Lynda - Photoshop CC 2015 One-on-One: Fundamentals

Size: 6.57GB | Duration: 14h 27m | Video: AVC (.mp4) 1280x720 15&30fps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 2ch

Genre: eLearning | Level: Beginner | Language: English

Learn everything you need to know about Photoshop, in the order you need to know it, in this top-to-bottom overview of the world's most powerful image editing software, Adobe Photoshop. With all new movies and all new exercise files, Deke McClelland's flagship

One-on-One

series is completely refreshed for Photoshop CC 2015. In this

Fundamentals

installment, the first of three, Deke takes you on a personalized tour of the basic tools and techniques that lie behind great images and graphic design, while keeping you up to speed with the newest features offered in Creative Cloud. Learn to open images from multiple sources, crop and straighten images, navigate panels and menus, and work with layers—the feature that allows you to mask parts of an image, combine effects, and composite artwork. Deke shows you how to perform important editing tasks, adjusting brightness and contrast, correcting color, and retouching and healing portraits. He also reviews formatting text, printing, and preparing web graphics in Photoshop.

Topics include:

* Opening images

* Zooming in and out

* Understanding image size and resolution

* Upsampling and downsampling

* Cropping nondestructively

* Straightening a crooked image

* Creating new layers

* Working with clipping masks, opacity, and blend modes

* Scaling and rotating layers

* Saving your work

* Adjusting brightness and contrast

* Applying dynamic adjustment layers

* Correcting color casts

* Recoloring artwork

* Working with Quick Mask mode

* Retouching portraits

* Nondestructive dodging and burning

* Developing raw images in Camera Raw

* Creating and formatting text

* Printing images

* Saving images for the web