What you’ll learn

Using the drawing aids

• About rulers, grids and guides
• Position with the ruler tool
• Position with guides and the grid
• Use snapping
• Show or hide Extras

File formats discussion

Working with selections

• Understanding image pixels
• Selecting images using the marquee, lasso, polygonal lasso tools
• Selecting images with the quick selection tool
• Moving, hiding, or inverting selections
• Adding, subtraction and intersection
• Softening image edges

Working with Colours

• Understanding the CMYK and RGB models
• Setting foreground and background colours
• Choosing colours using colour box, eyedropper.
• Working with the Adobe Colour Picker
• Swatches palette overview
• Select a colour in the Swatches palette
• Add, replace, and delete colour swatches

Transforming images

• Cropping images
• Distorting, skewing, scaling images
• Rotating or flipping images
• Changing the canvas and image size

Retouching and repairing images

• Removing unwanted objects with the healing brush tool
• Removing blemishes or spots using spot healing brush tool
• Heal and patch an area

Colourizing images with Fill command

• Choosing various fill contents – using foreground and background
• Filling with black, white and gray colours
• Using blending effect - hue
• Setting opacity

Adding text and text effects

• How to change the fonts, size and other type attributes
• Type effects

Layer Basics

• About layers
• Layers palette overview
• Convert background and layers
• Create layers, group and duplicate layers
• Show or hide a layer, group, or style
• View layers and groups within a group

Working with layers

• Add layers to a group
• Change the stack order of layers and groups
• Move the content of layers
• Rotate a layer
• Lock layers

Setting opacity

• Specify opacity for a layer or group
• Specify fill opacity for a layer
• Specify a blending mode for a layer or group
• Filling new layers with a neutral color

Managing layers

• Rename a layer or group
• Delete a layer or group
• Export and merge layers

Layer effects and styles

• About layer effects and styles
• Layer styles dialog box overview
• Apply or edit a custom layer style
• Layer style options
• Display or hide layer styles
• Remove layer effects

Correcting mistakes

• Using the Undo and Redo commands
• Restoring part of an image to its previously saved version
• Working with the history palette

Channels 

• About channels
• Channels palette overview
• Show or hide a channel
• Show colour channels in colour
• Select, edit and delete channels

Saving selections and using masks 

• About masks and alpha channels
• Create a temporary quick mask
• Create and edit alpha channel masks
• Save and load selections

Advance use of layers 

• Masking layers
• Bitmap mask
• Vector mask
• Clipping mask
• About layer and vector masks
• Add layer masks
• Edit a layer mask
• Select and display the layer mask channel
• Disable or enable a layer mask
• Change the layer mask rubylith color or opacity
• Add and edit vector masks
• Unlinking layers and masks
• Apply or delete a layer mask
• Load a layer or layer mask’s boundaries as a selection
• Mask layers with clipping masks
• Combine multiple images into a group portrait

Vanishing Point 

• About Vanishing Point
• Vanishing Point dialog box overview
• Work in Vanishing Point
• About perspective planes and the grid
• Define and adjust perspective planes in Vanishing Point
• About selections in Vanishing Point
• Fill selections with another area of an image
• Copy selections in Vanishing Point
• Paste an item into Vanishing Point

Create panoramic images 

• About Photomerge
• Take pictures for use with Photomerge
• Create a Photomerge composition
• Create a photomerge interactively

Smart Objects

• About Smart Objects
• Create Smart Objects and edit content of a Smart Object
• Duplicate a Smart Object
• Convert a Smart Object to a layer
• Replace the contents of a Smart Object
• Export the contents of a Smart Object

Smart Filters

• About Smart Filters
• Reorder, duplicate, or delete Smart Filters
• Hide Smart Filters
• About placing files
• Apply a Smart Filter

Managing paths

• Paths palette overview
• Create a new path in the Paths palette
• Create a new work path
• Manage paths

Editing paths

• Path segments, components, and points
• Select a path
• Adjust path segments
• Adjust path components
• Add or delete anchor points
• Convert between smooth points and corner points

Converting between paths and selection borders

• Convert paths to selection borders
• Convert a selection to a path

Useful features

• Content Aware Fill
• Content Aware Scale
• Refine Edges

Working with Illustrator and InDesign

• Photoshop automation
• Actions
• What is actions
• Create an action by using options in the Actions palette
• Assigning shortcuts to actions
• Managing actions
• Automation using Batch
• Automation using Image Processor
• Exporting all layers into files
• Loading files into stack
• Playing an action by the Batch command including using File Browser as the source
• Create a droplet from an action