Photographers and graphic designers of varying levels of expertise-including professionals, hobbyists, enthusiasts, and students-use Photoshop to edit and refine their work. In this course, Deke McClelland takes you on a personalized tour of the basic tools and techniques you can use to make great images and graphics. Deke shows how to open images from multiple sources, change print resolution, crop and straighten images, and customize preferences. He guides you through how to edit images by adjusting brightness and contrast, correcting the colorcast of a photo, and retouching portraits. He demonstrates how to work with layers, leverage the Quick Mask mode, and handle Camera Raw images. He also covers formatting text, printing, preparing web graphics, and more.

Topics include:

Navigating through Photoshop menus
Customizing preferences
Changing image size and resolution
Cropping and straightening images
Working with layers
Saving your progress
Adjusting brightness and contrast
Balancing colors
Making selections
Using the Quick Mask mode
Retouching photos
Using Camera Raw
Formatting text
Printing images
Creating web graphics