Ready to take your Photoshop skills further? This course is designed for users who already have a solid foundation and want to refine and expand their capabilities. You’ll learn to make highly precise selections, including difficult areas like hair, to isolate subjects and swap backgrounds. Dive into advanced color correction methods for greater speed, accuracy, and control, and learn how to composite multiple images with matching lighting and perspective. You’ll also explore Photoshop’s generative AI tools to enhance creative workflows.
What You Will Learn
- Master advanced color correction and masking techniques
- Combine multiple images to produce realistic composites
- Create complex selections (including hair) using Select and Mask, channels, and other tools
- Apply blending modes effectively in real-world scenarios
- Perform professional-quality skin retouching
- Use the Pen tool for vector masks and precise clipping paths
- Explore Photoshop’s Generative AI capabilities
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.
