Understanding Photoshop
1. Understanding Adobe Photoshop
Photoshop is probably the most famous graphic design application that was ever created.Everybody’s heard of Photoshop. At it’s core, Photoshop is an image manipulation and creation tool. It has a powerful feature set that makes creating and editing pixel-based graphics easier than ever. For this course, you’ll get the most out of understanding how to leverage Photoshop to cutout photos, but understand that is a very, very powerful tool.
To better understand Adobe Photoshop, we’ll be watching the Chapter 06 videos from “Introduction to Graphic Design” on Lynda.com and you will follow along with the corresponding exercise files. By the time you are done, you should have completely watching the following videos:
Video Name | Video Link |
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Getting started with Photoshop | Video Links to an external site. |
Making selections in Photoshop | Video Links to an external site. |
Working with layer masks | Video Links to an external site. |
Challenge: Masking | Video Links to an external site. |
Solution: Masking | Video Links to an external site. |
Combining two images together | Video Links to an external site. |
Removing unwanted objects from photos | Video Links to an external site. |
Changing the color of photos | Video Links to an external site. |
Converting images to black and white | Video Links to an external site. |
Cropping images nondestructively | Video Links to an external site. |
Saving your work for print | Video Links to an external site. |