Lessons
Introduction To Adobe Photoshop
04:05 2Bridge vs. Lightroom
06:39 3Tour of Photoshop Interface
18:21 4Overview of Bridge Workspace
07:42 5Overview of Lightroom Workspace
11:21 6Lightroom Preferences - Saving Documents
08:19 7How To Use Camera Raw in Adobe Photoshop 2020
05:10 8Overview of Basic Adjustment Sliders
13:09Developing Raw Images
30:33 10Editing with the Effects and HLS Tabs
09:12 11How to Save Images
03:37 12Using the Transform Tool
04:48 13Making Selections in Adobe Photoshop 2020
06:03 14Selection Tools
05:55 15Combining Selection Tools
07:37 16Using Automated Selection Tools
17:34 17Quick Mask Mode
05:07 18Select Menu Essentials
21:28 19Using Layers in Adobe Photoshop 2020
13:00 20Align Active Layers
07:29 21Creating a New Layer
06:15 22Creating a Clipping Mask
03:02 23Using Effects on Layers
11:24 24Using Adjustment Layers
16:44 25Using the Shape Tool
04:39 26Create a Layer Mask Using the Selection Tool
04:39 27Masking Multiple Images Together
15:15 28Using Layer Masks to Remove People
10:50 29Using Layer Masks to Replace Sky
10:04 30Adding Texture to Images
09:11 31Layering to Create Realistic Depth
05:35 32Adjustment Layers in Adobe Photoshop 2020
05:29 33Optimizing Grayscale with Levels
10:59 34Adjusting Levels with a Histogram
03:37 35Understanding Curves
06:18 36Editing an Image Using Curves
18:41 37Editing with Shadows/Highlights Adjustment
07:19 38Dodge and Burn Using Quick Mask Mode
07:14 39Editing with Blending Modes
08:04 40Color Theory
05:59 41Curves for Color
16:52 42Hue and Saturation Adjustments
08:59 43Isolating Colors Using Hue/Saturation Adjustment
13:33 44Match Colors Using Numbers
16:59 45Adjusting Skin Tones
05:25 46Retouching Essentials In Adobe Camera Raw
10:52 47Retouching with the Spot Healing Brush
07:53 48Retouching with the Clone Stamp
06:51 49Retouching with the Healing Brush
04:34 50Retouching Using Multiple Retouching Tools
13:07 51Extending an Edge with Content Aware
03:42 52Clone Between Documents
13:19 53Crop Tool
10:07 54Frame Tool
02:59 55Eye Dropper and Color Sampler Tools
08:14 56Paint Brush Tools
13:33 57History Brush Tool
06:27 58Eraser and Gradient Tools
03:06 59Brush Flow and Opacity Settings
04:17 60Blur and Shape Tools
11:06 61Dissolve Mode
09:24 62Multiply Mode
15:29 63Screen Mode
14:08 64Hard Light Mode
14:54 65Hue, Saturation, and Color Modes
11:31 66Smart Filters
11:32 67High Pass Filter
13:40 68Blur Filter
05:59 69Filter Gallery
07:42 70Adaptive Wide Angle Filter
04:43 71Combing Filters and Features
04:45 72Select and Mask
20:04 73Manually Select and Mask
08:08 74Creating a Clean Background
21:19 75Changing the Background
13:34 76Smart Object Overview
08:37 77Nested Smart Objects
09:55 78Scale and Warp Smart Objects
09:08 79Replace Contents
06:55 80Raw Smart Objects
10:20 81Multiple Instances of a Smart Object
12:59 82Creating a Mockup Using Smart Objects
05:42 83Panoramas
13:15 84HDR
11:20 85Focus Stacking
04:02 86Time-lapse
11:18 87Light Painting Composite
08:05 88Remove Moire Patterns
06:11 89Remove Similar Objects At Once
09:52 90Remove Objects Across an Entire Image
05:46 91Replace a Repeating Pattern
06:50 92Clone from Multiple Areas Using the Clone Source Panel
10:27 93Remove an Object with a Complex Background
07:49 94Frequency Separation to Remove Staining and Blemishes
12:27 95Warping
11:03 96Liquify
14:02 97Puppet Warp
12:52 98Displacement Map
10:36 99Polar Coordinates
07:19 100Organize Your Layers
11:02 101Layer Styles: Bevel and Emboss
02:59 102Layer Style: Knockout Deep
12:34 103Blending Options: Blend if
13:18 104Blending Options: Colorize Black and White Image
06:27 105Layer Comps
08:30 106Black-Only Shadows
06:07 107Create a Content Aware Fill Action
08:46 108Create a Desaturate Edges Action
07:42 109Create an Antique Color Action
13:52 110Create a Contour Map Action
10:20 111Faux Sunset Action
07:20 112Photo Credit Action
05:54 113Create Sharable Actions
07:31 114Common Troubleshooting Issues Part 1
10:23 115Common Troubleshooting Issues Part 2
07:57 116Image Compatibility with Lightroom
03:29 117Scratch Disk Is Full
06:02 118Preview Thumbnail
02:10Lesson Info
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then let's say I need to write a book. I've done that many times, but it was a long time ago. You can see here I wrote books back when Footer Shop six, Not CSX, but six was out. Ah, and here's one for photo shop CS to Ah, but what happened when I wrote books is the beginning of the book. In the introduction, I would always feature a picture of the actual book they were reading. Well, it's impossible to take a picture of a book before it's printed and inserted into the book that it shows him. So what I did is I made a mock up in this mock up, was just made in photo shop purely in photo shop. The pages of the book that's just running the filter called Add Noise and then another filter called Motion Blur, which makes the specs go on an angle. That's what the pages are, but I would end up featuring the cover of the book. Well, the cover of the book it's designed, and it shows up kind of like this, and I want to show you how I ended up transforming this into that mock up of a book and how w...
e can use that to, um, maybe experiment with different book designs, Decide which when we like. So here we have a book. This could be just a book you got from the book story, slapped on a table and took a picture of and we're just going to replace the cover. Then I'm gonna go over here and get my mock up for a book that I haven't written yet. This is a book I never wrote, but I was going to, and what I could do is take this document. There's a lot of layers in here because maybe there's a layer for each one of these pieces a text and one for the picture. Here's another picture I might decide to use and so on. And I'm just going to take all those layers and select them and all say, convert to a smart object in. Therefore it's gonna look like a single layer, even though if I double click in the thumbnail for that layer, I'll get a brand new document that is all the original layers in it. So I can always go back and make changes. I'm gonna then use the move tool and dragged this image over to the other document. Now that other document is in C m y que mode. So it was probably gonna complain. Not surprising. Didn't, um And I get it over into this document and now all I want to dio is too transform it so that it can conform to the shape of this book. Now, I didn't notice that the image that's in there, what happened is it doesn't just crop it to within the documents bounds if there is any part of any layer that was pushed So it went beyond the bounds of the document. It includes that. So I see some extra space up here on top. I can always double click on that layer to see the original layers it was made from. It's like this and I could add a mask. In this case, I'm gonna come in here and take me just a moment because I don't want that stuff sticking up. I'm gonna put all this in a folder and I'm gonna put a mask on the folder. I'm just trying to get rid of the stuff that extends beyond the top and bottom that and filled with black on the outer part. Okay, I'm gonna close that. It's gonna ask if I want to save it. I'll say, save. It'll save it right back to where it came from, which was that layer. And now that it doesn't extend beyond the edge, let's get it to conform to where the book WAAS. It's a little on the big side, so I'm gonna go and choose free transform. I'm going to bring in the handles, but I'm not sure why they go out quite that far in what I could do to get this to show up in that other area is I can use something called Distort. The way distort works is if you go to the edit menu and you choose transform right here is a choice called Distort, and it will allow you to pull the four corners of an object in a place them in different spots. Now, usually this is going to show up right on the corners of the object you're working with. But my assumption is that that document here has other elements that are extending beyond the documents bounds. It's just on layers that are hidden. So let me show you what it look like if I actually did that and I finished and it showed up in the right spot because I did this ahead of time. There it is. If you just have a normal rectangular object, nothing fancy going on and you choose Edit, transformed, distort. You can grab the individual corners in reposition them. And I did that for both the cover of a book and its spine. Well, if those are smart objects, then if you want to edit the contents of the smart objects, maybe I want to go in here and change the color of these letters or type in different text or potentially change the picture. Will only do is I double click on the thumbnail for that particular layer, and it shows up with a separate document. This is a different version of it, because this one was made ahead of time. But here I could end up changing the photo that's there. I could come in, and maybe in this case, I'll need to make a selection. I can find my right selection tool here. We'll use the magic wand. This would usually be a type player, I could just change the color off. But in this case, this is just a screenshot of a book cover. And so I'm gonna fill that, make it kind of crazy, wild thing. I'm gonna close this and say Save, and it's going to save it back to where it came from. Where did it come from? That layer, the layer I double clicked on and it remembers. All the transformations have applied to it. It would remember any filters that were applied. Any styles. Remember all sorts of things, and I could make a mock up of a book in later on. Decide which cover I'd like. Then I can double click on this again and I'll say, Well, maybe I want a different version. I can turn off some of these eyeballs. Here's a whole another version close that save in. It updates. So it could be very useful when creating mock ups because you can later on make changes. Therefore, I need to make this book cover once and as long as they used a smart object before I scaled down the cover before I transformed it to get the corners in the right position that I could easily double, click and change the contents, keep it as a nice little mock up
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Noel Ice
I am an avid reader of photoshop books, and an avid watcher of photoshop tutorials. I have attended (internet) several hundred of presentations. In the course of this endeavor, I have found my own favorite photoshop websites and instructors. Creative Live is probably the bargain out there as well as among the top three internet course sites. I have to say with great enthusiasm that the best Photoshop instructor is Ben Willmore. There are many great ones, but truly, he is the best I have come across, and, as indicated above, I have watched literally 100s of tutorials on Photoshop. I have seen all of Ben's courses, I think, and among them, this one is the best by far, and that is saying a lot, because that makes this course the best course on Photoshop to be found anywhere. I am going back and watching it twice. Not only is it comprehensive, but Ben is so familiar with his subject that he is able to explain it like no other. This is crème de la crème of Photoshop classes. I have been wanting to write this review for some time because I have been so thoroughly impressed with everything about this class!
ford smith
Highly recommended if you want to take your Photoshop skills to the next level. Ben Willmore is clear, concise, and professional. He also has a good speaking voice that is not distracting but also keeps you engaged. Lastly, I would recommend that as you become more advanced, increasing the speed of the video (one of the options given on the menu)...especially if you've gone through the course once before and maybe want to watch it again. The double speed is very efficient as you become more advanced in Photoshop. Thanks for the help Ben!
a Creativelive Student
Wow. I cannot communicate the value of this course!! The true value in this course is how the instructor identifies workflows you'll need before you'll ever realize it, repeats important information without it becoming annoying, and explains the "why" behind the techniques so well that even if you forget the exact method, you can figure it out via the principles learned. Excellent value, excellent material, excellent instructor!!!