Lesson Info
4. How To Open Files
Lessons
Class Introduction
00:52 2Introducing Photoshop
02:37 3The Class Materials
01:36 4How To Open Files
01:42 5Using The Home Screen
02:35 6Exploring The Interface
03:30 7Getting Additional Help
01:36 8Understanding Workspaces
05:11Tools and The Options Bar
03:50 10Why You Should Use a Tablet
04:31 11Finding Hidden Tools
04:23 12How to See What You’re Working On
08:12 13Selecting Things
08:01 14More Selection Tools
12:25 15Testing the Magic Wand and Quick Selection Tools
07:25 16The History Palette – Undoing Things
05:24 17Resolution and Bit Depth
07:03 18Photoshop Preferences
01:31 19Menu and Item Shortcut Keys
02:39 20Non-Destructive Editing
02:57 21Working with Layers
12:19 22Groovy 3 Exercise
11:43 23Layer Effects and Styles
05:38 24Layer Masks – Karen on Beans
08:33 25Using Adjustment Layers
05:38 26Martian Karen
03:37 27Advanced Compositing Using Layers
08:43 28Non-Destructive Editing Techniques
05:22 29Understanding Smart Objects
07:28 30Smart Sharpen
06:42 31Understanding Histogram
06:24 32Adjusting Curves
03:48 33The Healing Brush Tools
10:26 34The Clone Stamp Tool
07:47 35The Burn and Dodge Tools
05:55 36Understanding RAW Files
01:44 37Adobe Camera Raw
04:18 38XMP Sidecar Files
02:14 39Camera Raw: Edit
12:24 40Camera Raw: Crop & Rotate
03:13 41Camera Raw: Spot Removal
04:56 42Camera Raw: Adjustment Brush
08:17 43Camera Raw: Graduated Filter
05:40 44Camera Raw: Radial Filter
05:11 45Camera Raw: Red-Eye Removal
02:04 46Camera Raw: Snapshots and Presets
09:39 47Neural Filters
10:09 48Portrait Retouching Session
36:53 49Scenic Retouching Session
11:25Lesson Info
How To Open Files
one of the most fundamental things about Photoshop that we need to understand is that for every task there are many ways to accomplish that task. So let me demonstrate that by showing you how to open a file, there are at least six different ways to open files in Photoshop and probably more. But let's just show you a few ways so we can go over here to Photoshop and double click on the empty workspace here and then we can go down and choose wanna dot jpeg and open that file and there it is. So that's one way I can hit command or control o and then we open wanna dot jpeg, I can open it that way or I can go over here to file and then open and get to my wanna dot jpeg file and open it. I could also use a bridge. So this is adobe bridge. So I can go in here and double click on this. Let's just double click on a different file. Open that. So we can open it that way. We can also go over here to the home screen and you can see that I have Lightroom photos so I can open photos there. I can open ...
photos. Some cloud documents. There are many, many different ways to open files in Photoshop Now, I don't really want to show you how to open files. What I want you to understand from this segment is that for every single thing there are many different ways to accomplish that thing that is by design. That's because we work in different ways as photographers and Rita Cher's or as teams. And so all you need to do is as I'm going through and showing you different ways to accomplish the same thing is to choose the one, choose the one that works best for you and your workflow and stick with that and you don't have to worry about the rest.
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Ratings and Reviews
Katie
Mark did a great job at explaining things and going over them multiple times throughout the lessons. My only issue was that sometimes it went a little faster than I could keep up and I needed to rewind it a bit and start again. But from someone who has never worked in photoshop before I 100% recommend this class to anyone trying to learn.
Terri Schwartz
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