Photoshop CC 2018 One-on-One: Fundamentals

Photoshop expert Deke McClelland teaches you everything you need to know about Photoshop, in the order you need to know it, complete with examples and practical advice.

Introduction

• Welcome to one-on-one

1. Open

• How image editing begins
• Opening a file by double-clicking it
• The Home screen
• The Open command
• Opening from Adobe Bridge
• Opening an image in Camera Raw

2. Navigate

• Let me show you around
• Zooming in and out
• Using the more precise Zoom tool
• Reassigning Spotlight and Siri (Mac only)
• Five ways to zoom continuously
• Scrolling (or panning)
• Bird's eye and other scrolling tricks
• Switching between open images
• Cycling between screen modes
• Using the Navigator panel
• Panels and workspace: Do not skip
• Resetting and updating workspaces
• A few important preferences

3. Layers

• The layered composition
• Introducing the Layers panel
• Converting the flat Background to a layer
• Jumping an image onto a new layer
• Flipping and scaling a layer
• Adding a vector-based layer
• Creating a basic layer mask
• Clipping one layer inside another
• Merging two layers into one
• Auto Select and the Move tool
• Inverting a layer mask
• Adding depth with layer effects
• Softening a mask with Feather
• Three ways to copy and paste layers
• Auto-zooming one or more layers

4. Save

• The many ways to save
• Five essential things to know about saving
• Revert, autosave, and more
• Saving layers to the native PSD format
• The Maximize Compatibility option
• Saving a flat print image to TIFF
• Saving an interactive image to PNG
• Saving a flat photograph to JPEG
• Saving a cloud-based PSDC file

5. Brightness

• Introducing luminance
• How luminance works
• The three auto commands
• Auto-correcting photographs
• Auto Brightness/Contrast
• Custom Brightness/Contrast
• Applying a dynamic adjustment layer
• Adjustment layer tips and tricks
• Adjustment layers and blend modes
• Introducing the histogram
• Putting the histogram to use
• Isolating an adjustment with a layer mask

6. Balance

• Color cast versus color harmony
• Identifying the color cast of a photo
• Correcting a color cast automatically
• Using the Color Balance command
• Revisiting the last-applied settings
• Correcting white balance in Camera Raw
• When Camera Raw disappoints
• Adjusting a color cast with Photo Filter
• Applying Auto Color nondestructively

7. Develop

• Introducing Camera Raw
• Camera Raw basics
• Working with a developed image
• Zooming and panning
• Working with panels
• Capture raw, convert to DNG
• Correcting for lens distortion
• Removing chromatic aberration
• Exposure and Contrast
• Highlights, shadows, whites, and blacks
• Working with Texture, Clarity, and Dehaze
• Opening and editing multiple images
• The real purpose of the White Balance tool
• Camera Raw tricks and tips

8. Color

• Hue, Saturation, and "Vibrance"
• Color = Hue + Saturation
• How Vibrance works
• Adjusting Vibrance in Photoshop
• Deleting color sample markers
• Adjusting Vibrance in Camera Raw
• Introducing Hue/Saturation
• Using the Targeted Adjustment tool
• Selectively adjusting colors in Camera Raw
• Isolating a color range in Camera Raw

9. Select

• The selective power of Photoshop
• Selection and Move tool basics
• Selecting an elliptical object
• Using the Paste Into command
• Using the Copy Merged command
• Add, subtract, and intersect selections
• Using the Magic Wand tool
• Using the three Lasso tools
• Painting with the Quick Selection tool
• Using the Object Selection tool

10. Crop

• Too many pixels
• Introducing Photoshop’s Crop tool
• Cropping without deleting any pixels
• Aspect ratio and other tricks
• Working with the reference point
• Finessing a crop with Canvas Size
• Using Content-Aware Crop
• Two ways to use the Straighten tool
• Straightening with the Ruler tool
• Cropping away all transparent pixels
• Cropping and straightening in Camera Raw
• Using the Perspective Crop tool
• Cropping everything outside the canvas

11. Paint

• Learning to paint
• Introducing the Brush tool
• Painting pressure-sensitive brushstrokes
• Changing the size and hardness on-the-fly
• Previewing size and hardness
• Opacity versus Flow
• Erasing with the tilde key
• Roundness, Angle, and the arrow keys
• Using the Smoothing options
• Painting with automated symmetry
• Rotating and resetting your view
• Using an iPad as a sidecar tablet

12. Retouch

• Your best face forward
• Using the Spot Healing Brush
• Healing to an independent layer
• Using the standard Healing Brush
• Using the Clone Source panel
• Rotating the source pixels
• Restoring blown highlights
• Using the Patch tool
• Shift-clicking to heal in straight lines
• The Dodge and Sponge tools to whiten teeth
• The Camera Raw Spot Removal tool

13. Resolution

• How digital images work
• Image size and resolution
• Introducing the Image Size command
• Common resolution standards
• Upsampling vs. real high-resolution data
• Changing the print resolution
• Downsampling for print
• Downsampling for email and photo sharing
• The seven interpolation settings
• Real-world rules for downsampling
• Upsampling with Preserve Details 2.0

14. Print

• Print from RGB, not CMYK
• Using my customizable printer test file
• The Print command and color management
• Print size and position
• Using printer-specific options on the PC
• Using printer-specific options on the Mac
• Brightening your image for print
• Description and printing marks
• Establishing a borderless bleed

15. Web

• Free-range images
• Assigning copyright and contact info
• Copyrighting multiple images at a time
• How color works on the web
• Quick Export as PNG
• Quick Export as JPEG
• Introducing the old-school Save for Web
• Saving an 8-bit GIF or PNG
• Saving an animated GIF file
• Exporting vector-based layers as SVG
• Exporting multiple layers and groups

Conclusion

• Until next time