Learn Adobe Photoshop CS6 from Scratch

Adobe Photoshop is the industry standard software program for bitmap editing in all fields of development and design, from game, web and app development to fashion design and beyond. This course will teach you everything you need to become comfortable and proficient in the use of all the key tools available in Photoshop CS6. Progressing through a string of lesson reinforcing mini projects, you will learn the function of each tool, lesson by lesson, including a practical application that makes the benefit of learning the tool clear and instant.

This Photoshop course includes extensive coverage of:

1. The move tool
2. All of the marquee selection tools
3. All three lasso selection tools
4. Magic wand and quick selection tools
5. Crop tool, perspective crop tool, slice tool and select slice select tool
6. Eye dropper tool, color sampler tool, Ruler tool and note tool
7. Spot healing brush, healing brush, patch tool, content aware move tool and red eye tool
8. Brush, pencil, color replacement and mixer brush tools
9. Clone stamp and pattern stamp tool
10. History brush and art history brush tools
11. Eraser, background eraser and magic eraser tools
12. Gradient and paint bucket tools
13. Blur, sharpen and smudge tools
14. Dodge, burn and sponge tools
15. Pen, freeform pen, add anchor point, delete anchor point and convert point tools
16. The various text tools
17. Path selection and direct selection tools
18. All of the vector tools
19. Hand & Rotate view tools
20. Zoom tool
21. Color swatches
22. Quick mask mode
23. Standard and full screen mode toggles

You will also learn how to work with all of the most important panes, including:

1. Layers
2. Navigator
3. Actions
4. Adjustments
5. Brush
6. Brush presets
7. Channels
8. Character
9. Character Styles
10. Paths
11. Color
12. Swatches
13. Styles

What are the requirements?

• Basic computer skills are helpful
• A copy of Adobe Photoshop, anything from CS3 up will do fine. A free, 30 day trial is available from the Adobe website

What am I going to get from this course?

• Over 52 lectures and 3.5 hours of content!
• Use all of the Photoshop tools and windows
• Enhance photographs using the healing tools
• Remove red eye from photographs
• Adjust hue, saturation, and brightness in an image
• change color modes at will
• Work with layers effectively
• Use masks intelligently in projects

What is the target audience?

• Hobbyists who want learn Photoshop for the first time
• Students looking to master the Photoshop tool once and for all
• Novice Photoshop users who want to round out their knowledge and skills with the software
• Aspiring game developers, graphic designers and web designers who want to master a key industry software tool.

In just a few short hours of exciting and enjoyable instruction, you will have mastered the fundamentals of Adobe Photoshop CS6! Let's get started, sign up now!