Adobe Photoshop for Beginners

Description

In this course, you will learn:

• Learn how to use the interface and become acquainted with the essential tools.
• Begin by exploring the enormous array of resources and drop-down menus available to help you edit your photos with ease and confidence.
• Learn how to tweak and edit your image's highlights and shadows, as well as several burning processes.
• Learn the fundamentals of element cutting, with a focus on the Wand and more complex tools like the Pen.
• If you want to mess about with your image afterward, you'll need a good mask.
• Learn how to clean up your skin and how to fix blemishes. Before using the Clone Stamp tool and exporting your retouched image, learn how to maintain your retouching natural and non-destructive.
• Whether you're retouching portraits, editing beauty and fashion photos, or creating dynamic animations from still photos, you'll have all the skills and tools you need by the end of this Basics.

Syllabus:

• Course 1: Introduction to the Interface

  1.  Introduction

  2.  Explore a Whole New World

  3.  Resolution

  4.  Navigation: Zooming In & Out

  5.  Layers Upon Layers

  6.  Selection Options, Cropping

  7.  Brush Basics, Paint Buckets

  8.  Staying Organized, History, Saving

  9.  Practical Unit

      

• Course 2: Color and Light

  1.  Color Comes First

  2.  Color Profiles

  3.  What’s a Curve? What Are Levels?

  4.  Selective Colour Is Your Friend

  5.  Fills & Gradients, Eyedropper

  6.  The Invisible Secret: Burning & Dodging

  7.  Processing & Efficiency: The Camera Raw Filter

  8.  Practical Unit

      

• Course 3: Cut It Out

  1.  Find the Best Approach

  2.  A New Perspective: Straighten & Correct

  3.  The Magic of the Magic Wand & Moving Slowly with Quick Selection

  4.  A Very Basic Overview of the Pen Tool

  5.  Refine the Edges and Add New Backgrounds

  6.  Quick Masking and Finishing

  7.  Practical Unit

      

• Course 4: Retouching

  1.  Clone Stamping Basics - Making Skin and Hair Manageable

  2.  Healing vs. Spot Healing: Twin Tools and the Patch Tool

  3.  My Personal Favorite Tool: Liquify, Wrinkle Basics

  4.  Blending Modes for Simple Special Effects

  5.  Working Non-destructively Using Filters

  6.  Hide Your Tracks and Finishing: Sharpening & Grain

  7.  Practical Unit

      

• Course 5: Still Life Secrets

  1.  Composing the Shot: Comping Essentials

  2.  Enhance the Shadow, or Just Fake It?

  3.  Using Light, Focus and Blur to Add Depth

  4.  Making Text, Labels & Logos Pop with Unsharp Masking

  5.  Can a Flat Image Feel 3D? Adding Depth to Products and Shapes

  6.  See Through Secrets: Getting A Realistic Glass & Plastic Feel

  7.  Practical Unit

      

• Course 6: Beyond the Basics

  1.  Cropping Correctly with Proper Aspect Ratios

  2.  Sizing Your Image vs. Sizing Your Canvas

  3.  Transformations: Scaling, Skewing & Beyond

  4.  Subtle Warping & Puppet Warping

  5.  Using Puppet Warp to Create Animations

  6. Animated GIFs

  7. Practical Unit