What you’ll learn

Using the drawing aids

• About rulers, grids and guides
• Position with the ruler tool
• Position with guides and the grid
• Use snapping
• Show or hide Extras

File formats discussion

Working with selections

• Understanding image pixels
• Selecting images using the marquee, lasso, polygonal lasso tools
• Selecting images with the quick selection tool
• Moving, hiding, or inverting selections
• Adding, subtraction and intersection
• Softening image edges

Transforming images

• Cropping images
• Distorting, skewing, scaling images
• Rotating or flipping images
• Changing the canvas and image size

Working with Colours

• Understanding the CMYK and RGB models
• Setting foreground and background colours
• Choosing colours using colour box, eyedropper.
• Working with the Adobe Colour Picker
• Swatches palette overview
• Select a colour in the Swatches palette
• Add, replace, and delete colour swatches

Retouching and repairing images

• Removing unwanted objects with the healing brush tool
• Removing blemishes or spots using spot healing brush tool
• Heal and patch an area

Colourizing images with Fill command

• Choosing various fill contents – using foreground and background
• Filling with black, white and gray colours
• Using blending effect - hue
• Setting opacity

Adding text and text effects

• How to change the fonts, size and other type attributes
• Type effects

Layer Basics

• About layers
• Layers palette overview
• Convert background and layers
• Create layers, group and duplicate layers
• Show or hide a layer, group, or style
• View layers and groups within a group

Working with layers

• Add layers to a group
• Change the stack order of layers and groups
• Move the content of layers
• Rotate a layer
• Lock layers

Setting opacity

• Specify opacity for a layer or group
• Specify fill opacity for a layer
• Specify a blending mode for a layer or group
• Filling new layers with a neutral color

Managing layers

• Rename a layer or group
• Delete a layer or group
• Export and merge layers

Layer effects and styles

• About layer effects and styles
• Layer styles dialog box overview
• Apply or edit a custom layer style
• Layer style options
• Display or hide layer styles
• Remove layer effects

Correcting mistakes

• Using the Undo and Redo commands
• Restoring part of an image to its previously saved version
• Working with the history palette

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