Overview
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Learn how to use the essential features and tools in Photoshop.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- The new Photoshop CC 2017 interface
- How it all starts
- Opening from the Windows desktop
- Opening from the Macintosh Finder
- Opening from Photoshop or Bridge
- Opening an image in Camera Raw
- Closing one image, or all at once
- Navigating your image
- Zooming in and out
- Using the more precise Zoom tool
- Zooming continuously
- Entering a custom zoom value
- Scrolling (panning)
- A few top-secret scrolling tricks
- Switching between open images
- Rotating and resetting the view
- Cycling between screen modes
- Using the Navigator panel
- Panels and workspaces
- Updating a workspace
- A few very important preferences
- Reassigning Spotlight (Mac only)
- Digital imaging fundamentals
- Image size and resolution
- Introducing the Image Size command
- Common resolution standards
- Upsampling vs. real high-resolution data
- Changing the print resolution
- Downsampling for print
- Downsampling for email and photo sharing
- The six interpolation settings
- Some practical downsampling advice
- Upsampling with Preserve Details
- Always shoot big
- Using the Crop tool
- Cropping nondestructively
- Rotating and other Crop tool tricks
- Straightening a crooked image
- Filling in missing background details
- Using the Perspective Crop tool
- The new Content-Aware Crop
- The layered composition
- Introducing the Layers panel
- Converting the flat Background into a layer
- Customizing the transparency checkerboard
- Turning a color photo black and white
- Creating a silhouette with Brightness/Contrast
- Creating a new layer and painting on it
- Simple tricks for painting with the Brush tool
- Distinguishing black from non-black pixels
- Moving an image between documents
- Expanding the canvas to accommodate a layer
- Auto-Select and the Move tool
- Employing a clipping mask
- Working with Opacity and blend modes
- Three ways to duplicate a layer
- Scale, rotate, and layer mask
- Filling a selection with color
- The many, many ways to save
- Four essential things to know about saving
- Saving layers to the native PSD format
- Saving a flat print image to TIFF
- Saving an interactive image to PNG
- Saving a flat photograph to JPEG
- Luminance and its relationship to color
- How luminance works
- The three Auto commands
- Automatic Brightness/Contrast
- Custom Brightness/Contrast
- Applying a dynamic adjustment layer
- Adjustment layer tips and tricks
- Isolating an adjustment with a layer mask
- Introducing the Histogram
- Putting the Histogram to use
- Reducing contrast with Shadows/Highlights
- Color resides in the eyes of the beholder
- Identifying the color cast of a photo
- Correcting a color cast automatically
- Manually adjusting colors with Color Balance
- Tipping a color cast with Photo Filter
- Correcting color cast in Camera Raw
- Adjusting color intensity with Vibrance
- Introducing Hue/Saturation
- Summoning colors where none exist
- Making even more color with Vibrance
- Creating a quick-and-dirty sepiatone
- Your own personal color chart
- Photoshop’s power of selection
- Using the geometric Marquee tools
- Painting with the Quick Selection tool
- Add, subtract, and intersect selections
- Turning a selection into a layer mask
- Aligning a layer to a selection
- Working with the Magic Wand tool
- Saving and loading selections
- Refining the quality of a selection
- Adding clouds to your composition
- Enhancing the drama of your scene
- Conquering the Quick Selection tool
- Using each of the three Lasso tools
- Drawing a freeform shadow with the Lasso
- Colorizing a layer with Color Overlay
- Painting selections
- Combining the best of the selection tools
- Introducing the Quick Mask mode
- The fastest way to save a selection
- Gauging the quality of a selection
- Painting adjustments with the Brush tool
- Adding motion blur with the Smudge tool
- Reversing a mask with Invert
- Applying a special-effects filter
- Smoothing a badly stroked edge
- Selecting all the black lines
- Expanding and contracting a selection
- Your best face forward
- Correcting very bad colors
- Cloning and Content-Aware
- A closer look at Content-Aware cloning
- Painting with the Spot Healing Brush
- Healing Brush tips and tricks
- Shift-clicking to heal in straight lines
- Using the standard Healing Brush
- Flipping and rotating the source data
- Using the Dodge and Burn tools
- Whitening teeth with the Sponge tool
- Reshaping details with the Liquify filter
- Selectively recoloring details
- Smoothing skin textures with blur
- Nondestructive dodging and burning
- Camera Raw, the most powerful Photoshop plugin
- Applying Camera Raw as a filter
- The nondestructive Camera Raw
- Handling a Camera Raw image in Photoshop
- Capturing raw images and converting to DNG
- Opening and developing a raw photograph
- Opening and editing multiple images
- Highlights, Shadows, Whites and Blacks
- Clarity and Chromatic Aberration
- HSL and the Targeted Adjustment tool
- Using the Spot Removal tool
- Cleaning up with the Patch tool
- Photoshop vector-based type
- Creating and scaling a line of type
- Formatting type from the options bar
- Formatting type from the Character panel
- Finding the perfect font
- Type size and script fonts
- Creating and editing paragraph text
- Adjusting leading and paragraph spacing
- Setting the antialiasing for very small text
- Aligning one layer to another
- Creating text along a circle
- Finding a character with the Glyphs panel
- Double-stroking a circle
- Creating a distressed cancellation mark
- Print from RGB, not CMYK
- Using my customizable printer test file
- Print, size, and position
- Using printer-specific options on the PC
- Using printer-specific options on the Mac
- Brightening your image for print
- Description and printing marks
- Establishing a borderless bleed
- Previewing an image at print size
- Images on the wild wild web
- Assigning copyright and contact info
- How color works on the web
- Introducing the old-school Save for Web
- Saving a full-color PNG image
- Saving a graphic as an 8-bit GIF or PNG
- Using the new Quick Export command
- Exporting vector-based layers to SVG
- Exporting multiple layers and groups
- Sneak preview: Stroking translucent text
- Until next time
