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VDCI

Photoshop Advanced

via VDCI

Overview

Advance your Photoshop skills by mastering precise selections, natural skin retouching, refined color adjustments, channel-based techniques, Pen tool and vector workflows, and realistic photo compositing.

Syllabus

Skin Retouching in Photoshop

  • Apply advanced skin retouching techniques for advertising and fashion-related industries
  • Skin retouching workflow
  • Reducing and removing imperfections
  • Working with Camera Raw and smart objects for skin retouching
  • Frequency separation for skin retouching
  • Alternatives, tools, and actions

Hair Selection & Removing Backgrounds

  • Hair selection using tools and “Select and Mask”
  • Techniques for improving layer masks
  • Hair selection using channels
  • Painting hair using brushes

Using Channels to Make Selections

  • Working with Channels
  • Saving Selections
  • Altering Channels to improve the selection

Combining Photos (Photo Montage)

  • Combining images and matching light sources
  • Creating and improving shadows
  • Working with reflections
  • Working with perspective and vanishing point

Vector Masks & Clipping Paths

  • Working with the Pen tool
  • Using Vector masks
  • Creating Clipping Paths
  • Creating paths for selections
  • Save files with paths

Advanced Color Correction Techniques & Blending Modes

  • Color correction workflow
  • Matching tones in composited images
  • Matching skin tones
  • Using Blending Modes with Adjustment Layers

Photoshop Generative AI Features (Adobe Firefly inside Photoshop)

  • Generative Expand (when using the Cropping tool)
  • Generative Fill

Taught by

Dan Rodney, Eugenio Solis de Ovando, and David Sellers

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