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Adobe Photoshop CC Essential Training

These are the exercise files used for Adobe Photoshop CC Essential Training course.

The course outline can be found in

https://www.tertiarycourses.com.sg/adobe-photoshop-cc-essential-training.html https://www.tertiarycourses.com.my/adobe-photoshop-cc-essential-training-malaysia.html

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