TOPICS COVERED

• Create and refine a mask.
• Format type with paragraph styles, create a clipping mask, put type on a path, and use vertical type.
• Bézier Pen tool to draw paths which can be converted to selections or used as clipping paths when the image is imported into InDesign.
• Import, create, and work with Smart Objects for non-destructive editing.
• Create a montage of images with advanced compositing techniques.
• Shape layers
• Web/APP UI design techniques
• Use actions to automate repeated steps.
• Edit video and add a soundtrack.
• Paint an image with the mixer brush, create custom brushes, and mix colors.

MODULE 1:

• Advanced navigational features
• Speeding up your navigation process
• Dynamic zooming and panning
• Creating your own keyboard shortcuts
• Customizing your menu items
• Maximizing rulers, guides, and grids
• Customizing your panels and workspaces

MODULE 2

• Advanced Adobe Bridge Features
• Using Adobe Bridge for automation
• Batch renaming your files

MODULE 3

• Advanced selection techniques
• Building selection and transforming your selection
• Saving your selection as channels
• Refining your selection
• Going beyond the Magic Wand

MODULE 4

• The Pen tool
• Loading your path as a selection
• Creating a vector mask
• Defining a custom brush preset
• Saving the image for other applications

MODULE 5

• Color correcting like a Pro
• Understanding color
• Using the Histogram panel
• Choosing your color settings
• Understanding Gamuts
• Defining highlight, shadow, and midtones
• Balancing the neutrals in an image
• Adding additional curve corrections
• Sharpening the image
• Painting your filter on your image
• Adjusting the Blending of the filter

MODULE 6

• Painting and retouching
• Painting and retouching tools
• Using adjustment layers
• Adding a vector mask
• Organizing your Layers panel

MODULE 7

• Creating compositions
• Applying Smart Filters
• The Adaptive Wide Angle filter
• Cloning buildings and other image areas
• Using a color look-up table

MODULE 8

• Creating special effects
• Adding Layer Style effects
• Adding interesting lighting effects
• Adding text effects

MODULE 9

• Advanced use of vector tools
• Taking advantage of vector objects
• Adding pixel and vector masks
• Converting your text to a path
• Adding a stroke to the text
• Adding a drop shadow
• Using a custom shape
• Pasting vector objects from Illustrator
• Saving your file for use outside of Photoshop

MODULE 10

• Creating images for the Web and application design
• Optimizing graphics for on-screen presentation
• Applying the Unsharp Mask filter to an image
• Choosing the best file format for your image
• Previewing your image

MODULE 11

• Automation tools
• Creating your own action

MODULE 12

• Using Photoshop for 3D
• Creating 3D objects
• Viewing and transforming 3D objects
• Using Photoshop 3D in production workflows
• Working with custom meshes
• Downloading external 3D content

MODULE 13

• Creating a new video project and importing media
• Animating text and creating effects
• Adding transitions
• Adding a music track and muting unwanted audio
• Exporting video from Photoshop to mp4

About Your Instructors

Kal Hadi is a Certified Adobe Instructor with CompTIA CTT+ credentials. He has over 15 years of experience in the field of computer graphics, imaging and electronic publishing. He was recognized by Adobe as one of the top five trainers worldwide in 2009. He is a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology Electronic Publishing graduate program. He is also the author of many books and papers in the fields of graphics and web publishing.

Sean Casella

Luisa Winter

Luisa Winters is a Certified Instructor for Adobe and Apple (ACI and ACT).

She teaches for private clients, consults for organizations, and works at several different training centers all over the United States and abroad. Luisa is one of the few Adobe Premiere Pro Master instructors. A well-known artist, Luisa often speaks at different conferences on topics ranging from video editing to compositing and web.

An accomplished violinist, Luisa was, at the age of 13, a full-time member of the National Symphony Orchestra in the Dominican Republic. While attending the legendary Peabody Conservatory (in Baltimore, MD), Luisa learned from master musicians: Henryk Szeryng, Berl Senofski, Aarond Rosand, Charles Libove, and Leon Fleisher, among others.

Expressing her art in digital form, Luisa became an editor and motion graphics artist in 1985, and has been performing both arts full-time since that point in time.

Throughout her career, Luisa has won several awards, including:

• Telly Awards
• Videographer Awards
• Aegis Awards
• WEVA Hall of Fame
• Baltimore Videographers Association Excellence Award

Christine Marsh