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 practices for maximizing Photoshop's performance for your computer system.
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...
With a solid foundation for Photoshop brushes, learn about the ideal hardware accessories for a retouching workflow. Learn about Wacom pens, tablets and additional brush settings to optimize your process. Examine shape dynamics, pen pressure, and leveraging the power of software drivers to unify ...