Overview

From photo editing and compositing to digital painting, animation, and graphic design — you can do it all in Photoshop. Bring ideas to life across desktop and iPad. Magically transform images with the power of AI. Learn new skills and share your projects via live stream. With our latest release, Photoshop is faster, smarter, and easier than ever.

Levels: Essentials Intermediate Advanced

Course Outline

Getting To Know The Work Area

  • Starting to work in Adobe Photoshop
  • Using the tools
  • Sampling a color
  • Working with tools and tool properties
  • Undoing actions in Photoshop
  • More about panels and panel locations

Basic Photo Corrections

  • Opening a file with Adobe Bridge
  • Resolution and image size
  • Straightening and cropping the image in Photoshop
  • Adjusting the color and tone
  • Using the Spot Healing Brush tool
  • Repairing areas with the Clone Stamp tool
  • Sharpening the image
  • Strategy for retouching
  • Applying a content-aware patch

Working With Selections

  • About selecting and selection tools
  • Getting started
  • Using the Magic Wand tool
  • Using the Quick Selection tool
  • Manipulating selections
  • Selecting with the lasso tools
  • Rotating a selection
  • Selecting with the Magnetic Lasso tool
  • Selecting from a center point
  • Using Cloud Documents
  • Moving a selected area
  • Using the Object Selection tool
  • Resizing and copying a selection
  • Cropping an image

Layer Basics

  • About layers
  • Getting started
  • Using the Layers panel
  • Rearranging layers
  • Applying a gradient to a layer
  • Applying a layer style
  • Adding a border
  • Adding an adjustment layer
  • Updating layer effects
  • Flattening and saving files

Quick Fixes

  • Getting started
  • Improving a snapshot
  • Blurring a background
  • Creating a panorama
  • Filling empty areas when cropping
  • Adjusting facial features with Liquify
  • Correcting image distortion
  • Extending depth of field
  • Removing objects using Content-Aware Fill
  • Adjusting perspective in an image

Masks And Channels

  • Getting started
  • Working with masks and channels
  • Using Select and Mask and Select Subject
  • Creating a quick mask
  • Manipulating an image with Puppet Warp
  • Using an alpha channel to create a shadow

Working in Photoshop 3D

  • Getting started
  • Understanding the 3D environment
  • Positioning 3D elements
  • Outputting a 3D file

Typographic Design

  • About type
  • Getting started
  • Creating type on a path
  • Designing paragraphs of type
  • Adding a rounded rectangle
  • Adding vertical text
  • Creating a clipping mask from type
  • Warping point type

Vector Drawing Techniques

  • About bitmap images and vector graphics
  • About paths and the Pen tool
  • Getting started
  • Drawing a shape with the Pen tool
  • Creating a logo with text and a custom shape
  • Drawing a path traced from an image
  • Converting a path to a selection and a layer mask
  • Advanced Compositing
  • Getting started
  • Arranging layers
  • Painting a layer
  • Adding a background
  • Using the History panel to undo edits
  • Using Smart Filters
  • Upscaling a low-resolution image

Painting With The Mixer Brush

  • About the Mixer Brush
  • Selecting brush settings
  • Mixing colors
  • Mixing colors with a photograph
  • Painting and mixing colors with brush presets

Editing Video

  • About the Timeline panel
  • Creating a new video project
  • Animating text with keyframes
  • Creating effects
  • Adding transitions
  • Adding audio
  • Muting unwanted audio
  • Rendering video

Working With Camera Raw

  • About camera raw files
  • Processing files in Camera Raw
  • Applying an advanced color correction

Preparing Files For The Web

  • Getting started
  • Creating placeholders with the Frame tool
  • Using layer groups to create button graphics
  • Automating a multistep task
  • Designing with artboards

Producing Consistent Colour

  • Getting started
  • About color management
  • Identifying out-of-gamut colors
  • Proofing document colors on a monitor
  • Converting an image color space
  • Export/output an image from Photoshop
  • Performing a “zoom test”
  • Specifying color management settings
  • Bringing colors into the output gamut.
  • Saving the image for specific output requirements

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