Adobe Photoshop
Overview
This course provides a thorough review of the Photoshop interface including how to use tools and panels, and how to customize and save workspaces. Core skills you will gain in this course include an understanding of strategies for retouching photographs, how to determine resolution and image size, how to straighten and crop images, and adjust color and tone. You will learn to work with many of the selection tools in Photoshop to isolate parts of images for adjustment or editing. You will learn how to use layers, and how to apply gradients, styles and effects to layers. In addition to using selection tools, using masks and channels is an important Photoshop skill to create composite images or isolate parts of images. You will learn to create and edit masks and channels in this class. Finally, you will learn how to use type in Photoshop, including how to create clipping masks from type, create type on a path, create paragraph text, warp point type, and create vertical text.
Prerequisites
Basic computer and file management skills are required for Core Skills level Adobe courses. Students should know how to – locate, copy and open files; create folders; arrange, re-size, minimize and maximize application windows; start and exit programs; manage use of multiple programs simultaneously; and switch between open programs.
AUDIENCE
• Graphics designers
• Website developers
• SEO professionals
LEARNING OBJECTIVES COURSE OUTLINE –
Getting to Know the Work Area
• Starting to work in Adobe Photoshop
• Using the tools
• Sampling a color
• Working with tools and tool properties
• Undoing actions in Photoshop
• More about panels and panel locations
Basic Photo Corrections
• Strategy for retouching
Resolution and image size
Opening a file with Adobe Bridge
Straightening and cropping the image in Photoshop
Adjusting the color and tone
Using the Spot Healing Brush tool
Applying a content-aware patch
Repairing areas with the Clone Stamp tool
Sharpening the image
Working with Selections
• About selecting and selection tools
Getting started
Using the Quick Selection tool
Moving a selected area
Manipulating selections
Using the Magic Wand tool
Selecting with the lasso tools
Rotating a selection
Selecting with the Magnetic Lasso tool
Selecting from a center point
Resizing and copying a selection
Cropping an image
Layer Basics
• About layers
• Getting started
• Using the Layers panel
• Rearranging layers
• Applying a gradient to a layer
• Applying a layer style
• Adding an adjustment layer
• Updating layer effects
• Adding a border
• Flattening and saving files
Masks and Channels
• Working with masks and channels
• Getting started
• Using Select and Mask
• Creating a quick mask
• Manipulating an image with Puppet Warp
• Using an alpha channel to create a shadow
Typographic Design
• About type
• Getting started
• Creating a clipping mask from type
• Creating type on a path
• Warping point type
• Designing paragraphs of type
• Adding a rounded rectangle
• Adding vertical text
Quick Fixes
• Getting started
• Improving a snapshot
• Adjusting facial features with Liquify
• Blurring a background
• Creating a panorama
• Filling empty areas when cropping
• Correcting image distortion
• Extending depth of field
• Moving objects with the Content-Aware Move tool
• Adjusting perspective in an image
Vector Drawing Techniques
• Working with masks and channels
• Getting started
• Using Select and Mask
• Creating a quick mask
• Manipulating an image with Puppet Warp
• Using an alpha channel to create a shadow
Advanced Compositing
• Getting started
• Arranging layers
• Using Smart Filters
• Painting a layer
• Adding a background
• Using the History panel to undo edits
• Upscaling a low-resolution image
Painting with the Mixer Brush
• About the Mixer Brush
• Getting started
• Selecting brush settings
• Mixing colors
• Creating a custom brush preset
• Mixing colors with a photograph
Editing Video
• Getting started
• About the Timeline panel
• Creating a new video project
• Animating text with keyframes
• Creating effects
• Adding transitions
• Adding audio
• Muting unwanted audio
• Rendering video
Working with Camera Raw
• Getting started
• About camera raw files
• Processing files in Camera Raw
• Applying advanced color correction
Preparing Files for the Web
• Getting started
• Using layer groups to create button graphics
• Automating a multistep task
• Designing with artboards
Producing and Printing Consistent Color
• Preparing files for printing
• Performing a “zoom test”
• Identifying out-of-gamut colors
• Adjusting an image
• Converting an image to CMYK
• About color management
• Specifying color-management settings
• Proofing an image on screen
• Saving the image as a CMYK EPS file
• Printing a CMYK image from Photoshop