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Photoshop 2023 Essential Training

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Overview

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.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome to Photoshop Essential Training
1. Opening Files
  • 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
2. Documents and Navigation
  • A tour of the Photoshop interface
  • Working with multiple documents
  • Panning and zooming documents
3. Customizing the Photoshop Interfaces
  • Arranging the panels you use most often
  • Switching and saving workspaces
  • Customizing the Toolbar
  • Modifying keyboard shortcuts to boost productivity
4. Digital Image Essentials
  • 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
5. Adobe Camera Raw
  • 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
6. Cropping, Straightening, and Adjusting Canvas Size
  • 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
7. Layers
  • 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
8. Color and Brush Essentials
  • Color basics
  • Brush basics
  • The Brushes and Brush Settings panels
  • Creating and saving custom brushes
9. Working with Layer Masks
  • Layer mask essentials
  • Using gradients in masks to blend images
10. Making Selections
  • 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
11. Local Pixel Editing and Retouching
  • 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
12. Adjustment Layer Essentials
  • 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
13. Blend Mode Essentials
  • Blend Mode basics
  • Using Multiply, Screen, Overlay, and Soft Light
  • Applying Blend Modes to Adjustment Layers
  • Applying Blend Modes to multiple layers and groups
14. Smart Object Essentials
  • Creating and editing Smart Objects
  • Opening raw images as Smart Objects
  • Replacing the contents of a Smart Object
  • Linked vs. embedded Smart Object
15. Essential Transformation
  • 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
16. Color, Gradient, and Pattern Fill Layers
  • Using Fill Layers to create a hand-painted look
  • Using gradients to add color effects
  • Creating and applying custom pattern fill layers
17. Essential Filters
  • 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
18. Shape Layers
  • Using the Shape tools
  • Modifying, duplicating, and using custom shapes
  • Creating, saving, and masking images to shapes
  • Duplicating shapes as Smart Objects
19. The Pen Tools
  • The Curvature Pen tool
  • Pen tool basics
  • Drawing curves with the Pen tool
  • Drawing complex paths
  • Pen skills in practice
20. Essential Layer Styles
  • Applying layer effects and styles
  • Creative layer effects
21. Type Essentials
  • Exploring headline (point) type
  • Using leading, kerning, and tracking
  • Working with paragraph (area) type
22. Working with Libraries
  • Library panel essentials
  • Capturing patterns, colors, gradients, and shapes from an image
  • Sharing libraries
  • Working with Adobe Stock
23. Artboards
  • Creating artboards
  • Adding content to artboards
  • Five tips for working with artboards
  • Saving and exporting artboards
24. Animating Images
  • Creating animated GIFs
  • Creating cinemagraphs
25. Sharing Images
  • Saving and sharing cloud documents
  • Using Image Processor to batch resize and save files
  • Exporting multiple images to a single document
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Julieanne Kost

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