Photoshop CS6 One-on-One: Fundamentals

- Hello, this is Deke McClelland. Welcome to Photoshop CS6 one-on-one fundamentals. Part one in a series of four video courses devoted to your ultimate mastery of the world's most powerful image editing software. The one-on-one brand is a promise. First, you'll have me, a seasoned professional with more than 25 years of experience in the digital arts and more than 50 courses in the lynda.com online training library.

I'll mentor you through every facet of the software you need to know, in the order you need to know it. No crowded classroom and no scheduling conflicts. It's just you and me, one-on-one, anytime that it's convenient for you to learn. Second, one-on-one is project-based learning. You'll experience the power of image shies and resolution firsthand, in a way that leaves nothing in question. You'll build a layered composition from the ground up.

You'll take a murky photograph and make it blossom with luminescence. As well as correct the color valves of an image. You'll select portions of images and combine them into a fully realized piece of artwork and you'll take a portrait photo and turn it into a work of perfection. The result is contextualized learning. Photoshop's features will make sense because you apply them sometimes independently, other times in concert, to a clearly defined task and you'll leave each chapter with a sense of accomplishment.

I really hope there are moments where you feel I rule, not me, you saying I rule. I can do this and I can do more. We'll start the way every project starts, by opening an image file. I'll begin by answering the most common tech support question we get, how do I open an image in Photoshop just by double clicking on it? First in Windows and then on the Mac. Then I'll show you all the cross platform options, including bridge and mini bridge, which according to Adobe, most folks don't even know they own.

This may not be the most exciting stuff we do, but it's stuff that you have to know and it's how you get to work in Photoshop in the shortest time possible.