Photoshop CC 2015 One-on-One: Mastery

Time to jump that final hurdle! Join reigning expert Deke McClelland as he shows you how to master Photoshop, the world’s most powerful vector-based drawing software.

Introduction

• Welcome to One-on-One

31. Shortcuts and Customization

• Becoming a lean, mean, imaging machine
• Loading custom dekeKeys shortcuts
• The dekeKeys PDF docs
• New and remapped shortcuts
• Restoring Photoshop’s default shortcuts
• Assigning the Macintosh control key
• Tool and panel shortcuts
• Top-secret tricks for shortcut enthusiasts
• Customizing Photoshop’s menus
• Customizing Photoshop’s toolbox
• Choose your color space: sRGB or Adobe RGB?
• Upgrading from sRGB to Adobe RGB
• Assigning and converting color profiles

32. Creative Smart Filtering

• Delving the Filter menu to great effect
• Introducing the Wave filter
• Rendering fire-hot smoke type
• Creating a realistic pointillism effect
• Giving your painting texture with Emboss
• Creating a high-color High Pass effect
• Hunting down seams with the Offset filter
• Turning a cityscape into a tiny planet
• Integrating and shading your tiny planet
• Creating trendy, dynamic twirl art
• Creating symmetrical twirl art
• Switching out the image in a dynamic effect
• Upping the resolution of dynamic artwork
• Fragmenting a photo through ribbed glass
• Distorting an image with the Glass filter

33. Blur and Noise

• Blur and noise to focus your attention
• Adding depth of field with Field Blur
• Masking a Blur Gallery effect
• Enhancing a Smart Filter mask
• Matching natural noise with the Blur Gallery
• Introducing noise with Field Blur
• Light bokeh and bokeh color
• Painting with randomly fluctuating colors
• Creating a blurry vignette with Iris Blur
• Backing off a Blur Gallery filter
• Creating a fake miniature with Tilt-Shift
• Simulating motion with the Path Blur filter
• Creating elliptical motion with Spin Blur
• How photographic noise works
• Reducing noise in Camera Raw
• Smoothing away color noise
• Sharpening fine details in Camera Raw
• Sharpening vs. Texture and Clarity
• Rounding and blurring letterforms
• Turning a photo into a dot drawing
• Creating a high-resolution dot drawing

34. Masks and Calculations

• Using the image to select itself
• A quick refresher on layer masking
• Initiating a mask as an alpha channel
• Deploying an alpha channel as a layer mask
• Introducing the Calculations command
• Masking a subject set against black or white
• Saving alpha channels to the TIFF format
• Painting contrast with the Overlay mode
• Eliminating halos with the Minimum filter
• Restoring details with the History Brush
• Masking a subject against a green screen
• Enhancing and inverting a mask with Levels
• Painting away color fringing
• Immersing an image in its new environment
• Masking wispy, voluminous, untamed hair
• Preserving very fine hair details
• Compositing hair to match a new background

35. The Pen Tool

• Tracing an image, point-by-point
• Introducing the Paths panel
• Changing the appearance of your paths
• Freeform, Curvature, and Pen tools
• Adding and deleting anchor points
• Starting a path outline with an ellipse
• Drawing smooth and cusp points
• Deploying path outlines as a vector mask
• Combining a layer mask with a vector mask
• Brushing along a path outline
• Adding to an existing vector mask
• Perfecting hair inside a vector mask
• Bolstering hair with an Overlay layer
• Drawing perfect eye masks
• Duplicating and masking entire groups
• Masking with vector-based letterforms

36. Multi-Image Panoramas

• Creating ultra-high-resolution imagery
• Introducing the Photomerge command
• Understanding the Layout settings
• Auto-aligning and auto-blending photos
• Correcting a distorted horizon
• Creating a raw panorama in Camera Raw
• Trouble-shooting a panorama in Camera Raw
• Assembling a vertical, interior panorama
• Resetting the preferences for Camera Raw
• Stitching together scanned artwork

37. Layer Comps and Artboards

• Advanced layer options
• Introducing layer comps
• Creating a dynamic layer comp
• Updating broken layer comps
• Using layer comps to compare blend settings
• Introducing artboards
• Creating and cropping a new artboard
• Adding and duplicating artboards
• Moving layers in and out of artboards
• Alignment and artboard-specific guides
• Exporting artboards as independent assets
• 17 pages of Photoshop keyboard shortcuts
• Exporting artboards to a multipage PDF

38. Actions and Batch Processing

• Several incentives to recording actions
• Introducing the Actions panel
• Recording a simple but practical action
• Modifying and playing a specific step
• Customizing settings during playback
• Adding steps to an existing action
• Actioning a consistent image resolution
• Modifying an adjustment and adding Save As
• Actioning the creation of flat CMYK files
• Batch-processing an entire folder of images
• Saving and loading your actions

Conclusion

• Until next time