Photoshop 2021 One-on-One Fundamentals

On January 17, 2021

In Lynda , Photoshop

Release date:2021, January 13

Author:Deke McClelland

Skill level:Beginner

Language:English

Exercise files:Yes

Go one-on-one with world-renowned Photoshop expert Deke McClelland in this comprehensive course. Part one of a three-part series, this is your chance to learn everything you need to know about Photoshop, in the order you need to know it, complete with real-world examples and practical advice. Deke begins by explaining the many ways to open files in Photoshop. He steps you through working with layers and masks. Photoshop has almost as many ways of saving files as it has of opening them, and Deke covers all of them. He walks you through luminance, brightness, contrast, and color balance. He shows you how to develop photographic images in Camera Raw. He discusses the ability in Photoshop to edit an entire image at once or adjust a specific, selected region—and he walks you through every selection tool in the software. There’s so much more, including an entire chapter on retouching! To conclude this part, Deke explains how to save images for use on the web and mobile devices.

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001 Welcome to one-on-one
002 How image editing begins
003 Opening a file by double-clicking it
004 The Home screen
005 The Open command
006 Opening from Adobe Bridge
007 Opening an image in Camera Raw
008 Let me show you around
009 Zooming in and out
010 Using the more precise Zoom tool
011 Reassigning Spotlight and Siri (Mac only)
012 Five ways to zoom continuously
013 Scrolling (or panning)
014 Birds eye and other scrolling tricks
015 Switching between open images
016 Cycling between screen modes
017 Using the Navigator panel
018 Panels and workspace Do not skip
019 Resetting and updating workspaces
020 A few important preferences
021 The layered composition
022 Introducing the Layers panel
023 Converting the flat Background to a layer
024 Jumping an image onto a new layer
025 Flipping and scaling a layer
026 Adding a vector-based layer
027 Creating a basic layer mask
028 Clipping one layer inside another
029 Merging two layers into one
030 Auto Select and the Move tool
031 Inverting a layer mask
032 Adding depth with layer effects
033 Softening a mask with Feather
034 Three ways to copy and paste layers
035 Auto-zooming one or more layers
036 The many ways to save
037 Five essential things to know about saving
038 Revert, autosave, and more
039 Saving layers to the native PSD format
040 The Maximize Compatibility option
041 Saving a flat print image to TIFF
042 Saving an interactive image to PNG
043 Saving a flat photograph to JPEG
044 Saving a cloud-based PSDC file
045 Introducing luminance
046 How luminance works
047 The three auto commands
048 Auto-correcting photographs
049 Auto Brightness Contrast
050 Custom Brightness Contrast
051 Applying a dynamic adjustment layer
052 Adjustment layer tips and tricks
053 Adjustment layers and blend modes
054 Introducing the histogram
055 Putting the histogram to use
056 Isolating an adjustment with a layer mask
057 Color cast versus color harmony
058 Identifying the color cast of a photo
059 Correcting a color cast automatically
060 Using the Color Balance command
061 Revisiting the last-applied settings
062 Correcting white balance in Camera Raw
063 When Camera Raw disappoints
064 Adjusting a color cast with Photo Filter
065 Applying Auto Color nondestructively
066 Introducing Camera Raw
067 Camera Raw basics
068 Working with a developed image
069 Zooming and panning
070 Working with panels
071 Capture raw, convert to DNG
072 Correcting for lens distortion
073 Removing chromatic aberration
074 Exposure and Contrast
075 Highlights, shadows, whites, and blacks
076 Working with Texture, Clarity, and Dehaze
077 Opening and editing multiple images
078 The real purpose of the White Balance tool
079 Camera Raw tricks and tips
080 Hue, Saturation, and Vibrance
081 Color = Hue + Saturation
082 How Vibrance works
083 Adjusting Vibrance in Photoshop
084 Deleting color sample markers
085 Adjusting Vibrance in Camera Raw
086 Introducing Hue Saturation
087 Using the Targeted Adjustment tool
088 Selectively adjusting colors in Camera Raw
089 Isolating a color range in Camera Raw
090 The selective power of Photoshop
091 Selection and Move tool basics
092 Selecting an elliptical object
093 Using the Paste Into command
094 Using the Copy Merged command
095 Add, subtract, and intersect selections
096 Using the Magic Wand tool
097 Using the three Lasso tools
098 Painting with the Quick Selection tool
099 Using the Object Selection tool
100 Too many pixels
101 Introducing Photoshop’s Crop tool
102 Cropping without deleting any pixels
103 Aspect ratio and other tricks
104 Working with the reference point
105 Finessing a crop with Canvas Size
106 Using Content-Aware Crop
107 Two ways to use the Straighten tool
108 Straightening with the Ruler tool
109 Cropping away all transparent pixels
110 Cropping and straightening in Camera Raw
111 Using the Perspective Crop tool
112 Cropping everything outside the canvas
113 Learning to paint
114 Introducing the Brush tool
115 Painting pressure-sensitive brushstrokes
116 Changing the size and hardness on-the-fly
117 Previewing size and hardness
118 Opacity versus Flow
119 Erasing with the tilde key
120 Roundness, Angle, and the arrow keys
121 Using the Smoothing options
122 Painting with automated symmetry
123 Rotating and resetting your view
124 Using an iPad as a sidecar tablet
125 Your best face forward
126 Using the Spot Healing Brush
127 Healing to an independent layer
128 Using the standard Healing Brush
129 Using the Clone Source panel
130 Rotating the source pixels
131 Restoring blown highlights
132 Using the Patch tool
133 Shift-clicking to heal in straight lines
134 The Dodge and Sponge tools to whiten teeth
135 The Camera Raw Spot Removal tool
136 How digital images work
137 Image size and resolution
138 Introducing the Image Size command
139 Common resolution standards
140 Upsampling vs. real high-resolution data
141 Changing the print resolution
142 Downsampling for print
143 Downsampling for email and photo sharing
144 The seven interpolation settings
145 Real-world rules for downsampling
146 Upsampling with Preserve Details 2.0
147 Print from RGB, not CMYK
148 Using my customizable printer test file
149 The Print command and color management
150 Print size and position
151 Using printer-specific options on the PC
152 Using printer-specific options on the Mac
153 Brightening your image for print
154 Description and printing marks
155 Establishing a borderless bleed
156 Free-range images
157 Assigning copyright and contact info
158 Copyrighting multiple images at a time
159 How color works on the web
160 Quick Export as PNG
161 Quick Export as JPEG
162 Introducing the old-school Save for Web
163 Saving an 8-bit GIF or PNG
164 Saving an animated GIF file
165 Exporting vector-based layers as SVG
166 Exporting multiple layers and groups
167 Until next time