Photoshop for the Web
You can use Photoshop for a lot of things, but wot about the Web?
Photoshop for the Web is for graphic designers, web developers and anybody else who needs to create images and designs for websites. Enhance and edit! Design and deploy!
The Photoshop Workspace
- Tools, Options and Panels
- Workspace customisation features
- Tool and Document presets
- Document navigation
Photoshop – Key Concepts
- Introducing layers
- The History panel and undoing
- Understanding image formats
- Bitmaps and vectors
- Colour modes and channels
- File formats
- Save for the Web
Getting stuff done – image editing basics
- Resizing, cropping and rotating
- Adjusting brightness and colour
- Colour channels
- Using the histogram
- The adjustment menus
Using Photoshop Filters
- About filters
- Fading filters
- Using smart filters
- Sharpening and blurring
- Unsharp mask
- Blurs
Painting and retouching
- Introduction to brushes
- Colour replacement tool
- Bucket and Gradient tool
- Clone and healing tools
Making selections
- Understanding and working with selections
- The marquee tools
- Quick selection and magic wand tools
- Quick maskjs
- Feathered selections
- Refine edges
- Working with paths
- What are paths?
- Making smooth cutouts with the pen tool
Using layers
- Working with layers
- Organising layers
- Using layers masks
- Layer styles
- Shape layers
- Using Layer Comps
Type in Photoshop
- Typographic features
- Type layers
- Type masks
- Warping type
- Converting type to paths
Slicing for Web layouts
- About slicing
- Creating slices
- Exporting slices
Creating Animated Gifs
- Using the Animation panel
- Exporting Animations
Automation – using Actions and Batchs
- Creating Actions
- Batch Processing files
- Creating Droplets