Learn about the core features of Photoshop 2023, from interface basics to the key concepts that all Photoshop users need to know—regardless of how they use the program.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome to Photoshop Essential Training
- Opening files in Photoshop
- Opening files from Adobe Bridge
- Opening files from Lightroom Classic
- Opening files from Lightroom
- Editing in Camera Raw or Lightroom vs. Photoshop
- A tour of the Photoshop interface
- Working with multiple documents
- Panning and zooming documents
- Arranging the panels you use most often
- Switching and saving workspaces
- Customizing the Toolbar
- Modifying keyboard shortcuts to boost productivity
- Understanding file formats
- Mastering bit depth and color mode
- Choosing a color space
- Making sense of document size
- Using Image Size to change document dimensions
- Discover flexible editing using the History panel
- Saving and exporting documents
- A tour of the Camera Raw interface
- Removing distortions and cropping photos
- Working with profiles and presets
- Enhancing contrast, color, and tone
- Removing distracting elements
- Using the masking tools to adjust a portion of an image
- Using masking to retouch portraits
- Black-and-white vintage color toning effects
- Saving and opening files in Photoshop
- Using the Crop tool in Photoshop
- Straightening a crooked image
- Crop and change image size in one step
- Increasing canvas size
- Auto-fill with Content-Aware Crop
- Exploring layer basics
- Loading, selecting, aligning, and distributing layers
- Working with layer groups and the Frame tool
- Merging and flattening layers
- Quickly exporting layers and groups
- Color basics
- Brush basics
- The Brushes and Brush Settings panels
- Creating and saving custom brushes
- Layer mask essentials
- Using gradients in masks to blend images
- Using the Marquee and Lasso tools
- Making soft-edged selections
- Using the Object Select tool
- Making selections based on color
- Transforming selections and removing halos
- Selecting and replacing skies
- Removing distracting elements with the Healing, Patch, and Clone tools
- The magic of Content-Aware Fill
- Transform without distorting using Content-Aware Scale and Move
- Removing larger elements from an image
- Introducing adjustment layers
- Adjusting color and tone with Levels and Curves
- Changing colors using Vibrance, Hue/Saturation, and Color Balance
- Converting to black and white and color toning with Gradient Maps
- Applying adjustment layers to multiple layers
- Blend Mode basics
- Using Multiply, Screen, Overlay, and Soft Light
- Applying Blend Modes to Adjustment Layers
- Applying Blend Modes to multiple layers and groups
- Creating and editing Smart Objects
- Opening raw images as Smart Objects
- Replacing the contents of a Smart Object
- Linked vs. embedded Smart Object
- Scaling, skewing, and rotating layers using Free Transform
- Correcting the perspective of an image
- Warping images
- Using Liquify to reshape an image
- Using Vanishing point to paste in perspective
- Using Smart Objects to transform multiple layers as one
- Using Fill Layers to create a hand-painted look
- Using gradients to add color effects
- Creating and applying custom pattern fill layers
- Filter essentials
- Applying filters nondestructively with Smart Filters
- Sharpening images
- Creative blurring effects
- AI-assisted (neural) filters
- Creating painterly effects using Filter Gallery
- Applying Camera Raw as a filter
- Using the Shape tools
- Modifying, duplicating, and using custom shapes
- Creating, saving, and masking images to shapes
- Duplicating shapes as Smart Objects
- The Curvature Pen tool
- Pen tool basics
- Drawing curves with the Pen tool
- Drawing complex paths
- Pen skills in practice
- Applying layer effects and styles
- Creative layer effects
- Exploring headline (point) type
- Using leading, kerning, and tracking
- Working with paragraph (area) type
- Library panel essentials
- Capturing patterns, colors, gradients, and shapes from an image
- Sharing libraries
- Working with Adobe Stock
- Creating artboards
- Adding content to artboards
- Five tips for working with artboards
- Saving and exporting artboards
- Creating animated GIFs
- Creating cinemagraphs
- Saving and sharing cloud documents
- Using Image Processor to batch resize and save files
- Exporting multiple images to a single document
- Next steps
Taught by
Julieanne Kost