Course Outline

Introducing Layer Effects and Styles

• Introducing layer styles
• Advanced layers
• Manipulating a drop shadow
• Colorizing a layer
• Replicating layer effects
• Editing effects, one layer at a time
• Layer styles as artistic media
• Painting with layer styles
• Master opacity and clip blending
• Saving a layer style

Building Vector-Based Shapes

• Vector Shapes explained
• Font substitution and conversion
• The benefits of vectors
• Upsampling pixels vs. scaling vectors
• Vitruvian Man, king of the vectors
• Drawing a shape layer
• The compound shape options
• Deleting path outlines
• Drawing an arrow line
• Combining vector and layer masks
• Drawing custom shapes
• Rasterizing and painting the shape’s fill

Using Adjustment Layers

• A layer of adjustment
• Creating an adjustment layer
• Layer Masking
  The new Black & White command
• Tinting a monochrome photo
• Making a true duotone with Gradient Map
• Adjustment layers as creative tools
• Inverting and brightening the background
• Hue, saturation, and darkness
• Filling type with a color adjustment
• Using one adjustment to modify another
• Breathing color into the title

Smart Objects

• Understanding Smart Functionality
• Placing a Smart Object
• Non-destructive transformations
• Converting a layer to a Smart Object
• Non-destructive warping
• Placing a vector illustration
• Replacing pixels with vectors
• Rasterizing a vector Smart Object
• Swapping one Smart Object for another

Non-Destructive Smart Filters

• Understanding non destructive smart Objects
• Applying a smart filter
• Changing filter and blending settings
• The Shadows/Highlights filter
• Making pixel-level edits
  Working with the Filter Gallery
• Experimenting with creative filters
• Swapping Filter Gallery filters
• Mixing all varieties of parametric effects
• Smart filters vs. layer effects
• Duplicating a smart filter

Working with Camera Raw

• What’s new in Camera Raw 4?
• Opening Camera Raw 4
• The Camera Raw 4 interface
• Adjusting the white balance
• Saving your changes
• Using the exposure controls
• Automatic exposure adjustments
• The new and improved clipping warnings
• Vibrance and Saturation
• The new Tone Curve adjustment sliders
• The absolutely amazing HSL controls
• Mapping colors to black and white
• Colorizing with the Split Toning options
• The nondestructive Retouch tool
• Opening JPEGs and TIFFs in Camera Raw
• Camera Raw Smart Objects

Auto-Align and Auto-Blend,

• The Auto-Align Layers command
• Setting weighted Opacity values
• Masking the couples together
• Cropping the composition
• The Load Files into Stack script
• The Auto-Blend Layers command
• What to do when Auto-Align fails

Recording and Playing Actions

• Creating an action
• Recording operations
• Reviewing and editing an action
• Playing an action
• Saving and loading actions
• Recording the best chrome effect ever
• Adding and deleting steps
• Recording layer changes
• Completing and testing the action

Printing and Packaging

• Print one image, print it well
• The subjective color-matching image
• Gauging the print size
• Scale, position, and page orientation
• The Output options
• The Color Management options
• Printing a contact sheet
• Packaging multiple pictures on a page

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