Customizing Photoshop
■ Preference
■ Panels
■ Menu
■ Customising Preferences & Keyboard Shortcuts
■ Workspace
■ Presets
■ Hidden
tools
■ Maximizing
productivity with screen modes
Working With Selections
■ The
importance of a good selection
■ About
selecting & selection tools
■ Rectangular
& Oval selections
■ Lasso tool,
Magnetic Lasso Tool, Polygonal Lasso Tool
■ Magic Wand
■ Quick
Selection Tool
■ Feathering –
softening selection edges
■ Selecting by
Colour
■ Using
the Marquee tools
■ Changing
a selection into a layer
■ Working
with the Magic Wand tool
■ Adding
to and subtracting from selections
■ Adding
to and deleting from the selection
■ Saving
a selection
■ Making
difficult selections with the Refine Edge feature
■ Using
Quick Mask
■ Copying
and pasting a selection
■ Using
the Pen tool for selections
■ Converting
a path to a selection
Understanding
Layers
■ Background
layers
■ Creating
layers
■ Rearrange
& editing layers
■ Opacity &
Layer Blending Modes
■ Linking Layers
■ Applying Layer
Styles
■ Flattening
Layers
■ Layer Comps
■ Duplicating
& Aligning Layers
■ Layer Groups
Transforming
■ Free Transform
■ Mathematical
transforms: Flip, Rotate, Arbitrary
■ Scale, Skew,
Distort, Perspective
■ Transform with
Warp
■ Canvas
Rotation
Basic Photo Corrections
■
Understanding
Images: Raster & Vector
■ Image
Resolution
■ Exposure &
Balance
■ Tonal values
& Photography
■ Image
Adjustments Options
■ Working with
the Adjustments Panel
■ Histogram
■ Levels Dialog
Box
■ Curves Dialog
Box
■ Straightening
& Cropping
■ Using
Automatic & Manual Adjustments – Contrast
Shadows & Highlights, Hue & Saturation
■ Replacing
colours
■ Dodge, Sponge
& Burn tools
■ Black &
White Adjustment Feature
Retouching & Repairing
■ Clone Stamp
Tool & Clone Panel Options
■ Pattern Tool
■ Spot Healing
Brush
■ Healing Brush
& Patch Tools
■ Red Eye
Removal
■ Separate Layer
retouching
■ Layers – Auto
Align Layers
■ Spherical
Alignment
■ Layers -Auto
Blend Layers
■ Content Aware
Healing & Fills
■ Typography
■ Adding Type
■ Character
& Paragraph settings
■ Justification
& Hyphenation
■ Tracking,
Kerning & Leading
■ Warping Type
■ Type on a Path
■ Vertical Type
Colour Modes
■ Creating New
Colour Swatches
■ Creating
Colour Blends/ Gradients
■ Applying
colour & gradients
■ Hue Sampling
Ring
Brushes
■ Working with
brushes
■ Changing Brush
Options
Painting and
Retouching
■ Setting
up your color settings
■ Color
primer
■ Understanding
color gamut.
■ The
RGB color model
■ The
CMYK color model
■ Editing
color settings
■ Selecting
colors
■ Starting
to paint
■ Using
the Color panel
■ Using
the Brush tool
■ Changing
opacity
■ Using
the Brush Presets
■ Using
the Airbrush feature
■ Applying
color to an image
■ Changing
blending modes.
■ The
Eyedropper tool
■ Retouching
images
■ Using
the Clone Stamp tool
■ Repairing
fold lines
■ The
History panel
■ The
Spot Healing Brush
■ The
Healing Brush
■ Using
the Patch tool
■ Using
the Clone Source panel
■ Cloning
from another source
Color Correcting an
Image
■ Choosing
your color settings
■ Working
in RGB
■ Reading
a histogram
■ Making
the Curve adjustment
■ Defining
the highlight and shadow.
■ Locating
the White and Black Point
■ Inputting
the white and black point values
■ Adjusting
the midtones
■ Setting
the neutral
■ Sharpening
your image
■ Taking
care of red eye
Correcting Digital Photographs
■ Merging
exposure and application of advanced colour
correction
■ correcting
digital photographs in Phoptoshop
■ Correcting
image distortion
■ Working with
depth of field
■ Quick Masks
& Gradient Masks
Using Content-Aware Tools in Photoshop
■ Adding
image area
■ Viewing
the on-screen ruler
■ Converting
the Background into a layer
■ Scaling
the background
■ Content-Aware
Fill
■ Content-Aware
Move
■ Content–Aware
retouching
Creating
& Editing Quick Masks
■ Saving
selections as Masks
■ Alpha Channels
■ Loading Masks
as selections
■ Editing Masks
■ Extracting
Images
■ Applying
Filter Effects to Masked selections
■ Creating
Gradient Masks
Vector Drawing: Paths
■ Pen Tool
■ Using Paths
■ Scalable
Objects
■ Shape Layer
■ Complex Path
editing
■ Compound Paths
■ Saving Paths
■ Clipping &
Work Paths
■ Filling &
Stroking paths, selections
Filters
■ Using filters
■ Gamut &
Workflow aspects
■ Stacking
Orders & Saving multiple filters
■ Fading Filters
(Opacity & Blend Modes)
■ Smart Filters
■ Creating,
Saving & Editing Smart filters
Working with 3D images
■ Creating a 3D
shape from a layer
■ Manipulating
3D objects
■ Using 3D
panels to adjust lighting and surface textures
■ Merging 2D
onto 3D layers
■ Importing 3D
Files
■ Painting onto
a 3D object
■ Using Repoussé
to create 3D text