Photoshop 2020 Essential Training: Photography

Explore Photoshop from a photographer’s perspective. Learn how to enhance color and tone, remove distracting elements, combine images, apply filters, retouch images, and more.

Introduction

• Welcome to the Photoshop CC Essential Training series for Photographers

1. Creative Adjustment Layer Techniques

• Dodging and burning with Curves
• Adding color tints to an image
• Creative split tone effects
• Emulating traditional darkroom toning effects
• Remapping color using profiles and color lookup tables

2. Solid Color and Gradient Fill Layers

• Using fill layers to create a hand-painted look
• Using a gradient fill layer to add a color wash

3. Retouching Essentials

• Quick techniques for clearing and softening skin
• Brightening eyes and lightening teeth
• De-emphasizing wrinkles with the Healing Brush
• Body sculpting with Liquify
• Swapping heads in a family portrait

4. Combining Multiple Images

• Overlaying textures selectively
• Adding a deckled edge effect
• Emulating a retro image transfer effect
• Combining a multi-image action sequence
• Creating a panorama in Photoshop
• Creating a double exposure effect

5. Boosting Productivity with Templates Personal Projects

• Replacing the contents of a Smart Object
• Duplicating Smart Objects
• Using variables with templates

6. Essential Filters for Photographers

• Adding lens flare
• Removing distortions using the Adaptive Wide Angle filter
• Creating a tilt shift effect
• Creative blurring along a Path
• Creating a soft, diffuse glow with grain
• Quickly removing small imperfections using the Dust and Scratches filter

7. Creating Painterly Effects

• Using the Oil Paint filter
• Painting with the Art History Brush
• Creating a custom brush
• The Mixer Brush

8. Type, Shapes, and Layer Effects and Styles

• Creating a transparent watermark
• Add a glowing neon shape
• Adding keyline around an image
• Displaying a photo inside of text

9. Artboards and Libraries

• Artboard essentials
• Using the Libraries panel to store content

10. Exporting Files and Sharing Images

• Saving multiple photos at one time using Image Processor
• Creating basic contact sheets

11. The Creative Composite

• Setting the stage
• Adding the primary figure
• Adding supporting elements
• Using color and texture to unify images

Conclusion

• Next steps