Adobe Photoshop

Introduction to Photoshop

(Advanced Photoshop below)

• Vector vs. Pixel images
• Using Adobe Bridge with Photoshop

The Work Area

• Overview
  • Document Window
  • Toolbar
    • Finding Hidden Tools
  • Option bar
  • Palettes
  • Menus
• Opening & Saving files
• Working with palettes
• Using online Help
• Using Rulers
  • Guides
• Grid

Document Dimensions

• New Documents
  • Resolution vs. File Size
• Canvas Size
  • Enlarging Canvas size
  • Rotating Canvas
• Crop Tool
  • Shielding Cropped Area
  • Crop & Straighten

Views & Navigation

• Views
  • Fit on Screen
  • Actual Pixels
  • Print Size
• View Zoom
  • Menu
  • Zoom tool
  • Keyboard shortcuts
• Moving Around
  • Hand tool
  • Navigator palette
  • Keyboard shortcut
• New View(s)

Undo & History Palette

• Undo Redo/Revert
• History Palette
  • Stepping Back in “Time”
  • History Palette Features

Setting Preferences

• Resetting Prefs
• Setting Prefs
  • General Preferences
  • Saving Files Preferences
  • Display and Cursor Preferences
  • Transparency and Gamut Preferences
  • Units and Rulers Preferences
  • Guides and Grid Preferences
  • Plugins and Scratch Disks
  • Image Cache Preferences
• Assigning RAM to Photoshop

Color

• Color Modes & Uses
  • RGB Mode
  • CMYK Mode
  • Grey Scale Mode
  • Bitmap Mode
• Selecting Colors
  • Eyedropper tool
  • Foreground/Background colors
  • Color palette
  • Swatch palette

Layers

• Organizing artwork on layers
  • Creating and viewing layers
  • Selecting and removing artwork on a layer
  • Rearranging layers
  • Changing the opacity of a layer
  • Linking layers
• Adding a gradient mask to a layer
• Adding a layer effect/style
• Flattening layers and saving files

Painting/Editing

• Painting Tools
  • Brush Tool
  • Eraser Tool
  • Clone Tool
  • Pencil Tool
  • Line Tool
• Filling with Color
  • With Paint Bucket tool
  • With Fill menu
  • Keyboard Shortcuts
• Painting & Editing images
  • Selecting a Paint or Editing Brush
    • Hard-Edge vs. Soft Edge
  • Adjusting Opacity
  • Painting within a selection
  • Erasing Tools
• Airbrushing and smudging
• Gradients
  • Using Pre-defined gradients
  • Editing Gradients

Masks, Selections, and Channels

• Defining masks, selections, and alpha channels
• Quick Mask
  • Creating a quick mask
  • Editing a quick mask
  • Editing a mask
• Selections
  • Making a mask as a selection
  • Using the Selection tools
    • Rectangular marquee tool
    • Ellipitical marquee tool
    • The Lasso tools
    • The Magic Wand
    • The Quick Selection tool
  • Moving a selection
  • Adding and subtracting selections
    • Via Option Bar
    • Via Keyboard shortcuts
  • Editing Selections
    • Moving a Selection
      • Selection only
      • Image Selection
    • Transforming a selection
    • Modifying Selections
    • Inversing Selections
  • Saving a Selection
  • Loading a Selection

Cropping

• Image>Crop
• Crop Tool
  • Rotation during crop

Type

• Type Tools
  • Normal Type
  • Type Mask
• Setting Type
  • Font, Style, Size, Alignment
  • Color
  • Warped Text Effects
  • Anti-Alias Settings
• Using Palettes

Color Adjustment

• Easy Methods
  • Variations
  • Auto Levels
  • Auto Contrast
  • Auto Color
  • Red Eye Tool
• Levels

Filters

• Sharpen
• Blur
• Filter Gallery, including:
  • Artistic
  • Sketch
  • Stylize
  • Texture

Printing Files

• Print With Preview
  • Scaling to fit
  • More Options
    • Output options

Saving files

• Layered Formats
  • Photoshop
  • TIFF with layers
• PDF
• Flat Format
  • TIFF
  • JPEG
  • PNG

Advanced Photoshop

Actions

• Creating
• Editing/
• Running
• Batch

Adobe Bridge

• Running PSD Actions
• Batch Renaming
• Other Batch options

Image Resolution

• Image Size Settings
• Resolution vs. Size
• Print Requirements
• Resampling
• Removing Pixels
• Adding Pixels
• Using Smart Objects

Crop Tool

• Perspective Crop
• Hiding vs. Deleting Crop
• Reveal All
• Cropping to size/resolution

History Palette

• History Snapshots
• History Brush

Color Management Issues

• Profiles
• Monitor Printer
• Color Management Settings
• Soft Proofing
• Gamut Warning
• Printing
• Source = Proof View
• Printer = Proofing Device

Masks, Selections, and Channels Layers

• Layers
• Using Layer Masks
• Creating/Viewing/Editing
• Using Clipping Masks
• Channels
• Using Alpha Channels
• Creating/Viewing/Editing
• Creating Selections from Color Channels

Retouching

• Healing Brush
• Spot Healing Brush
• Patch Tool

Color Adjustment

• Adjustment Options
• Curves*
• Color Balance*
• Hue/Saturation*
• Selective Color*
• Match Color
• Replace Color
• *Adjustments vs. Adjustment Layers

Other Editing Tools

• Color Replacement Tool
• Sharpen/Blur Tools
• Sponge Tool Burn/Dodge Tools
• Color Sampler Tool

Vector Tool Techniques

• Drawing paths with the pen tool
• Drawing paths
• Combining straight and curved lines
• Drawing a path around artwork
• Saving a Path
• Creating a “Clipping” Path
• Converting Path to/from a Selection
• Vector Shapes

Filters

• Smart Filters
• Extract
• Liquify
• Vanishing Point
• Noise

Layer Comps

• Creating
• Using
• Updating

Special Print Topics (upon request)

• Converting to Grayscale
• Creating Duotones Spot Color Channels
• Adv. Sharpening
• L channel in LAB mode
• High-Pass Method
• Dupe layer
• Apply Hi-Pass Filter
• Overlay, Soft/Hard Light mode