Course Content
Digital Images
- RGB and CMYK color models
- Additive and subtractive
- Image size vs. resolution
- Pixel aspect ratio
- Bits per channel
- Alpha channel
Photoshop
- Opening an saving a file
- Using bridge to open a file
- Tools and tools options
- Hidden tools
- Using some keyboard shortcuts
- Zoom in and out of your picture
- Navigator panel
- Selections and adjustments
- Text
- Clipping masks
- Undo and the history panel
- Customizing your workspace
Cropping
- Camera RAW
- Straightening and cropping an image
- Regular cropping
- Rule of thirds
- Non destructive cropping
- Straightening the image
- Making automatic adjustments
- Removing a color cast
- Manually adjusting the tonal range
- Strategies for retouching
Selections
- Selecting and selection tools
- Using selection tools
- Transforming a selection
- Refining the edge of a selection
Layer Basics
- Layers
- Using the layers panel
- Layer stacking order
- Difference between opacity and fill
- Locking a layer
- Transparency, image pixels, position, and the entire layer
- Adding a layer mask
- White for opacity and black for transparency
- Applying a gradient to a layer
- Applying a layer style
- Drop shadow, stroke, other styles
- Global light
- Loading and saving a style
- Styles panel
- Flattening and saving files
Photo Corrections: Color
- Correcting digital photographs
- Color correction
- Levels
- Curves
- Color balance
Photo Corrections: Color (continued..)
- Primary color correction
- Secondary color correction
- Adjusting lightness with the dodge tool
- Adjusting saturation with the sponge tool
- Comparing automatic and manual results
Photo Corrections: Blemishes
- Using the right tool
- Healing tools
- Patch tool
- Content-aware move tool
- Repairing areas with the clone stamp tool
- Sharpening your images
- Fixing lens defects
Masks and Channels
- Creating a mask
- Refining a mask
- Quick masks
- Loading a mask as a selection
- Applying a filter to a mask
- Applying effects using a gradient mask
- Puppet warp
Using Channels Panel for Selection
- Channels panel
- Viewing channels
- Choosing the right channel
- Adjusting individual channels
- Increasing contrast
- Painting with black and white
- Removing the background from an image
- Moving layers between documents
- Inverting a mask
Adjustment Layers and Clipping Masks
- Using adjustment layers
- Grouping layers
- Clipping masks
- Using type as a mask
Correcting and Enhancing Digital Photographs
- Photo merge
- Auto-align layers
- Content-aware scaling
- Content-aware fill
Typographic Design
- Type in Photoshop
- Creating a clipping mask from type
- Creating a design element from type
- Warping point type
- Designing a paragraph of type
- Difference between point and paragraph text
- Warping a layer
- Text on a path
Saving your files
- File types
- Right file for the right job
