Learning Photoshop CC 2015

Explore color management in Photoshop CC 2015 by calibrating your monitor, understanding color spaces, and synchronizing color settings across programs like InDesign and Illustrator to ensure accurate output.

Learn color management in Photoshop, understand how channels control red, green, and blue, switch between rgb and cmyk modes, and prepare images for screen display and printing.

Calibrate your color display using a spider to create a color sync profile that bridges what you see on screen with printers, smartphones, and web sites.

Configure Photoshop's color settings by selecting a general purpose color space, starting with North America general purpose 2, to align on-screen results with printing.

Synchronize color settings across Adobe programs using Bridge to align color spaces, preventing mismatches when moving work between Photoshop, Illustrator, and other apps.

Learn to create and save custom color settings in Photoshop CC 2015, load manufacturer profiles for a four-color press, and share CSF files for consistent output across devices.

Download the latest printer drivers from the manufacturer, then calibrate your monitor and color space so drivers integrate with your profile for what you see is what you get.

Learn how to manage color profiles in Photoshop by using color settings, assigning or changing profiles for images with or without embedded profiles, and understanding color management.

Organize your Photoshop CC 2015 workflow with Bridge by mastering essential preferences, downloading photos from a camera, customizing the workspace, and using image stacks, keywords, filters, favorites, and collections.

Explore Adobe Bridge in Photoshop CC 2015 to organize files across Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Word documents; customize appearance, behavior, and cache to boost efficiency and creativity.

Learn to transfer photos from a camera into Photoshop CC 2015 via Adobe Bridge's photo downloader, choose destinations and subfolders, convert to DNG, add metadata, and manage originals after import.

Explore the bridge interface in Photoshop CC 2015, purge preferences and cache to reset the app, and manage previews, workspaces, metadata, keywords, and collections.

Open images from bridge by double-clicking, or use open with; adjust file type associations in bridge preferences, and hold shift to open raw images in Photoshop with saved settings.

Rearrange the Bridge workspace to suit your workflow by toggling panels, resizing previews, and moving items. Reset to essentials and customize metadata, keywords, and filmstrip to create a streamlined layout.

Create and save your own Photoshop workspaces to customize window locations, panel orders, and layout for your workflow, then switch between saved workspaces to stay efficient and get more done.

Learn to create and manage image stacks in bridge, grouping selections, expanding and collapsing stacks, adjusting playback frame rate, and organizing folders for efficient viewing.

Learn to use Bridge to search across all photo folders with flexible criteria, keywords like Key West, dates, GPS data, and subfolder inclusion to locate files quickly.

Use favorites in Adobe Bridge to quickly access folders and files without moving them, improving cross-screen workflows for Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Microsoft Word.

Organize and locate images quickly by creating keywords and subkeywords, then filter results by Florida, Key West, Mallory Square, orientation, exposure, aperture, and focal length.

Organize your project assets with manual and smart collections, drag files across folders into a single set, and use criteria like keywords to auto-update collections.

Explore Camera Raw in Photoshop CC 2015, covering essential preferences, basic and detail tabs, tonal curves, saturation, grayscale, split toning, lens correction, fog removal, and syncing files and presets.

Learn what camera raw is, how raw data differs from HDR and traditional film, and why shooting RAW preserves more information for post-processing.

Configure camera raw preferences in Bridge and Photoshop to manage non-destructive edits, sidecar files, and DNG handling, then optimize sharpening and cache for consistent raw work.

Load exercise files in Bridge and edit raw images using Photoshop Camera Raw. Explore tools, adjustments, presets, and non-destructive workflows with smart objects and before-after comparisons.

Explore the camera raw tab to adjust white balance with presets or manual eyedropper on a neutral area, and tune exposure, highlights, shadows, and color with clarity, vibrance, and saturation.

Explore how to use the tonal curve in Photoshop to adjust brightness across highlights, lights, darks, and shadows with parametric and point controls, including color channel considerations for color correction.

Adjust the exposure to reveal stars, then use the detail tab to apply noise reduction and compare before and after. Tune luminance, luminance detail, and contrast to preserve sky detail.

Apply HSL adjustments to oranges, yellows, and greens in a fungus image, then convert to grayscale while you control brightness, and add grain and vignette for an aged look.

Explore split toning to target hues in highlights and shadows for color correction and mood. Learn white balance tweaks, grayscale conversion, and balance adjustments for browns and blues.

Learn to correct lens distortions, vignetting, and chromatic aberration using lens profiles and manual adjustments in Photoshop, including convergence correction, rotation, and precise cropping.

Learn to use the dehaze effect in Photoshop via the Kameraden filter, adjusting vibrance and clarity to manipulate fog and haze for mood and drama.

Explore how to synchronize edits across multiple images in Photoshop's camera raw using a filmstrip workflow, adjusting white balance and exposure, applying synced settings and presets to all open photos.

Learn to create and save documents in Photoshop CC 2015, use presets to save time, and explore art boards for multiple sizes within one file, plus device preview.

Learn how to create a new Photoshop document by choosing size, resolution, color mode, and background, and understand suitable settings for print or web.

Save time in Photoshop by creating and using a new document preset. Set up a holiday card preset with 14.5 by 7 inches, 300 dpi, 16-bit, square pixels, color profile.

Learn to use artboards in Photoshop CC 2015 by creating multiple artboards, resizing for iPhone 6 Plus, and placing and transforming images and text on separate layers to compare designs.

Preview your Photoshop design live on an iPhone or iPad using device preview in the essentials workspace by connecting the device, installing the free app, and tapping the device preview.

Learn how to save and manage Photoshop documents, process raw images with white balance and lens correction, and choose proper formats (PSD, JPEG) with save-as versions to safeguard edits.

Explore the Photoshop CC 2015 interface, configure preferences, organize documents, adjust image size, switch screen modes, tailor the workspace, save settings, and use the new Photoshop library.

Navigate the Photoshop interface, focusing on the options bar, tools, panels, and essentials workspace. Understand tool settings, zoom, layers, and saving behavior to speed your workflow.

Optimize Photoshop performance by configuring general preferences—exporting the clipboard, image interpellation, RAM memory allocation, graphics processor, history states, cache levels, and scratch disks—through hands-on testing to boost speed and stability.

Learn to manage multiple open images in Photoshop CC 2015 by arranging windows, tiling layouts, consolidating tabs, and floating windows for efficient cross-image editing.

Learn to control image size in Photoshop CC 2015 using zoom, scrubby zoom, 100% and 200% views, window fit, and matching zoom, location, and rotation across images.

Master changing the screen mode in Photoshop CC 2015 by cycling from standard to full screen with or without menus, reducing distractions and focusing on color and tools.

Learn to optimize Photoshop CC 2015 workflows by customizing the essentials workspace: rearrange, group and link panels, float or collapse them, and reset to minimize distractions.

Rearrange panels to create a custom Photoshop workspace, then save it as a preset like 'Andy's happy space'. Manage multiple workspaces and delete other workspaces to boost efficiency.

Explore how the Photoshop library lets you save images, colors, layer styles, and more to cloud libraries for access anywhere, with iOS, iCloud, and Adobe Stock integration.

Explore layers essentials, from the background and layers panel options to selection tricks, stacking and grouping for organization, and the difference between merging and flattening layers.

Learn the layers in Photoshop CC 2015 by using the layers panel to create, move, copy, and delete layers and manage types like text and adjustments for nondestructive editing.

Learn how the background in Photoshop CC 2015 sits at the bottom and cannot be moved or made transparent. Convert it to a layer to enable transparency and replace sky.

Master efficient layer selection in Photoshop by naming layers, using nontransparent pixels for quick selection, and combining multiple layers with shift or command/ctrl-click.

Master stacking and grouping in Photoshop CC 2015 by using the layers panel to control stacking order, create groups, and apply effects to multiple items with one click.

Learn to use the layers panel options in Photoshop to search by name or kind, filter layers, group items, work with smart objects, blending modes, locking mechanisms, and quick export.

Learn the practical differences between merging and flattening layers in Photoshop CC 2015, including how merging preserves transparency and smart objects, while flattening locks layers into a background.

Master keystone skills in selection by practicing marquee, lasso, and wand tools. Explore layer masks, refined edge, quick selection, and focus areas to kick off this chapter.

Learn how to master selection in Photoshop by using keyboard shortcuts to quickly select layers, isolate subjects with show/hide, and click thumbnails to select all nontransparent pixels.

Master the marquee tools in Photoshop CC 2015 to create rectangular and elliptical selections, combine, subtract, or intersect them, and use Shift, Alt/Option for constraints, with feathering and anti-aliasing options.

Master the lasso family in Photoshop CC 2015 by learning freehand, polygon, and magnetic tools, plus shortcuts, feathering, anti-aliasing, and edge-based selection techniques.

Explore the magic wand and quick selection tools in Photoshop CC 2015, adjusting sample size, tolerance, and contiguity for precise selections; refine with the lasso and delete or fill options.

Master refining edges and layer masks to extract a subject from its background, using selection tools, refine mask, smart radius, and decontaminate colors for clean composites.

Master Quick Mask to paint selections in Photoshop, toggle with Q, adjust brush size, and refine with black and white masks, the Alt key, and the lasso tool.

Explore the focus area tool in Photoshop CC 2015 to isolate and blur skies with clouds, refine masks with a brush, and adjust in-focus range and noise.

Explore the history panel, its options, and how snapshots capture moments in your editing workflow, then learn to use the history brush and art history brush to get creative.

Explore the history panel in Photoshop CC, learn how linear and nonlinear history work, manage history states, and use snapshots to preserve or revert image edits efficiently.

Explore how snapshots and history states in Photoshop CC 2015 let you preserve edits and revert to key moments. Learn to name snapshots and create new states with alt/option.

Master the history brush in Photoshop CC 2015, painting back to the original snapshot and using layers, presets, and blending modes to restore pixels.

Practice creative image editing in Photoshop CC 2015 using the history brush with snapshots. Explore color temperature, black and white, vibrance, and filter gallery effects on adjustment layers.

Use the art history brush in Photoshop cc 2015 to paint painterly edits with a small brush, zero tolerance, and chosen stroke style, creating subtle pixel changes for landscapes.

Master color fundamentals in Photoshop, including bit depth and color spaces. Use the color picker, eyedropper, and swatches panel, learn to select colors from image, and explore the library connection.

Explore how color and bit depth shape digital images in Photoshop, from 8-bit RGB to 16-bit control and 32-bit HDR, and how channels and higher bit depths improve color adjustments.

Master how bit depth and color spaces influence image color in Photoshop, covering RGB, CMYK, Lab, grayscale, bitmap, and diffusion dither, with practical mode conversion guidance.

Explore the color picker to adjust foreground and background, manage web safe colors and out-of-gamut warnings, and use swatches, color libraries, and inputs in HSB, RGB, CMYK, and Pantone.

Learn to select colors from images in Photoshop CC 2015 using eyedropper and color picker, choose a 3x3 average sample, and save swatches and libraries for consistent palettes.

Explore the color panel in the essentials workspace, adjusting foreground and background colors with rgb, cmyk, hue, saturation, brightness, and the eyedropper, then copy hex codes and use swatches.

Learn to use eyedropper tool to sample colors, swap foreground and background with alt/option, and adjust sampling options like point sample and three by three average and show sampling rate.

Explore the swatches panel in Photoshop CC 2015 to manage color swatches, sample with the eyedropper, save custom swatches, reset or delete colors, and exchange swatches with Illustrator.

Create a colors library in Photoshop, sample swatches with the eyedropper, and add them to the cloud for use across Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.