Introduction
What does Photoshop do?
Understanding the interface
Lets get familiar with the Tools panel
Switching tools using the keyboard
Dark or Light Interface
Navigating your image
Navigating tabs and windows
Panels and workspaces
Zooming in and zooming out
Scrolling and panning images
Cycling between screen modes
Switching tools using the keyboard
Opening and setting-up a document
Opening from files from Windows and Mac
Opening from Photoshop
An overview of Bridge
Closing images
Digital imaging fundamentals
Image size and resolution
The Image Size command
Resolution standards
Upsampling and what happens when you do
Changing the print size
Downsampling for print and web
Best practices
Crop and straighten
The new and improved Crop tool
Straightening a crooked image
Using the Perspective Crop tool
Automatically Cropping and Straightening scanned images
The Rule of Thirds
Extending images
Extending the canvas
Using Content Aware Extend
Using Content Aware Fill
Using Content Aware Scale
Adjusting image Brightness
The Auto commands
Adjustments using Brightness/Contrast
Adjustments using Levels
Adjustments using Curves
Working non-destructively with adjustment layers
Editing adjustment layers
Isolating an adjustment with a layer mask
The histogram
Basics of the Shadows/Highlights command
Adjusting colours
Assessing an image
Identifying a colour cast and how to correct it
Correcting a colour cast automatically
Changing the colour balance using levels
Changing the colour balance using colour balance
Changing specifically to black and white
Adjusting colour intensity with Vibrance
The Hue/Saturation command
Scale, rotate, skew and warp
Meet the transformations
Transformation and Smart Objects
Content aware Move
Content Aware Extend
Rotating a layer with Free Transform
Scale, duplicate, repeat, distort, perspective, and skew
Undo and history panel
Undo
Utilising the History Panel
Creating a Snapshot
Creating a new Document from a History State
Selections
What are selections and why we use them?
The Marquee tools
Getting to know the Lasso tools
Magic Wand and Quick Mask tools
Adding to and subtracting from Selections
Modifying Selections
Saving and Loading Selections
Meet the Channels Panel
Masking
Understanding what a mask is and does
Working with Layer Masks
Basic retouching
Using the Spot Healing Brush
Using the Healing Brush
Using the Patch Tool
Clone Stamp tool
The Dodge and Burn tools
Tips and Tricks
The layer basics
The Background
Using a layer mask instead of deleting pixels
Naming, hiding, creating, and deleting layers
Altering the stacking order of layers
Layer transformations
Aligning and distributing layers
Changing the opacity of layers
Grouping layers
Merge or rasterise layers
Best Practises
Basic brushes
An overview of brushes and the Brushes panel
Brush size and hardness
Brush shortcuts
Working with colour
The Swatches Panel
The Colour Panel
The Colour Picker
Using the Eyedropper Tool to sample colour
Creating simple gradients
Simple compositing
The various options for copying and pasting
Dragging and dropping
Placing an image
Smart Objects and why when to use them
Saving your work
Saving images to PSD
Saving images to TIFF
File Formats and which to use
Best practises
Using the Save For Web utility
The Colour Modes explained
Combining images
Auto Align
Auto Blend
Creating panoramas with Photomerge
Working with text
Horizontal and Vertical type tools
Customising font properties
The Character panel
The Paragraph panel
Managing text layers