These are the exercise files used for Adobe Photoshop CC Essential Training course.
The course outline can be found in
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1. Photoshop Interface Essentials
- Opening files into Photoshop
- Customizing Photoshop's interface
- Arranging the panels you use most often
- Switching and saving workspaces
- Switching tools using the keyboard
- Customizing the keyboard shortcuts
- Synchronizing settings between home and work
2. Documents and Navigation
- Working with tabbed documents
- Arranging multiple open documents
- Stopping Photoshop from tabbing documents
- Panning, zooming, and the Rotate View tool
- Cycling through the different screen modes
3. Digital Image Essentials
- Understanding file formats
- Choosing color modes and bit depth
- Understanding color space
- What resolution image will you need?
- Using Image Size to resize or resample an image
- How large can I print my image?
4. Camera Raw Essentials
- What is Adobe Camera Raw (ACR)?
- Opening files into Camera Raw
- Comparing raw and JPEG files
- Touring the Camera Raw user interface
- An overview of Camera Raw's adjustment tools: Basic panel
- Choosing the correct Camera Raw settings when handing off files to Photoshop
5. Cropping and Straightening Images
- Using Undo and the History Panel
- Using Crop options
- Understanding Hide vs. Delete for the Crop tool
- Cropping to the perfect size
- Making the canvas bigger using the Crop tool
- Making the canvas bigger using the Canvas Size command
- Straightening a crooked image
- Using the Perspective Crop tool
6. Working with Layers
- Exploring layer basics
- Loading, selecting, transforming, and aligning layers
- Changing layer opacity, adding shape layers, and creating layer groups
- Merging, rasterizing, and flattening layers
7. Transforming, Distorting, and Warping Images
- Scaling, skewing, and rotating layers with Free Transform
- Transforming layers nondestructively using Smart Objects
- Warping images
- Using Vanishing Point to paste in perspective
- Preserving important elements with Content-Aware Scale
8. Working with Smart Objects
- Converting Layers to Smart Objects
- Opening raw images as Smart Objects
- Duplicating Smart Objects
- Replacing the contents of a smart object
9. Working with Layer Masks
- Blending two images together using Layer Masks
- Painting in Layer Masks to blend images
- Changing the opacity, size, and hardness of the painting tools
- Creating a weathered look by pasting into a Layer Mask
10. Making Selections
- Using the Marquee and Lasso tools
- Combining Selections
- Converting a selection into a layer mask
- Touching up a Layer Mask with the Brush tool
- Selecting soft edge objects using Refine Edge
- Making selections based on color
- Making selections based on focus
11. Essential Blend Modes
- Getting to know the blend modes
- Using blend modes to add a rough cut, deckled edge
- Using blend modes to emulate an image transfer effect
- Adding a texture with blend modes
- Using Fill Layers to create a hand-painted look
- Using a gradient fill layer to add a color wash
12. Adjustment Layer Essentials
- Introducing adjustment layers
- Refining dynamic range using Levels
- Adjusting local contrast with Curves
- Removing a color cast with Auto Color
- Changing mood using the Photo Filter
- Limiting adjustments with clipping masks
13. Creative Adjustment Layer Techniques
- Making washed out colors pop with Vibrance
- Shifting colors with Hue/Saturation
- Replacing color using Selective Color
- Creative black-and-white and color conversions
- Using Gradient Map to emulate traditional darkroom toning effects
- Subtle color enhancements using Curves
14. Retouching Essentials
- Removing blemishes with the Healing Brush and Patch tools
- Making teeth bright and white
- Brightening eyes to make a person appear more alert
- Lightening dark circles
- Taming flyaway hair
- Smoothing skin and pores with a quick technique
- Deemphasizing wrinkles with the Healing Brush
- Body sculpting with Liquify
- Restoring images using the Healing Brush and Patch tools
- Removing unwanted details with Content-Aware Fill and Patch
- Swapping heads in a family portrait
15. Combining Multiple Images
- Creating panoramas using Adobe Camera Raw
- Working with bracketed exposures (HDR) in ACR
- Creating a panorama in Photoshop
- Combining multiple frames of an action sequence
16. Essential Filters: Flowers
- Overview of filters
- Applying filters nondestructively with Smart Filters
- Sharpening an image with Unsharp Mask and Smart Sharpen
- Sharpening an image with High Pass and Overlay
- Adding noise with the Add Noise filter
- Quickly removing small imperfections using the Dust and Scratches filter
- Using Liquify to quickly reshape an object
- Straightening images using the Adaptive Wide Angle filter
- Applying Camera Raw as a filter
- Applying a filter to multiple layers
17. Artistic Filters: Still Life
- An overview of the artistic filters
- Creating a soft, ethereal look using Gaussian Blur
- Creating a soft, diffuse glow with grain
- Giving an image more texture with the Texturizer
- Selective focus using Field and Iris blurs
- How to create a Tilt Shift effect
- Adding motion effects to spinning objects
- Creative blurring along a path
18. Filters That Create Content (Render)
- Adding flames to a photograph
- Creating custom trees
- Adding decorative picture frames
- Placing a pattern along a path
19. Type Essentials
- Exploring headline type
- Using leading, kerning, and tracking to reinforce a message
- Working with paragraph (area) type
- Adding type along a path
- Clipping an image inside type
- Warping type
20. Essential Layer Effects and Styles
- Adding a drop shadow using layer effects
- Applying multiple layer effects and styles
- Adding edges, textures, and color overlays using styles
- Creating a transparent watermark
- Knowing how (and when) to scale layer effects
21. Basic Shape Layers
- Using the Shape tools
- Adding strokes, fills, and effects to multiple shapes
- Modifying and combining shapes
- Creating multiple instances of a shape with Live Shape properties
- Adding a keyline around an image
- Clipping a photo to a shape layer
- Using the Libraries panel to store content
22. Painting Essentials
- Brush basics
- Selecting different colors
- Paint brushes overview
- Art History Brush