The effectiveness of a website to enhance knowledge and skills of Adobe Photoshop program for the design of women's leather goods

Abstract

Adobe Photoshop cc is one of the bitmap graphics programs that are used to manipulate images and graphics, but with the recent updates and developments that have been added to the latest versions of the program, it has become possible to use it in the field of drawing and design, where drawing and coloring tools have been developed, which helped Produce great graphics and designs with high accuracy and in the least possible time, and the program (Adobe Photoshop cc) deals with both bitmap images (Bitmap) and vectors (Victors). Significance: The importance of the research is due to raising the knowledge and skill level of the trainees in the field of designing women’s leather goods using Photoshop, trying to overcome the difficulty of obtaining specialized programs in designing women’s leather goods and adapting non-specialized programs to carry out the jobs performed by specialized programs, providing the labor market with designers that they have The ability and skill to keep pace with the technological development in the field of designing women’s leather goods, contributing to the adoption of modern educational methods in the field of designing women’s leather goods by presenting a proposed site that can be used in training for self-learning. Objectives: The aim of the research is to build a website to learn the knowledge and skills of the Photoshop program and use it in the design of women’s leather goods, which helps to increase training opportunities, especially during the difficult time that the country is going through due to the conditions of the Corona pandemic, in addition to raising the capacity and efficiency of trainees in terms of design in line with the needs of the labor market. And measuring the effectiveness of the website and the trainees' attitude towards the attached training program on the proposed site. Methodology: The research followed the descriptive analytical approach to study the knowledge and skills included in the website under study, and the quasi-experimental approach in the experimental study of the research (one experimental group), which depends on the pre and post tests, with the aim of identifying the impact of the independent variable (website) on the dependent variable (cognitive levels). skill, emotional). The results of the research confirm the effectiveness of the proposed website in providing the trainees with the knowledge and skills contained therein. The results also resulted in the formation of a positive attitude for the trainees towards the proposed website.