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Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Mastery

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Overview

Sharpen your Photoshop skills by learning advanced techniques from industry expert Deke McClelland.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome to One-on-One
31. Shortcuts and Customization
  • Becoming a lean, mean, imaging machine
  • Loading my custom dekeKeys shortcuts
  • Your new custom keyboard shortcuts
  • Restoring Photoshop default shortcuts
  • Photoshop panel and toolbox shortcuts
  • Top-secret tricks for shortcut enthusiasts
  • Five pro-level Preferences settings
  • Customizing Photoshop menus
  • Customizing a Photoshop toolbox
  • Choose your color space: sRGB or Adobe RGB
  • Upgrading from sRGB to Adobe RGB
  • Assigning and converting color profiles
32. Creative Smart Filtering
  • Delving the Filter menu to great effect
  • Applying a dynamic Wave filter
  • Rendering type in smoke
  • Creating a realistic pointillism effect
  • Giving your painting texture with Emboss
  • Creating a high-color High Pass effect
  • Hunting down seams with the Offset filter
  • Turning a cityscape into a tiny planet
  • Integrating and shading your tiny planet
  • Creating trendy, dynamic twirl art
  • Creating symmetrical twirl art
  • Switching out the image in a dynamic effect
  • Upping the resolution of dynamic artwork
  • Fragmenting a photo through ribbed glass
  • Distorting an image with the Glass filter
33. Blur and Noise
  • Blur and noise focus your attention
  • Adding depth of field with Field Blur
  • Masking a Blur Gallery effect
  • Enhancing a Smart Filter mask
  • Matching natural noise with the Blur Gallery
  • Introducing noise with Field Blur
  • Light Bokeh and Bokeh Color
  • Painting with randomly fluctuating colors
  • Creating a blurry vignette with Iris Blur
  • Backing off a Blur Gallery filter
  • Creating a fake miniature with Tilt Shift
  • Simulating motion with the Path Blur filter
  • Creating elliptical motion with Spin Blur
  • Reducing noise in Camera Raw
  • Sharpening fine detail in Camera Raw
  • Rounding and blurring letterforms
  • Turning a photo into a dot drawing
  • Creating a high-resolution dot drawing
34. Masks and Calculations
  • Using the image to select itself
  • A quick refresher on layer masking
  • Initiating a mask as an alpha channel
  • Deploying an alpha channel as a layer mask
  • Introducing the Calculations command
  • Masking a subject set against black or white
  • Saving alpha channels to the TIFF format
  • Painting contrast with the Overlay mode
  • Eliminating halos with the Minimum filter
  • Restoring details with the History brush
  • Masking a subject against a green screen
  • Enhancing and inverting a mask with Levels
  • Painting away color fringing
  • Immersing an image in its new environment
  • Masking wispy, voluminous, untamed hair
  • Preserving very fine hair details
  • Compositing hair to match a new background
35. The Pen Tool
  • Tracing an image, point-by-point
  • Introducing the Paths panel
  • The Freeform and standard Pen tools
  • Adding and deleting anchor points
  • Starting a path outline with an ellipse
  • Drawing smooth and cusp points
  • Deploying path outlines as a vector mask
  • Combining a layer mask with a vector mask
  • Brushing along a path outline
  • Adding to an existing vector mask
  • Perfecting hair inside a vector mask
  • Bolstering hair with an Overlay layer
  • Drawing perfect eye masks
  • Duplicating and masking entire groups
  • Masking with vector-based letterforms
36. Panoramas and Stitching
  • Creating ultra high-resolution imagery
  • Introducing the Photomerge command
  • Understanding the Layout settings
  • Auto-aligning and auto-blending photos
  • Merging, cropping, and scaling a panorama
  • Correcting a distorted horizon
  • Retouching and enhancing a panorama
  • Assembling a vertical, interior panorama
  • Stitching together scanned artwork
  • Using the Adaptive Wide Angle filter
37. Editing Videos
  • Why edit video in Photoshop?
  • Loading video clips into Photoshop
  • Creating gradually fading transitions
  • Activating some useful keyboard shortcuts
  • Adding text to your video
  • Combining your text into video groups
  • Adding motion to text, or any other layer
  • Adding soundtracks and voiceovers
  • Exporting and examining your video
  • Editing an existing video composition
  • Splitting a clip at the playhead
  • Adding a clip to the beginning of a track
  • Applying smart filters to a video clip
38. Layer Comps and Artboards
  • Advanced layer options
  • Introducing layer comps
  • Creating a dynamic layer comp
  • Updating broken layer comps
  • Using layer comps to compare blend settings
  • Introducing artboards
  • Creating and cropping a new artboard
  • Adding and duplicating artboards
  • Moving layers in and out of artboards
  • Alignment and artboard-specific guides
  • Exporting artboards as independent assets
  • 17 pages of Photoshop keyboard shortcuts
  • Exporting artboards to a multipage PDF
39. Using the Libraries Panel
  • Collaborating with coworkers and the cloud
  • Introducing the Libraries panel
  • Retrieving, duplicating, and sharing assets
  • Collaborating with the help of smart objects
  • Collecting styles in the Libraries panel
  • Auto-extracting assets into a new library
  • Editing cloud-based library assets
  • Updating modified or missing assets
  • Sharing an asset created in Illustrator
40. Actions and Batch Processing
  • Several incentives to recording actions
  • Introducing the Actions panel
  • Recording a simple but practical action
  • Modifying and playing a specific step
  • Customizing settings during playback
  • Adding steps to an existing action
  • Actioning a consistent image resolution
  • Modifying an adjustment and adding Save As
  • Actioning the creation of flat CMYK files
  • Batch processing an entire folder of images
  • Saving and loading your actions
Conclusion
  • Goodbye

Taught by

Deke McClelland

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