Photoshop for Beginners

Course details

• Learn how to edit photos and design graphics like a pro!
• Learn how to use a large selection of tools, including burn and doge to let you edit specific parts of photos.
• Download the included photos and practice your skills as you progress through the course.
• Recommended for creative individuals who want to learn how to enhance and retouch images using photoshop.

This Photoshop course is the perfect resource for beginners to Photoshop and students new to photo editing and retouching. Within the course cover the basics of photoshop and progress to advanced techniques such as using filters, including text and creating animated gifs.

Phil Ebiner, your course teacher, graduated with a B.A. in Film and Television Production from Loyola Marymount University. He spent his days shooting and editing videos for large and small companies. Phil currently works at UC Berkeley as an Associate Video Producer in the communications and educational technology departments and his specialities include documentary work, video editing, motion graphics, and online education.

This course will teach you how to use Photoshop and grow your skills in editing and retouching photos. Whether you want to pursue a career in image creation and photo editing or merely want to fix family photos or make funny images to send to friends; his course will take you through the fundamental aspects of Adobe Photoshop CC.

• Welcome to the Course!
• Say hi to your fellow students and let them know why you're taking the course!
• Share your new course with famiy and friends!
• Course Overview
• Course Objectives

• Resources

• Jump Right In! Design a Blog Graphic
• Understanding the Interface
• Customizing Your Workspace and Panels
• Creating a New Photoshop Project
• Placing Photos into Your Project
• Selecting, Zooming, and Moving Around Your Project

• Intro to the Layers Panel
• Using the Align Tools
• Stacking, Copying, and Deleting Layers
• Merging Layers
• Using Layer Masks
• Exercise - Create a Non-Destructive Vignette
• The Eraser Tool and Why I Don't Use It

• Camera RAW Basic Adjustments
• Camera RAW Editing Tabs
• Camera RAW Top Tools
• Saving Images from Camera RAW
• Exercise - Edit a Travel Photo
• A Note about XMP Files

• Basic Image Adjustments
• Non-Destructive Photo Editing
• Crop and Straighten Images

• Using the Selection Tools
• Refining the Edge
• Select by Color Range
• Remove Person from White Background

• Intro to Selective Exposure and Saturation Adjustments
• Non-Destructive Dodge and Burn
• Exercise - Improve a Photo with Dodge and Burn

• The Clone Stamp Tool
• Healing Brushes
• Removing Objects from the Background
• Removing Wrinkles and Blemishes
• Fixing Red-Eye Photos
• Whitening Teeth

• Quickly Create Shapes with Shape Tool
• Create Custom Shapes with Pen Tool
• Re-Design a Shape Logo

• What are Blending Modes
• Darkening Blending Modes
• Lightening Blending Modes
• Contrast, Inversion, Cancelation and Component Blending Modes

• The Type Tool
• The Character and Paragraph Panel
• Warping Text
• Adding Styles - Drop Shadow, Bevel & Emboss, Strokes
• Design a YouTube Thumbnail in Photoshop

• Adding and Adjusting Artistic Filters
• Changing Opacity and Blending Mode of Filters
• Create an Oil Painting Photo

• Start Your Project and Placing Video
• Adding Text to a GIF
• Saving Your GIF

• Saving as a Photoshop File
• Saving for Print and Web

• How to Composite Images in Photoshop CC Tutorial
• How to Add Textures in Photoshop
• Thank You Video

• Recommended Courses

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