Advanced Photoshop CC Digital Classroom Book with video training
Advanced Adobe Photoshop CC Digital Classroom book with video training is like having a personal instructor guiding you through each lesson, while you work at your own pace. This Advanced Photoshop book with video training includes 12 self-paced lessons helping you master more advanced skills and perfect important features and capabilities of Adobe Photoshop.
- Full color lessons with easy to follow step-by-step instructions
- Video tutorials highlight key topics in each lesson
- Covers all essential Photoshop skills
- Gets you up-and-running quickly with included Photoshop CC lesson files and Photoshop video training
- Written by expert Photoshop instructors who regularly teach Photoshop training courses – it’s like having your own personal tutor
- Used by hundreds of schools and more than 100,000 readers
Advanced Photoshop CC Digital Classroom Book with video training Contents
Starting Up
- About Advanced Photoshop Digital Classroom
- Prerequisites
- System requirements
- Starting Adobe Photoshop CC
- Loading lesson files
- Working with the video tutorials
- Setting up for viewing the video tutorials
- Viewing the video tutorials with the Adobe Flash Player
- Additional resources
Lesson 1: Introduction to Advanced Navigational Features
- Starting up with Photoshop CC
- Speeding up your navigation process
- Navigational tips
- Practice with Zooming controls
- Dynamic zooming and panning
- Using the Navigator panel
- Maximizing productivity with screen modes
- Creating your own keyboard shortcuts
- Using your new shortcut
- Saving and summarizing your keyboard shortcuts
- Editing the menu items
- Using Photoshop Extras
- Using rulers and guides
- Using the Grid
- Using the guides and grids to align text
- Turning off and on Extras
- Customizing your panels
- Finding the panels you want
- Customizing workspaces
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 2: Taking Advantage of Adobe Bridge
- Starting up with Photoshop CC
- Why use Adobe Bridge
- Changing the view of Adobe Bridge
- Workspaces
- Using folders in Adobe Bridge
- Making a Favorite
- Stacking your images
- Creating and locating metadata
- Using keywords
- Creating a Metadata Template
- Searching for files using Adobe Bridge
- Setting up unique keywords
- Searching by name or keyword
- Using the Filter panel
- Using Adobe Bridge for automation
- Batch renaming your files
- Saving time with the Image Processor
- Load Files into Photoshop Layers
- Correcting images right from Adobe Bridge
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 3: Advanced Selection Techniques
- Starting up with Photoshop CC
- Review of the common selection tools
- Rectangular Marquee tool
- Elliptical Marquee tool
- Building a selection
- Transforming your selection
- Saving your selection
- Transforming to create a second selection
- Combining your selections
- Taking the Lasso tool to the max
- Default Lasso tool
- Polygonal Lasso tool
- Magnetic Lasso tool
- Alternating between the Polygonal and regular Lasso tool
- Covering up a non-perfect selection
- About the Quick Selection tool
- Refining your selection
- Going beyond the Magic Wand
- Cleaning up your selection with Quick Mask
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 4: The Pen Tool: Beyond the Primer
- Starting up with Photoshop CC
- Practicing with the Pen tool
- Creating controlled paths
- About precision creation of Pen paths
- Creating guides
- Beginning the Pen path
- Editing your arch
- Continuing the path
- Practicing with an image
- Saving your path
- What you can do with a path
- Loading your path as a selection
- Creating a vector mask of the gumball machine
- Using a Pen path to create a Smart filter selection
- Applying Unsharp mask to the selection
- Stroking a Pen path
- Defining a custom brush preset
- Editing your brush
- Applying your custom brush to the path
- Saving the image for other applications
- PNG-24
- EPS, DCS 2.0
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 5: Color Correcting like a Pro
- Starting up with Photoshop CC
- Understanding color
- Tools you will use
- Using the Histogram panel
- Intentionally creating a bad Histogram reading
- What images need to be color corrected?
- Choosing your color settings
- Importance of RGB vs. CMYK color modes
- Understanding Gamuts
- Working in the RGB mode
- Locating the white and black Point
- Defining highlight and shadow
- Adjusting the midtones
- Balancing the neutrals in an image
- Adding additional curve corrections
- Sharpening the image
- Painting your filter on your image
- Adjusting the Blending of the filter
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 6: Painting and Retouching
- Starting up with Photoshop CC
- Content Painting tools
- Retouching an image
- Repositioning the branch
- Creating a new layer from the selection
- Adding an adjustment layer
- Adding a vector mask
- Retouching the frog's nose
- Organizing your Layers panel
- Using the Clone Stamp tool
- Adding a vignette
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 7: Creating Compositions
- Reviewing Smart Objects
- Applying Smart Filters
- Adding a second image to the composition
- Adding an image with the place feature
- Masking a layer
- The Adaptive Wide Angle filter
- Using the Clone Stamp tool to copy a window
- Adding an additional building
- Blending the church
- Removing some of the architecture
- Blending the church using Adjustment Layers
- Final flourish
- Using a color look-up table
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 8: Creating Special Effects
- Starting up with Photoshop CC
- Using Oil Paint as a Smart Filter
- Exploring Oil Paint options
- The power of Smart Filters
- Deleting a Smart Filter
- Using Camera Raw as a Smart Filter
- Adding Layer Style effects
- Adding lighting effects
- Adding interesting lighting effects
- Adjusting the lighting
- Adding sunlight effects
- Creating a Depth of Field effect
- Adding text effects
- Adding Swash Characters
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 9:Removing Backgrounds to Create Layered Compositions
- Starting up with Photoshop CC
- Taking advantage of vector objects in Photoshop CC
- Location of the vector tools
- Opening the image
- Starting with a vector shape
- Adding a mask
- Adding vector text
- Converting your text to a path
- Adding a stroke to the text
- Adding a drop shadow
- Using a custom shape
- Pasting vector objects from Illustrator
- Adding the Illustrator logo
- Saving your file for use outside of Photoshop
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 10: Creating Images for the Web and Application Design
- Starting up with Photoshop CC
- Optimizing graphics for on-screen presentation
- Resizing the image
- Adjusting the image size
- Applying the Unsharp Mask filter to an image
- Selecting the best image format
- Choosing the right file format
- Choosing the best file format for your image
- Saving images as JPEGs
- Choosing the quality of a JPEG
- Previewing your image
- Creating a transparency effect in a JPEG image
- Saving your settings
- Saving images as GIFs
- Optimizing the GIF image
- Using the color table
- Adding a matte to a GIF
- Animating a GIF
- Saving as a PNG
- Slicing an image
- Creating slices
- Changing the attributes of the slices
- Saving slices out of Photoshop
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 11: Zipping it up with Automation Tools
- Starting up with Photoshop CC
- What is an action?
- Creating a simple action
- Creating your own action
- Adding an Image Size and a Save action
- Playing your action
- Editing your script to change settings
- Creating a Droplet
- Using a Droplet
- Using the Panorama feature in Photoshop
- Creating your own keyboard shortcuts
- Using actions in Button mode
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 12: Using Photoshop for 3D
- Starting up with Photoshop CC
- Creating 3D objects
- Creating primitives
- Extruding paths
- Extruding 3D text
- Viewing and transforming 3D objects
- Working with 3D camera tools
- Using the 3D object tools
- Object appearances
- Lighting
- Materials
- Changing the properties of the extruded text
- Rendering
- Textures and painting
- Adding texture to a 3D object
- Painting a 3D object
- Using Photoshop 3D in production workflows
- Working with custom meshes
- Downloading external 3D content
- Self study
- Creating multiple Smart Objects
- Working with Illustrator files
- Review