Overview
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Learn about the core features of Photoshop 2022, from interface basics to the key concepts that all Photoshop users need to know—regardless of how they use the program.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome to Photoshop Essential Training
- Opening files in Photoshop
- Opening files from Adobe Bridge
- Opening files from Lightroom Classic
- Opening files from Lightroom
- Editing in Camera Raw and Lightroom vs. Photoshop
- A tour of the Photoshop interface
- Working with multiple documents
- Panning and zooming documents
- Arranging the panels you use most often
- Switching and saving workspaces
- Customizing the toolbar
- Modifying keyboard shortcuts to boost productivity
- Understanding file formats
- Mastering bit depth and color mode
- Choosing a color space
- Making sense of document size
- Using Image Size to change document dimensions
- Flexible editing using the History panel
- Saving and exporting documents
- A tour of the Camera Raw interface
- Removing distortions and cropping photos
- Working with profiles and presets
- Enhancing contrast, color, and tone
- Making adjustments to a portion of an image
- Converting to black and white and adding color toning
- Saving and opening files into Photoshop
- Using the Crop tool
- Straightening a crooked image
- Crop and change image size in one step
- Increasing canvas size
- Autofill with Content-Aware Crop
- Exploring layer basics
- Loading, selecting, aligning and distributing layers
- Working with layer groups and the Frame tool
- Merging and flattening layers
- Quickly exporting layers and groups
- Color basics
- Brush basics
- The Brushes and Brush Settings panels
- Creating and saving custom brushes
- Layer mask essentials
- Using gradients in masks to blend images
- Using the Marquee and Lasso tools
- Using Object Selection and the Quick Selection tools
- Using Select Subject and Color Range
- Selecting soft edge objects with Select and Mask
- Removing a halo using Select and Mask
- Selecting and replacing skies
- Removing distracting elements with the healing, patch, and clone tools
- The magic of Content-Aware Fill
- Transform without distorting using Content-Aware Scale and Move
- Removing larger elements from an image
- Introducing adjustment layers
- Adjusting color and tone with Levels and Curves
- Changing colors using Vibrance, Hue/Saturation, and Color Balance
- Converting to black and white and color toning with Gradient Maps
- Applying adjustment layers to multiple layers
- Blend Mode basics
- Using Multiply, Screen, Overlay and Soft Light
- Applying blend modes to adjustment layers
- Applying blend modes to multiple layers and groups
- Creating and editing Smart Objects
- Opening raw images as Smart Objects
- Replacing the contents of a Smart Object
- Scaling, skewing, and rotating layers using Free Transform
- Removing perspective distortion using Camera Raw
- Warping images
- Using Liquify to reshape an image
- Using Vanishing Point to paste in perspective
- Using Smart Objects to transform multiple layers as one
- Using Fill Layers to create a hand-painted look
- Using a gradient fill layer to add a color wash
- Creating and applying custom pattern fill layers
- Filter essentials
- Applying filters nondestructively with Smart Filters
- Sharpening images
- Creative blurring effects
- AI-assisted (neural) filters
- Creating painterly effects using Filter Gallery
- Applying Camera Raw as a filter
- Using the Shape tools
- Modify, duplicate, and use custom shapes
- Creating, saving, and masking images to shapes
- Duplicating shapes as Smart Objects
- The Curvature Pen tool
- Pen tool basics
- Drawing curves with the Pen tool
- Drawing complex paths
- Pen skills in practice
- Applying layer effects and styles
- Creative layer effects
- Exploring headline (point) type
- Using leading, kerning, and tracking
- Working with paragraph (area) type
- Library panel essentials
- Capturing patterns, colors, gradients, and shapes from an image
- Sharing libraries
- Working with Adobe Stock
- Creating artboards
- Adding content to artboards
- Five tips for working with artboards
- Saving and exporting artboards
- Creating animated GIFs
- Creating cinemagraphs
- Using Image Processor to batch resize and save files
- Exporting a multiple images to a single document
- Thanks for watching
