Adobe Photoshop: Level 2
Adobe® Photoshop® is a leading graphic creation application, popular among graphic designers, illustrators, and photographers. Photoshop’s numerous features work together to provide a comprehensive toolset for you, the design professional. This course delves into some of the more advanced image creation and editing techniques, and offers you hands-on activities that demonstrate how these techniques can be used in combination to create exciting visual effects.
Training at a glance
Level
Intermediate
Duration
1 Day
Experience
1 year: Photoshop
Average Salary
$63,968
Labs
Yes
Level
Intermediate
Duration
1 Day
Experience
1 year: Photoshop
Average Salary
$63,968
Labs
Yes
Training Details
This course will prepare you to use the most common basic features of Adobe Photoshop.
In this course, you will:
- Use brushes, gradients, and tool presets to create raster images.
- Apply vector paths, shape drawing tools, type, and type special effects.
- Apply advanced layer techniques with masks, filters, layers, and smart objects.
- Apply actions and batch processing to automate tasks.
- Edit video by using timelines, transitions, graphics, titles, and animation.
- Set project requirements by identifying the purpose, audience, copyright rules, and project management tasks.
Lesson 1: Quick Fixes
- Improving a snapshot
- Adjusting facial features with Liquify
- Blurring a background
- Creating a panorama
- Filling empty areas when cropping
- Extending depth of field
- Moving objects with the Content-Aware Move tool
- Adjusting perspective in an image
Lesson 2: Vector Drawing Techniques
- About bitmap images and vector graphics
- About paths and the Pen tool
- Working with defined custom shapes
- Importing a Smart Object
- Adding color and depth to a shape using layer styles
Lesson 3: Advanced Compositing
- Arranging layers
- Using Smart Filters
- Painting a layer
- Adding a background
- Using the History panel to undo edits
- Improving a low-resolution image
Lesson 4: Painting with the Mixer Brush
- Basics only
- About the Mixer Brush
- Selecting brush settings
- Mixing colors
- Creating a custom brush preset
- Mixing colors with a photograph
Lesson 5: Working with Camera Raw
- About camera raw files
- Processing files in Camera Raw
- Applying advanced color correction
Lesson 6: Preparing Files for the Web
- Creating placeholders with the frame tool
- Using layer groups to create button graphics
- Designing with artboards
Lesson 7: Exploring Neural Filters
- Understanding Neural Filters
- Exploring the Neural Filters workspace
- Improving complexion with skin smoothing
Lesson 8: Producing and Printing Consistent Color
- Preparing files for printing
- Performing a zoom test
- Identifying out-of-gamut colors
- Adjusting an image
- Converting an image to CMYK
- About color management
- Specifying color-management settings
- Proofing an image on screen
- Saving the image as a CMYK EPS file
- Printing a CMYK image from Photoshop
Target students include professional or amateur photographers who want to use the robust features of Photoshop to enhance, modify, and organize their photographs, and anyone interested in working toward the Visual Communication with Adobe Photoshop exam certification.
Students should have experience with Photoshop and working knowledge of the skills covered in Core Skills: Level 1. Specifically, you should know the work area, be able to do basic photo selections and corrections, as well as understand layering, masks and channels. For more information on the Level 1 course, go to:
Photoshop CC Core Skills: Level 1.
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