Diploma in Photoshop

Module 1: Advanced navigational features

Speeding up your navigation process

Dynamic zooming and panning

Creating your own keyboard shortcuts

Customizing your menu items

Maximizing rulers, guides, and grids

Customizing your panels and workspaces

Module 2: Using Adobe Bridge

Maximizing Adobe Bridge workspaces

Creating and locating metadata

Creating a Metadata Template

Searching and filtering your content

Using Adobe Bridge for automation

Batch renaming your files

Module 3: Advanced selection techniques

Building selection and transforming your selection

Saving your selection as channels

Refining your selection

Going beyond the Magic Wand

Quick Mask

Module 4: The Pen tool: Beyond the primer

Precision creation of Pen paths

Loading your path as a selection

Creating a vector mask

Defining a custom brush preset

Saving the image for other applications

Module 5: Color correcting like a Pro

Understanding color

Using the Histogram panel

Choosing your color settings

Understanding Gamuts

Defining highlight, shadow, and midtones

Balancing the neutrals in an image

Adding additional curve corrections

Sharpening the image

Painting your filter on your image

Adjusting the Blending of the filter

Module 6: Painting and retouching

Painting and retouching tools

Using adjustment layers

Adding a vector mask

Organizing your Layers panel

Module 7: Creating compositions

Applying Smart Filters

The Adaptive Wide Angle filter

Cloning buildings and other image areas

Using a color look-up table

Module 8: Creating special effects

Adding Layer Style effects

Adding interesting lighting effects

Adding text effects

Module 9: Advanced use of vector tools

Taking advantage of vector objects

Adding pixel and vector masks

Converting your text to a path

Adding a stroke to the text

Adding a drop shadow

Using a custom shape

Pasting vector objects from Illustrator

Saving your file for use outside of Photoshop

Module 10: Creating images for the Web

and application design

Optimizing graphics for on-screen presentation

Adjusting the image size

Applying the Unsharp Mask filter to an image

Choosing the best file format for your image

Previewing your image

Creating a transparency effect in a JPEG image

Saving your settings

Using the color table

Creating animations

Saving slices out of Photoshop

Module 11: Automation tools

Creating your own action

Adding an Image Size and a Save action

Creating a Droplet

Creating your own keyboard shortcuts

Using actions in Button mode

Module 12: Using Photoshop for 3D

Creating 3D objects

Viewing and transforming 3D objects

Using Photoshop 3D in production workflows

Working with custom meshes

Downloading external 3D content