Photoshop Essentials & Beyond - Beginning & Advance combined

Learn and MASTER Photoshop to become a graphic design, photography pro

What you'll learn
Learn the basics like: customizing the interface, panels, shortcuts, graphic design principles, file formats and saving
Layer management, working with Type, color theory and application, layer effects, adjustment layers
Understanding and mastering selection techniques, magic wand, lasso tools, cropping, image resizing
Working with layer masks, clipping masks, adjustment layers, filters, photography enhancement
Photo touch up including: Clone Stamp, Patch Tool, Healing Brush, dodge and burn, content-aware fill tool.
Advanced tools like Camera RAW, Layer Comps, blending modes, pen tool, advanced selection techniques, advanced filters, creating actions.
How to use the Curves, Levels, Vibrance, Hue and Saturation Adjustment Layer
Working with advanced Type options including type on a path, warping text and 3D text
Using Actions to automate your processes
Working with Smart Objects, Smart Filters and Masking

Requirements
No Photoshop or graphic design experience needed.

Description
This course is for EVERYONE. Photoshop is EVERYWHERE in ALL Industries!

You will learn all the necessary (and more!) tools to get you more than proficient with Photoshop. You will be a pro by the end of this course!

If you already have experience with Photoshop, this course will give you the fundamentals, plus a ton of advanced tools and skills!

We start with the basics and steadily move from there showing you the tips and tricks and shortcuts that every graphic designer needs to know (even if you are not a "graphic designer").

What Will You Learn?

Navigating and customizing the workspace

Tools and Panels overview

Image Formats, terminology and graphic design fundamentals

Saving and exporting

Selecting, resizing, rotating, moving images

Selection techniques including the magic wand tool, quick selection, lasso tools

Eraser tool

Cropping

Image and canvas resizing

Layers and layer management, locking, hiding, filtering layers

Layer effects

Adjustment layers including curves, levels, hue/saturation, black and white, vibrance

Intro to Masking, advanced masking techniques

Brush tools

Gradient Masking

Clipping masks

Filters, Field Blur, Filter Gallery, Polar Coordinates, Frames, Camera RAW

Blending modes

Smart Objects, rasterizing objects

Smart Filters

Type and typography principles and practices including: leading, tracking, kerning

Type on a path

Warping text

3D text

Advanced selection techniques including paths and the pen tool

Smart radius, select and mask

Working with shapes

Working with color/ gradients/ swatches

Using Actions

Drawing basic Shapes, Custom Shapes, pen tool, direct selection tool

Layer Comps

Keyboard shortcuts

Touch up tools including clone stamp tool, healing brush, patch tool, content aware fill

Who this course is for
Anyone who is a practicing professional who uses graphics and photography, or an aspiring creative, salespeople, real estate, marketers, retirees. Photoshop is for everyone!