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Adobe Photoshop - Advanced

2 day course

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In this course, you'll learn skills that go beyond those covered in the Adobe Photoshop Introduction course.  You'll further your understanding of isolating image areas by creating and saving masks with specialized tools, commands, modes, and layer elements.  You'll work with complex background like sky and water, and complex realism, like reflections.  You'll learn how to use vector paths for a variety of purposes, including masking, clipping paths, and illustration.  You'll also learn to create and apply creative elements such as gradients, patterns, and color overlays, and to save them along with effects in easy-to-apply layer styles.  When you've completed this course, you'll have a firm grasp on Photoshop concepts that are applicable to almost every facet of using the application, including Web design, preparing photographic images for printing, and illustration.  This course is designed as one in a series of courses for students pursuing the Adobe Certification Exam for Adobe Photoshop, and it is a prerequisite to more advanced courses in the Adobe Photoshop series.

Course Topics:

(for a full detailed outline, visit our PDF link above)

Masking and Layers

  • Editing Quick Masks and Alpha Channels
  • Refining a Selection Using a Quick Mask
  • Viewing Masks Using the Channels Palette
  • Creating and Using a Layer Mask
  • Painting in a Mask to Modify a Selection
  • Creating and Using a Gradient Mask
  • Isolating a Channel for Specific Image Corrections
  • Using Type as a Mask
  • Grayscale Masking
  • High Quality Grayscaling by Mixing Channels
  • Clipping Masks and Clipping Layers

Vector Paths

  • Vector vs. Raster Images and Components
  • Vector Path Concepts and Creating Vector Paths
  • Drawing Vector Paths with the Pen Tool
  • Convert Paths to Selections and Vice Versa
  • Drawing Scalable Shapes
  • Adding and Subtracting Shapes
  • Editing Paths
  • Using Paths for Masking

Swatches, Gradients, and Patterns

  • Swatches
  • Gradients
  • Patterns

Layer Types and Styles

  • Importing a Layer from Another File
  • Grouping and Clipping Layers
  • Fill Layers
  • Creating and Editing an Adjustment Layer
  • Drawing and Painting Shapes
  • Working with Layer Styles

Advanced Masking

  • Converting Backgrounds
  • Using the Background Eraser
  • Erasing to Color vs Erasing to Transparency
  • The Extract Command to Separate Backgrounds