Adobe Photoshop CC 2023

Getting Started

• About Classroom in a Course
• What’s new in this edition
• Prerequisites
• Installing Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Bridge, and Adobe Camera Raw
• Installing fonts
• Starting Adobe Photoshop
• Online content
• Restoring default preferences
• Additional resources
• Adobe Authorized Training Centers

Getting to Know the Work Area

• Starting to work in Adobe Photoshop
• Using the tools
• Sampling a color
• Working with tools and tool properties
• Undoing actions in Photoshop
• More about panels and panel locations
• Review questions

Basic Photo Corrections

• Strategy for retouching
• Resolution and image size
• Opening a file with Adobe Bridge
• Straightening and cropping the image in Photoshop
• Adjusting the color and tone
• Using the Spot Healing Brush tool
• Applying a content-aware patch
• Repairing areas with the Clone Stamp tool
• Sharpening the image
• Review questions

Working with Selections

• About selecting and selection tools
• Getting started
• Using cloud documents
• Using the Magic Wand tool
• Using the Quick Selection tool
• Moving a selected area
• Using the Object Selection tool
• Manipulating selections
• Selecting with the lasso tools
• Rotating a selection
• Selecting with the Magnetic Lasso tool
• Selecting from a center point
• Resizing and copying a selection
• Cropping an image
• Review questions

Layer Basics

• About layers
• Getting started
• Using the Layers panel
• Rearranging layers
• Applying a gradient to a layer
• Applying a layer style
• Adding an adjustment layer
• Updating layer effects
• Creating a border from a selection
• Flattening and saving files
• Review questions

Quick Fixes

• Getting started
• Improving a snapshot
• Adjusting facial features with Liquify
• Blurring around a subject
• Creating a panorama
• Filling empty areas when cropping
• Correcting image distortion
• Extending depth of field
• Removing objects using Content-Aware Fill
• Adjusting perspective in an image
• Review questions

Masks and Channels

• Working with masks and channels
• Getting started
• Using Select And Mask and Select Subject
• Creating a quick mask
• Manipulating an image with Puppet Warp
• Using an alpha channel to create a shadow
• Creating a pattern for the background
• Review questions

Typographic Design

• About type
• Getting started
• Creating a clipping mask from type
• Creating type on a path
• Warping point type
• Designing paragraphs of type
• Finishing up
• Review questions

Vector Drawing Techniques

• About bitmap images and vector graphics
• About paths and the Pen tool
• Getting started
• Drawing a shape with the Pen tool
• Drawing a path traced from a photo
• Converting a path to a selection and a layer mask
• Creating a logo with text and a custom shape
• Review questions

Advanced Compositing

• Getting started
• Arranging layers
• Using Smart Filters
• Painting a layer
• Adding a background
• Using the History panel to undo edits
• Improving a low-resolution image
• Review questions

Painting with the Mixer Brush

• About the Mixer Brush
• Getting started
• Selecting brush settings
• Mixing colors
• Mixing colors with a photograph
• Painting and mixing colors with brush presets
• Review questions

Editing Video

• Getting started
• About the Timeline panel
• Creating a new video
• Animating text with keyframes
• Creating effects
• Adding transitions
• Adding audio
• Muting unwanted audio
• Rendering video
• Review questions

Working with Camera Raw

• Getting started
• About camera raw files
• Processing files in Camera Raw
• Retouching a portrait in Camera Raw
• Review questions

Preparing Files for the Web

• Getting started
• Creating placeholders with the Frame tool
• Using layer groups to create button graphics
• Automating a multistep task
• Designing with artboards
• Review questions

Producing and Printing Consistent Color

• Preparing files for printing
• Getting started
• Performing a “zoom test”
• About color management
• Specifying color management defaults
• Identifying out-of-gamut colors
• Proofing document colors on a monitor
• Bringing colors into the output gamut
• Converting an image to CMYK
• Saving the image as Photoshop PDF
• Printing a CMYK image from Photoshop
• Review questions

Exploring Neural Filters

• Understanding Neural Filters
• Getting started
• Exploring the Neural Filters workspace
• Restoring an antique portrait photo
• Adding color and depth blur
• Creating a more convincing composite
• Review questions

Appendix A: Tools panel overview

Appendix-B: Keyboard shortcuts

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