Adobe Photoshop Creative Cloud Introduction
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Table of Contents
Getting To Know Adobe Photoshop
Starting Photoshop in Windows 8
The Welcome Experience
Dark Versus Light Interface
The Photoshop CC Workspace
Understanding Panels
Working With The Panel Dock
Working With Panels & Panel Groups
Panel Techniques
Understanding The Tools Panel
Working With The Tools Panel
Resetting the Tools Panel
Understanding The Options Bar
Opening An Existing File
Your First Document
Creating a New Document
Customising & Saving Workspaces
Understanding the Rulers & Ruler Tool
Understanding the Preferences dialog box
Saving a document
Navigating Images
Understanding the document Window
Navigating with the Zoom Tool
Navigating with the hand tool
Navigating with the navigator panel
Navigating with Keyboard shortcuts
Understanding Screen modes
Working with tabbed documents
Arranging multiple documents
Working with Multiple documents
Digital Image Basics
Understanding file formats
Understanding Image size Vs Resolution
Understanding file size
Understanding colour mode
Making Selections
Using the Magic Wand tool
Growing a Selection
Add to or Subtract from a selection
Saving a Selection
Understanding the refine edge dialog box
Refining hard edged selections
Refining soft edged selections
Selecting with colour range
Moving and copying selections
Printing
Printing Single Images
Understanding The Print Dialog Box
Using the Print dialog box
Understanding printing marks
Getting Help
Understanding the Help Menu
Investigating New Features
Using Online Help
Searching for Online Help
Accessing Online Tutorials
Working with Layers
Understanding layers
Understanding the Layers Panel
Creating a New Layer
Working with Layers
Adding Images to Layers
Working with Layers
Working with the Background layer
Changing the layer stacking order
Changing layer Opacity
Transforming layers
Organising layers into groups
Moving and copying selections
Resizing Images
Understanding resizing and resampling
Resizing an image for printing
Using the print dialog box to resize images
Resampling an image for email or web
Guidelines for cropping images
Understanding the crop tool options bar
Cropping images
Cropping images to a pre-set size
Applying a non-descriptive crop
Using the Crop Tool to add a border
Moving and copying selections
Colours
Understanding colour
Colour fundamentals
Understanding the colour panel
Applying colour with the colour panel
Selecting colours using the swatches panel
Selecting colours using the eyedropper
Selecting colours using the hue cube
Identifying a colour
Using the brush tool to apply colour
Changing brush styles
Creating accustom brush
Using the mixer brush
Working with Text
Understanding vector based text
Adding point text
Changing text size
Changing text colour
Changing the font family
Installing type kit fonts
Editing text
Creating a custom path frame
Adding text inside a custom path
Filling text with an image
Creating and applying paragraph styles
Creating and applying character styles
Creating a watermark
Shapes
Drawing a standard shape
Drawing a custom shape
Arranging shapes
Drawing a straight line
Selecting and editing shape layers
Understanding guides
Understanding smart guides
Using smart guides to position shapes
Retouching & Repairing
Understanding the retouch and repair tools
Removing blemishes
Reducing wrinkles
Removing stray hairs
Whitening teeth
Intensifying eye colour
Removing Red eye
Sculpting with Liquify
Removing unwanted objects and wires
Moving objects using content aware
Using the clone stamp tool
Removing unwanted objects and wires
Saving
Understanding saving
Saving layered files
Saving PSD Images in another format
Understanding the save for web dialog box
Optimising photos for the Web Part 1
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