Overview
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Quickly learn how to use Photoshop for everyday design tasks—combining text and artwork, replacing backgrounds, and more.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Opening images
- Getting around an image
- Understanding selections and layers
- Using the marquee tools
- Free-form and straight-sided selections
- Selecting areas of color
- Deselecting and History
- Refining selected edges
- Three ways to make a layer
- Blending layers
- Cleaning up art with an adjustment layer
- Scaling and rotating
- Duplicating a series of layers
- Recoloring art with an adjustment layer
- Moving a layer into a new background
- Creating and formatting type
- Drop shadow and Fill Opacity
- Carving letters with Bevel & Emboss
- Creating a type effect from a photographic element
- Working with the Brush tool
- Creating and using custom brushes
- Painting inside a selection
- Adding gradients and patterns
- Drawing with the Pen tool
- Stroking a brushstroke along a path
- Using a layer mask
- Drawing vector-based shapes
- Turning a shape into a vector mask
- Creating clipping masks
- Placing an image as a Smart Object
- Applying a dynamic Smart Filter
- Creating a Smart Filter effect
- Adding shadows to line art
- Saving a layered PSD file
- Saving TIFF and PNG images
- Saving an image for web and online
- Next steps
