Ultimate Adobe Photoshop Training: Beginner To Advance Course

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