Photoshop CS3 One-on-One Advanced Techniques

Course DescriptionIn Photoshop CS3 One-on-One: Advanced Techniques bestselling author and video trainer Deke McClelland teaches the most powerful, least conventional, and most flexible features of Photoshop CS3. This training course teaches Layer Styles, scalable vector graphics, Adjustment layers, Smart Objects, Smart Filters, Camera Raw, Auto-Align, Photomerge, and Actions. Exercise files accompany the tutorial. Note:_ Photoshop CS3 One-on-One: The Essentials_ and_ Photoshop CS3 One-on- One: Beyond the Basics_ are recommended prerequisites to _Photoshop CS3 One- on-One: Advanced Techniques Download Deke's customized keyboard layouts for Photoshop. 

19-Layer Effects and Styles

01-Welcome to Photoshop CS3 One-on-One Advanced Techniques

02- Introducing layer styles

03-Color the hands crop the sky

04-The Layer Express

05-Crafting a drop shadow

06-Adding a directional glow

07-Colorizing a layer

08- Replicating layer effects

09-Editing effect one layer at a time

10-Layer styles as artistic media

11-Painting with layer styles

12-Reconstructing the illustration

13-Master opacity and clip bliening

14-Saving a layer style

15-Fixing broken styles with Global Light

20-Vector-Based Shapes

01-Pixels common, vectors strange (but cool)

02- Font substitution and conversion

03- The benefits of vectors

04-Upsampling pixels vs scaling vectors

05-Vitruvian Man king of the vectors

06-Drawing a shape layer

07-Filing and stroking a shape

08-Drawing an inset shape

09-The compound shape options

10-Polygons and starfish

11-Deleting path outlines

12-Drawing an arrow line

13-Combining vector and layer masks

14-Drawing custom shapes

15-Crafting an underpants tool

16-Rasterizing and painting the shapes fill

21- Using Adjustment Layers

01-A layer of color adjustment

02-Creating an adjustment layer

03-To mask or not to mask

04-The new Black & White command

05-Tinting a monochrome photo

06-Making a true duotone with Gradient Map

07-Adjustment layers as creative tools

08-Inverting and brightening the background

09-Blurring live editable type

10-Hue saturation and darkness

11-Filling type with a color adjustment

12-Using one adjustment to modify another

13-Breathing color into the title

14-The Hue Saturation humanoid

22-Smart Objects

01-Less smart more magic

02-The holiday compositions

03-Placing a Smart Object

04-Non-destructive transformation

05-Converting a layer to a Smart Object
06-Non-destructive warping

07-Changing all the snowflakes to stars

08-Revising the star

09-Placing a vector illustration

10-Replacing pixels with vectors

11-Rasterizing a vector Smart Object

12-Swapping one Smart Object for another

13-The multilayer Smart Object bug

23- Non-Destructive Smart Filters

01- A terrific use for Smart Objects

02-Applying a smart filter

03-Changing filter and blending settings

04-Heaping on multiple smart filters

05-Editing early filters in the stack

06-Masking smart filters

07-A use for nested Smart Objects

08-The Shadows Highlights filter

09-Making pixel-level edits

10-Creating a parametric wonderland

11-Working with the Filter Gallery

12-Experimenting with creative filters

13-Swapping Filter Gallery filters

14-Mixing all varieties of parametric effects

15-Applying a smart filter to live type

16-Smart filters vs layer effects

17-Choking the letters with Maximum

18-Duplicating a smart filter

19-Enhancing a filter with a layer effect

24-Working with Camera Raw

01-Whats new in Camera Raw 4

02-Opening Camera Raw 4

03-The Camera Raw 4 interface

04-Adjusting the white balance

05-Saving your changes

06-Using the exposure controls

07-Automatic exposure adjustments

08-The new and improved clipping warnings

09-Vibrance and Saturation

10-The new Tone Curve adjustment sliders

11-The absolutely amazing HSL controls

12-Mapping colors to black and white

13-Colorizing with the Split Toning options

14-The nondestructive Retouch tool

15-Opening JPEGs and TIFFs in Camera Raw

16-Camera Raw Smart Objects

25-Auto-Align, Auto-Blend, and Photomerge

01-Another rotten feature much improved

02-The Auto-Align Layers command

03-Setting weighted Opacity values

04-Masking the couples together

05-Cropping the composition

06-The Load Files into Stack script

07-Auto-aligning a panorama

08-The Auto-Blend Layers command

09-What to do when Auto-Align fails

10-The new Photomerge command

11-Fixing Photomerge problems

26-Recording and Playing Actions

01-Take action today save effort tomorrow

02-Creating an action

03-Recording operations

04-Reviewing and editing an action

05-Playing an action

06-Saving and loading actions

07-Recording the best chrome effect ever

08-Adding and deleting steps

09-Recording layer changes

10-Completing and testing the action

27-Printing and Packaging

01-Print one image print it well

02-The subjective color-matching image

03-Gauging the print size

04-Scale position and page orientation

05-The Output options

06-Printing a contact sheet

07-Packaging multiple pictures on a page

28-Conclusion

01-See ya