Photoshop 2021 Essential Training

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+ New Features

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About this Course

Discover how to work efficiently and effectively with Photoshop 2021. Learn about the program's core features, including key imaging concepts that all Photoshop users need to know.
Whether you’re looking to pursue a career in design or photography or just want to enhance the images you take of your family and friends, learning how to use Photoshop is one of the best investments you can make in your work. In this course, expert helps you get up to speed with Photoshop 2021, filtering out the noise and complexity to help you quickly achieve the results you want. Expert walks through the fundamentals of digital imaging from working with multiple images to customizing the Photoshop interface, and explains how to choose the right tools to crop, tone, and retouch photos, while always maintaining the highest-quality output, also demonstrates the most efficient ways to perform common tasks, including working with layers, selections, and masking.

Along the way, expert shares the secrets of nondestructive editing using Smart Objects, and helps you master features such as adjustment layers, blend modes, filters, type, layer styles, and much more.
Photoshop 2021 is a big, ambitious update, packed with automated features, AI-enabled retouching filters, and time-saving innovations. In this course, expert brings you up to speed with every single new feature in the software. Learn about the new Sky Replacement command, which lets you swap an ordinary sky for a more dramatic one. Discover Refine Hair, which turns a base selection into an impressive hair mask. Experiment with such practical and entertaining new filters as Skin Smoothing and Smart Portrait. Explore enhancements to Live Shapes, including on-canvas controls and a Line tool that draws open path outlines, complete with dynamic arrowheads. Learn how to review changes to collaborative cloud documents with the help of the powerful Version History panel. And that’s just the beginning.

 

Contents

 

1. Opening Files
Opening files in Photoshop

Opening files from Adobe Bridge

Opening files from Lightroom Classic

Opening files from Lightroom

Editing in Camera Raw and Lightroom vs.Photoshop

 

2. Documents and Navigation
A tour of the Photoshop interface

Working with multiple documents

Panning and zooming documents

Viewing images using different screen modes

 

3. Customizing the Photoshop Interface
Arranging the panels you use most often

Switching and saving workspaces

Customizing the toolbar

Modifying keyboard shortcuts to boost productivity

 

4. Digital Image Essentials
Understanding file formats

Color modes and bit depth

Understanding color space

Understanding document size

Using Image Size to change document dimensions

Multiple Undo and the History panel

Saving documents

 

5. Cropping, Straightening, and Adjusting Canvas Size
Using the Crop tool

Straightening a crooked image

Crop and change image size in one step

Increasing canvas size

Autofill with Content-Aware Crop

 

6. Layers
Exploring layer basics

Loading, selecting, aligning, and distributing layers

Working with layer groups and the Frame tool

Merging and flattening layers

Quickly exporting images

 

7. Color and Brush Essentials
Color basics

Brush essentials

Using brush presets and customizing brush settings

 

8. Working with Layer Masks
Layer mask essentials

Using gradients in layer masks to blend images

 

9. Making Selections
Using the Marquee and Lasso tools

Using Object Selection and Quick Selection tools

Using Select Subject and color range

Selecting soft edge objects using Select and Mask

Removing a halo using Select and Mask

Selecting and replacing skies

 

10. Local Pixel Editing and Retouching
Removing distracting elements with the Healing brush and Patch tools

The magic of Content-Aware Fill

Content-Aware Move and Scale tools

Removing larger elements from an image

 

11. Blend Mode Essentials
Getting to know the blend modes

 

12. Smart Object Essentials
The advantage of Smart Objects

Opening raw images as Smart Objects

 

13. Essential Transformations
Scaling, skewing, and rotating layers with Free Transform

Correcting the perspective of an image

Warping images

Transforming warping multiple layers

 

14. Adjustment Layer Essentials
Introducing adjustment layers

Understanding the histogram

Refining dynamic range using levels

Adjusting contrast and correcting color using Curves

Three easy ways to adjust color in images

Custom black-and-white conversions

Limiting adjustments with clipping masks

 

15. Essential Filters
Overview of filters

Applying filters non destructively with Smart Filters

Sharpening images

Applying Camera Raw as a filter

Using AI filters in Photoshop

Applying filters to multiple layers

 

16. Shape Layers
Using the shape tools

Modifying, combining, and saving custom shapes

Using shapes to mask layers

 

17. Essential Layer Styles
Applying layer effects and styles

Creative layer effect styles

18. Type Essentials
Exploring headline (point) type

Using leading, kerning, and tracking


19. Enhanced Cloud Documents
Make available offline always

Make available online only

Cloud document version history

Bookmarking and naming versions

 

20. Select and Replace Sky
Select > Sky

The Sky Replacement command

Shift Edge and Fade Edge

Painting with the new Sky Brush

Sky Adjustments

Foreground Adjustments

Loading your own custom skies

Masking blue-screen photos

 

21. Advances in Select and Mask
When not to use Sky Replacement

Refine Hair

Object Aware

Real-Time Refinement

Remember Settings and Save Preset

Enhancing your composition

 

22. The Neural Filters
Introducing the Neural Filters

Skin Smoothing

Working with multiple faces

Applied filters

Smart Portrait

Makeup Transfer

Super Zoom

 

23. Live Shape Enhancements
The Line tool now draws lines

Using the new on-canvas controls

Working with live arrowheads

Rectangles and ellipses

Photoshop remembers rotations

Skews and distortions

The new Triangle tool

Live polygons and stars

Showing the reference point

 

24. Pattern Preview
View > Pattern Preview

Smart Objects and Pattern Preview

Correcting a broken pattern

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