Adobe Photoshop Essentials

Course subjects

The Photoshop Interface

• Operating Systems, Versions, Menus, and Shortcuts

• Dialogue Boxes and Panels – Some Efficiency Tips

• The Start Workspace

• Graphic Formats

• Photoshop Preferences

• The Photoshop Interface

• The Tools Panel

• The Options Bar

• Photoshop Panels

• Photoshop Workspaces

• Viewing File Information

• Zooming and Scrolling

• Screen Modes

• Arranging Images

• Undoing, Redoing, and Reverting

• The History Panel

• Photoshop Help

• The Photoshop Learn Panel

Photoshop Fundamentals

• Resolution

• PPI versus DPI

• Working out the Required Resolution and Size of Images

• Changing the Size and Resolution of Images

• Photoshop Colour Modes

• Creating a New Image

• Commonly used Image Formats

Selection Techniques

• Selecting an Entire Image

• Removing a Selection

• The Selection Tools

• Selection Tool Options

• The Marquee Tools

• Transforming Selections

• The Lasso Tools

• The Quick Selection Tool

• The Magic Wand Tool

• Inversing a Selection

• The Colour Range Command

• The Select and Mask Workspace

• Feathering and Shifting Selections

Layers

• Layers and the .psd Format

• The Layers Panel

• Layer Visibility

• Renaming Layers

• Changing the Background into a Layer

• Selecting Layers

• Moving Layers

• Creating a New Layer

• Rearranging Layers

• Deleting Layers

• Selecting the Pixels on a Layer

• Layer Opacity

• Layer Blending Modes

• Duplicating Layers

• Duplicating Layers between Images

• Linking Layers

• Merging Layers

• Flattening Layers

• Erasing

• The Eraser

• Selecting and Deleting

• Layer Styles

Introduction to Colour Correction

• The Adjustment Menu versus the Adjustment Panel

• The Hue/Saturation Command

• Applying an Adjustment Layer

• Editing an Adjustment Layer

• Hiding and Showing Adjustment Layers

• Making Adjustment Layers Effect only the Layer Below

• Deleting an Adjustment Layer

• Brightness and Contrast

Type

• Type Layers

• Point Type

• Paragraph Type

• Selecting Type

• Formatting Type

• Working with Type Layers

• Layer Styles

• Rasterizing Type

• Saving Type as Vector Type

Cropping and Transforming

• Cropping Images

• Cropping to Extend the Area around an Image

• Transforming

• Aligning Layers

Projects

• Creating a Facebook Header (Cover Photo)

Output

• Supplying Files for Printing Purposes

• Supplying Files for Screen Usage

• Common File Types for Screen Usage

• The Save for Web Command

• The Export as Dialogue Box

Colour and Tonal Correction

• The Colour Wheel

• The Colour Balance Command

• The Info Panel

• Identifying a Colour Cast

• The Hue Saturation Command

• Adjusting the Hue and Saturation of Specific Colours

• Colourise a Greyscale Image

• Tonal Range Correction

• The Histogram Panel

• The Levels Command

• Using Levels to Remove a Colour Cast

• Advanced Optional Extras

• Measuring Highlights and Shadows

• Making Automatic Colour and Tonal Corrections

• The Shadow/Highlight Command

• The Black and White Adjustment

• A Suggested Colour Correction Workflow

Painting

• Painting in Photoshop

• Foreground and Background Colours

• Choosing a Colour from an Image

• The Colour and Swatches Panel

• The Colour Picker

• The Brush Tool

• Opacity, Flow and Smoothing

• The Brush Picker

• Introduction to Blending Modes

• Filling Selections and Layers

• Fill Layers

• The Eraser Tool

• The Magic Eraser

• The Paint Bucket Tool

• The Gradient Tool

Layer Masks

• Layer Masks

• Creating a Layer Mask

• Editing a Layer Mask

• Creating a Mask from a Selection

• Clipping Masks

Transforming

• Automatically Cropping and Straightening Images

• The Canvas Size Command

• Flipping and Rotating Entire Images

• Flipping and Rotating Layers and Selections

• Transforming

• Free Transform

• Content-Aware Scale

• Warping Type Layers

Image Retouching

• Retouching Images

• The Clone Stamp

• The Spot Healing Brush

• The Healing Brush

• The Patch Tool

• Content-Aware Fill

• Content-Aware Move Tool

• The Red Eye Tool

• The Sponge Tool

• The Dodge and Burn Tools

Filters

• Photoshop Filters

• The Gaussian Blur Filter

• The Unsharp Mask Filter

• The Smart Sharpen Filter

• Smart Blur

• The Filter Gallery

Creating Animations

• The Timeline

• Creating Animated GIFs: Step-by-Step