Photoshop 2021 Essential Training: Photography
Photoshop 2021 Essential Training Course Description
Whether you’re a professional photographer or just someone who wants to improve your image-making skills, Photoshop 2021 Essential Training can help you take your images to the next level and get the results that you want using Photoshop 2021.
Julieanne Kost brings you up to speed with Photoshop, showing you how to make tonal and color adjustments using adjustment layers and Smart Objects. She shares how to create both realistic and surreal composites, retouch distracting elements from images, and increase productivity when working with templates. Plus, discover how to enhance color and tone both globally and locally, use libraries to store content, work with Artboards, export and share images, and more.
Skills covered in Photoshop 2021 Essential Training:
- Digital Photography
- Adobe Photoshop
- Image Editing
Photoshop 2021 Essential Training Course Content
0. Introduction
- Welcome to the Photoshop Essential Training series for photographers
1. Making Tonal and Color Adjustments
- Using adjustment layers to change color and tone
- Using adjustment layers in a multi-image composite
- Using Smart Objects instead of adjustment layers
- Chapter Quiz
2. Combining Multiple Images
- Creating the impossible single exposure
- Masking rearranged elements to fill the frame
- Auto-aligning multiple exposures
- Creating a double-exposure effect
- Chapter Quiz
3. Emulating Traditional Photographic Effects
- Selective texture overlays
- Adding a deckled edge
- Creating a image transfer effect
- Chapter Quiz
4. Filters for Photographers
- Adding lens flare
- Creating a tilt-shift effect
- Simulating long exposures
- Removing distortions using Adaptive Wide Angle
- Chapter Quiz
5. Hand-Color, Toning, and Color-Wash Techniques
- Using fill layers to create a hand-painted look
- Traditional darkroom color toning effects
- Using a gradient fill layer to add a color wash
- Chapter Quiz
6. Creating a Surreal Composite
- Setting the stage
- Adding the primary figure
- Adding supporting elements
- Using color and texture to unify images
- Chapter Quiz
7. Retouching Essentials
- Quick techniques for clearing and softening skin
- Brightening eyes and lightening teeth
- Deemphasizing wrinkles with the Healing Brush
- Quick touch-ups using Liquify
- Swapping heads in a family portrait
- Chapter Quiz
8. Creating Painterly Effects
- Creating a custom brush
- Using the Oil Paint filter
- Painting with the Art History Brush
- The Mixer Brush
- Chapter Quiz
9. Working with Libraries
- Using the Libraries panel to store content
- Creating patterns, gradients, and more using libraries
- Chapter Quiz
10. Creative Typography
- Creating a transparent watermark
- Displaying a photo inside of text
- Chapter Quiz
11. Shapes and Layer Effects
- Adding a keyline around an image
- Add a glowing neon shape
- Chapter Quiz
12. Boosting Productivity with Template Personal Projects
- Replacing the contents of a Smart Object
- Duplicating Smart Objects
- Using variables with templates
- Working with artboards
- Chapter Quiz
13. Exporting Files and Sharing Images
- Saving multiple photos at one time using the Image Processor
- Creating basic contact sheets
- Chapter Quiz
14. Conclusion
- Keep learning Photoshop working on your own projects
