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Your first document
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Getting to know the application
- Starting from the desktop
- The welcome experience
- Dark versus light interface
- The workspace
- Understanding panels
- Working with the panel dock
- Panel techniques
- Working with panels and panel groups
- Understanding the tools panel
- Working with the tools panel
- Resetting the tools panel
- Opening an existing file
- Understanding the options bar
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Digital image basics
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Making selections
- Understanding the lasso tools
- Using the marquee tools
- Using the polygonal lasso tool
- Using the lasso tool
- Using the quick selection tool
- Using the magnetic lasso tool
- Using the magic wand tool
- Add to or subtract from a selection
- Growing a selection
- Saving a selection
- Refining hard-edged selections
- Understanding the refine edge dialog box
- Redefining soft-edge selections
- Moving and copying selections
- Selecting with colour range
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Working with layers
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Resizing images
- Understanding resizing and resampling
- Resizing an image for printing
- Resampling an image for email or web
- Using the print dialog box to resize images
- Understanding the crop tool options bar
- Guidelines for cropping images
- Cropping images
- Cropping images to a pre-set size
- Using the crop tool to add a border
- Applying a non-destructive crop
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Colour
- Understanding colour
- Colour fundamentals
- Understanding the colour panel
- Applying colour with the colour panel
- Selecting colours using the swatches panel
- Selecting colours using the hue cube
- Selecting colours using the eyedropper
- Identifying a colour using the eyedropper
- Using the brush tool to apply colour
- Changing brush styles
- Using the mixer brush
- Creating a custom brush
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Working with text
- Understanding vector-based text
- Adding point text
- Changing text size
- Changing the font family
- Changing text colour
- Installing typekit fonts
- Editing text
- Creating a custom path frame
- Adding text inside a custom path frame
- Filling text with an image
- Creating and applying paragraph styles
- Creating a watermark
- Creating and applying character styles
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Shapes
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Retouching and repairing
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Saving
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Printing
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Getting help
