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Photoshop 2021 Essential Training: Photography

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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Course Description

Overview

Explore Photoshop 2021 from a photographer's perspective. Learn about techniques that are most applicable to photography, from enhancing color and tone to retouching.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome to the Photoshop Essential Training series for photographers
1. Making Tonal and Color Adjustments
  • Using adjustment layers to change color and tone
  • Using adjustment layers in a multi-image composite
  • Using Smart Objects instead of adjustment layers
2. Combining Multiple Images
  • Creating the impossible single exposure
  • Masking rearranged elements to fill the frame
  • Auto-aligning multiple exposures
  • Creating a double-exposure effect
3. Emulating Traditional Photographic Effects
  • Selective texture overlays
  • Adding a deckled edge
  • Creating a image transfer effect
4. Filters for Photographers
  • Adding lens flare
  • Creating a tilt-shift effect
  • Simulating long exposures
  • Removing distortions using Adaptive Wide Angle
5. Hand-Color, Toning, and Color-Wash Techniques
  • Using fill layers to create a hand-painted look
  • Traditional darkroom color toning effects
  • Using a gradient fill layer to add a color wash
6. Creating a Surreal Composite
  • Setting the stage
  • Adding the primary figure
  • Adding supporting elements
  • Using color and texture to unify images
7. Retouching Essentials
  • Quick techniques for clearing and softening skin
  • Brightening eyes and lightening teeth
  • Deemphasizing wrinkles with the Healing Brush
  • Quick touch-ups using Liquify
  • Swapping heads in a family portrait
8. Creating Painterly Effects
  • Creating a custom brush
  • Using the Oil Paint filter
  • Painting with the Art History Brush
  • The Mixer Brush
9. Working with Libraries
  • Using the Libraries panel to store content
  • Creating patterns, gradients, and more using libraries
10. Creative Typography
  • Creating a transparent watermark
  • Displaying a photo inside of text
11. Shapes and Layer Effects
  • Adding a keyline around an image
  • Add a glowing neon shape
12. Boosting Productivity with Template Personal Projects
  • Replacing the contents of a Smart Object
  • Duplicating Smart Objects
  • Using variables with templates
  • Working with artboards
13. Exporting Files and Sharing Images
  • Saving multiple photos at one time using the Image Processor
  • Creating basic contact sheets
Conclusion
  • Keep learning Photoshop working on your own projects

Taught by

Julieanne Kost

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