Working with a Digital Camera
- Preparing images for the web or color printer
- Resizing and resampling images for different usages
- Understanding the importance of exposure
- Working with minimal lighting situations
- Comparing digital images to 35mm images
- Understanding the capabilities of different digital cameras
Working Efficiently and Quickly
- Navigating around the workarea
- Exploring the benefits of Adobe's online services
- Determining the correct tool to use, its functions and options
- Correcting your work using different undo techniques
- Avoiding usage of the Clipboard
- Understanding memory usage, scratch disk and purging
- Optimizing Photoshop for its best performance
- Recording repetitious job tasks via the Actions Palette
- Automating task sequences on a batch of files
Isolating a Portion of the Image
- Making selections with the marquee tools and lasso
- Using the magic wand
- Using the pen tool
- Using color range or a printing channel to make a selection
- Adding to and subtracting from a selection
- Combining or transforming selections
- Creating, editing and using masks
- Using masks to create transparent backgrounds
- Extracting a subject from the image
Modifying and Editing Images
- Sharpening or blurring areas of the image
- Increasing or decreasing exposure using blending modes
- Using the toning tools to dodge and burn
- Removing unwanted objectes
- Replacing parts of an image
- Adding simple text to an image
- Joining a sequence of photos into one continuous image
- Blurring and altering backgrounds
- Retouching images
- Correcting imperfections in your images
- Taking images and then combining them into a montage
Working with Layers and Text
- Converting selections into layers using Layer via Copy
- Using blending modes, opacity and preserve transparency
- Creating layer mask to achieve soft transitions
- Manipulating photo collages for seamless transitions
- Managing multiple layers into sets
- Adding layer styles to produce drop shadows
- Determining beveling and embossing values
- Creating a text layer and applying text attributes
- Transforming a layer or an object on the layer
- Flattening and merging layers when saving the file
Painting and Modifying an Image using Color
- Painting in an image
- Using a color background layer
- Colorizing a grayscale image
- Using gradients to modify color in an image
- Modifying or replacing color in selected areas
- Quickly changing the color of your type or of a fill layer
- Using adjustment layers to add or modify colors
Color Correcting an Image
- Understanding Color Management
- Calibrating your monitor
- Adjusting the highlight, shadow and mid-tones of the image
- Changing the tonal range of an image using curves
- Correcting the image's overall color balance
- Modifying or replacing color in selected areas
- Increasing and decreasing exposure in selected areas
- Storing all color correcting information in adjustment layers
- Placing all cloning and image editing on separate layers
- Understanding the effects of sharpening an image
- Producing and printing consistent color
Information compiled and updated by Design Desk on 01/10/10.