Learn to improve photos and create graphics at your own pace with Adobe Photoshop. This self-paced course teaches you to remove unwanted elements, make precise selections, adjust color and contrast, and save files for print, web, or video. You’ll also explore layers, masks, filters, type, and more to enhance your images and design professional graphics.
Throughout the course, you’ll complete hands-on projects that combine photo editing and graphic creation, giving you practical experience and the skills to work on a wide range of Photoshop tasks confidently.
What You Will Learn
- Learn to retouch photos and design graphics
- Enhance images by adjusting color, brightness, and contrast
- Use selections to edit specific areas of an image
- Prepare images for digital, web, video, or print formats
- Simplify edits with adjustment layers
- Remove backgrounds using layer masks
- Sharpen and refine photos
- Apply visual effects with filters, shadows, blend modes, and more
Course Outline
Section 1
Getting Started
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Zooming
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Scrolling
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Getting around
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Tools
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Copying & pasting
Photo Retouching
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Spot Healing Brush
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Content-Aware Fill
Cropping Photos
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Cropping Photos
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Straightening Photos
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Straightening a Layer
Creating Graphics: Combining Photos, Text, & Graphics
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Adding Type
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Smart Objects
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Importing Vector Graphics (Such as Logos)
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Type Anti-Aliasing
Section 2
Replacing Backgrounds
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Select Subject
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Select and Mask
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Image compositing
Blend Modes & Opacity
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Blend Modes
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Opacity
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Placing & Editing Smart Objects
Color Correction Using Color Balance
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Creating adjustment layers for color correction
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Adjusting color balance
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Adjusting brightness/contrast
Color Correction Using Curves
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Color correction with a Curves adjustment layer
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Adjusting brightness and contrast with Curves
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Setting white, black, & mid points
Preparing Digital Photos for Print
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Viewing/setting image size
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Resampling pros & cons
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Saving as PSD
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Saving as TIFF
Exporting Files for Web/Digital
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Resizing images for the web/digital
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Reducing image size with resampling
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Exporting an optimized JPEG
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Exporting a transparent PNG
Section 3
Sharpening Photos
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The Smart Sharpen filter
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Sharpening photos for digital & print
The Liquify Filter & Intro to Smart Filters
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Smart Objects & Smart Filters
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The Liquify Filter: Facial Features
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Editing the Smart Filter: Using Liquify to Push Pixels
Layer Masking
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Creating a Mask
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Adjusting a Mask by Painting On It
Masking Smart Filters
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Object Selection
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Using & Masking Smart Filters
Section 4
Converting to Black & White & Lens Correction
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Converting to Black & White
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Bringing back color in a specific area
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Removing Lens Distortion
Placing Your Designs in Pre-made Mockups
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Placing Your Design into a Mockup
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Customizing the Mockup
Adjustment Layers & Masks
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More Curves practice
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Masking out unwanted adjustments
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Organizing layers into groups
Retouching
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Healing Brush with Rotation
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Content-Aware Fill
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Patch Tool
Section 5
Changing Color With a Blending Mode
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Change the color of an object
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Using the Color Blend Mode
Clipping Masks: Filling Shapes with Images
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Masking a graphic with a shape/type
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Clipping masks
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Adding a Drop Shadow
Using Adjustment Layers as Clipping Masks
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Adjusting the color/brightness/contrast of specific areas in an image
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Using Adjustment Layers with Clipping Masks
Camera Raw Fundamentals
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Opening & editing RAW files
Camera Raw as a Filter
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Applying Camera Raw as a Non-Destructive Smart Filter
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Using Dehaze
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Masking in Camera Raw
Section 6
Batch Actions & the Image Processor
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Creating & running actions
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Batch processing files
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The Image Processor script
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Adobe Bridge
Photoshop for Design: Adding a Title & Layer Styles
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Creating a File with Photo & Text
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Adding Effects: Stroke & Outer Glow
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Fill vs. Opacity
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Editing a Gradient & Saving a Gradient Preset for Later Use
Photoshop for Design: Creating Digital Art in Photoshop
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Vector shapes
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Brush Settings
Photoshop for Design: Compositing into a Photo
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Distorting & warping a graphic onto a photo to create a mockup
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Adding texture & shading
This course is available for 30 days. You can choose when to start your access period. Once you activate, you will have 30 days to complete it (access the course materials, quizzes, projects and videos). You may request one extension of seven (7) days. Other extension requests will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Videos are not downloadable.
