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Adobe Libraries

Lesson 14 from: Adobe Photoshop CC Bootcamp

Blake Rudis

Adobe Libraries

Lesson 14 from: Adobe Photoshop CC Bootcamp

Blake Rudis

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Lesson Info

14. Adobe Libraries

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Lessons

Class Trailer
1

Bootcamp Introduction

16:22
2

The Bridge Interface

13:33
3

Setting up Bridge

06:55
4

Overview of Bridge

11:29
5

Practical Application of Bridge

27:56
6

Introduction to Raw Editing

11:00
7

Setting up ACR Preferences & Interface

07:39
8

Global Tools Part 1

16:44
9

Global Tools Part 2

20:01
10

Local Tools

22:56
11

Introduction to the Photoshop Interface

07:13
12

Toolbars, Menus and Windows

25:07
13

Setup and Interface

11:48
14

Adobe Libraries

05:57
15

Saving Files

07:39
16

Introduction to Cropping

12:10
17

Cropping for Composition in ACR

04:44
18

Cropping for Composition in Photoshop

12:40
19

Cropping for the Subject in Post

03:25
20

Cropping for Print

07:34
21

Perspective Cropping in Photoshop

07:11
22

Introduction to Layers

08:42
23

Vector & Raster Layers Basics

05:05
24

Adjustment Layers in Photoshop

27:35
25

Organizing and Managing Layers

15:35
26

Introduction to Layer Tools and Blend Modes

21:34
27

Screen and Multiply and Overlay

09:15
28

Soft Light Blend Mode

07:34
29

Color and Luminosity Blend Modes

12:47
30

Color Burn and Color Dodge Blend Modes

07:43
31

Introduction to Layer Styles

11:43
32

Practical Application: Layer Tools

13:06
33

Introduction to Masks and Brushes

04:43
34

Brush Basics

09:22
35

Custom Brushes

04:01
36

Brush Mask: Vignettes

06:58
37

Brush Mask: Curves Dodge & Burn

06:53
38

Brush Mask: Hue & Saturation

07:52
39

Mask Groups

05:52
40

Clipping Masks

04:11
41

Masking in Adobe Camera Raw

07:06
42

Practical Applications: Masks

14:03
43

Introduction to Selections

05:42
44

Basic Selection Tools

17:41
45

The Pen Tool

11:56
46

Masks from Selections

04:22
47

Selecting Subjects and Masking

07:11
48

Color Range Mask

17:35
49

Luminosity Masks Basics

12:00
50

Introduction to Cleanup Tools

07:02
51

Adobe Camera Raw

10:16
52

Healing and Spot Healing Brush

14:56
53

The Clone Stamp Tool

10:20
54

The Patch Tool

06:38
55

Content Aware Move Tool

04:56
56

Content Aware Fill

06:46
57

Custom Cleanup Selections

15:42
58

Introduction to Shapes and Text

13:46
59

Text Basics

15:57
60

Shape Basics

07:00
61

Adding Text to Pictures

09:46
62

Custom Water Marks

14:05
63

Introduction to Smart Objects

04:37
64

Smart Object Basics

09:13
65

Smart Objects and Filters

09:05
66

Smart Objects and Image Transformation

10:57
67

Smart Objects and Album Layouts

11:40
68

Smart Objects and Composites

10:47
69

Introduction to Image Transforming

04:34
70

ACR and Lens Correction

09:45
71

Photoshop and Lens Correction

14:26
72

The Warp Tool

11:16
73

Perspective Transformations

20:33
74

Introduction to Actions in Photoshop

09:27
75

Introduction to the Actions Panel Interface

05:06
76

Making Your First Action

03:49
77

Modifying Actions After You Record Them

11:38
78

Adding Stops to Actions

04:01
79

Conditional Actions

07:36
80

Actions that Communicate

25:26
81

Introduction to Filters

04:38
82

ACR as a Filter

09:20
83

Helpful Artistic Filters

17:08
84

Helpful Practical Filters

07:08
85

Sharpening with Filters

07:32
86

Rendering Trees

08:20
87

The Oil Paint and Add Noise Filters

15:08
88

Introduction to Editing Video

06:20
89

Timeline for Video

08:15
90

Cropping Video

03:34
91

Adjustment Layers and Video

05:25
92

Building Lookup Tables

07:00
93

Layers, Masking Video & Working with Type

15:11
94

ACR to Edit Video

06:10
95

Animated Gifs

11:39
96

Introduction to Creative Effects

06:08
97

Black, White, and Monochrome

18:05
98

Matte and Cinematic Effects

08:23
99

Gradient Maps and Solid Color Grades

12:20
100

Gradients

04:21
101

Glow and Haze

10:23
102

Introduction to Natural Retouching

05:33
103

Brightening Teeth

10:25
104

Clean Up with the Clone Stamp Tool

08:07
105

Cleaning and Brightening Eyes

16:58
106

Advanced Clean Up Techniques

24:47
107

Introduction to Portrait Workflow & Bridge Organization

14:47
108

ACR for Portraits Pre-Edits

21:27
109

Portrait Workflow Techniques

18:46
110

Introduction to Landscape Workflow & Bridge Organization

12:17
111

Landscape Workflow Techniques

37:36
112

Introduction to Compositing & Bridge

06:59
113

Composite Workflow Techniques

34:01
114

Landscape Composite Projects

24:14
115

Bonus: Rothko and Workspace

05:15
116

Bonus: Adding Textures to Photos

07:05
117

Bonus: The Mask (Extras)

05:18
118

Bonus: The Color Range Mask in ACR

04:54

Lesson Info

Adobe Libraries

Let's talk about the Adobe libraries. The libraries are over here and that we've put here, because we've saved this workspace this way. We have colors, color themes, layer styles, and graphics. Now, at any time during your workflow, you might find something that you're doing specifically in the realm of maybe graphic design work that works really well for you that you really like. Under my library, if I go to graphics, there's something that I use quite a bit when it comes to my video tutorials that I do for my website. And that's making this template for a bar that goes across my image with text in it to tell the viewer what they're about to see over top of an image. So if I go ahead and drag this and drop this onto my canvas here, that is a, something's that stored in my Adobe Creative Cloud library that allows me to go to it at any time right there within that library's field. So now, I can move this around and get this fit right exactly where I want it to be. And now, I've got that...

band across there with all the layer styles that would've been in there to begin with. And notice how there's a little cloud icon right there. That's telling me that that's coming from the Adobe Creative Cloud. It's coming from a series of assets that I have created that have then been uploaded to the Cloud. At any time, you see this little button right here that says Add Content or Create a Library from the Document. If this document has a bunch of things going on it, I can create an entire library just for things that are happening in that document. Or I can create just the content that's happening within this area and add it to that library and have access to it whenever I want on any of my images. Now, from maybe, like, a workflow standpoint for someone who's doing maybe portrait or landscape work, this might not be very effective. But for design work or maybe you do portrait work and you have clients and you have the same type of thing that you do on every one of those images and you just maybe alter the text a little bit or change the text a little bit. This gonna be a place where you can put those assets so you can always have access to them. And they don't appear nowhere, okay. They appear, or they don't exist nowhere. They exist within the Cloud and they can appear whenever you want them to. But to get to there, if we open up the Creative Cloud. Remember I said this is your command center for Photoshop. You'll see here, listed under Assets. And this actually comes with 20 gigabytes of storage for you and you can put whatever you want in there. So if I were to just say Open Folder, there is actually a folder in my folder structure within Windows, under my File Explorer here called Creative Cloud Files. I can store files there that maybe I like, these are some of my favorite images that I've ever done, so maybe I want access to them over every computer that I have. So if I'm not at home, I don't need to worry about it. They're all stored on my Creative Cloud in that file catalog. Right now, I'm on my PC. I'm on my laptop that I use when I'm doing events. But if I go home and I go onto my PC, I can see exactly what's happening in that Creative Cloud file because they're connected and they're linked. And I know that because if I go right here and say View On Web, I can see exactly where those exist on that website on the Adobe Creative Cloud. And I really encourage you to navigate through here. You get a lot of stuff when you get your CC package. You get Photoshop, you get Lightroom. And that's all people really think when they get that photographer's bundle. But now, you also get 20 gigabytes of storage on the Cloud. You also get the ability to collaborate with people from these areas as well. You also get ability to make your own website through the Adobe Portfolio, which is actually a pretty cool thing. It's better than nothing, I should say that. It's good, if you know how to use it. It could be a good way for you to represent yourself so you're not just saying, 'Hi, I'm Blake Rudis, here's my card.' And it goes to, you know, I don't know, maybe just has my phone number on it or something like that. So it gives you a place that you can send people to, a call to action, so to speak. And you can put whatever you want in that website. Same thing here too. If I go into this file. Let's say I'm working with a client and I upload a file to this folder, I can click on this and I can send a link. I can share that link to them. And when I share that link with them, right now, this is set to private, but I can open up that privacy, so that I have other options. When I send them this link, do I want them to have the ability to save this in their Creative Cloud? Do I want them to be able to download this image? Or do I just want them to be able to make comments? So let's say you're collaborating with somebody else within a design atmosphere and you want them to see what you've done. This can be a good opportunity to say, 'Hey, can you just leave some comments on here?' Or if you have a client that you want to be able to see a photograph that you've done from their set, all they can do is show comments and they can't download that item. Another thing that's really interesting here is we go to those libraries. If we open up that library, we go to that My Library. And we open up that graphic that we had there. Which was this one, the Sharpening Adobe Camera Raw. We open that up. This should... It did it before. When I open it up, it will show you what it is that creates that that item. It's not doing it at this point. Obviously, it doesn't do that now. Let's try this one. Nope, not doing it now. But a lot of times, it'll show you the details, the layer styles. This always happens when you're, you know, in the middle of production. It shows you the layer styles, what styles were used to create that, and even sometimes the fonts that were used to create and that if those fonts are widely accessible.

Class Materials

Bonus Materials with Purchase

Photoshop Bootcamp Plug-In
Textures
Clouds
Painted Backgrounds
1 – Intro to Photoshop Bootcamp
6 – Intro to Raw Editing.zip
11 – Interface and Setup
16 – Intro to Cropping and Composition.zip
22 – Intro to Layers.zip
26 – Intro to Layer Tools.zip
43 – Intro to Selections.zip
50 – Intro to Cleanup Tools.zip
58 – Intro to Shapes and Text.zip
63 – Intro to Smart Objects.zip
69 – Intro to Image Transforming.zip
74 – Intro to Actions.zip
81 – Filters.zip
88 – Intro to Editing Video.zip
96 – Custom Effects.zip
102 – Natural Retouching.zip
107 – Intro to Portrait Workflow.pdf
110 – Intro to Landscape Workflow.zip
112 – Intro to Compositing.zip
115 – Rothko and Interfaces (Bonus Video).zip
33 – Intro to Masks and Brushes.zip
106 - Frequency Separation.zip

Ratings and Reviews

a Creativelive Student
 

Amazing course, but don't be fooled into thinking this is a beginner's course for photographers. The problem isn't Blake's explanations; they're top. The problem is the vast scope of this course and the order in which the topics are presented. Take layers for example. When I was first learning Photoshop (back when we learned from books), I found I learned little or nothing from, for example, books that covered layers before they covered how to improve/process photographs. These books taught me how to organize, move, and link layers before they showed me what a layer was actually for. Those books tended to teach me everything there is to know about layers (types of layers, how to organize them, how to move them, how to move them two at a time, how to move them two at a time even if there are other layers between the two you're interested in, useful troubleshooting tips, etc. ) all before I even know (from a photographer's point of view) what it is the things actually do. The examples of organizing, linking, and moving mean everything for graphic designers from Day One, but for photographers not so much. Blake does the same thing as those books. Topics he covers extremely early demand a lot of theoretical imagination for a photographer who doesn't already know quite a bit about what he is talking about. Learning about abstract things first and concrete things later only makes PS that much harder to understand. If you AREN'T a beginner, however, this course is amazing. I thought it would be like an Army Bootcamp, taking you from zero and building you into a fit, competent Photoshop grunt. Now I think it's more like Army Bootcamp for high school varsity jocks. It isn't going to take you from the beginning, but the amount you'll get out of it is nonetheless more than your brain can imagine. I've been using PS for years to improve my photographs, and even to create the odd artistic composite or two. The amount I've learned in the first week is amazing, and every day I learn something -- more like many things -- which I immediately implement to improve my productivity and/or widen the horizons of what I can achieve. If you ARE a photographer who's a Photoshop beginner, I'd take very seriously the advice Blake gives in the introduction: Watch one lesson, and practice the skills and principles you learn in that one lesson for two weeks. THEN watch the next lesson. You can't do that of course without buying the course, so it's up to you to decide whether you'd like to learn Photoshop and master Photoshop all from the same course. Learning it first and mastering it later will cost more money, but I think you'll understand everything better and have a much more enjoyable ride in the process. As for me? I'm going to have to find the money to buy this course. There is simply way too much content in each lesson for me to try to take on all at once, but on the other hand I don't want to miss anything at all that he has to share.

Robert Andrews
 

Blake Rudis is the absolute best in teaching photoshop. His knowledge and how he presents the instruction is clear and concise - there is NO ONE BETTER. Yes, his classes require some basic skills, and maybe I'd organize the order of (or group) the classes in a different order, but, let me be clear - if anyone is to be successful or famous in the Photoshop world, it should be Blake Rudis. I strongly recommend his teaching. I started photography and post processing in 2018, and because of this class, I'm know what Im doing. The energy you get when you create something beautiful is profound, it makes you bounce out of bed (at 4AM) like a 5 year old, to go create. It's a great ride! Thanks Blake, & Thanks Creative live.

Esther Gambrell
 

WOW!!! I've been purchasing CL classes for several years now and have watched HOURS of "How-To Photoshop" classes, but this is the first one I've actually purchased because of the AWESOME BONUS content!!! SERIOUSLY??!!?!? A PLUG-IN??? But not only that, Blake is SO easy to understand, and he breaks down concepts in different ways to connect with different people's learning styles. I REALLY appreciated this approach because I am a LEFT-BRAINED creative that has an engineering background, so I really connected to what Blake was saying. THANK YOU FOR THAT! There are TONS of Photoshop courses out there, but I found this one to be the most helpful in they way Blake teaches concepts so that you know WHY you're doing what your doing. I feel like he taught me how to fish with Photoshop to feed me for a lifetime instead of just giving me a fish to feed me for one day. This is the BEST overall PS course out there!!! Thank you!!!!

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