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Photoshop - Hourly Training

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-Available in any topic
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Photoshop: General Intensive - 12 Hour Course

TOURING THE INTERFACE
Using Tools Efficiently
Arranging Panels
Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts
Saving A Custom Workspace
Changing Screen Modes

BASICS
Setting Preferences
Choosing Color Settings

NAVIGATION
The Tabbed-Window Interface
Arranging Image Windows
Scrolling (Aka Panning) Images
Common Ways To Zoom
The Smooth, Continuous Zoom Tool
Zooming Inside Free-Floating Windows
Viewing The Image At Print Size
Contextualized (Bird's-Eye) Scrolling
Nudging The Screen Image
Scroll Wheel Tricks
Using The Numerical Zoom Value
The New Rotate View Tool
Cycling Between Screen Modes
UNDOING
History Panel
History States
History Preferences
Keyboard Shortcuts
Revert And Undo (For Before And After)

SAVING AND FILE FORMATS
Psd File Format
Saving Preferences

CREATING NEW FILES
Using Canvas Presets
Resolution
Canvas Size
Color Model
Color Profile

RESIZING AND IMAGE RESOLUTION
Imaging Fundamentals
What Is Image Size?
The Image Size Command
Selecting An Interpolation Option
Resampling Properly
Changing The Print Resolution
Adding To The Canvas
Rotating The Canvas
Choosing Color

SELECTIONS
Making Geometric Selections
Modifying Selections
Combining Selections
Refining Selection Edges
Selecting With The Magnetic Lasso Tool
Saving Selections
Blurring A Selection Outline With Feather
Dragging And Dropping A Selection
Creating A Graduated Selection
Magic Wand Tool
Tolerance And Other Options
Grow, Similar, And Inverse
Deselect
Previewing A Selection In Quick Mask Mode
The Polygonal Lasso Tool
Selecting From A Center Point
Constraining Proportions

LAYERS
Understanding Layers
Creating Layers
Working In The Layers Panel
Locking Layers
Working With Multiple Layers
Merging And Flattening Layers
Adding A Shape Layer
Moving A Layer
Changing The Stacking Order
Using Layer Blend Modes And Opacity
The Layered Composition
Expanding The Canvas Size
Revealing Oversized Layers

MASKING
Creating Layer Masks
Editing Layer Masks
Linking/Unlinking Layer Masks
Clipping Groups
Paste Into

PAINTING TECHNIQUES FOR LAYER MASKING
Using The Brushes Panel
Filling With Color
Using Gradients

CROPPING AND STRAIGHTENING
Using The Crop Tool
Perspective Cropping

TRANSFORMING
Scale
Rotate
Distort
Flip
Keyboard Shortcuts And Modifications

USING ADJUSTMENT LAYERS WITH ADJUSTMENT PANEL
Brightness And Contrast
Color Balance
Color Primaries And Complements
Hue And Saturation
Adjusting Hues Selectively
Correcting Color Cast
Levels
Histograms
Adjusting Numerical Values In Photoshop
Limiting Adjustments With Layer Masks
Editing And Saving Adjustment Layers
Using The Black & White Adjustment Layer

IMAGE ADJUSTMENT WITH FILTERS
Reducing Noise
Sharpening

PHOTO RETOUCHING
Spot Healing Brush Tool
Healing Brush Tool
Patch Tool
Clone Stamp Tool
Enhancing Eyes
Changing Facial Structure
Softening Skin
Changing Size And Hardness Of Brushes

TEXT
Working With Point Type
Working With Paragraph Type
Warping Text

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Adding A Layer Style
Customizing A Layer Style
Copying A Layer Style

FILTERS
Coverting For Smart Filters
Using Smart Filters
Working In The Filter Gallery
Using Filter Masks

PRINTING
Gauging Print Size
Scale, Position, And Page Orientation
Output Options
Color Management Options

COMPRESSING FOR EMAIL AND WEB DISPLAY
Compression
File formats

Photoshop: Web Design & Animation Intensive - 12 Hour Course

Setting preferences for the web
Choosing color settings for the web
Working with Color
web-safe color
Making a custom color swatch
Copying color as HTML
Optimizing Images for the Web
File Formats
Making Web Backgrounds
Optimizing a tiling background
Optimizing Transparent Graphics
Understanding transparency
Creating Navigation Graphics
Building a navigation bar
Building a button with layer styles
Smart Object
custom shape icons
Preparing Photographs for the Web
Sharpening for the web
Laying Out Page Comps
Storyboarding
Slicing
slice options
Optimizing and saving slices
Making Graphics for Rollovers
Creating rollover graphics with layer comps
Optimizing rollover graphics
Animating
Creating animations from layer visibility
Tweening
animated slideshows
Automating
Creating a web gallery in Bridge

Photoshop: Print Design Intensive for Postcards, Business Cards, Brochures - 12 Hour Course

Choosing document size
Choosing a printer
color management
Designing with bleeds, crossovers, and borders
Adjusting columns and creating fold marks
Setting up a grid
Using layers
Creating the Background
Setting up text wrap
Working with Images
Placing images
Scaling and cropping
Cropping images
Masking
Sourcing and evaluating images
Working with Text
Choosing fonts
Aligning text
Hyphenating text
Creating paragraph and character styles
Loading paragraph and character styles
Flowing text
Applying styles
Designing Page Elements
Creating a color palette
Working with text wrap
Designing pull quotes
Creating captions
Fixing spacing problems (widows and orphans)
Proofing and Output
Managing image links
Preparing for Print
Soft-proofing
Preflighting
Creating PDFs
Packaging

Photoshop: Digital Photography & Retouching Intensive - 12 Hour Course

retouching considerations
Retouching workflow strategies
Basic Color Correction
White balancing in Adobe Camera Raw
White balancing with curves
Fine-tuning color with curves
Color-correcting white and black points in a photo
Color-correcting with a color card
Using the Spot Removal tool
Clone and Heal spot removal
Reducing Blemishes
color enhancements
Correcting Tone
Reducing and Removing Wrinkles
Image and Feature Enhancement
Skin-Softening
Structural Image Enhancements
Retouching Workflow
Creating dimension with contours
Sharpening
Modifying the background

Photoshop: Creative Compositing & Effects Intensive - 12 Hour Course

Adding Light
Adding Shadows
Adding Motion
Creating Vintage Effects
Creating Photographic Effects
Lens Blur and Focus
Vanishing Point
Creative Layer Blending
Combining Multiple Images
Border and Edge Effects
Working with Actions
Masking
cloning
Enhancing color
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