About This Course

The Photoshop Elements Editor provides a wide variety of adjustments that enable you to truly optimize the appearance of a photo. That includes tools for improving tone and color, solutions for cleaning up blemishes and distractions, and a variety of creative adjustment options.

In this course Tim guides you through a workflow for applying adjustments to your photos using Adobe Photoshop Elements.

As you are learning how to make the most of the various tools and adjustments within the Photoshop Elements Editor, you'll also be gaining a better understanding of how the Editor works and about the concepts related to photo optimization.

In this course you'll learn:

  • Why you should use adjustment layers whenever possible.
  • How to use the Undo and Reset commands, and leverage History.
  • The value of a Levels adjustment for fine-tuning overall tonality.
  • A technique for correcting individual colors within an image.
  • Options for removing dust spots, noise, lens distortion, and other distractions from an image.
  • Various techniques for creating black-and-white interpretations of a photo.
  • And Much More!

Total Duration: 1 Hour 57 Minutes

NOTE: This course is included in the "Mastering Photoshop Elements" bundle of courses, which you can find here:

https://www.greylearning.com/bundles/photoshop-elements

Course Curriculum

    1. Lesson 1: Opening Photos (4:58)

    2. Lesson 2: What About Camera Raw? (2:10)

    3. Lesson 3: Adjustments versus Layers (5:00)

    4. Lesson 4: Auto Adjustments (2:29)

    5. Lesson 5: A Quick Look at Quick Adjustments (3:30)

    6. Lesson 6: Undo and Reset (3:35)

    7. Lesson 7: Working with History (4:55)

    1. Lesson 1: Understanding Brightness/Contrast (2:28)

    2. Lesson 2: Optimizing Tone with Levels (6:02)

    3. Lesson 3: Refining Shadows and Highlights (3:53)

    4. Lesson 4: Balancing Color with Levels (3:02)

    5. Lesson 5: Boosting Color with Hue/Saturation (2:08)

    6. Lesson 6: Fine-Tuning Color with Photo Filter (3:26)

    7. Lesson 7: Selective Color with Hue/Saturation (5:46)

    1. Lesson 1: 90-Degree Rotation (1:44)

    2. Lesson 2: Cropping and Rotating (5:34)

    3. Lesson 3: Correcting Distortion (9:30)

    4. Lesson 4: Haze Reduction (3:13)

    5. Lesson 5: Red Eye Removal (2:55)

    6. Lesson 6: Noise Reduction (5:34)

    7. Lesson 7: Simple Cleanup with Spot Healing (4:34)

    8. Lesson 8: Cleanup with the Healing Brush (4:28)

    9. Lesson 9: Using the Clone Stamp for Cleanup (6:57)

    10. Lesson 10: Color Cast Removal (3:28)

    1. Lesson 1: Converting to Black and White (4:08)

    2. Lesson 2: Tinting an Image with Colorize (2:41)

    3. Lesson 3: Advanced Black and White (3:36)

    4. Lesson 4: Gradient Map for Color Effects (5:09)

    1. Video Download 1 (784 MB ZIP File)

    2. Video Download 2 (974 MB ZIP File)

    3. Video Download 3 (703 MB ZIP File)

    4. Video Download 4 (636 MB ZIP File)

    5. Video Download 5 (482 MB ZIP File)

About this course

  • $19.00
  • 33 lessons
  • 2 hours of video content

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