Begin to explore the layout of Adobe Photoshop. Gain complete confidence in navigating the application, regardless of what version you are using. Understand the basics of opening a new document, identifying features like the palettes, tools, and setting up a custom layout for your retouching workflow. Focus on decluttering the interface, to begin with the absolute essentials as you build a foundation for understanding Photoshop.
Examine Adobe Photoshop's preferences as it pertains to photographers. Optimize your workflow by understanding how to manage image interpolation, bicubic smoothing, default startup actions, default appearance and tools. Explore file handling, save recovery information settings, and learn best pra...
Learn to create new documents in Photoshop, adjusting canvas sizes, pixels parameters, color space, bit depth and manipulating background contents. Explore zooming within a document. When working with multiple documents leverage Photoshop's tabbed application framing, stacking and tiled arrangeme...
Transition your focus to one of Photoshop's most flexible and dynamic tool sets - brushes. Learn the power and flexibility of brushes as retoucher, Patrik Naik, works with a RAW image from photographer, Dixie Dixon. Examine brush size, softness, edges, flow and opacity. Practice creating brush st...
