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)