Course Overview

Time to jump that final hurdle! Join reigning expert Deke McClelland as he shows you how to master Photoshop, the world’s most powerful vector-based drawing software.

Course Circullum

Introduction

Welcome to One-on-One

31. Shortcuts and Customization

Becoming a lean, mean, imaging machine
Loading custom dekeKeys shortcuts
The dekeKeys PDF docs
New and remapped shortcuts
Restoring Photoshop’s default shortcuts
Assigning the Macintosh control key
Tool and panel shortcuts
Top-secret tricks for shortcut enthusiasts
Customizing Photoshop’s menus
Customizing Photoshop’s toolbox
Choose your color space: sRGB or Adobe RGB?
Upgrading from sRGB to Adobe RGB
Assigning and converting color profiles

32. Creative Smart Filtering

Delving the Filter menu to great effect
Introducing the Wave filter
Rendering fire-hot smoke type
Creating a realistic pointillism effect
Giving your painting texture with Emboss
Creating a high-color High Pass effect
Hunting down seams with the Offset filter
Turning a cityscape into a tiny planet
Integrating and shading your tiny planet
Creating trendy, dynamic twirl art
Creating symmetrical twirl art
Switching out the image in a dynamic effect
Upping the resolution of dynamic artwork
Fragmenting a photo through ribbed glass
Distorting an image with the Glass filter

33. Blur and Noise

Blur and noise to focus your attention
Adding depth of field with Field Blur
Masking a Blur Gallery effect
Enhancing a Smart Filter mask
Matching natural noise with the Blur Gallery
Introducing noise with Field Blur
Light bokeh and bokeh color
Painting with randomly fluctuating colors
Creating a blurry vignette with Iris Blur
Backing off a Blur Gallery filter
Creating a fake miniature with Tilt-Shift
Simulating motion with the Path Blur filter
Creating elliptical motion with Spin Blur
How photographic noise works
Reducing noise in Camera Raw
Smoothing away color noise
Sharpening fine details in Camera Raw
Sharpening vs. Texture and Clarity
Rounding and blurring letterforms
Turning a photo into a dot drawing
Creating a high-resolution dot drawing

34. Masks and Calculations

Using the image to select itself
A quick refresher on layer masking
Initiating a mask as an alpha channel
Deploying an alpha channel as a layer mask
Introducing the Calculations command
Masking a subject set against black or white
Saving alpha channels to the TIFF format
Painting contrast with the Overlay mode
Eliminating halos with the Minimum filter
Restoring details with the History Brush
Masking a subject against a green screen
Enhancing and inverting a mask with Levels
Painting away color fringing
Immersing an image in its new environment
Masking wispy, voluminous, untamed hair
Preserving very fine hair details
Compositing hair to match a new background

35. The Pen Tool

Tracing an image, point-by-point
Introducing the Paths panel
Changing the appearance of your paths
Freeform, Curvature, and Pen tools
Adding and deleting anchor points
Starting a path outline with an ellipse
Drawing smooth and cusp points
Deploying path outlines as a vector mask
Combining a layer mask with a vector mask
Brushing along a path outline
Adding to an existing vector mask
Perfecting hair inside a vector mask
Bolstering hair with an Overlay layer
Drawing perfect eye masks
Duplicating and masking entire groups
Masking with vector-based letterforms

36. Multi-Image Panoramas

Creating ultra-high-resolution imagery
Introducing the Photomerge command
Understanding the Layout settings
Auto-aligning and auto-blending photos
Correcting a distorted horizon
Creating a raw panorama in Camera Raw
Trouble-shooting a panorama in Camera Raw
Assembling a vertical, interior panorama
Resetting the preferences for Camera Raw
Stitching together scanned artwork

37. Layer Comps and Artboards

Advanced layer options
Introducing layer comps
Creating a dynamic layer comp
Updating broken layer comps
Using layer comps to compare blend settings
Introducing artboards
Creating and cropping a new artboard
Adding and duplicating artboards
Moving layers in and out of artboards
Alignment and artboard-specific guides
Exporting artboards as independent assets
17 pages of Photoshop keyboard shortcuts
Exporting artboards to a multipage PDF

38. Actions and Batch Processing

Several incentives to recording actions
Introducing the Actions panel
Recording a simple but practical action
Modifying and playing a specific step
Customizing settings during playback
Adding steps to an existing action
Actioning a consistent image resolution
Modifying an adjustment and adding Save As
Actioning the creation of flat CMYK files
Batch-processing an entire folder of images
Saving and loading your actions

Conclusion

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