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Photoshop CS6 One-on-One: Intermediate

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Overview

Industry pro Deke McClelland teaches you how to build on your basic knowledge and achieve next-level effects in the premiere image-editing program from Adobe, Photoshop CS6.

In this course, industry pro Deke McClelland teaches you how to build on your basic knowledge and achieve next-level effects in the premiere image-editing program from Adobe, Photoshop CS6. Discover how to seamlessly move and patch areas of a photo with the Content-Aware toolset; stretch the brightness of a scene with automatic and custom Levels adjustments; create intricate designs with text and shapes; and morph an image with layer effects and transformations. Deke also shares his techniques for sharpening details, whether addressing noise and highlight/shadow clipping or camera shake, and converting a full-color image to black-and-white. The final chapters show you how to best print and save images for the web, making sure all your hard work pays off in the final output.

Syllabus

11. The Content-Aware Collection
  • Introducing the Patch tool
  • Using Content-Aware Patch
  • Retouching with Content-Aware Patch
  • Using the Content-Aware Move tool
  • Using Content-Aware Extend
  • The Content-Aware Scale command
  • Scaling in multiple passes
  • Protecting skin tones
  • The best of Photoshop automation
12. Adjusting Levels
  • The new automatic Levels adjustment
  • Customizing a Levels adjustment
  • Understanding the Gamma value
  • Opening up the shadows
  • Previewing clipped pixels
  • Retouching with Output Levels
  • Making channel-by-channel adjustments
  • Faking a gray card in post
  • Assigning shortcuts to adjustment layers
  • Editing the histogram
13. Sharpening Details
  • Introducing the Smart Sharpen filter
  • Understanding the Radius value
  • Gauging the best sharpening settings
  • Addressing color artifacts and clipping
  • Sharpening a digital photograph
  • The More Accurate check box
  • Correcting for camera shake
  • Sharpening with the Emboss filter
  • Sharpening with High Pass
  • Painting in sharpness
  • How sharpening works
14. Creating and Formatting Text
  • Creating and editing point text
  • Font and type style tricks
  • Type size and color tricks
  • Kerning and tracking characters
  • Creating and editing area text
  • Selecting and formatting paragraphs
  • Setting text inside a custom path
  • Creating text along a path
  • Adjusting baseline shift
  • Creating and stylizing a logo
  • Masking text into image elements
  • Vector-based type
15. Drawing Shapes
  • Drawing a dashed or dotted border
  • Drawing and aligning custom shapes
  • Creating your own repeatable custom shape
  • Combining simple shapes to make complex ones
  • Cropping, adjusting, and merging shapes
  • Creating a soft, synthetic sparkle
  • Saving a resolution-independent PDF file
  • Turning a small image into a huge one
  • The other vector-based layer
16. Layer Effects
  • Depth, contour, and texture
  • Imparting depth with a layer effect
  • The power of the drop shadow
  • Modifying a layer and its effects
  • Saving custom default settings
  • Creating a custom contour
  • Introducing Bevel and Emboss
  • Multiple effects and multiple layers
  • Global Light and rasterizing effects
  • Gloss and surface contour
  • Adding texture to Bevel and Emboss
17. Paragraph, Character, and Layer Styles
  • Creating and applying a paragraph style
  • Redefining a style and styling a word
  • Creating and styling a placeholder style
  • Applying and creating layer styles
  • Loading and customizing layer styles
  • Merging and saving layer styles
  • Styles store settings
18. Scale, Rotate, Skew, and Warp
  • Transformation and Smart Objects
  • Adjusting the interpolation setting
  • Rotating a layer with Free Transform
  • Scale, duplicate, and repeat
  • Creating a synthetic star field
  • Warping a logo with Arc and Flag
  • Distort, perspective, and skew
  • Using transformations to draw and correct
  • Bolstering text with layer effects
  • Adding highlights with Lens Flare
  • Meet the transformations
19. Liquifying an Image
  • The Warp and Reconstruct tools
  • Brush size, hardness, and opacity
  • The Pucker, Bloat, Push, and Twirl tools
  • Saving and reapplying Liquify settings
  • Lifting and slimming details
  • Warping legs, arms, and fabric
  • Improving a model's posture
  • Removing the weight that the camera adds
20. Converting to Black & White
  • Shoot in color, convert to black and white
  • Three ways to grayscale
  • Mixing a custom black-and-white image
  • Simulating an infrared photograph
  • Creating a sienna-infused sepia tone
  • Creating a hyper-saturated image
  • Introducing the Black & White command
  • Customizing the Black & White settings
  • Black & White meets the Channel Mixer
  • Infusing an image with tint and color
  • Grayscale and Split Tone in Camera Raw
21. Printing an Image
  • Using the test document
  • Print, position, and size
  • Description and printing marks
  • Establishing a bleed
  • Getting reliable color
  • Special printing options
  • Previewing an image at print size
  • Creating contact sheets
  • Creating a multipage PDF
  • The many ways to print
22. Saving for the Web
  • Introducing Save for Web
  • Creating the perfect JPEG image
  • Creating a high-contrast GIF image
  • The two varieties of PNG
  • Downsampling for the web
  • Adding copyright and contact info
  • Making Internet imagery
Conclusion
  • Until next time

Taught by

Deke McClelland

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