Photoshop fundamentals
- Fundamentals of digital image processing
- Photoshop settings
- User interface
- Setting guides, grid and origin point
- Menus, dialogs, tools
- Configuration options for painting and retouching tools
Cutting out objects
- Cutting out objects in different ways
- Magic wand, lasso/selection tools, extract
- Working with paths, selection from path
- Changing image size and canvas, cropping
- Collages in Photoshop
Layers
- Creating, copying, removing, naming and grouping layers
- Fundamentals of layer masks
- Working with text and adjustment layers
- Controlling multiple layers
Channels
- Channel calculations, alpha channel
- Optimising image quality
- Rotating, cropping, tonal value correction, gamma correction, colour correction
- Working with filters
- Editing images (mode, image size, canvas, colour depth, rotating, cropping)
- Reducing colour noise
- Recolouring image areas
- Gradients, patterns, selection edge (including soft edges)
- High Dynamic Range (HDR)
File formats and colour space
- File formats PSD, PNG, JPG, GIF, TIF
- Colour space RGB/CMYK/LAB/greyscale, bit depth
- History and actions
- Vanishing points