Photoshop: Ultimate Mastery

Digital Imaging Foundation

• Image quality and resolution
• Bitmap and vector graphics
• Image and canvas size
• Colour spaces and bit depth
• Design principles
• Files formats and media

Interface

• Create a new document
• Controlling the workspace
• Screen layout and window arrangements
• Navigation and zoom shortcuts
• Undo, redo and history
• Guides, grid and ruler

Layers

• Create, delete and edit layers
• Name, hide, arrange layers
• Merge and group layers
• Change opacity and blending modes
• Cropping Images
• Transform, Scale and Distort Layers

Selections

• Creating selections using the selection tools
• Improve and refine selections
• Transform, scale and distort selections
• Saving and loading selections
• Create layer masks and clipping masks

Image Retouching

• Use the healing brushes, Patch and content-aware tools
• Use the Red Eye tool
• Use the Clone Stamp tools
• Use the Blur, Sharpen and Smudge tools
• Use the Dodge, Burn and Sponge tools
• Content-Aware Tools

Colours and Gradients

• Work with the Color Picker
• Use the Eyedropper tools
• Save and share colours and swatches
• Create and control gradients
• Correct and retouch images

Painting and working with Brushes

• Use the brush tools
• Creating brushes
• Loading external brushes

Colour Correction and Adjustment

• Use Adjustment layers
• Levels and curves
• Hue and saturation
• Shadow and highlights

Text

• Create text using the Type tool
• Discover character properties
• Discover paragraph properties
• Working with styles and adding styles to text

Output

• Output graphics for web, print and video
• Compress image size

Retouch & Correct

• Change models using liquify
• Adding lighting effects
• Replace colour and colour range
• Perspective adjustments
• Black and white conversion
• Understanding LAB Colors
• Photo Filters

Filters

• Explore Photo filters
• Add and combine Filters
• Smart Filters

Advanced Composition

• Masking techniques
• Save and reuse graphic styles
• Define and use layer comps

Selections and Masks

• Select tricky objects in an image like hair
• Hide and show masks full screen
• Work with alpha channels

Advanced Working with Layers

• Auto blend and align layers
• Use Smart objects for non-destructive edits
• Layer blending modes for advanced compositions

Vectors

• Use the Pen tool to create and modify shapes
• Create selections and mask with the Pen Tool
• Draw shapes from the shapes library
• Combine and merge vector shapes

Typography

• Advanced Typography options
• Create Paragraph and Character styles

Colour management

• ICC profiles explained
• Assigning colour profiles
• Proof setup options

Output

• Creating animated GIF images for web
• Slicing images and exporting for use on the web
• Prepare graphics for print
• Add keywords to images

High dynamic images and lens corrections

• Use the Camera RAW plugin to import images
• Clean images and compensate for camera specific lens and color aberrations
• Compose multiple images or use RAW data for High-Dynamic-Range adjustments

3D in Photoshop

• Create 3D text effects
• Convert Photoshop layers into pre-defined 3D shapes
• Use the 3D workspace and on screen controls
• Understand the 3D composition hierarchy
• Import 3D objects as layers
• Paint object surfaces
• Basic UV mapping
• 2D and 3D compositing

Video editing in Photoshop

• Keyframe layer property changes to create animations
• Import and cut video on the timeline
• Create slideshows
• Add transitions
• Animate still images
• Apply filters to video layers
• Add frames and masks
• Export video

Advanced techniques

• Frequency separation
• Double exposure
• Displacement maps
• Skin colour correction
• Remove colour casts
• RAW and Camera RAW
• Perspective Warp
• Advanced Vanishing point techniques

Advanced projects setup

• Work with Artboards
• Create User Interface elements
• Work with other Adobe applications

Scripts and batch processes

• Mergie panoramic images
• Record and execute actions for repetitive tasks
• Use Adobe Bridge to organize assets