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Adobe Photoshop software is the professional standard in desktop digital imaging. Learn how to use its groundbreaking creative tools to achieve extraordinary imaging results
Intended Audience
For the Beginner or Intermediate imager.
Courses
Photoshop Advanced
In the Photoshop Advanced CS5 course you will learn how to use the tools and workspace to retouch, repair, mask, correct and enhance images for print or web use.
[+] Full course outline for Photoshop Advanced
- The Bridge
- Introducing the Bridge
- Managing image thumbnails
- Rotations, ratings, and labels
- The Filter panel
- Moving, copying, and deleting images
- Customizing and saving the workspace
- Loupe, compare, and stack
- Previewing images in the Slideshow mode
- Color management and cache
- Undo and History
- Undo and History
- History Palette Options
- Painting with History States
- Snapshots
- Selections
- Making selections
- Modifying selections
- Combining selections
- Using the Quick Selection tool
- Refining selection edges
- Using Quick Mask mode
- Selecting with Color Range
- Saving selections
- Layers
- Understanding layers
- Creating layers
- Working in the Layers panel
- Locking layers
- Working with multiple layers
- Merging and flattening layers
- Adding a shape layer
- Using layer blend modes and opacity
- Layer Masks
- What is a layer mask?
- Painting with black and white
- Mask Panel
- Adding a layer mask
- Editing a layer mask
- Hiding a layer mask
- Removing a layer mask
- Adobe Camera Raw
- What is a raw image?
- Touring the Camera Raw interface
- Working in the Basic panel
- Working in the HSL panels
- Other Camera Raw panels
- Using the Adjustment Brush tool
- Working with multiple files
- Photo Adjustments
- Using adjustment layers and the Adjustment panel
- Limiting adjustments with layer masks
- Using masks in the new Masks panel
- Adjusting with Levels
- Adjusting with Exposure
- Adjusting with Shadow/Highlight
- Adjusting with Hue/Saturation
- Adjusting with Vibrance
- Removing a color cast
- Using the Black & White adjustment layer
- Using the Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools
- Adding and Reducing noise
- Sharpening
- Retouching
- One-Click Red Eye Fix
- Removing Unwanted Objects
- Removing Blemishes with the Healing Brush
- Using the Spot Healing Brush and Patch Tools
- De-emphasizing Wrinkles
- Brightening Teeth
- Enhancing Eyes
- Push and Pull with Liquify
- Sharpening
- Using the Unsharpen Mask filter
- Smart Sharpen
- Color High Pass sharpening
- Sharpening and tone
- Essential Filters
- Gaussian, Surface and Lens Blurs
- Radial Blur
- Simulating Film Grain with Add Noise
- Reducing Noise
- Smoothing Skin with Median
- Smart Sharpening
- Automation
- Creating an action
- Batch processing with an action
- Using the Image Processor
Photoshop Elements Essentials
In the Photoshop Elements Essentials course you will learn how to use the tools and workspace to retouch, repair, mask, correct and enhance images for print or web use.
[+] Full course outline for Photoshop Elements Essentials
- A Quick Tour of Photoshop Elements
- How Photoshop Elements works
- About the Photoshop Elements workspaces
- The Organizer workspace
- The Editor workspace
- Using the Palette Bin
- Workflow
- Importing media
- Getting photos
- Creating a new catalog
- Using the Adobe Photo Downloader
- Getting photos from a digital camera or card reader
- Getting photos from files and folders
- Reviewing and comparing
- Viewing photos at full screen or side-by-side
- About keyword tags
- Choosing files
- Sharing photos in e-mail
- Creating a Photoshop.com account
- Using Help
- Navigating Help in the application
- Search tips
- Accessing LiveDocs Help on the Web
- Links to help in the application
- Hot-linked tips
- Basic Organizing
- Getting started
- Getting photos
- Creating a new catalog
- Dragging photos from Windows Explorer
- Getting photos from specific locations
- Searching for photos to import
- Automatically fi xing red eyes
- Importing from a digital camera
- Using watched folders
- Viewing photo thumbnails in the Organizer
- Using the Photo Browser views
- Using the Date View
- Working with star ratings and keyword tags
- Applying keyword tags and rating photos
- Using Star ratings and the Hidden tag
- Creating new categories and sub-categories
- Applying and editing category assignments
- Creating and applying new keyword tags
- Converting keyword tags and categories
- Applying more keyword tags to images
- Creating a keyword tag for your working files
- Automatically finding faces for tagging
- Finding more faces
- Tagging faces
- Using keyword tags to find pictures
- Advanced Organizing
- Getting started
- Advanced import options
- Photo Downloader options
- Acquiring still frames from a video
- Importing from a PDF document
- Scanning images
- Organizing photos
- Working with Version sets
- About stacks
- Tips for working with stacks
- Creating Albums
- The Map View
- Viewing and finding photos
- Finding photos by visual similarity
- Finding photos using details and metadata
- Find photos using a text search
- Metadata support for audio and video files
- Viewing and managing files by folder location
- Hiding files
- Working with smart albums
- Creating Projects
- Getting started
- Creating a Greeting Card
- Adjusting a photo inside a frame
- Working with multiple pages
- Animating your photos in a slide show
- Using the Slide Show Editor
- Adding Music and Narration to a slide show
- Refining your Slide Show
- Adding Extras
- Adding a Zoom effect
- Assembling a photo collage
- Using the Photo Projects panel
- Exploring the Artwork library
- Adding a background
- Adding graphics
- Working with layers
- Applying effects
- Printing, Sharing and Exporting
- Getting started
- About printing
- Printing individual photos
- Printing a contact sheet
- Printing a Picture Package
- Ordering professionally printed photos online
- Creating a Photoshop.com account
- Signing up from the Welcome screen
- Signing up from the Organizer or Editor
- Signing in to your Photoshop.com account
- About sharing
- Using Photo Mail
- Creating a Quick Share Flow
- Creating an Online Album
- Adding photos to your Online Album
- Changing the order of photos in an Online Album
- Choosing a sharing option for your Online Album
- Sharing an existing album online
- Backing up and synchronizing albums
- Using an online sharing service
- About exporting
- Burning photos to CD or DVD
- Saving copies of your images for use on the Web
- Adjusting Colour Images
- Getting started
- Correcting color problems
- Fixing files in batches
- Adding the corrected files to the Organizer
- Using Guided Edit
- Removing a color cast using Guided Edit
- Adjusting lighting using Guided Edit
- Using Quick Fix for editing
- Applying automatic adjustments separately
- Opening image files for Quick Fix editing
- Using Smart Fix
- Applying other automatic fixes
- Using the Touch Up tools
- Brightening a smile
- Setting up the Quick Fix workspace
- Using the Whiten Teeth tool
- Adding to and subtracting from an adjustment selection
- Modifying the Touch Up adjustment
- Using the Smart Brush tool
- Applying a Smart Paint adjustment
- Tweaking a Smart Paint adjustment
- Applying multiple Smart Paint adjustments
- Comparing methods of fixing color
- Creating extra working copies of an image
- Correcting color automatically
- Adjusting the results of an automatic fix
- Tweaking results from an automatic fix
- About viewing modes and image window arrangements
- Comparing results
- Adjusting skin tones
- Working with red eye
- Using automatic Red Eye Fix in the Editor
- Using the Red Eye Removal tool
- Making selections
- Using the Selection Brush tool
- Editing a saved selection
- Using the Quick Selection tool
- Working with selections
- Why won't Photoshop Elements do what I tell it to do?
- Replacing the color of a pictured object
- Replacing a color throughout the image
- Replacing a color in a limited area of the image
- About printing color pictures
- Working with color management
- Setting up color management
- Fixing Exposure problems
- Getting started
- Correcting images automatically in batches
- Brightening an underexposed image
- Applying the Quick Fix
- Exploring Guided Edit
- Fixing an image in Full Edit mode
- Using Blending modes
- Adjusting color curves
- Adding adjustment layers
- Creating adjustment layers for lighting
- Correcting parts of an image
- Creating a selection
- Using layers to isolate parts of an image
- Correcting underexposed areas
- Adding more intensity
- Improving faded or overexposed images
- Creating a set of duplicate files
- Using blending modes to fix a faded image
- Adjusting shadows and highlights manually
- Adjusting brightness and contrast manually
- Adjusting levels
- Comparing results
- Repairing and Retouching Images
- Getting started
- Using the Straighten tool
- Removing red eye in the Organizer
- Fixing Blemishes
- Removing wrinkles and spots
- Preparing the file for editing
- Using the Healing Brush tool
- Refining the healing brush results
- Restoring a damaged photograph
- Preparing a working copy of the image file
- Using the Clone Stamp tool to fill in missing areas
- Using the Selection Brush tool
- What is a mask?
- Refining a saved selection
- Filtering flaws out of the backdrop area
- Adding definition with the Smart Brush
- Merging layers
- Finishing up the project
- Working with Text
- Getting started
- Placing text on an image
- Using Text Search in the Organizer to find a file
- Adding an asymmetrical border
- Adding a quick border
- Adding a text layer
- Editing a text layer
- Saving a work file with layers
- Distinguishing between Pixel-based and Vector Graphics
- About Type
- Overlaying text on an image
- Creating a new document for the text
- Applying a Layer Style to a text layer
- Adding text to multiple images
- Using Layer Styles and distortions
- Adding a layer style
- Warping text
- Creating an unstylized copy of the text layer
- Simplifying text and applying a pattern
- Hiding and revealing layers
- Deleting layers and layer styles
- Working with Paragraph type
- Creating a type mask
- Working with the Type Mask tool
- Combining Multiple Images
- Getting started
- Merging photos into a panorama
- Choosing a Photomerge layout option
- Cropping the merged image
- Cropping ratio options
- Creating a Photomerge Panorama interactively
- Creating a composite group shot
- Vanishing Point
- Removing unwanted intruders
- Using the Scene Cleaner tool
- Combining multiple photographs in one file
- Arranging the image layers
- Creating a gradient clipping mask
- Applying the clipping mask to a layer
- Creating a clean edge with defringing
- Advanced Editing Techniques
- Getting started
- What is a raw image?
- Workflow overview for raw images
- Improving a camera raw image
- Adjusting the white balance
- Camera Raw white balance settings
- Working with the Temperature and Tint settings
- Using the tone controls on a raw image
- Saving the image
- About the DNG format
- About histograms
- Using the histogram
- Understanding highlights and shadows
- Adjusting levels
- About Unsharp Mask
- Applying the Unsharp Mask filter
- Creating effects using the filter gallery
- Experimenting with filters in the gallery
- Using the Cookie Cutter tool
- Learning more
Photoshop Essentials
This course introduces the techniques used in Adobe Photoshop for photo-retouching, tonal correction, deep etching, image editing, colour painting and montaging. Included is a brief session on utilising Adobe Bridge.
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[+] Full course outline for Photoshop Essentials
- Getting to Know the Work Area
- Starting to work in Photoshop
- Using the tools
- Using the tool bar and palettes
- Customising the workspace
- Adobe ImageReady
- Using Photoshop Help
- Using Adobe Bridge
- Viewing and editing files in Adobe Bridge
- Viewing information for easy identification
- Searching with Adobe Bridge
- Using Favourites and Collections
- Automating routine tasks
- Acquiring stock photography
- Basic Photo Corrections
- Strategy for retouching Resolution and image size
- Straightening and cropping image
- Making automatic adjustments
- Manually adjusting the tonal range
- Removing a colour cast
- Replaing colours in an image
- Adjusting lightness with the Dodge tool
- Adjusting saturation with the with Sponge tool
- Applying the Unsharp Mask filter Comparing automatic and manual results Saving the image for four-colour printing
- Retouching and Repairing
- Repairing areas with the Clone Stamp tool
- Using the Spot Healing Brush tool
- Using the Healing Brush and Patch tools
- Retouching on a seperate layer
- Working with Selections
- About selecting and selection tools
- Selecting with the Magic Wand tool
- Using the Magic Wand with other selections
- Working with oval and circular slections
- Selecting with the lasso tools
- Rotating a selected
- Selecting with the Magnetic Lasso tool
- Cropping an image and erasing within a selection
- Layer Basics
- About Layers
- Using the Layers palette
- Rearranging layers
- Applying a layer style
- Flattening and saving files
- Masks and Channels
- Working with masks and channels
- Creating a quick mask
- Editing a quick mask
- Saving a slection as a mask
- Editing a mask
- Loading a mask as a selection and applying an adjustment
- Extracting an image Applying a filter effect to a masked selection
- Creating a gradient mask Applying effects using a gradient mask
- Correcting and Enhancing Digital Photography
- About camera raw Processing camera raw files
- Correcting digital photographs
- Editing images with a vanishing-point perspective
- Correcting image distortion Creating a PDF portfolio
- Typographic (text) Design
- About type Creating a clipping mask from type
- Creating a design element from type
- Using interactive formatting controls
- Warping point type
- Design a paragraph of type
- Warping a layer Dancing with type