Adobe Photoshop Smart Tips - Boost Your Adobe Skills

In this lesson we preview the Adobe Photoshop workbook that you get with this course. All the lessons in this course have their own 1-page worksheets but we have also combined them all in this consolidated workbook which you can download for easy reference in your Adobe journey!

This is your opportunity to share something about yourself with the rest of the students in this course. Tell us all about your goals and what you want to achieve. You can come back to this board and add more thoughts as you go through the course and achieve your goals. Seeing all the other students in the course will also motivate you and keep you going as you participate in this community of learning.

In this lesson, you will see student testimonials from Mike's students, like:

Simple and very helpful. Thanks, Mikel :)

What a great presentation. World-class stuff.

Thanks for the frustration-neutralizing tip!

Throughout this course, we will celebrate your progress at 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100%. I really want you to succeed but you need to take action and keep going so look forward to these milestones of progress. I will see you there and cheer you on as you keep going from one milestone to the next >>

Crop Tool is used in removing portions of an image to create a composition with strengthened focus. In this video, will have a look at how the crop tool works in resizing and rotating an image.

Working with layers is one of the most important things you need to learn to improve your graphic designing skills. Layers allow you to work on different components of an image one at a time, without changing the original image permanently. In this video, we will discuss how layers work and how you can use them effectively.

Using the Layer Blending Modes in Adobe Photoshop is one of the fastest techniques to redesign and improve your images. Blending mode changes how a layer reacts to the layer underneath it. In this tutorial, you will learn how blend modes work and how you can further improve them using the layer opacity.

Throughout this course, we will celebrate your progress at 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100%. I really want you to succeed but you need to take action and keep going so look forward to these milestones of progress. I will see you there and cheer you on as you keep going from one milestone to the next >>

Auto-Align Layers is a command that is used to automatically align layers based on their similar content. When enabled, this command tries to find the center of an image and use it as reference to align the rest of images accordingly. After watching this video, you should know how to use the Auto-Align Layer command to merge imperfect layers of images and produce one amazing outturn.

Auto-Blend Layers is a command to stitch or combine images together to achieve one composite image with a deep depth of field. In this video, you will learn how to use this feature to produce quality images with  seamless and more realistic results.

Using Smart Object is a great method of replacing content within an existing design. It functions as a layer that contain image data from a raster or vector images where any edits you make can be undone and revisited. In this tutorial, we will explore how to use smart objects to perform nondestructive editing to a layer.

Throughout this course, we will celebrate your progress at 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100%. I really want you to succeed but you need to take action and keep going so look forward to these milestones of progress. I will see you there and cheer you on as you keep going from one milestone to the next >>

Clipping Masks in Adobe Photoshop is a very essential way to control the visibility of a layer. To describe simply, a clipping mask is an effect where a layer is clipped inside another layer. In this lesson, we will explore how to apply clipping masks to easily define the shape and crop of an image.

Hue/Saturation in Adobe Photoshop allows you to adjust the hue, saturation and lightness of color in an image. Hue is the color while saturation is the intensity of that color. Lightness defines the brightness of the color selected. In this tutorial, we will explore the steps and techniques in adjusting the hue/saturation of an image.

Monochrome means a photograph carried out in black and white or in varying tones of a single color. Adobe Photoshop has some great tools that you can use to convert your images into a monochromatic display. This effect can help bring out the drama and focus in your images.

Path Blur is one of the available filter types in the Blur Gallery. This effect allows you to put objects into motion and apply blurs across any number of custom paths you create. It is a wonderful tool for illustrative purposes and creating backgrounds with patterns.

Adobe Photoshop includes a feature that automatically reduces image blurring caused by a camera motion. This feature is called the Shake Reduction filter. It is a very handy feature to rescue an image that was ruined by a camera shake.

Throughout this course, we will celebrate your progress at 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100%. I really want you to succeed but you need to take action and keep going so look forward to these milestones of progress. I will see you there and cheer you on as you keep going from one milestone to the next >>

A 3D Anaglyph is a stereoscopic effect that creates three-dimensional images by overlapping two images - one with a red filter, and one with a cyan filter. The pop-out stereoscopic photo effect can be experienced with those two colors used. This trick works best with black and white images, but it can work pretty well with colored images too!

Photoshop can build various basic 3D objects from 2D layers as a starting point. Creating a 3D shape from a layer wraps the layer onto the 3D object preset. This will then allow you to rotate, reposition, and resize the 3D object. Watch this tutorial to learn the techniques in creating 3D shapes in Adobe Photoshop.

Throughout this course, we will celebrate your progress at 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100%. I really want you to succeed but you need to take action and keep going so look forward to these milestones of progress. I will see you there and cheer you on as you keep going from one milestone to the next >>