Adobe Photoshop: Beginner's Guide for Photographers

Description

In this course, you will learn:

• Learn how to edit the brightness, contrast, and color of an image using the three main image adjustment parameters. Start with these simple tools and work your way up to more complicated tools like curves and levels.
• Learn about Camera Raw, a program that allows you to edit and retouch RAW files with more precision.
• To fine-tune your portraits, use tools like cloning, adjustment layers, gaussian blur, and others to improve skin tones, remove redness, brighten eyes, and more.
• Learn how to utilize a graphics tablet, how to use actions for a faster and more effective workflow, how to comprehend the CMYK color model, how to experiment with filters, and how to send a file to a client.

Syllabus:

• Course 1: Getting to Know Photoshop

  1.  Welcome

  2.  Introduction to Photoshop and the Workspace

  3.  Navigate Through Documents

  4.  Layers & Groups

  5.  Transforming Images

  6.  Brush Work

  7.  Cloning

  8.  Image Size, Resolution and Canvas Size

  9.  Bit Depth and Tonal Range and Colour Theory and How It Relates to Tools in Photoshop

  10.  File Formats

  11.  Sharpening Images

  12.  Practice
       

• Course 2: Retouching Fundamentals

  1.  Histograms & Image Quality, Brightness & Contrast

  2.  Colour Balance and Creative Colouring

  3.  Crop & Straighten

  4.  Levels

  5.  Curves

  6.  Black and White

  7.  Selections

  8.  Layer Masks

  9.  Blending Images Together

  10.  Practice
       

• Course 3: Retouching Environmental Images

  1.  Power of RAW

  2.  Local Edits in the RAW Converter

  3.  RAW Smart Objects

  4.  Vibrance and Hue/Saturation

  5. Clone to Enhance a Composition

  6.  Enhance Important Features

  7.  Clone in Perspective

  8.  Sky Replacement

  9.  Creative Effects

  10.  Panorama

  11.  HDR

  12.  Multiple Exposure Action Shot

  13.  Practice
       

• Course 4: Retouching Portraits

  1.  Cloning and Working With Adjustment Layers

  2.  Correcting and Enhancing Skin Tones

  3.  Removing Redness in Skin

  4.  Brightening Eyes

  5.  Reduce Wrinkles

  6.  Smooth Skin

  7.  Make the Subject Stand Out From Its Background

  8.  Sharpening

  9.  Practice
      

• Course 5: Final Touches and Useful Tips

  1.  Setting up and Working With a Tablet

  2.  Making a Road Map to Plan Edit

  3.  Working with Actions

  4.  Understanding CMYK Composition of Skin Tones

  5.  Dodge and Burn

  6.  Liquify

  7.  Frequency Separation

  8.  Teeth & Lips

  9.  Colour Grading & Batch Processing

  10.  Delivering Files to a Client

  11.  Create a Photo Logo

  12.  Practice