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Photoshop 2020 Essential Training: Photography

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Overview

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Explore Photoshop from a photographer’s perspective. Learn how to enhance color and tone, remove distracting elements, combine images, apply filters, retouch images, and more.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome to the Photoshop CC Essential Training series for Photographers
1. Creative Adjustment Layer Techniques
  • Dodging and burning with Curves
  • Adding color tints to an image
  • Creative split tone effects
  • Emulating traditional darkroom toning effects
  • Remapping color using profiles and color lookup tables
2. Solid Color and Gradient Fill Layers
  • Using fill layers to create a hand-painted look
  • Using a gradient fill layer to add a color wash
3. Retouching Essentials
  • Quick techniques for clearing and softening skin
  • Brightening eyes and lightening teeth
  • De-emphasizing wrinkles with the Healing Brush
  • Body sculpting with Liquify
  • Swapping heads in a family portrait
4. Combining Multiple Images
  • Overlaying textures selectively
  • Adding a deckled edge effect
  • Emulating a retro image transfer effect
  • Combining a multi-image action sequence
  • Creating a panorama in Photoshop
  • Creating a double exposure effect
5. Boosting Productivity with Templates Personal Projects
  • Replacing the contents of a Smart Object
  • Duplicating Smart Objects
  • Using variables with templates
6. Essential Filters for Photographers
  • Adding lens flare
  • Removing distortions using the Adaptive Wide Angle filter
  • Creating a tilt shift effect
  • Creative blurring along a Path
  • Creating a soft, diffuse glow with grain
  • Quickly removing small imperfections using the Dust and Scratches filter
7. Creating Painterly Effects
  • Using the Oil Paint filter
  • Painting with the Art History Brush
  • Creating a custom brush
  • The Mixer Brush
8. Type, Shapes, and Layer Effects and Styles
  • Creating a transparent watermark
  • Add a glowing neon shape
  • Adding keyline around an image
  • Displaying a photo inside of text
9. Artboards and Libraries
  • Artboard essentials
  • Using the Libraries panel to store content
10. Exporting Files and Sharing Images
  • Saving multiple photos at one time using Image Processor
  • Creating basic contact sheets
11. The Creative Composite
  • Setting the stage
  • Adding the primary figure
  • Adding supporting elements
  • Using color and texture to unify images
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Julieanne Kost

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