Adobe Photoshop Core Skills: Level 2

Prerequisites

Students should have experience with Photoshop and working knowledge of the skills covered in Core Skills: Level 1. Specifically, you should know the work area, be able to do basic photo selections and corrections, as well as understand layering, masks and channels.

Course Outline

Quick Fixes
Getting started
Improving a snapshot
Adjusting facial features with Liquify
Blurring a background
Creating a panorama
Filling empty areas when cropping
Correcting image distortion
Extending depth of field
Moving objects with the Content-Aware Move tool
Adjusting perspective in an image

Vector Drawing Techniques
About bitmap images and vector graphics
About paths and the Pen tool
Getting started
Drawing with the Pen tool
Working with defined custom shapes
Importing a Smart Object
Adding color and depth to a shape using layer styles

Advanced Compositing
Getting started
Arranging layers
Using Smart Filters
Painting a layer
Adding a background
Using the History panel to undo edits
Upscaling a low-resolution image

Painting with the Mixer Brush
About the Mixer Brush
Getting started
Selecting brush settings
Mixing colors
Creating a custom brush preset
Mixing colors with a photograph

Editing Video
Getting started
About the Timeline panel
Creating a new video project
Animating text with keyframes
Creating effects
Adding transitions
Adding audio
Muting unwanted audio
Rendering video

Working with Camera Raw
Getting started
About camera raw files
Processing files in Camera Raw
Applying advanced color correction

Preparing Files for the Web
Getting started
Using layer groups to create button graphics
Automating a multistep task
Designing with artboards

Producing and Printing Consistent Color
Preparing files for printing
Performing a “zoom test”
Identifying out-of-gamut colors
Adjusting an image
Converting an image to CMYK
About color management
Specifying color-management settings
Proofing an image on screen
Saving the image as a CMYK EPS file
Printing a CMYK image from Photoshop