Photoshop CC Advanced - Web and Video

• 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: 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 5: HDR

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

Lesson 6: Setting up a 2.5D Effect for Animated Photos

• Correcting digital photographs in Photoshop
• Correcting image distortion
• Adding depth of field
• Content-aware scaling
• Content-aware fill
• Healing tools
• Stamp tools

Lesson 7: Editing Video

• About the Timeline panel
• Creating a new video project
• Animating text with keyframes
• Creating effects
• Adding transitions
• Adding audio
• Muting unwanted audio
• Rendering video

Lesson 8: Working with 3D Images

• Creating a 3D shape from a layer
• Manipulating 3D objects
• Adding 3D objects
• Merging 3D layers to share the same 3D space
• Positioning objects in a scene
• Applying materials to 3D objects
• Lighting a 3D scene
• Rendering a 3D scene
• Understanding the 3D environment
• Positioning 3D elements
• Printing a 3D file

Lesson 9: Preparing Files for the Web

• Using layer groups to create button graphics
• Automating a multistep task
• Saving assets with Adobe Generator

Lesson 10: Animation

• Understanding animation
• Frame-based animation
• Timeline-based animation
• Animating a layer
• Animating a layer style
• Exporting your animation

Lesson 11: Vanishing Point

• Setting up a Vanishing Point grid
• Adding Planes to the Grid
• Adjusting the angle of the grid
• Export for After Effects

Lesson 12: Actions

• Understanding Actions
• Using Actions
• Creating Actions
• Batch Processing
• Using Actions to create web galleries & PDF presentations
• Using Actions to modify files for your video projects

Lesson 13: Designing Graphics for Video

• Aspect ratio- square vs. nonsquare pixels
• Previewing video images in Photoshop
• Broadcast legal colors (Vectorscope and Waveform Monitor)
• Understanding interlaced / Progressive frames
• Action safe & title safe guides
• Photoshop in AfterEffect, Motion, Premiere, Final Cut and Avid