Adobe Photoshop CC - Intermediate

Learn to use Photoshop brushes for painting, retouching, masking, and erasing while exploring presets, layers, color sampling, and brush dynamics for natural, editable artwork.

Explore the options bar to adjust brush settings, including blend mode, flow, opacity, smoothing, and brush tips. See how these controls shape painting on layers.

Learn to create and save custom brushes in Photoshop, adjust brush settings including shape dynamics, and apply legacy patterns to paint cloud textures with color burn and transfer controls.

Save your custom cloud brush as a preset in brush settings panel by clicking the hamburger icon, name it clouds at 500 px, and reuse it across Photoshop CC projects.

Learn to use the cemetery tool for Mandela patterns and multiple symmetry modes—vertical, horizontal, diagonal, spiral, and dual axis—along with plane, color, and transform controls.

Learn to use the history brush and history panel to paint back in time, revert to a prior state, and selectively remove or adjust content in Photoshop.

Explore how to create and use custom vector shapes in Photoshop, from preset shapes to importing Illustrator vectors, and applying masks or text wrapping.

Master the pen tool in Photoshop, using curvature and free-form modes to trace paths, manage anchor points and handles, and refine vectors with the direct selection and convert point tools.

Learn to draw and edit paths with the free form and curvature pen tools in Photoshop, place anchor points, convert to masks, and use magnetic options for precise edge tracking.

Learn how to create and name Photoshop paths for clipping and masking, send them to others in InDesign or other apps, and use paths for fills, strokes, or masks.

Learn to use vector masks for precise edge control by drawing vector shapes and turning them into masks, avoiding pixelation and achieving perfect cuts with legacy shapes.

Explore using spot colors for exact Pantone matches, add spot and gray channels for vector shapes, and preview separations in InDesign to manage printing plates.

Explore how Adobe libraries manage images, text, and color themes across devices and apps like Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator, and share assets via cloud links for collaboration.

Learn to create and manage libraries in Adobe programs, drag assets into graphics, colors, or brushes, synchronize with Creative Cloud, and delete items across desktop and browser.

Explore how to share assets across applications using Creative Cloud libraries, dragging items from Photoshop to InDesign and back, and syncing libraries across mobile and desktop devices.

Organize Photoshop library assets by using the libraries panel to view by type or group, create color project groups, and move or copy items between libraries with right-click options.

Learn how to share a Photoshop library with colleagues via email invitations or shareable links, set edit or read-only permissions, and manage access from the library panel.

Explore Gaussian blur and other filter effects in Photoshop CC - Intermediate to create back screens for readable text and glow halos that make images pop.

Learn to turn a flat image into a three-dimensional look using the distort and displace filters in photoshop, overlay a gray curtain texture, and refine with hard light blending.

Increase the photo's color pop with a hue/saturation adjustment in the adjustments panel, then apply the pixelate filter with crystallize, mosaic, and stroke options to create an illustration-like, hand-drawn look.

Explore the filter gallery to apply and stack multiple filters on one image, tweaking fresco, stained glass, and charcoal with sliders for square size and border.

Master the Liquify filter in Photoshop CC to adjust facial features with face aware tools, including eyes, nose, mouth, and smile, for precise portrait edits.

Convert your layers into a smart object to apply filters non-destructively, preserve the original pixels, and edit inside the PSB document while applying effects to the whole group.

Discover how smart filters work with smart objects to apply non-destructive edits in Photoshop, enabling on/off control and easy reversal of effects.

Learn to apply a clipping mask in Photoshop, using text as a cookie cutter to reveal an image inside bold letters, with layer adjustments and a drop shadow.

Learn how to work with raw images for non-destructive editing and complete color control. Use Photoshop, Lightroom, and camera settings to capture raw files under difficult lighting.

Learn to load raw images into Photoshop via Camera Raw, adjust exposure, white balance, highlights, and shadows with intuitive sliders, and apply edits non-destructively by opening as a smart object.

Open a JPEG file in camera raw from the filter to access tools and adjust exposure and white balance, with some workflow options unavailable, and changes apply to Photoshop.

Learn a practical eight-step strategy for digital photo retouching in Photoshop, from duplicating layers and scanning at proper resolution to cropping, repairing flaws, color correction, and sharpening.

Master retouching in Photoshop by applying crop and rule of thirds, then remove scratches and spots with spot healing brush, healing brush, clone stamp, and patch tools for clean results.

Apply the dust and scratches filter to remove spots, then use the history brush tool and history panel to revert to the original and paint back only needed areas.

Learn to color correct with auto color and auto contrast, then sharpen with unchurched mask and smart sharpen to restore detail and manage noise.

Learn to blend healing brush, spot healing, clone stamp, and patch tool techniques with sharpening on sharp mask and crop for turning scanned documents into finished, professional photos.

Discover how to create and use Photoshop actions to automate frequently performed steps, apply presets like sepia, manage the actions panel, and run actions with a shortcut key.

Learn to record a rainbow gradient overlay as a Photoshop action: create a fun items action set, apply legacy gradients, capture gradient steps, and apply the action to images.

Create a self-contained droplet in Photoshop to run a rainbow action with a save step; drag images onto the droplet to save processed files in a folder.

Learn to use Photoshop's image processor to batch convert a folder of images to JPEG, TIFF, or D files, with adjustable quality and output to a new location.

explains high dynamic range photography by capturing multiple exposures and merging them in photoshop's hdr pro to reveal interior and exterior details, with alignment, targeting, and adjustable sliders.

Explore how to use Photoshop documents in InDesign by placing layered PSD files, managing layer visibility, and updating edits across apps for seamless interoperability within the Creative Cloud.

Link and place PSD files in Illustrator, enable updates of linked objects to reflect Photoshop changes, edit originals, and use PSDs directly as native files across Illustrator, InDesign, and Dreamweaver.

Explore color management by understanding color gamuts and lab color, then set rgb and cmyk working spaces and rendering intents in Photoshop to align screen and print.

Explore proof colors versus image mode to see how RGB values are perceived, then synchronize color settings across Bridge and Creative Cloud for consistent, non-destructive workflows.