• The course details the Photoshop features and creative options, and shows efficient ways to perform common editing tasks, including noise reduction, shadow and highlight detail recovery, retouching, and combining multiple images. Along the way, the course explores techniques for nondestructive editing and compositing using layers, blending modes, layer masks, and much more

Topics include

1. Organizing images in Bridge
2. Adding metadata such as copyrights and keywords
3. Editing in Camera Raw versus in Photoshop
4. Retouching in Camera Raw
5. Batch processing files
6. Customizing the Photoshop workspaces
7. Choosing a file format and resolution
8. Cropping, scaling, and rotating images
9. Working with layers, including merging and flattening layers
10. Creating selections and layer masks
11. Toning and changing the color of images
12. Adjusting shadows and highlights
13. Retouching and cloning
14. Creating panoramas from multiple images
15. Adding filters and sharpening
16. Working with blend modes
17. Adding type
18. Working with video in Photoshop CS6