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Photoshop CC 2019 One-on-One: Fundamentals

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Overview

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Learn the fundamentals of the powerful image editor Photoshop CC. Go one-on-one with Deke McClelland, one of the world's foremost Photoshop experts in this comprehensive course.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome to One-on-One
1. Opening an Image
  • How it all starts
  • Opening from the Windows desktop
  • Opening from the Macintosh Finder
  • The home screen and the Open command
  • Opening an image from Adobe Bridge
  • Opening an image in Camera Raw
  • Closing one image or all at once
2. Getting Around
  • Navigating your image
  • Zooming in and out
  • Using the more precise Zoom tool
  • Five ways to zoom continuously
  • Entering a custom zoom value
  • Scrolling (panning)
  • A few top-secret scrolling tricks
  • Switching between open images
  • Rotating and resetting the view
  • Cycling between screen modes
  • Using the Navigator panel
  • Panels and workspaces—do not skip!
  • Updating a workspace
  • A few very important preferences
  • Reassigning Spotlight (Mac only)
3. Image Size and Resolution
  • Digital imaging fundamentals
  • Image size and resolution
  • Introducing the Image Size command
  • Common resolution standards
  • Upsampling vs. real high-resolution data
  • Changing the print resolution
  • Downsampling for print
  • Downsampling for email and photo sharing
  • The seven interpolation settings
  • Real-world rules for downsampling
  • Upsampling with Preserve Details 2.0
4. Crop, Restore, and Straighten
  • Too many pixels
  • Introducing the Crop tool
  • Cropping nondestructively
  • Aspect ratio and other tricks
  • Rotating the image as you crop it
  • Working with the reference point
  • Finessing a crop with Canvas Size
  • Using Content-Aware Crop
  • Content-Aware bloopers: Part 1
  • Content-Aware bloopers: Part 2
  • Using the Straighten tool
  • Straightening with the Ruler tool
  • Using the Perspective Crop tool
5. Introducing Layers
  • The layered composition
  • Introducing the Layers panel
  • Converting the flat background to a layer
  • Customizing the transparency checkerboard
  • Turning a color photo black and white
  • Creating a silhouette with Brightness/Contrast
  • Creating a new layer and painting on it
  • Simple tricks for painting with the Brush tool
  • Distinguishing black from non-black pixels
  • Moving an image between documents
  • Expanding the canvas to accommodate a layer
  • Auto-Select and the Move tool
  • Employing a clipping mask
  • Working with Opacity and blend modes
  • Five ways to duplicate layers
  • Scale, rotate, and layer mask
  • Filling a selection with color
6. Saving Your Progress
  • The many, many ways to save
  • Five essential things to know about saving
  • Saving layers to the native PSD format
  • Saving a flat print image to TIFF
  • Saving an interactive image to PNG
  • Saving a flat photograph to JPEG
7. Brightness and Contrast
  • Luminance and how it relates to color
  • How luminance works
  • The three Auto commands
  • Automatic Brightness/Contrast
  • Custom Brightness/Contrast
  • Applying a dynamic adjustment layer
  • Adjustment layer tips and tricks
  • Isolating an adjustment with a layer mask
  • Introducing the Histogram
  • Putting the Histogram to use
  • Reducing contrast with Shadows/Highlights
  • One more power-user technique
8. Balancing Colors
  • Color resides in the eyes of the beholder
  • Identifying the color cast of a photo
  • Correcting a color cast automatically
  • Manually adjusting colors with Color Balance
  • Adjusting a color cast with Photo Filter
  • Correcting color cast in Camera Raw
  • Adjusting color intensity with Vibrance
  • Introducing Hue/Saturation
  • Using the Targeted Adjustment tool
  • Summoning colors where none exist
  • Making even more color with Vibrance
  • Creating a quick-and-dirty sepiatone
  • Customizing your color wheel
9. Making Selections
  • Power of selection in Photoshop
  • Using the geometric Marquee tools
  • Painting with the Quick Selection tool
  • Add, subtract, and intersect selections
  • Turning a selection into a layer mask
  • Aligning a layer to a selection
  • Working with the Magic Wand tool
  • Saving and loading selections
  • Refining the quality of a selection
  • Adding clouds to your composition
  • Enhancing the drama of your scene
  • Conquering the Quick Selection tool
  • Using each of the three Lasso tools
  • Drawing a freeform shadow with the Lasso
  • Colorizing a layer with Color Overlay
10. The Quick Mask Mode
  • Painting selections
  • Combining the best of the selection tools
  • Introducing the Quick Mask mode
  • The fastest way to save a selection
  • Gauging the quality of a selection
  • Painting adjustments with the Brush tool
  • Adding motion blur with the Smudge tool
  • Reversing a mask with Invert
  • Applying a special-effects filter
  • Smoothing a badly stroked edge
  • Selecting all the black lines
  • Expanding and contracting a selection
11. Retouch and Heal
  • Your best face forward
  • Correcting very bad colors
  • Cloning, Healing, and Content-Aware
  • Create Texture and Proximity Match
  • A closer look at Content-Aware cloning
  • Painting with the Spot Healing Brush
  • Healing Brush tips and tricks
  • Shift-clicking to heal in straight lines
  • Using the standard Healing Brush
  • Flipping and rotating the source data
  • Using the Dodge and Burn tools
  • Whitening teeth with the Sponge tool
  • Reshaping details with the Liquify filter
  • Selectively recoloring details
  • Smoothing skin textures with blur
  • Nondestructive dodging and burning
12. Introducing Camera Raw
  • The most powerful Photoshop plugin
  • Applying Camera Raw as a filter
  • The nondestructive Camera Raw
  • Handling a Camera Raw image in Photoshop
  • Capturing raw images and converting to DNG
  • Opening and developing a raw photograph
  • Opening the raw photo in Photoshop
  • Opening and editing multiple images
  • Highlights, Shadows, Whites, and Blacks
  • Clarity and Chromatic Aberration
  • Adjusting the Dehaze value
  • HSL and the Targeted Adjustment tool
  • Using the Spot Removal tool
  • Removing unwanted image elements
  • Cleaning up with the Patch tool
13. Creating and Formatting Text
  • Vector-based type in Photoshop
  • Creating and scaling a line of type
  • Integrating type with imagery: Part 1
  • Integrating type with imagery: Part 2
  • Formatting type from the options bar
  • Formatting type from the Character panel
  • Finding the perfect font
  • Type size and script fonts
  • Creating and editing paragraph text
  • Adjusting leading and paragraph spacing
  • Setting the antialiasing for very small text
  • Aligning one layer to another
  • Creating text along a circle
  • Finding a character with the Glyphs panel
  • Double-stroking a circle
  • Creating a distressed cancellation mark
14. Printing Your Images
  • Print from RGB, not CMYK
  • Using my customizable printer test file
  • Print, size, and position
  • Using printer-specific options on the PC
  • Using printer-specific options on the Mac
  • Brightening your image for print
  • Description and printing marks
  • Establishing a borderless bleed
  • Previewing an image at print size
15. Creating Web Graphics
  • Images on the wild wild web
  • Assigning copyright and contact info
  • Copyrighting multiple images at a time
  • How color works on the web
  • Quick Export as PNG
  • Quick Export as JPEG
  • Introducing the old-school Save for Web
  • Saving an 8-bit GIF or PNG
  • Saving an animated GIF file
  • Exporting vector-based layers to SVG
  • Exporting multiple layers and groups
Conclusion
  • Until next time

Taught by

Deke McClelland

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