Adobe Photoshop 2020: The Complete Guide Bootcamp
Lesson 4 of 118
Overview of Bridge Workspace
Adobe Photoshop 2020: The Complete Guide Bootcamp
Lesson 4 of 118
Overview of Bridge Workspace
Lesson Info
Overview of Bridge Workspace
Now we're in photo shop in general. Let's take a look at how things are laid out. The first thing I'm going to do is come over here and just change one setting on my screen that should get this toe look more like it would. Look, if you just installed photo shop, I won't describe what that setting was until later on, because you probably haven't messed up the layout of your screen yet like I have. So in photo shop, we first need to know how can we open our pictures? Because otherwise we're just gonna be working with empty documents like this one. So let's go to both Adobe Bridge and Adobe Photo Shop and see what we need to know to preview and open our images. So there are two different ways I can access Adobe Bridge. I could launch it like any other program, which on the Mac would mean coming down here to the dock in clicking on the bridge icon. If it's there, the second way to do it would be right here in photo shop and go to the file menu, and she's open Enbridge, her brows and bridge...
. When I choose browse and bridge bridge should eventually come to the front. And if it doesn't, I'll click on it here in my dock in this is what bridge looks like on the left side of your screen. You should have a folder list in. This is gonna list all the folders that make up your hard drive. If you click on the name of a folder, it will then show you the contents of that folder and you'll see little thumbnail images. You can expand or collapse of folder. We'll zoom up over there so you can see it a little better. But I can collapse these or expand them. And if there's no triangle next to a folder, it simply means there are no further sub folders found within their. But I could expand each one of these, then click on the folder to see its contents. Once I'm viewing the contents of a folder at the bottom of my screen is a little slider that determines how big the thumbnail images will be, and I could make them huge or I can make them quite small so I can see a lot of them. If I click on a picture, then on the right side of my picture there, on the right side of my screen will be a preview, and if that previews around their small, you could make it larger. But just going to this area that is listed as preview. And if you go just to the edge of that, you can drag so I can make it takes up more space vertically, and if I go to the left edge, I can drag it over to make it larger the other way. So now I can click through my images and see a larger preview. But if I really want to view the contents of a file without actually opening it, all we need to do in Bridge is press the space bar. If you press the space bar, it's gonna view it full screen. And if you want to see not just this image but the whole series of images that are in the folder, you can use the arrow keys on your keyboard. I'll use the right arrow key, and I can cycle through all the images that are found in this particular folder. If I want to get out of this view, I just press the escape key on my keyboard and it'll get me back to where I can see the thumbnails. Another thing would be useful to know about, Enbridge is. Remember, we had a slider down here at the bottom where we could make our thumbnails larger or smaller. There's a keyboard shortcut for changing that. If on the Mac you hold on the command key and press plus or minus, you can change the size on windows. That would be the control key in plus or minus. There are a couple other things you might need to do to files, and that would be first. You might need to change the name of a file. Enbridge. All you need to do is click on the name of the file and then just click once more on the name. It'll become highlighted so you can type in a new one if you want to rename all the files in this folder. If you're already renaming one, you can press the tab key to go to the next and start typing the name right away. Hit tab began. You go to the next and so on so you could go through an entire folder of images and quickly changed their names. Or, if you'd like to change the name of all the files in a folder in that folder, might contain hundreds of pictures. You could come up here and choose Select all from the Edit menu to get all the images chosen. And then if you go to the Tools menu, there is a choice called batch rename. I'm not going to go into the details of it, but just know in there you would be able to name multiple images and potentially number them on the end. But now, let's figure out, how can we open these images and Photoshopped? We have a couple different methods to do so. First, if it's not a raw file instead of J. Peg, a tiff or some other common file format, all you need to do to open a file is double click on it that should open it directly into photo shop. I'll go back to bridge. If you want to open multiple images, you can click on one, hold down the shift key and click on some others to get them selected. And then, if you want to add or take away individual files instead of holding shift. If I hold shift and click on this last image, I get all of them in between the last one I had, where I just clicked. If you want to get rid of the individual files, hold on the command key that's controlling windows. Then when you click your just gonna toggle, Is it selected or not? Then I can double click, and I just open a bunch of images in the photo shop and there, found under various taps. Close those go back to bridge. Then there's a special way of opening these images, which means you're open them in adobe camera raw. Well, if you have a raw file, which is what this one is, the file name Ends and CR two. That means it's not a J peg. It's not a tiff. It's what's known as a raw file, and we'll talk more about those in another class that is about came a wrong, but if it's raw file, you double click on it, and it's gonna bring you to this special screen that's known as Adobe camera raw, and you can adjust the image using these sliders but it's only going to do that if it was a raw file. If I have a J Peg file for a tiff file and I'd like to open it in camera, I could go to the file menu in Bridge and there's a choice called opening camera, and that's going to send a non raw file in here. I have a separate class about Kameron that will be doing later and therefore all detail exactly how you go about adjusting the images using that. The other thing, Aiken Dio, is Dragon Image to photo shop. If I have a photo shop in my doc, I can do that. Or if I can see an open document and Photoshopped like, let's say I was in Bridge over here and I changed the size of the windows so I can see what's behind it. I could drag from here up to the photo shop document, and that would actually add it to that document. So that's enough about bridge. You not know how to navigate your hard drive. You do that in the folder list in the upper left. You know how to change the size of your thumb nails with a little slider down here at the bottom. Preview your image in the area that's to the right, or hit the space bar to see it. Full screen pressing escape. To get out of that view, rename it by clicking on the name in the open. Just double click on a file.
Class Description
AFTER THIS CLASS YOU’LL BE ABLE TO:
- Develop an understanding of how Photoshop works
- Create your ideal workspace
- Configure the essential preference settings
- Set up Adobe Bridge and Lightroom for optimal integration with Photoshop
- Navigate multiple images seamlessly
ABOUT BEN’S CLASS:
Adobe® Photoshop® 2020 is a feature-rich creative force, perfect for turning raw ideas into audience-wowing images. With Ben Willmore as your guide, you can master it faster than you think and take on a new decade of projects.
Ben takes you step-by-step through Adobe Photoshop 2020 as only he can. With an easy pace and zero technobabble, he demystifies this powerful program and makes you feel confident enough to create anything. This class is part of a fully-updated bundle – complete with 2020 features and more efficient ways to maximize the tools everyone uses most.
Whether you’re a 20-year designer or you’re opening the app for the first time, this is the perfect way to learn and love using Photoshop. From retouching to masking to troubleshooting, Ben unpacks all the essentials and hidden gems, while giving you real-world examples to drive each lesson home. By the end of the class, you’ll feel eager to make serious magic with Photoshop 2020.
WHO THIS CLASS IS FOR:
- Beginner, intermediate, and advanced users of Adobe Photoshop.
- Those who want to gain confidence in Adobe Photoshop and learn new features to help edit photos.
- Students who’d like to take ordinary images and make them look extraordinary with some image editing or Photoshop fixes.
SOFTWARE USED:
Adobe Photoshop 2020 (V21)
Lessons
- Introduction To Adobe Photoshop 2020
- Bridge vs. Lightroom
- Tour of Photoshop Interface
- Overview of Bridge Workspace
- Overview of Lightroom Workspace
- Lightroom Preferences - Saving Documents
- How To Use Camera Raw in Adobe Photoshop 2020
- Overview of Basic Adjustment Sliders
- Developing Raw Images
- Editing with the Effects and HLS Tabs
- How to Save Images
- Using the Transform Tool
- Making Selections in Adobe Photoshop 2020
- Selection Tools
- Combining Selection Tools
- Using Automated Selection Tools
- Quick Mask Mode
- Select Menu Essentials
- Using Layers in Adobe Photoshop 2020
- Align Active Layers
- Creating a New Layer
- Creating a Clipping Mask
- Using Effects on Layers
- Using Adjustment Layers
- Using the Shape Tool
- Create a Layer Mask Using the Selection Tool
- Masking Multiple Images Together
- Using Layer Masks to Remove People
- Using Layer Masks to Replace Sky
- Adding Texture to Images
- Layering to Create Realistic Depth
- Adjustment Layers in Adobe Photoshop 2020
- Optimizing Grayscale with Levels
- Adjusting Levels with a Histogram
- Understanding Curves
- Editing an Image Using Curves
- Editing with Shadows/Highlights Adjustment
- Dodge and Burn Using Quick Mask Mode
- Editing with Blending Modes
- Color Theory
- Curves for Color
- Hue and Saturation Adjustments
- Isolating Colors Using Hue/Saturation Adjustment
- Match Colors Using Numbers
- Adjusting Skin Tones
- Retouching Essentials In Adobe Camera Raw
- Retouching with the Spot Healing Brush
- Retouching with the Clone Stamp
- Retouching with the Healing Brush
- Retouching Using Multiple Retouching Tools
- Extending an Edge with Content Aware
- Clone Between Documents
- Crop Tool
- Frame Tool
- Eye Dropper and Color Sampler Tools
- Paint Brush Tools
- History Brush Tool
- Eraser and Gradient Tools
- Brush Flow and Opacity Settings
- Blur and Shape Tools
- Dissolve Mode
- Multiply Mode
- Screen Mode
- Hard Light Mode
- Hue, Saturation, and Color Modes
- Smart Filters
- High Pass Filter
- Blur Filter
- Filter Gallery
- Adaptive Wide Angle Filter
- Combing Filters and Features
- Select and Mask
- Manually Select and Mask
- Creating a Clean Background
- Changing the Background
- Smart Object Overview
- Nested Smart Objects
- Scale and Warp Smart Objects
- Replace Contents
- Raw Smart Objects
- Multiple Instances of a Smart Object
- Creating a Mockup Using Smart Objects
- Panoramas
- HDR
- Focus Stacking
- Time-lapse
- Light Painting Composite
- Remove Moire Patterns
- Remove Similar Objects At Once
- Remove Objects Across an Entire Image
- Replace a Repeating Pattern
- Clone from Multiple Areas Using the Clone Source Panel
- Remove an Object with a Complex Background
- Frequency Separation to Remove Staining and Blemishes
- Warping
- Liquify
- Puppet Warp
- Displacement Map
- Polar Coordinates
- Organize Your Layers
- Layer Styles: Bevel and Emboss
- Layer Style: Knockout Deep
- Blending Options: Blend if
- Blending Options: Colorize Black and White Image
- Layer Comps
- Black-Only Shadows
- Create a Content Aware Fill Action
- Create a Desaturate Edges Action
- Create an Antique Color Action
- Create a Contour Map Action
- Faux Sunset Action
- Photo Credit Action
- Create Sharable Actions
- Common Troubleshooting Issues Part 1
- Common Troubleshooting Issues Part 2
- Image Compatibility with Lightroom
- Scratch Disk Is Full
- Preview Thumbnail
Reviews
marianne
The short lessons makes it easy to find things. Clear explanations, structured content, great examples, handbook plus practice images - this class is worth x10 the price! I have seen many of Ben's classes and I'm so happy you created this one, love it
Madelaine Enochs
Ben's class has been extremely helpful for understanding how everything works in photoshop. I am so grateful for his classes. Easy to understand and thorough. Thank-you Ben!
Alessandro Zugno
In this class Ben Willmore gives an overview of all the tools present in Adobe Photoshop 2020, explaining everything very clearly and with practical examples. This course is useful for any type of photographer who wants to learn the use of Photoshop or improve their post production skills.