In this course, you will learn how to catalogue your work and enhance your photographs.

Who Needs to Attend

• Anyone involved in digital media, including desktop publishing, multimedia design, web design, digital video editing, and other disciplines for which Photoshop is the industry standard
• Photographers and artists

Prerequisites

• Practical working knowledge of Mac OS X

Follow-On Courses

• Adobe Photoshop CS6 Fundamentals: An Introduction to Photoshop

Course Outline

1. Digital Images

• RGB and CMYK color models
  • Additive and subtractive
• Image size vs. resolution
• Pixel aspect ratio
• Bits per channel
• Alpha channel

2. Adobe Bridge

• Workspace
• Viewing and managing files
• Running automated tasks
• Metadata and keywords
• Mini Bridge

3. Camera RAW

• Processing CameraRAW files
• Cropping, straightening, and white balancing
• Exposure and advanced color correction
• Opening RAW as a smart object
• Synchronizing adjustments
• Exporting as DNG
• Opening in Photoshop

4. Vector Drawing Techniques

• Bitmap images and vector graphics
• Paths and the pen tool
• Vector drawing
• Pen tool
• Using paths with artwork
• Creating vector objects for the background
• Working with defined custom shapes
• Alpha channels vs. paths
• Vector masks and opacity masks
• Creating and saving a custom shape

5. Smart Objects

• Copying vs. placing
• Convert to smart object
• New smart object via copy
• Editing the smart object
• Exporting contents
• Replacing contents
• Stacking
• Smart filters
• Rasterizing

6. Vanishing Point

• Clipping a layer to a shape
• Setting up a vanishing point grid
• Placing imported artwork
• Adding artwork in perspective
• Placing the side panel artwork using vanishing point
• Adding more artwork in perspective
• Adding an adjustment layer
• Working with layer comps
• Managing layers
• Flattening a layered image
• Merging layers and layer groups
  • Smart object
• Modes for groups
• Layer and vector masks for groups

7. Adjustment Layers and Filters

• Filter gallery
• Smart objects
  •  Photoshop, Illustrator, and RAW
• Smart filters

8. Photomerge

• Creating panoramas with photomerge
• Stacking images
• 16-bit and 32-bit color space
• Creating high dynamic range (HDR) files

9. Layer Comps

• Using layer comps
• Exporting layer comps

10. Actions and Scripts

• Using actions
• Creating actions
• Batch processing
• Using the bridge to create web galleries and PDF presentations
• Using scripts
• Script event manager to use actions and scripts together
• Exporting layered files to desktop publishing applications

11. Touch Up Tricks

• Using adjustment layers
  • Layer and vector masks
• Group controls
  • Opacity and modes
• Painting with light
• Clone source panel with the clone stamp tool
• Creating a pattern and saving a pattern
• Displacement maps
• Adobe Exchange

12. Brushes

• Making a preset brush
• Changing the attributes of a brush
• Loading a brush
• Creating and saving a brush
• Painting with the mixer brush
• Selecting brush settings
• Mixing colors
• Mixing colors with a photograph

13. Producing and Printing Consistent Color

• Color management
• CMYK, RGB, and LAB
• Getting started
• Specifying color management settings
• Proofing an image
• Out-of-gamut colors
• Adjusting an image and printing a proof
• Saving the image as a CMYK EPS file
• Printing vs. exporting as PDF
• Printing