Photoshop Course in Boston on February 24, 2025 Advanced

Advanced Photoshop class: Course topics

• Speeding up your navigation process
• Navigational tips
• Dynamic zooming and panning
• Creating custom keyboard shortcuts
• Customizing your menu items
• Maximizing rulers, guides, and grids
• Customizing your panels
• Customizing workspaces

• Maximizing Adobe Bridge Workspaces
• Creating and locating metadata
• Creating a Metadata Template
• Searching and filtering your content
• Using Adobe Bridge for automation
• Batch renaming your files

• Building selection and transforming your selection
• Saving your selection as channels
• Refining your selection
• Going beyond the Magic Wand
• Crafting your selection with the Quick mask

• Precision creation of Pen paths
• Loading your path as a selection
• Creating a vector mask
• Using a Pen path to create a Smart filter selection
• Stroking a Pen path
• Defining a custom brush preset
• Applying your custom brush to the path
• Saving the image for other applications

• Understanding color
• Using the Histogram panel
• Choosing your color settings
• Importance of RGB vs. CMYK color modes
• Understanding Gamuts
• Defining highlight and shadow
• Adjusting the midtones
• Balancing the neutrals in an image
• Adding additional curve corrections
• Adding more variation to your curve adjustment
• Sharpening the image
• Painting your filter on your image
• Adjusting the blending of the filter

• Content painting tools
• Retouching an image
• Using an adjustment layer
• Adding a vector mask
• Organizing your Layers panel
• Using the Clone Stamp tool

• Using new AI tools to create layer masks and improved selections
• Applying Smart filters
• The Adaptive wide-angle filter
• Cloning buildings and other image areas
• Using a color look-up table

• The power of Smart Filters
• Using Camera Raw as a Smart Filter
• Adding Layer Style effects
• Adding interesting lighting effects
• Adding sunlight effects
• Creating a depth-of-field effect
• Adding text effects
• Adding Swash characters

• Taking advantage of vector objects
• Adding a mask
• Adding vector text
• Converting your text to a path
• Adding strokes, shadows, and other effects
• Using a custom shape
• Pasting vector objects from Illustrator
• Saving your file for use outside of Photoshop

• Optimizing graphics for on-screen presentation
• Adjusting the image size
• Choosing the best file format for your image
• Creating a transparency effect in a JPEG image
• Saving your settings
• Using the color table
• Creating animations
• Automatically exporting multiple files and formats

• Creating your action
• Adding an image size and a save action
• Playing your action
• Editing your script to change settings
• Creating a droplet for quick automation
• Using the panorama feature in Photoshop
• Creating your keyboard shortcuts
• Using actions in button mode

• Generating custom imagery using AI
• Creating prompts for imagery

Using artificial intelligence features

• Explore generative fill using Photoshop AI (artificial intelligence)
• Integrating AI into your workflow

The course topics serve as an outline. Instructors may adjust content based on the specific needs of each class, such as to answer your Photoshop questions.