Introduction
Welcome to Photoshop Essential Training
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1. Opening Files
Opening files in Photoshop
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Opening files from Adobe Bridge
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Opening files from Lightroom Classic
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Opening files from Lightroom
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Editing in Camera Raw or Lightroom vs. Photoshop
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2. Documents and Navigation
A tour of the Photoshop interface
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Working with multiple documents
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Panning and zooming documents
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3. Customizing the Photoshop Interfaces
Arranging the panels you use most often
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Switching and saving workspaces
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Customizing the Toolbar
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Modifying keyboard shortcuts to boost productivity
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4. Digital Image Essentials
Understanding file formats
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Mastering bit depth and color mode
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Choosing a color space
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Making sense of document size
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Using Image Size to change document dimensions
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Discover flexible editing using the History panel
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Saving and exporting documents
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5. Adobe Camera Raw
A tour of the Camera Raw interface
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Removing distortions and cropping photos
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Working with profiles and presets
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Enhancing contrast, color, and tone
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Removing distracting elements
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Using the masking tools to adjust a portion of an image
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Using masking to retouch portraits
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Black-and-white vintage color toning effects
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Saving and opening files in Photoshop
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6. Cropping, Straightening, and Adjusting Canvas Size
Using the Crop tool in Photoshop
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Straightening a crooked image
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Crop and change image size in one step
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Increasing canvas size
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Auto-fill with Content-Aware Crop
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7. Layers
Exploring layer basics
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Loading, selecting, aligning, and distributing layers
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Working with layer groups and the Frame tool
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Merging and flattening layers
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Quickly exporting layers and groups
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8. Color and Brush Essentials
Color basics
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Brush basics
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The Brushes and Brush Settings panels
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Creating and saving custom brushes
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9. Working with Layer Masks
Layer mask essentials
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Using gradients in masks to blend images
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10. Making Selections
Using the Marquee and Lasso tools
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Making soft-edged selections
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Using the Object Select tool
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Making selections based on color
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Transforming selections and removing halos
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Selecting and replacing skies
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11. Local Pixel Editing and Retouching
Removing distracting elements with the Healing, Patch, and Clone tools
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The magic of Content-Aware Fill
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Transform without distorting using Content-Aware Scale and Move
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Removing larger elements from an image
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12. Adjustment Layer Essentials
Introducing adjustment layers
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Adjusting color and tone with Levels and Curves
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Changing colors using Vibrance, Hue/Saturation, and Color Balance
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Converting to black and white and color toning with Gradient Maps
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Applying adjustment layers to multiple layers
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13. Blend Mode Essentials
Blend Mode basics
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Using Multiply, Screen, Overlay, and Soft Light
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Applying Blend Modes to Adjustment Layers
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Applying Blend Modes to multiple layers and groups
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14. Smart Object Essentials
Creating and editing Smart Objects
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Opening raw images as Smart Objects
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Replacing the contents of a Smart Object
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Linked vs. embedded Smart Object
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15. Essential Transformation
Scaling, skewing, and rotating layers using Free Transform
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Correcting the perspective of an image
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Warping images
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Using Liquify to reshape an image
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Using Vanishing point to paste in perspective
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Using Smart Objects to transform multiple layers as one
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16. Color, Gradient, and Pattern Fill Layers
Using Fill Layers to create a hand-painted look
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Using gradients to add color effects
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Creating and applying custom pattern fill layers
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17. Essential Filters
Filter essentials
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Applying filters nondestructively with Smart Filters
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Sharpening images
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Creative blurring effects
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AI-assisted (neural) filters
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Creating painterly effects using Filter Gallery
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Applying Camera Raw as a filter
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18. Shape Layers
Using the Shape tools
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Modifying, duplicating, and using custom shapes
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Creating, saving, and masking images to shapes
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Duplicating shapes as Smart Objects
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19. The Pen Tools
The Curvature Pen tool
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Pen tool basics
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Drawing curves with the Pen tool
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Drawing complex paths
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Pen skills in practice
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20. Essential Layer Styles
Applying layer effects and styles
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Creative layer effects
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21. Type Essentials
Exploring headline (point) type
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Using leading, kerning, and tracking
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Working with paragraph (area) type
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22. Working with Libraries
Library panel essentials
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Capturing patterns, colors, gradients, and shapes from an image
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Sharing libraries
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Working with Adobe Stock
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23. Artboards
Creating artboards
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Adding content to artboards
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Five tips for working with artboards
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Saving and exporting artboards
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24. Animating Images
Creating animated GIFs
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Creating cinemagraphs
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25. Sharing Images
Saving and sharing cloud documents
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Using Image Processor to batch resize and save files
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Exporting multiple images to a single document
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