Overview
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Learn the core features of Photoshop 2020 for photography and design. Find out how to improve color and tone, master layers, masking, and selections, add text, retouch, and more.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome to the Photoshop Essential Training series
- Opening files in Photoshop
- Opening files from Bridge
- Opening files from Lightroom Classic
- Opening files from Lightroom
- Starting in Adobe Camera Raw
- A tour of the Photoshop interface
- Working with multiple documents
- Panning and zooming documents
- Viewing images using different screen modes
- Arranging the panels you use most often
- Switching and saving workspaces
- Customizing the Toolbar
- Modifying keyboard shortcuts to boost productivity
- Understanding file formats
- Color modes and bit depth
- Understanding color space
- Understanding document size
- Using Image Size to change document dimensions
- Multiple Undo and the History Panel
- Saving documents
- Using the Crop tool
- Straightening a crooked image
- Crop and change image size in one step
- Increasing canvas size
- Auto fill with Content Aware Crop
- Exploring layer basics
- Loading, selecting, aligning, and distributing layers
- Changing layer opacity, adding shape layers, and creating layer groups
- Merging and flattening layers
- Quickly exporting images
- Color basics
- Brush essentials
- Brush presets and settings
- Layer Mask essentials
- Using Gradients to blend images
- Using the Marquee and Lasso tools
- Combining selections
- Using Object Select and the Quick Select tool
- Making selections based on subject and color
- Selecting soft edge objects using Select and Mask
- Removing a halo using Select and Mask
- Removing distracting elements with the Healing Brush and Patch tools
- The magic of Content-Aware Fill
- Content Aware Move and Scale
- Using the Clone Stamp tool
- Removing larger elements from an image
- Getting to know the Blend modes
- The advantage of Smart Objects
- Opening raw images as Smart Objects
- Scaling, skewing, and rotating layers with Free Transform
- Correcting perspective
- Warping images
- Introducing Adjustment Layers
- Understanding the Histogram
- Refining dynamic range using Levels
- Adjusting contrast and correcting color using Curves
- Three easy ways to adjust color in images
- Custom black and white conversions
- Limiting adjustments with Clipping Masks
- Overview of filters
- Applying filters non destructively with Smart Filters
- Sharpening images
- Applying Camera Raw as a filter
- Applying filters to multiple layers
- Using the Shape tools
- Modifying, combining, and saving custom shapes
- Using Shapes to mask layers
- Applying layer effects and styles
- Creative layer effect styles
- Exploring Headline (point) type
- Using leading, kerning, and tracking
- Next steps
