Learn Adobe Photoshop CS6 from Scratch

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:

The move tool

 All of the marquee selection tools

 All three lasso selection tools

 Magic wand and quick selection tools

 Crop tool, perspective crop tool, slice tool and select slice select tool

 Eye dropper tool, color sampler tool, Ruler tool and note tool

 Spot healing brush, healing brush, patch tool, content aware move tool and red eye tool

 Brush, pencil, color replacement and mixer brush tools

 Clone stamp and pattern stamp tool

 History brush and art history brush tools

 Eraser, background eraser and magic eraser tools

 Gradient and paint bucket tools

 Blur, sharpen and smudge tools

 Dodge, burn and sponge tools

 Pen, freeform pen, add anchor point, delete anchor point and convert point tools

 The various text tools

 Path selection and direct selection tools

 All of the vector tools

 Hand & Rotate view tools

 Zoom tool

 Color swatches

 Quick mask mode

 Standard and full screen mode toggles

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

 Layers

 Navigator

 Actions

 Adjustments

 Brush

 Brush presets

 Channels

 Character

 Character Styles

 Paths

 Color

 Swatches

 Styles

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!

 

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 53 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.

 

Instructor Biography

 

Richard Sneyd

Game Design Lecturer, Founder & CEO of CyberMyth Games

 

Richard Sneyd (1st Class B.A Hons.) is founder and CEO of CyberMyth Games, and administrator of CMG Academy, the no. 1 source of professional quality online training for digital art, development and design courses. In the performance of his duties within the company, he must wear many hats, including that of a programmer, designer, digital 2D & 3D artist, sound designer, scriptwriter, texture artist, leader, marketer and business man.

 

He is also a fully registered, qualified, and highly experienced lecturer. His speciality subjects include 3D Modelling & Animation, Computer Game Programming, 2D Image Processing, Game Design, Desktop Audio, Psychology, Consumer Behavior, Human Resources & Business Management.

 

Richard is enthusiastic about his work, with students and colleagues noting that he is a highly dedicated and accomplished teacher. All of his courses are characterized by a steady, incremental flow of information, and a lucid teaching style which is easy to understand and follow for all.