Photoshop CC Advanced: Print and Photography

• Those involved in any area of digital media, including desktop publishing, multimedia design, web design, digital video editing, and other disciplines for which Photoshop is the industry standard

• Photographers and artists who work with photographs

• Practical working knowledge of computers and basic Mac OS X or Windows skills.
• Photoshop Fundamentals: An Introduction to Photoshop class or equivalent experience is recommended.

 

Lesson 1: What's New in CC & CC 2014

• New Cloud Connections
• New Workflows
• New Filters
• New Exports
• Updated Workflows

Lesson 2: Understanding How Digital Images Work

• Understanding RGB and CMYK color models (additive and Subtractive)
• Image size Vs. Resolution - What’s the difference?
• Pixel Aspect Ratio - Are all pixels square?
• Bits per channel - What does that mean?
• Alpha Channel - Why is this important to us?

Lesson 3: Adobe Bridge

• Working with Adobe Bridge
• Workspace
• Viewing and managing files
• Running automated tasks
• Metadata and keywords
• Mini Bridge

Lesson 4: Camera RAW

• About camera raw files
• Applying advanced color correction
• Understanding Camera RAW
• Processing Camera RAW files
• Cropping, straightening and White Balancing
• Exposure and advanced color correction
• Open RAW as a Smart Object
• Synchronize adjustments
• Export as DNG
• Open in Photoshop

Lesson 5: Advanced Compositing

• Arranging layers
• Using Smart Filters
• Painting a layer
• Adding a background
• Using the History Panel to undo tasks
• Upscaling a low-resolution image

Lesson 6: HDR

• 16-bit & 32-bit color space
• Creating High Dynamic Range (HDR) files

Lesson 7: Correcting Images

• Correcting digital photographs in Photoshop
• Correcting image distortion
• Adding depth of field
• Auto-align layers
• Content-aware scaling
• Content-aware fill

Lesson 8: Smart Objects

• What is a Smart object
• Copying vs. placing
• What can I do with a Smart Object?
• Convert to Smart Object
• New Smart Object Via Copy
• Editing the Smart object
• Export Contents
• Replace Contents
• Stacking
• Introduction to Smart Filters
• Rasterizing

Lesson 9: Vanishing Point

• Setting up a Vanishing Point grid
• Placing imported artwork
• Healing in perspective
• Copying in perspective
• Adding artwork in perspective
• Placing the side panel artwork using Vanishing Point

Lesson 10: Adjustment Layers & Filters

• Working with Adjustment Layers
• Working with some Filters
• The filter Gallery
• Working with Smart Filters
• Adding an adjustment layer
• Working with layer comps
• Modes for groups
• Layer and Vector Masks for Groups

Lesson 11: Layer Comps

• Understanding Layer Comps
• Using Layer Comps
• Exporting Layer Comps

Lesson 12: Actions & Scripts

• Understanding Actions
• Using Actions
• Creating Actions
• Batch Processing
• Using the Bridge to create web galleries & PDF presentations
• Using Scripts
• Script Event Manager to use actions and scripts together
• Exporting layered files to desktop publishing applications

Lesson 13: Painting with the Mixer Brush

• Selecting brush settings
• Mixing colors
• Creating a custom brush preset
• Mixing colors with a photograph

Lesson 14: Producing and Printing Consistent Color

• About color management
• CMYK, RGB & LAB
• Preparing files for printing
• Getting started
• Performing a “zoom test”
• Identifying out-of-gamut colors
• Adjusting an image
• Converting an image to CMYK
• About color management
• Specifying color-management settings
• Proofing an image
• Saving the image as a CMYK EPS file
• Printing a CMYK image from Photoshop