Photoshop 2020 Essential Training: The Basics
Offered By: LinkedIn Learning
Course Description
Overview
Learn the core features of Photoshop 2020 for photography and design. Find out how to improve color and tone, master layers, masking, and selections, add text, retouch, and more.
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome to the Photoshop Essential Training series
- Opening files in Photoshop
- Opening files from Bridge
- Opening files from Lightroom Classic
- Opening files from Lightroom
- Starting in Adobe Camera Raw
- A tour of the Photoshop interface
- Working with multiple documents
- Panning and zooming documents
- Viewing images using different screen modes
- Arranging the panels you use most often
- Switching and saving workspaces
- Customizing the Toolbar
- Modifying keyboard shortcuts to boost productivity
- Understanding file formats
- Color modes and bit depth
- Understanding color space
- Understanding document size
- Using Image Size to change document dimensions
- Multiple Undo and the History Panel
- Saving documents
- Using the Crop tool
- Straightening a crooked image
- Crop and change image size in one step
- Increasing canvas size
- Auto fill with Content Aware Crop
- Exploring layer basics
- Loading, selecting, aligning, and distributing layers
- Changing layer opacity, adding shape layers, and creating layer groups
- Merging and flattening layers
- Quickly exporting images
- Color basics
- Brush essentials
- Brush presets and settings
- Layer Mask essentials
- Using Gradients to blend images
- Using the Marquee and Lasso tools
- Combining selections
- Using Object Select and the Quick Select tool
- Making selections based on subject and color
- Selecting soft edge objects using Select and Mask
- Removing a halo using Select and Mask
- Removing distracting elements with the Healing Brush and Patch tools
- The magic of Content-Aware Fill
- Content Aware Move and Scale
- Using the Clone Stamp tool
- Removing larger elements from an image
- Getting to know the Blend modes
- The advantage of Smart Objects
- Opening raw images as Smart Objects
- Scaling, skewing, and rotating layers with Free Transform
- Correcting perspective
- Warping images
- Introducing Adjustment Layers
- Understanding the Histogram
- Refining dynamic range using Levels
- Adjusting contrast and correcting color using Curves
- Three easy ways to adjust color in images
- Custom black and white conversions
- Limiting adjustments with Clipping Masks
- Overview of filters
- Applying filters non destructively with Smart Filters
- Sharpening images
- Applying Camera Raw as a filter
- Applying filters to multiple layers
- Using the Shape tools
- Modifying, combining, and saving custom shapes
- Using Shapes to mask layers
- Applying layer effects and styles
- Creative layer effect styles
- Exploring Headline (point) type
- Using leading, kerning, and tracking
- Next steps
Taught by
Julieanne Kost
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