Photoshop 2021 One-on-One: Fundamentals

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About this Course

Photoshop expert teaches you everything you need to know about Photoshop, in the order you need to know it, complete with examples and practical advice.
Go one-on-one with world-renowned Photoshop expert in this comprehensive course. Expert begins by explaining the many ways to open files in Photoshop. Expert steps you through working with layers and masks. Photoshop has almost as many ways of saving files as it has of opening them, and covers all of them.

Expert walks you through luminance, brightness, contrast, and color balance, and shows you how to develop photographic images in Camera Raw, and discusses the ability in Photoshop to edit an entire image at once or adjust a specific, selected region and he walks you through every selection tool in the software. There’s so much more, including an entire chapter on retouching! 

 

Contents

 

1. Open
How image editing begins

Opening a file by double-clicking it

The Home screen

The Open command

Opening from Adobe Bridge

Opening an image in Camera Raw

 

2. Navigate
Let me show you around

Zooming in and out

Using the more precise Zoom tool

Reassigning Spotlight and Siri (Mac only)

Five ways to zoom continuously

Scrolling (or panning)

Bird's eye and other scrolling tricks

Switching between open images

Cycling between screen modes

Using the Navigator panel

Panels and workspace: Do not skip

Resetting and updating workspaces

A few important preferences

 

3. Layers
The layered composition

Introducing the Layers panel

Converting the flat Background to a layer

Jumping an image onto a new layer

Flipping and scaling a layer

Adding a vector-based layer

Creating a basic layer mask

Clipping one layer inside another

Merging two layers into one

Auto Select and the Move tool

Inverting a layer mask

Adding depth with layer effects

Softening a mask with Feather

Three ways to copy and paste layers

Auto-zooming one or more layers

 

4. Save
The many ways to save

Five essential things to know about saving

Revert, autosave, and more

Saving layers to the native PSD format

The Maximize Compatibility option

Saving a flat print image to TIFF

Saving an interactive image to PNG

Saving a flat photograph to JPEG

Saving a cloud-based PSDC file

 

5. Brightness
Introducing luminance

How luminance works

The three auto commands

Auto-correcting photographs

Auto Brightness/Contrast

Custom Brightness/Contrast

Applying a dynamic adjustment layer

Adjustment layer tips and tricks

Adjustment layers and blend modes

Introducing the histogram

Putting the histogram to use

Isolating an adjustment with a layer mask

 

6. Balance
Color cast versus color harmony

Identifying the color cast of a photo

Correcting a color cast automatically

Using the Color Balance command

Revisiting the last-applied settings

Correcting white balance in Camera Raw

When Camera Raw disappoints

Adjusting a color cast with Photo Filter

Applying Auto Color nondestructively

 

7. Develop
Introducing Camera Raw

Camera Raw basics

Working with a developed image

Zooming and panning

Working with panels

Capture raw, convert to DNG

Correcting for lens distortion

Removing chromatic aberration

Exposure and Contrast

Highlights, shadows, whites, and blacks

Working with Texture, Clarity, and Dehaze

Opening and editing multiple images

The real purpose of the White Balance tool

Camera Raw tricks and tips

 

8. Color
Hue, Saturation, and "Vibrance"

Color = Hue + Saturation

How Vibrance works

Adjusting Vibrance in Photoshop

Deleting color sample markers

Adjusting Vibrance in Camera Raw

Introducing Hue/Saturation

Using the Targeted Adjustment tool

Selectively adjusting colors in Camera Raw

Isolating a color range in Camera Raw

 

9. Select
The selective power of Photoshop

Selection and Move tool basics

Selecting an elliptical object

Using the Paste Into command

Using the Copy Merged command

Add, subtract, and intersect selections

Using the Magic Wand tool

Using the three Lasso tools

Painting with the Quick Selection tool

Using the Object Selection tool

 

10. Crop
Too many pixels

Introducing Photoshop’s Crop tool

Cropping without deleting any pixels

Aspect ratio and other tricks

Working with the reference point

Finessing a crop with Canvas Size

Using Content-Aware Crop

Two ways to use the Straighten tool

Straightening with the Ruler tool

Cropping away all transparent pixels

Cropping and straightening in Camera Raw

Using the Perspective Crop tool

Cropping everything outside the canvas

 

11. Paint
Learning to paint

Introducing the Brush tool

Painting pressure-sensitive brushstrokes

Changing the size and hardness on-the-fly

Previewing size and hardness

Opacity versus Flow

Erasing with the tilde key

Roundness, Angle, and the arrow keys

Using the Smoothing options

Painting with automated symmetry

Rotating and resetting your view

Using an iPad as a sidecar tablet

 

12. Retouch
Your best face forward

Using the Spot Healing Brush

Healing to an independent layer

Using the standard Healing Brush

Using the Clone Source panel

Rotating the source pixels

Restoring blown highlights

Using the Patch tool

Shift-clicking to heal in straight lines

The Dodge and Sponge tools to whiten teeth

The Camera Raw Spot Removal tool

 

13. Resolution
How digital images work

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

 

14. Print
Print from RGB, not CMYK

Using my customizable printer test file

The Print command and color management

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

 

15. Web
Free-range images

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 as SVG

Exporting multiple layers and groups

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