Ready to advance your Photoshop skills? This course is ideal for users who already understand the basics and want to push their abilities further. You’ll learn to create more precise selections, even challenging ones like hair, to isolate subjects and replace backgrounds. Explore advanced color correction techniques that offer more speed, accuracy, and control, and discover how to seamlessly blend multiple photos with consistent lighting and perspective. You’ll also unlock Photoshop’s generative AI tools to boost creativity.
What You Will Learn
- Advanced color correction and masking techniques
- Combine multiple photos to create convincing composites
- Learn to make complex selections (such as hair) using “Select and Mask,” channels, and more
- See useful applications of Blending Modes
- Retouch skin
- Learn the Pen tool for use in vector masks and clipping paths
- Explore Photoshop’s Generative AI features
Course Outline
Skin Retouching in Photoshop
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Apply advanced skin retouching techniques for advertising and fashion-related industries
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Skin retouching workflow
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Reducing and removing imperfections
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Working with Camera Raw and smart objects for skin retouching
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Frequency separation for skin retouching
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Alternatives, tools, and actions
Hair Selection & Removing Backgrounds
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Hair selection using tools and “Select and Mask”
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Techniques for improving layer masks
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Hair selection using channels
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Painting hair using brushes
Using Channels to Make Selections
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Working with Channels
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Saving Selections
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Altering Channels to improve the selection
Combining Photos (Photo Montage)
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Combining images and matching light sources
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Creating and improving shadows
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Working with reflections
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Working with perspective and vanishing point
Vector Masks & Clipping Paths
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Working with the Pen tool
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Using Vector masks
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Creating Clipping Paths
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Creating paths for selections
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Save files with paths
Advanced Color Correction Techniques & Blending Modes
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Color correction workflow
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Matching tones in composited images
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Matching skin tones
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Using Blending Modes with Adjustment Layers
Photoshop Generative AI Features (Adobe Firefly inside Photoshop)
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Generative Expand (when using the Cropping tool)
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Generative Fill
This course is available for 30 days. You can choose when to start your access period. Once you activate, you will have 30 days to complete it (access the course materials, quizzes, projects and videos). You may request one extension of seven (7) days. Other extension requests will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Videos are not downloadable.