Introduction to Adobe Photoshop CC
- How to use Adobe Photoshop
- Bitmap vs. vector
- Resolution and quality issues
- Viewing/opening documents
- Toolbar
- Most commonly used palettes
Rulers Guides & Grids Layers
- Background v layer, creating layers
- Changing background
- Preserving data
- Re-arranging
- Hiding, locking/unlocking
- Naming, deleting
- Layer opacity
Layers Styles
- Shadow effect
- Glow effect
- Bevel & Emboss effect
- Color Overlay
- Gradient Overlay
- Pattern Overlay
- Stroke
Transformations
- Flipping, scaling, rotating, distorting, perspective
- Control options
- Free transform, straighten or tilt
Typography
- Warp Text
- Text with underline and Strikethrough
- Text with mask
Working with Images
- Image sizes (handout)
- Image size vs. canvas size
- Cropping (and resizing), plus manual
- Image modes
- Basic retouching with clone, heal, patch tools
Color & Quality Adjustment
- Color Adjustment
Basic tonal adjustment/enhancement
- Brightness/contrast: when to use levels (+ auto), shadow/highlight
- ‘Quality’ Adjustment
Dust and scratches, reduce noise
- Blur, Gaussian blur
- Sharpen/unsharpened, and size issues
Selection
- Various tools, tool options
- Inversing, feathering, grow, smooth, expand, similar
- Pen tool specifics
- Paths to selections
- Selection with Mask
Publishing
- Outputting for the Web
Optimizing for Web Colors
- Resizing and compressing an image for a quick rendering
- Saving
Save options, file formats for InDesign, web etc.
- Paths to Illustrator
- Keyboard shortcuts