Photoshop Essential Training

Introduction

• Welcome
• Elements overview
• Working with catalogs
• Using the exercise files

Importing Photos

• Preparing to import
• Importing photos from a hard drive
• Importing photos from a camera
• Importing photos from iPhoto (Mac only)
• Viewing imported photos

Streamlined Photo Editing

• Using the Organizer Instant Fix
• Overview of working in the editor Quick Edit workspace
• Fixing lighting and color in Quick Edit
• Fixing red-eye and pet-eye in Quick Edit
• Adding effects, borders, and textures in Quick Edit
• Touching up photos in Guided Edit
• Adding special effects in Guided Edit

Expert Editing Basics

• Overview of the Expert Edit workspace
• Working with the editing tools
• Customizing panels
• Picking colors
• Undoing and using History
• Saving and choosing file formats
• Viewing multiple documents

Changing Size and Composition in Expert Edit

• Cropping photos
• Straightening photos with Content-Aware Fill
• Resizing photos for print
• Resizing photos for the web
• Changing photo orientation with the Recompose tool
• Adding canvas size

Working with Layers in Expert Edit

• What are layers?
• Managing layers in the Layers panel
• Text and shape layers
• Building a layered composite
• Fine-tuning a composite with blend modes
• Fine-tuning a composite with layer masks

Using Selections and Masks in Expert Edit

• Why use selections?
• Using the marquee tools
• Using the lasso tools
• Using the Quick Selection and Magic Wand tools
• Refining a selection
• Modifying a selection

Correcting Photos in Expert Edit

• Auto smart toning
• Why use adjustment layers to correct photos?
• Adding adjustment layers
• Editing adjustment layers
• Limiting adjustment layers with masks
• Controlling adjustment layers
• Improving shadows and highlights
• Removing color casts
• Correcting camera distortions
• Converting to black and white
• Reducing digital noise
• Output sharpening
• Retouching with the Healing and Clone Stamp tools
• Using the Content-Aware Move tool

Processing in Camera Raw

• What is Camera Raw?
• Opening raw and non-raw image files in Camera Raw
• Touring the Camera Raw interface
• Setting white balance
• Adjusting lighting and color with Basic sliders
• Cropping and straightening in Camera Raw
• Reducing noise
• Sharpening
• Outputting from Camera Raw
• Synchronizing edits to multiple photos

Managing Photos in the Organizer

• Overview of the Organizer
• Designating a watched folder for new photos (Windows only)
• Viewing information about your photos
• Adding captions and notes
• Sorting photos in Media view
• Rating photos with star rankings
• Stacking related photos
• Using Full Screen view
• Making a full-screen slideshow

Working with Missing Files and Folders in the Organizer

• Moving files the right way
• Renaming files the right way
• Reconnecting missing files
• Removing files from a catalog

Working with Virtual Albums in the Organizer

• Creating albums
• Organizing albums

Keyword Tagging in the Organizer

• Creating keyword tags
• Organizing keyword tags
• Applying keywords to photos
• Finding photos by keyword
• Searching by metadata
• Using Saved Searches

Organizing Photos by People, Events, and Place

• Automatically identifying people in your photos
• Manually identifying people in your photos
• Viewing photos in People view
• Working with People tags
• Organizing by events
• Organizing by Smart Events
• Viewing photos on a map
• Adding location data to photos for mapping

Sharing and Printing Photos

• Sharing to mobile devices with Revel
• Sharing photos to Facebook
• Setting up color management
• Printing in Photoshop Elements
• Printing with color management