Photoshop CC Advanced: Print and Photography

Lesson 1: How digital images work

• Understating image size and resolution
• Understanding DPI and PPI
• Understanding additive and subtractive colors
• PSD, TIFF & other formats (lossy vs lossless)

Lesson 2: Adobe Bridge

• Working with Adobe Bridge
• Workspace
• Viewing and managing files
• Running automated tasks
• Metadata and keywords
• Mini Bridge

Lesson 3: Camera RAW

• Understanding Camera RAW
• Processing CameraRAW files
• Cropping, straightening and White Balacing
• Exposure and advanced color correction
• Open RAW as a Smart Object
• Synchronize adjustments
• Export as DNG
• Open in Photoshop

Lesson 4: Vector Drawing Techniques

• About bitmap images and vector graphics
• About paths and the Pen tool
• Vector drawing
• The Pen tool
• Using paths with artwork
• Creating vector objects for the background
• Working with defined custom shapes
• Importing a Smart Object
• Alpha channels vs. Paths
• Importing vector graphics & Illustrator files
• Vector masks & opacity masks
• Creating and saving a custom shape

Lesson 5: Advanced Layering

• Getting started
• Clipping a layer to a shape
• Setting up a Vanishing Point grid
• Placing imported artwork
• Adding artwork in perspective
• Placing the side panel artwork using Vanishing Point
• Adding more artwork in perspective
• Adding an adjustment layer
• Working with layer comps
• Managing layers
• Flattening a layered image
• Merging layers and layer groups (smart object)
• Modes for groups
• Layer and Vector Masks for Groups

Lesson 6: Adjustment Layers & Filters

• Working with Adjustment Layers
• Working with Filters
• The filter Gallery
• Smart Objects (Photoshop, Illustrator and RAW)
• Smart Filters

Lesson 7: Photomerge

• Creating panoramas with photomerge
• Stacking Images
• 16-bit & 32-bit color space
• Creating High Dynamic Range (HDR) files

Lesson 8: Layer Comps

• Understanding Layer Comps
• Using Layer Comps
• Exporting Layer Comps

Lesson 9: Actions & Scripts

• Understanding Actions
• Using Actions
• Creating Actions
• Batch Processing
• Using the Bridge to create web galleries & PDF presentations
• Using Scripts
• Script Event Manager to use actions and scripts together
• Exporting layered files to desktop publishing applications

Lesson 10: Touch Up Tricks

• Using Adjustment Layers (with layer and vector masks)
• Group Controls (Opacity and Modes)
• Painting with light
• Clone Source Panel with the Clone Stamp tool
• Creating a pattern and saving a pattern
• Displacement maps
• About Adobe Exchange

Lesson 11: Brushes

• Making a Preset Brush
• Changing the attributes of a brush
• Loading a Brush
• Creating & saving a Brush
• Painting with the Mixer Brush
• Selecting Brush Settings
• Mixing Colors
• Mixing colors with a photograph

Lesson 12: Producing and Printing Consistent Color

• About color management
• CMYK, RGB & LAB
• Getting started
• Specifying color-management settings
• Proofing an image
• Identifying out-of-gamut colors
• Adjusting an image and printing a proof
• Saving the image as a CMYK EPS file
• Printing vs. Exporting as PDF
• Printing