What you’ll learn

Channels

• About channels
• Channels palette overview
• Show or hide a channel
• Show colour channels in colour
• Select, edit and delete channels

Saving selections and using masks

• About masks and alpha channels
• Create a temporary quick mask
• Create and edit alpha channel masks
• Save and load selections

Vanishing Point

• About Vanishing Point
• Vanishing Point dialog box overview
• Work in Vanishing Point
• About perspective planes and the grid
• Define and adjust perspective planes in Vanishing Point
• About selections in Vanishing Point
• Fill selections with another area of an image
• Copy selections in Vanishing Point
• Paste an item into Vanishing Point

Advance use of layers

• Masking layers
• Bitmap mask
• Vector mask
• Clipping mask
• About layer and vector masks
• Add layer masks
• Edit a layer mask
• Select and display the layer mask channel
• Disable or enable a layer mask
• Change the layer mask rubylith color or opacity
• Add and edit vector masks
• Unlinking layers and masks
• Apply or delete a layer mask
• Load a layer or layer mask’s boundaries as a selection
• Mask layers with clipping masks
• Combine multiple images into a group portrait

Create panoramic images

• About Photomerge
• Take pictures for use with Photomerge
• Create a Photomerge composition
• Create a photomerge interactively

Smart Objects

• About Smart Objects
• Create Smart Objects and edit content of a Smart Object
• Duplicate a Smart Object
• Convert a Smart Object to a layer
• Replace the contents of a Smart Object
• Export the contents of a Smart Object

Smart Filters

• About Smart Filters
• Reorder, duplicate, or delete Smart Filters
• Hide Smart Filters
• About placing files
• Apply a Smart Filter

Managing paths

• Paths palette overview
• Create a new path in the Paths palette
• Create a new work path
• Manage paths

Editing paths

• Path segments, components, and points
• Select a path
• Adjust path segments
• Adjust path components
• Add or delete anchor points
• Convert between smooth points and corner points

Converting between paths and selection borders

• Convert paths to selection borders
• Convert a selection to a path

Time-saving features

• Content Aware Fill
• Content Aware Scale
• Refine Edges