Learn and MASTER Photoshop to become a graphic design, photography pro.
What you will learn
Learn the basics like: customizing the interface, panels, shortcuts, graphic design principles, file formats and saving
Layer management, working with Type, color theory and application, layer effects, adjustment layers
Understanding and mastering selection techniques, magic wand, lasso tools, cropping, image resizing
Working with layer masks, clipping masks, adjustment layers, filters, photography enhancement
Photo touch up including: Clone Stamp, Patch Tool, Healing Brush, dodge and burn, content-aware fill tool.
Advanced tools like Camera RAW, Layer Comps, blending modes, pen tool, advanced selection techniques, advanced filters, creating actions.
How to use the Curves, Levels, Vibrance, Hue and Saturation Adjustment Layer
Working with advanced Type options including type on a path, warping text and 3D text
Using Actions to automate your processes
Working with Smart Objects, Smart Filters and Masking
Description
This course is for EVERYONE. Photoshop is EVERYWHERE in ALL Industries!
You will learn all the necessary (and more!) tools to get you more than proficient with Photoshop. You will be a pro by the end of this course!
If you already have experience with Photoshop, this course will give you the fundamentals, plus a ton of advanced tools and skills!
We start with the basics and steadily move from there showing you the tips and tricks and shortcuts that every graphic designer needs to know (even if you are not a “graphic designer”).
What Will You Learn?
- Navigating and customizing the workspace
- Tools and Panels overview
- Image Formats, terminology and graphic design fundamentals
- Saving and exporting
- Selecting, resizing, rotating, moving images
- Selection techniques including the magic wand tool, quick selection, lasso tools
- Eraser tool
- Cropping
- Image and canvas resizing
- Layers and layer management, locking, hiding, filtering layers
- Layer effects
- Adjustment layers including curves, levels, hue/saturation, black and white, vibrance
- Intro to Masking, advanced masking techniques
- Brush tools
- Gradient Masking
- Clipping masks
- Filters, Field Blur, Filter Gallery, Polar Coordinates, Frames, Camera RAW
- Blending modes
- Smart Objects, rasterizing objects
- Smart Filters
- Type and typography principles and practices including: leading, tracking, kerning
- Type on a path
- Warping text
- 3D text
- Advanced selection techniques including paths and the pen tool
- Smart radius, select and mask
- Working with shapes
- Working with color/ gradients/ swatches
- Using Actions
- Drawing basic Shapes, Custom Shapes, pen tool, direct selection tool
- Layer Comps
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Touch up tools including clone stamp tool, healing brush, patch tool, content aware fill
English
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Content
Welcome Photoshop Phanatics!
Welcome! What you will learn and how to use this course.
Photoshop Workspace Navigation and Customization
Photoshop Workspace: Understanding & Customizing
A custom Workspace can be used across documents
Workspace panels
Let’s Start Creating!
Moving and Transforming Objects
Creating a New Document & Placing/Importing Images
Cropping, Changing Canvas Size & Image Size
Intro to Layers and Layer Management – Part 1
Layers Management Part 2 – Deleting, Moving, Locking, Grouping & Opacity
Friendly Check in…
Importing an image into Photoshop
Placing images
The Layers Panel?
Selection Tools
Quick Selection Tools + Layer via Cut and Copy
Lasso Tools
Magic Wand and Eraser
Background Eraser Tool
Magic Eraser Tool
Magic Wand
Changing Image Size
Which keystroke do you use to REMOVE a selection?
Eraser tool
Next Level Creativity and Productivity Skills
Intro to Layers Effects (fx) – Drop Shadow, Glow, Stroke and more
Layer Effects (fx) – Part 2
Finishing Touches on the Project (shapes, text and effects)
Intro to Type
Shapes, Vectors and Colors
Custom Shapes
Colors and Swatches
Color Replacement Tool
Patterns: Creating Patterns, Pattern Stamp, Pattern Layer Effects
Typography Principles
Friendly check in…
Layer Effects
Line spacing
Colors
Drop shadow
Working with Masks
Clipping Masks (Type, Images + Layer Effects)
Intro to Layer Masks
Clipping mask
Clipping Mask 2
Masking
Using Adjustment Layers to Make your Photos Pop!
Levels Adjustment Layer
Curves Adjustment Layer
Black & White and Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer
Vibrance and Curves – Blue Sky adjustment
Friendly little check in…
Adjustment Layers
Masking and adjustment layers
Photo Touch Up Tools
Red Eye Removal
Dodge and Burn tools
Sponge Tool
Spot Healing Brush – Clean up old photo, and working with wrinkles and blemishes
Healing Brush Tool
Clone Stamp
Patch Tool + Content Aware Fill
Clone stamp tool
Best practice
Intro to Photoshop Filters
Intro to the Filter Gallery (dozens of Filters) + Masking/Smart Filters
Blur Filters Gallery + Smart Filters and Masking
Filters
Friendly little check in…
Photoshop Preferences
Preference options and what to change and customize.
You are now Advanced!
Welcome to the Advanced Section!
Advanced Customization Option
Advanced Customization – Tools panel + Keyboard shortcuts, Preferences and More.
Advanced Layer Management
Advanced Layer Management Tools
Intro to Blending Modes
Intro to Layer Comps
Blend modes
Layer comps
Shapes & Vectors
Advanced Shapes and Vector Skills and Applications
Advanced shape selection
Vector images
Advanced Type – Type on a Path, Type to Shapes, Warping Text, 3D Text
Advanced type techniques – Convert Type to a Shape, Type on a Path, Warping Text
Applying 3D effect to Type
Advanced type – 1
Type on a path
Advanced Selection Techniques
Selection using Paths
Smart Radius + Selecting Hair
Advanced selection
Advanced selection 2
Gradients and Gradient Mask
Gradient Mask
Friendly check in…
Gradient mask
Advanced Filters
Lens Flare
Filter – inserting “Trees”!
Filter – Inserting “Frames”
Vanishing Point Filter
Polar Coordinates and Distort Filter
Displacement Map Filter
Camera RAW Filter
Working with Photoshop Actions
Working with Actions
Thank you and Goodbye (for now!)
Thank you and Goodbye (for now!)…