Lynda – Photoshop CC 2018 One-on-One: Fundamentals

Photographers and graphic designers of varying levels of expertise-including professionals, hobbyists, enthusiasts, and students-use Photoshop to edit and refine their work. In this course, Deke McClelland takes you on a personalized tour of the basic tools and techniques you can use to make great images and graphics. Deke shows how to open images from multiple sources, change print resolution, crop and straighten images, and customize preferences. He guides you through how to edit images by adjusting brightness and contrast, correcting the colorcast of a photo, and retouching portraits. He demonstrates how to work with layers, leverage the Quick Mask mode, and handle Camera Raw images. He also covers formatting text, printing, preparing web graphics, and more.

Topics include:

• Navigating through Photoshop menus
  
• Customizing preferences
  
• Changing image size and resolution
  
• Cropping and straightening images
  
• Working with layers
  
• Saving your progress
  
• Adjusting brightness and contrast
  
• Balancing colors
  
• Making selections
  
• Using the Quick Mask mode
  
• Retouching photos
  
• Using Camera Raw
  
• Formatting text
  
• Printing images
  
• Creating web graphics