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In this course, you will :
- Design icons, business cards, illustrations, and characters
- Clean up face imperfections, improve and repair photos
- Use creative effects to design stunning text styles
- Remove people or objects from photos
- Cut away a person from their background
- Master selections, layers, and working with the layers panel
Syllabus:
1. Get Started
- Introduction & Download Resources for this Section
- Use Photoshop’s Interface Efficiently
- Customize Your Workspace
- Create a New Project
- Get around Photoshop Fast
- Execise: Practice zooming and panning
- Save your Photoshop work
- Export Your Work in 4 Ways (as a PNG/JPEG)
- How to Crop and Straighten Photos
- This is how Photoshop saved me $9000
- Open Images in Photoshop
- How to resize a photo (shrink & enlarge)
- Shrink your PNG/JPEGs without losing quality
- The Powerful Properties Panel
2. Neural Filters - One-click wonders in Photoshop
- Download the resources for this section
- This is the biggest improvement in Photoshop's history
- Colorize a black and white photo
- Automatic Skin Smoothing
- Look like a model with Smart Portrait
- Improve your portrait & change your background
- Bokeh Effect: Use depth blur for a beautiful look
- Cut out a person and replace the background
- Restore old photos with neural filters
- Make a photo 4x bigger (GREAT quality)
- Get creative with your nature photos
- Instagram filters in Photoshop
3. Learn about layer essentials in Photoshop
- Introduction & Download Resources for this Section
- OPTIONAL: What Are Layers?
- Start Using Layers
- Here's my best tips for the Layers Panel
- Select Layers
- Move Layers like a Pro
- EXERCISE: Layer Dexterity
- Solution: Layer Dexterity
- Arrange Images Quickly
- Layer Opacity vs. Fill
4. Learn to work with layers like a pro
- Introduction & Download Resources for this Section
- Layer Types Explained
- Customize the Layers Panel
- How to prepare a design for printing (packaging)
- Identify Layers
- Filter Layers
- Test your speed with this fun exercise
- Solution: Sort Layers
- Manipulate Layers: Resize, Rotate, Transform, Flip
- Best Hotkeys
- Use Blending Modes
- How I quickly edit a website in Photoshop
5. Everything you need to know about Adobe Bridge
- What’s Adobe Bridge and this why you should care
- Organize loads of photos with Adobe Bridge
- Rate your files – the unknown hero!
- Are you a beginner photographer? Start here!
- Optimize viewing mode and clear cache
- Create a beautiful PDF presentation in seconds
6. Camera Raw - Edit Your Photos
- Camera Raw – A must-watch introduction
- The most important thing about editing photos
- Most common edits in Camera Raw
- How to adjust parts of a photo in Camera Raw
- Here’s a smarter way to adjust specific parts in Camera Raw
- Discover better tools to make edits in Camera Raw
- Raw image format vs JPEG
- How to quickly view lots of images
- My workflow in Camera Raw
- Contest: Improve photos in Camera Raw
- How to add optimized images to a website (gallery)
7. Cloud Documents - The Biggest Change in your workflow
- What are cloud documents?
- Saving to the cloud vs locally (on your computer)
- Version history - WOW!
- The biggest drawback with cloud documents
8. Raster Layers - The most flexible layer type in Photoshop
- Use the Brush Tool
- Soften Skin Imperfections
- Skin Smoothing - The Easy Way
- Use the Eye Dropper & Swatches
- OPTIONAL: Photoshop vs. Illustrator
- The Libraries Panel
- Resolution vs. Image Size
- OPTIONAL: Change T-Shirt Color
- Optimize Project Size
- Non-destructive Editing
9. Artboards - This is how you should use them
- Find out how artboards can help you
- The hidden value of artboards
- Creating and resizing artboards
- Duplicate artboards and using guides
- Exporting artboards
10. Selections 101 - Learn to use selections
- These are selections - and how they help
- Modify Selections
- Rectangular Marquee
- Elliptical Marquee
- Learn to select objects
- How to create tricky selections
- This tool is FINALLY useful!
- Hide Pixels with Layer Masks
- Combine 2 Images with Layer Masks
- One-click sky replacement
- Adjusting the Sky Replacement
- Discover the best selection tool (and a mediocre one too)
- Remove a person from their background
- Remove ANYTHING with ease by using this:
- Make an Orange Purple
- Change the Color of T-Shirt v2
11. Selections 102 - Advanced selections
- Pen Tool Overview
- This is how you edit shapes to create anything
- Master the Pen Tool
- Quick Mask Mode
- Select a Color in a Photo
- Remove Background
- Save & Load Selections
12. Build a portfolio & get design jobs
- Why do you need a portfolio?
- How do you build your portfolio? On what platform?
- How should your portfolio look like?
- What should you post in your portfolio?
- Getting jobs from your portfolio
- Live portfolio reviews
13. Shape Layers - Everything you need to know about rectangles (powerful!)
- Create Shapes: Circles, Squares, Rectangles & Best Settings
- Modify Shapes
- Free Transform (Ctrl+T) in CC 2024 works differently
- Design Web Buttons
- Use Custom Shapes
- Design Shapes with the Pen Tool
- Generate Guides from Shapes
- Place Images in Shapes: Clipping Mask vs Layer Mask vs Vector Mask
- Create a Website Layout with shapes
- Design a Flat Illustration
- Contest: Create a Flat Illustration
14. Creative Layer Styles (Effects)
- Layer Styles Crash Course
- Create Gold Text Effect
- Embed Text in Photos
- Use Global Light
- Create Shiny 3D Text
- Create Neon Effect
- Design a Laughing Crying Emoji
- Animate an Emoji (GIF)
- Create & Animate an Emoji
- Create a Fire Text Effect
15. Work with Smart Objects
- Smart Objects Explained
- Design a Mobile App Icon
- Breaking Smart Objects
- Showcase Your Work Professionally
- Create a Realistic Mockup
- Unpack Smart Objects
- Filters with Smart Objects
- Create a Business Card
16. Create a Cute Character
- Create the Shape of the character
- Add Layer Styles for some details
- Make it nice and polished
- Adding finishing touches
- Create A Cute Character
17. Repair Your Photos
- Remove Skin Issues
- Remove Watch & Necklace from Photos
- Clean Up Face Imperfections
- Move People in Photos
- Enhance Faded Photos
- Dodge, Burn, Sponge tools
- Remove Red Eyes from Photos
- Create an Action in Photoshop
- Resize Lots of Images Quickly
18. Text Layers
- This is what you need to know about text layers
- Get New Fonts
- Learn Typography Best Practices
- Combine Fonts
- Fix these Text Layers
- Solution How to fix Text Layers
- Identify a Font
- How to use special characters for gorgeous text
19. Improve Your Photos
- Make Your Teeth White
- Reshape Faces
- Add Light to an Area
- Tilt Shift: Miniaturize Objects
- Add Glowing Lines to Photos
