Let’s get started with Photoshop
- What you can do with PS?
- The Adobe Photoshop environment
- Knowing and customizing the workspace
- Photoshop preferences
- Navigation and zoom shortcuts
- Navigation tools
- Opening, creating and saving documents
- Adjusting resolution and image size
- Cropping or enlarging the canvas
Photoshop and Bridge
- What is Bridge?
- Why use it?
- Main Bridge features
Getting started: Retouching tools
- Brush tools group
- Healing brush tools group
- Clone stamp tool
- Eraser tools group
- What is history?
Selections: getting started
- What are selections?
- Selection tools
- Marquee tool
- The Lasso tools
- The Magic Wand and Quick Selection tools
- Adding to or deleting from selections
- Inverting and deleting selections
Other tools
- History brush tool
- Paint bucket tool
- Blur, sharpen, smudge tools
- Dodge, burn, sponge tools
Enhancing an Image: getting started
- Auto tone, auto contrast, autocolour
- Brightness/contrast
- Exposure
- Levels
- Getting a black and white picture: Desaturate
- Threshold
- Black and white command
Enhancing the image: going ahead
- Hue and saturation controls
- Vibrance
- Colour balance
- Selective colour
- HDR images
- Camera Raw: Working with raw photographs
- File formats: from jpg to raw format
Enhancing the image: a step further
- Variations
- Shadow and highlight adjustments
- Curves
- And some filters: blurring and sharpening filters
Managing the Photoshop environment
- Creating, saving and loading custom colours
- Creating and using new brushes
- Painting with special brushes
- Creating patterns
- Creating and editing gradients
- Creating tool presets
- Changing default preferences
- Customising keyboard shortcuts
Working with layers
- What are layers?
- Opacity
- Locking layer
- Basic layer blending modes
- Adjustment layers
- The Transform commands
- Merging layers and flattening image
- Adding text layers
- Paragraph and text panels
Selections: a step further
- Modify selection
- Transform selection
- Content-aware scale, heal and fill
- Refine edge
- Define a selection based on colour range
- Colour range vs replace colour
- Replace colour vs match colour
- Saving and loading selectionss
Selection, mask and layers: non-destructive workflow
- What is a mask?
- Quick mask mode
- Modify a mask
- Layer mask
- Masking techniques
- Retouching tools on a separate layer
Colour
- Colour space and colour mode
- RGB vs CMYK
- Colour picker and Eyedropper tool
- Foreground and background colour
- Colour and swatch panel
- Info panel
- Understanding channels
- Colour profiles
- Assign profile and convert to profile
Layers: a step further
- Converting layers to smart object
- Working with smart object
- Grouping layers
- Using clipping groups
- Using smart filters
- Knock out and clipping mask
- Advanced blending options
- Blend if
- Creating and using layer styles
- Using layer comps
- Advanced masking using channels
Vector tools
- Vector vs pixels
- The shape tools
- The custom shape tool
- Working with the pen tool
- The path panel
- from a path to a selection and vice versa
- The Path selection tool and the Direct selection tool
- Creating type on a path
Filters
- Filter gallery
- Photo filters
- Liquify
- Vanishing point
- Adaptive wide angle
- Lens correction
- …and the puppet warp
Automation
- Actions
- droplet
- Batch processing
- Image processor
- Creating panoramic images
- Merging images (HDR photography, panoramas, special montages)
Web
- Creating animated GIF images for web
- Slicing images
- Animation and video layers
- Web design tools and techniques
- Optimising images for the web
Advanced retouching workflow
- Correcting colour cast
- Working with 10 channels
- Creating new channels with calculations command
- Entering in LAB mode
- Sharpening
- Colour Management for print and web
Integration with other Adobe applications (Illustrator, InDesign)