Adobe Photoshop interface and document structure, shortcuts for navigation and layer manipulation directly from the document window. Navigator, History, Layers, and Tools panels. Drawing basics: Brush and Eraser tools, Fill options, plotting arrows. Changing image and canvas size, Free Transform mode. Selecting and cutting image regions, Marquee and Polygonal Lasso tools. Layer alignment and distribution.
Copypasting raster images into Wolgram Mathematica. Exporting and importing raster images with alpha channel. Inset[] expression and parameters.
Assembling .gif animations from frame sequences.
Nondestructive editing: Masks, Vector masks, and Clipping masks, Smart objects, Paths. Making use of RGB Channels. Brightness adjustments: Curves and Levels functions, Adjustment Layers, Histogram, Dodge and Burn tools. Retouching: Stamp and Healing Brush tools, Content-Aware Fill. Nonlinear history, History Brush tool. Automation: Actions panel, Batch and Variables functions, scripting.
Converting grid data to and from images: Image[] and ImageData[], ArrayPlot[]. Conforming irregular 2D data to a grid with Interpolation[]. Combining raster images: ImageAssemble[] and ImageCompose[], ImageCollage[] and its application to infographics. Image arithmetic: brightness multiplicator, gamma correction, color curves, and channel mixing. Blending modes: ImageAdd[], ImageSubtract[], ImageDifference[], and ImageMultiply[].