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Photoshop Course Online January 27, 2025 Advanced

Photoshop course - Advanced

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This advanced Photoshop class is for users who already have an understanding of foundational masking and retouching tasks in Photoshop and are looking to create more complex selections and more advanced designs. This class is also for those looking to use some of the advanced AI tools that have recently been added to Photoshop. In this advanced Photoshop course, attendees learn how to create complex composites, work at an advanced level with color correction, and build incredible masks. This course is useful for graphic designers, visual artists, and marketing professionals who regularly use Photoshop.

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Advanced Photoshop class: Course topics

Module 1: Using advanced navigational features in Photoshop

  • 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

Module 2: Taking advantage of Photoshop's companion, Adobe Bridge

  • 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

Module 3: Advanced Photoshop selection techniques

  • 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

Module 4: The Pen tool in Photoshop: Beyond the primer

  • 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

Module 5: Color-correcting like a pro

  • 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

Module 6: Painting and retouching in Photoshop

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

Module 7: Creating Photoshop compositions

  • 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

Module 8: Creating special effects in Photoshop

  • 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

Module 9: Advanced use of Photoshop's vector tools

  • 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

Module 10: Creating images for the web and UX/UI design

  • 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

Module 11: Zipping it up with Photoshop's automation tools

  • 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

Module 12: Using Photoshop for AI (artificial intelligence)

  • 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.

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