Adobe Photoshop – Advanced Techniques

Advanced Photoshop control options

• custom desktops
• edit menus and keyboard shortcuts
• application preferences
• status snapshots
• nonlinear history

Tools for precise work

• ruler
• grid
• guides
• automatic guides

Painting in Adobe Photoshop

• advanced tool track settings
• creation of object traces
• tools brush, pencil
• tools gradient, paint can
• transition editing
• sample formation
• tool blending modes
• transitions and samples on the web

Advanced photo editing

• curves
• exposure
• 16-bit image processing
• conversion to black and white photo
• sharpening and blurring filters
• the Liquefy, Separate, and Vanishing Point filters

Paths

• path creation and editing (Bézier curves)
• path transformation
• transfer selection to a path
• transfer path to choice
• pull and fill
• clipping path
• creation and use of shapes, shapes on the web

Advanced work with text

• text on the path
• convert text to shapes

Channels

• color channels
• conversions between RGB, CMYK, LAB and Grayscale
• alpha channels
• creation and editing of advanced selections using alpha channels
• use of alpha channels for filters
• spot color channels
• Channel Shuffle function
• Calculations function
• function Use image

Advanced work with layers

• layers of fill
• adjustment layers
• bitmap layer masks
• vector layered masks
• layers shape
• clipping mask
• layer blending modes
• smart objects
• layer composition
• advanced photo editing with masks
• principles of non-destructive photo editing

Filters

• principles of using filters
• overview of filter effects
• smart filters

Work automation

• events, doses, droplets
• scripts
• Adobe Exchange
• generated graphics - variables, data sets