2013
Digital Tutors
Eddie Russell
6:24
English

If you are looking at Photoshop for the very first time, the application can be quite intimidating. Where do you start? What do you learn first?
This tutorial was specifically designed to answer just those questions for you. We will be focused here on getting you up and running in the application quickly, teaching you about tools and workflows that you will need to understand from day one.
To begin this Photoshop training, we will start out slow, introducing you to the various pieces of the user interface and some important terminology. From here we’ll move on and spend some time getting to know layers in Photoshop and learning how to utilize a layer-based workflow.
Next we’ll learn about selections and the various ways we can create them before learning about some of the most important image adjustments we can make in Photoshop. Moving on, we’ll methodically move from topic to topic, learning about important tools and features such as color, brushes, image healing, masking, vector tools and filters.
By the end of this tutorial, you will have accumulated a solid foundation of knowledge and be ready to move deeper into this powerful application

1 Introduction and project overview
2 Creating, opening, and saving files
3 Interface and UI overview
4 Zooming, panning, and the Navigator Panel
5 Understanding resizing and resampling
6 Cropping an image
7 Layers Panel overview
8 Enhancing an image with layer styles
9 Using the Move Tool and some of the shortcuts associated with it
10 Transforming with the Move Tool
11 Undos and the History Panel
12 Making selections with Marquee and Lasso tools
13 Using Quick Selection and Magic Wand tools.
14 Making selections with Quick Mask Mode
15 Adjustment and Fill Layers
16 Using the Brightness and Contrast adjustment
17 Using the Levels adjustment
18 Using the Curves adjustment
19 Using the Hue/Saturation adjustment
20 Document color modes and color settings
21 Understanding background/foreground colors and the Color Picker
22 Using the Color and Swatch Panel
23 Using the Eyedropper Tool and color sampling workflows
24 Understanding Photoshop brush basics
25 Customizing brush dynamics in the Brush Panel
26 Defining a custom brush preset
27 Filling selections with the Paint Bucket Tool
28 Using and customizing gradients
29 Painting with Natural Bristle Brushes
30 Repairing an image with the Spot Healing Brush
31 Duplicating pixels with the clone stamp tool
32 Defining and using tool presets
33 Hiding information in an image using Layer Masks
34 Refining a mask to increase precision
35 Drawing paths with the Pen tool and Freeform Pen Tool
36 Adding text to an image
37 Blurring an Image
38 Sharpening an Image
39 Using the Liquify Filter

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