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Learn how to use Photoshop CC 2017. Master the Photoshop features and techniques that are most useful for photography, from tonal adjustments to retouching.
Whether you're an experienced photographer or someone who has just recently purchased a camera, learning how to use Photoshop is the best investment you can make to get the most out of your photographs. In Photoshop CC 2017 Essential Training: Photography, Julieanne Kost focuses on Photoshop's most powerful features and techniques specifically for photographers, with the goal of removing technical barriers so you can master the technology, start creating as soon as possible, and quickly get the results you want.
Photoshop CC picks up where Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom leave off, and is loaded with tools and features that can help take your photography to the next level. This course demonstrates the most efficient and nondestructive ways to perform essential editing tasks, including retouching, color and tonal correction, compositing multiple photographs, and adding creative effectsâall while maintaining the highest-quality images. Along the way, you will learn the secrets of features such as layers, Smart Objects, adjustment layers, blend modes, fill layers, filters, layer masks, and painting as well as master other features that make Photoshop the most popular and powerful image-editing software on the market.
Overview
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you need to know
- Using the exercise files
- Dodging and burning with Curves
- Tinting images using adjustment layers
- Cross-process and split-tone effects
- Photographic toning techniques
- Using a color lookup table unify images
- Powerful posterization techniques
- Creating a hand-tinted look with fill
- Making a color wash with a gradient fill
- Smoothing and evening skin
- Brightening eyes and lightening teeth
- Reducing wrinkles with a Healing Brush
- Body sculpting with Liquify
- Adding a texture to a photo
- Adding a deckled-edge effect
- Swapping heads in a family portrait
- Combining images from an action sequence
- Creating a panorama in Photoshop
- Creating a double-exposure effect
- Duplicating Smart Objects
- Replacing the contents of a Smart Object
- Artistic filters overview
- Creating a soft glow with grain
- Remove dust and scratches
- Remove wide-angle distortions
- Creating a Tilt Shift effect
- Creative blurring along path
- Adding flames to a photograph
- The Oil Paint filter
- Art History brush
- Natural media brushes
- Creating a custom brush for masking
- The Mixer Brush
- Type essentials
- Creating a transparent watermark
- Adding a keyline around an image
- Displaying a photo inside a shape
- Artboard essentials
- Using the libraries to store content
- Saving photos using Image Processor
- Creating basic contact sheets
- Quickly exporting images
- Next steps