Overview
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Improve your Photoshop skills by learning about advanced features and techniques, including how to refine selections and masks, transform subjects, work with blend modes, and more.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- The new Photoshop CC 2017 interface
- The best in automated selections
- Introducing the Color Range command
- Customizing a Color Range selection
- Localized Color Clusters and Detect Faces
- Selecting a real-world photographic object
- Cleaning up with the Wand and Brush tools
- Refining your mask to absolute perfection
- Shading the airplane to match the sky
- Infusing the airplane with sky colors
- Adding a custom Motion Blur effect
- Adding a rocket plume
- Introducing the Focus Area command
- Using the Focus Area tool
- Cleaning up a jagged Focus Area mask
- Finessing hair and other details
- Compositing like a pro
- Static selection vs. dynamic layer mask
- Perfecting mask edges with the Smudge tool
- White reveals, black conceals
- Real-world layer masking
- Combining multiple passes of Color Range
- Painting away gaps in a layer mask
- Making your mask the best it can be
- Feather and Density = even better hair
- Introducing the Select and Mask command
- The Global Refinements settings
- Edge Detection and Smart Radius
- Refine Edge Brush and Decontaminated Colors
- Turning day into night with Camera Raw
- Blending hair into a nighttime sky
- Bringing back Refine Mask
- Meet the transformations
- Introducing the Free Transform command
- Skewing and distorting a layer
- Bending and otherwise warping a layer
- Creating a cheerful bat-faced moon
- Real-world scaling and compositing
- Quick-and-dirty layer masking
- Transform and duplicate in one operation
- Removing the color from a layer
- Transforming a selection outline
- Repeating one or more transformations
- Transforming and warping text
- Filling text with a warped gradient
- Indestructible envelopes
- Three ways to create a smart object
- Applying nondestructive transformations
- Applying nondestructive distortions
- Masking smart objects
- Editing the contents of a smart object
- Applying editable smart adjustments
- Applying and blending smart filters
- Editing a filter mask
- Applying Camera Raw as a smart filter
- Opening a Camera Raw smart object
- Two ways to duplicate a smart object
- Protecting editable text
- Using nested smart objects
- Editing text inside a nested smart object
- Pasting smart objects from Illustrator
- Applying Photoshop effects to Illustrator art
- Troubleshooting Illustrator smart objects
- Restoring missing details
- "Uncropping" a photo by expanding the canvas
- Using the Content-Aware Scale command
- Restoring a missing photographic element
- Fitting an image to a custom print size
- Applying an image stack mode
- Combining a stack mode with spot healing
- Erasing people with the Median mode
- Blurring away registration problems
- Auto-blending multiple depths of field
- Auto-blending with more flexibility
- Perfecting the human form
- Introducing the Liquify filter
- Using the Pucker and Bloat tools
- The Twirl, Push, and Smooth tools
- Using Liquify’s masking tools
- Face-Aware Liquify
- Special face-recognition scenarios
- Making direct edits with the Face tool
- Resetting any and all facial features
- Photoshop’s alternative to pixels
- How vector-based shape layers work
- Adjusting the roundness of a rectangle
- Creating a dashed or dotted border
- Drawing and aligning custom shapes
- Creating your own custom shape
- Designing a custom shape in Illustrator
- Selecting, modifying, and combining shapes
- Duplicating and centering shapes
- Centering a star inside a circle
- Beveling your shapes with Pillow Emboss
- Combining shapes into a smart object
- Applying lighting and photorealism
- Converting text to a shape layer
- Editing the shape of a character of type
- Blending layers like a pro
- Normal and Dissolve
- Using the Dissolve mode
- Multiply and the other darken modes
- Using the Multiply mode
- Screen and the other lighten modes
- Using the Screen mode
- Using the Dodge and Burn modes
- Overlay and the contrast modes
- Using the Overlay and Soft Light modes
- Difference, Exclusion, Subtract, and Divide
- Capturing the differences between images
- Hue, Saturation, Color, and Luminosity
- Blend mode keyboard shortcuts
- The Brush tool blend modes
- The remarkable "Fill Opacity Eight"
- Blend If: This Layer and Underlying Layer
- Depth, contour, and texture
- Applying a Drop Shadow
- Working with Fill Opacity
- Applying an Inner Shadow
- Working with Global Light
- Creating blurry, spray paint-style type
- Creating your own custom Contour
- Introducing Bevel & Emboss
- Combining multiple layer effects
- Copying effects between layers and groups
- Assigning multiple strokes to a single layer
- Combining multiple drop shadows
- Mastering the histogram
- Correcting an image automatically
- Customizing a Levels adjustment
- Previewing clipped pixels
- Understanding the Gamma value
- Making channel-by-channel adjustments
- Cleaning up scanned line art
- Cleaning up complex mechanicals
- Quicker layer masks with Levels
- Introducing the Curves adjustment
- The Curves Targeted Adjustment tool
- Assigning shortcuts to adjustment layers
- What to do when everything is crooked
- Introducing Lens Correction
- Distortion, aberrations, and vignette
- Adjusting angle and perspective
- Using the Perspective Warp command
- Fine-tuning your perspective adjustment
- Evening out color and lighting
- Photoshop’s most powerful plug-in returns
- Automatic lens correction and Defringe
- Auto-correcting a JPEG image
- Auto-correcting an undocumented photo
- Auto-Straighten, Transform, and Upright
- Using the Tone Curve graphs
- Painting with the Adjustment Brush
- Using the Graduated Filter tool
- Using the Radial Filter tool
- Dehaze and Post-Crop Vignetting
- Shoot in color, convert to black & white
- Three ways to convert to grayscale
- Introducing the Channel Mixer
- Mixing a custom black-and-white image
- Creating an infrared/snow effect
- Introducing the Black & White adjustment
- Customizing a Black & White adjustment
- Tinting an image
- Blending black-and-white with color
- Convert to Grayscale in Camera Raw
- Split Toning in Camera Raw
- Infusing black and white with color
- Quick-and-dirty colorization
- Creating a professional quality sepia tone
- The best of the best: Gradient Map
- Loading my free, tailor-made gradients
- Designing your own custom quadtone
- Creating psychedelic arbitrary maps
- How sharpening works
- Introducing Unsharp Mask
- Blending your sharpening effect
- Reining in sharpness with a filter mask
- Introducing Smart Sharpen
- Remove: Lens Blur and Reduce Noise
- Preventing shadow/highlight clipping
- Compensating for camera shake
- Further compensating with Emboss
- Sharpening with the High Pass filter
- Painting with the Sharpen tool
- Until next time
