Overview
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Learn key techniques to successfully use Photoshop for teaching and learning. Learn how to navigate the interface, fix common image problems, create web graphics, and more.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Why Photoshop for teaching and learning?
- Exercise files
- What you need to know
- Mastering the Photoshop user interface
- Working with layers
- Making selections
- Masking basics
- Making selective adjustments
- Scaling images
- Using actions for repetitive tasks
- Quickly exporting images
- Working with Bridge
- Capturing good image compositions
- Creating clean compositions
- Creating breathing and looking room
- Using leading lines
- Understanding image types
- Raster vs. vector images
- Cropping images
- Straightening images
- Repairing an image basics
- Repairing an image with masks
- Fixing image exposure with Camera Raw
- Fixing image exposure in Photoshop
- Making editable adjustments
- Using layer masks to obscure identity
- Removing objects from images
- Challenge: Fix a scanned image
- Solution: Fix a scanned image
- Presentation resolutions and load times
- Scaling images for presentations
- Modifying slide backgrounds
- Using vector masks
- Creating presentation color pallets
- Matching looks with a custom 3D LUT
- Challenge: Prepare a slide image
- Solution: Prepare a slide image
- Preparing images for use on the web
- Using artboards
- Finding appropriate image sizes
- Using Smart Objects
- Working with type
- Using layer styles
- Using type in Smart Objects
- Generating web graphics
- Challenge: Create course banner graphics
- Solution: Create course banner graphics
- Extracting a still image from video
- Making an animated GIF
- Refining an animated GIF into a meme
- Making a time-lapse video
- Creating 360 VR panoramas
- Working with text in 360 panoramas
- Challenge: Create a 360 image from video
- Solution: Create a 360 image from video
- Exporting images for the web
- Exporting multiple versions of an image
- Maintaining transparency during export
- Exporting layers to separate files
- Using the Image Processor
- Challenge: Prepare images for PowerPoint
- Solution: Prepare images for PowerPoint
- Extra challenge solution: Prepare images for PowerPoint
- Next steps
