares his tricks and techniques for creating imaginative and inventive effects and projects. Ted walks you through creating special effects on text, adding depth and texture to your illustrations, and creating buttons and professional bar charts. This training title also features tutorials that reveal strategies behind challenging projects, such as drawing clear items (water drops and glass), 3D objects, smoke, chrome, and reflections.

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$ 105.95

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02NYL521

9.0 Hrs
2 CD's

To help CS3 users manage photos and other digital files that can become overwhelming, Adobe has introduced Bridge CS3. In Bridge and Version Cue CS3 Essential Training, instructor Ted LoCascio teaches viewers how to use Bridge to take full advantage of each application and better manage files for individual and group projects. Complementing Bridge in the file management process is Version Cue CS3, a server-based workgroup collaboration system that also works with all the CS3 applications.
Note: Exercise files accompany this training.

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$ 105.95

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02NYL605

5.0 Hrs
1 DVD

If you’re switching from other page layout programs, or learning layout for the first time, InDesign CS2 Essential Training covers what you need to know. Through task-oriented, movie-based tutorials, you’ll be able to learn the program and be up and running in little time. Targeted toward beginning to intermediate users, the lessons cover all the basic principles of InDesign CS2, from getting to know the workspace and tools to using advanced new features such as Object Layer Options and Object Styles. The projects walk you through the real-world process of creating documents, working with text and objects, applying formatting and styles, placing images, managing colour, and outputting files.
Note: Exercise files accompany the training, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.

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$ 105.95

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02NYL320

15.5 Hrs
3 CD's