Adobe Photoshop CC 2021
Introduction

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• Restoring default settings
• The work area and toolbox, creating a custom workspace
• Selecting tools
• Using the palettes: showing, hiding, nesting and docking
• RGB vs CMYK colour modes
• Creating new images
• Viewing images: scrolling, zoom - in and out, magnifying, using quick keys
• Using the navigator palette to zoom in & out, and to move an image around in the window
• Working with the painting and editing tools: brush tool, spot healing brush tool, patch tool, red-eye tool, clone stamp tool, gradient tool, blur tool, sharpen tool, smudge tool, sponge tool, dodge and burn tools
• Selecting foreground and background colours with the color picker
• Using the eyedropper tool
• Using undo/redo and revert commands
• Using the history palette
• The Grow and Similar commands
• Working with the selection tools: rectangular marquee tool, elliptical marquee tool, lasso tool, polygon lasso tool, magnetic lasso tool, magic wand tool, quick selection tool
• Using feathering to create a feathered edge and create borders using the border command
• Alpha channels: saving, loading and deleting channels
• Layers: adding layers, changing the order, duplicating layers, selecting layers, linking & unlinking layers, grouping & ungrouping layers
• Use the transformation commands to scale, rotate, skew, distort and apply perspective to objects on layers
• Using the fill command to fill or delete a layer
• Using hue/saturation, and colourizing a grayscale image
• Working with type effects to highlight and apply type attributes
• Warping and unwarping type
• Working with Adobe Typekit
• Colour: basic colour theory, using colour balance
• Adjusting colour with levels