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Bonus: Adding Textures to Photos

Lesson 116 from: Adobe Photoshop CC Bootcamp

Blake Rudis

Bonus: Adding Textures to Photos

Lesson 116 from: Adobe Photoshop CC Bootcamp

Blake Rudis

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Lesson Info

116. Bonus: Adding Textures to Photos

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

Bonus: Adding Textures to Photos

So the next thing we have in our little grab bag here of bonus stuff is gonna be textures, adding textures to images. I gave you a bunch of textures with this course, but one of the things that I did not show is necessarily how to use them. (laughs) I showed you how to use grunge textures, those grunge layers that we apply with your screen, or with Multiply, but the same kind of thing applies with a regular texture. If we just go back out here, we'll go to our Lessons, and go to our Extras, and go into our Textures. These are all the textures that I have given you with this course. You can see, let's just take, this is one of my favorite ones. Let's open this one up. And I'm gonna apply this texture layer on top of this image here. I'm gonna press V for the Move tool. Just press it and move it. Press and hold Shift. If it's bigger, just press Control+T, and then Control+0, and get it back down to the size that it needs to be. 'Bout right there. We could've gone a little bit smaller, bu...

t that works for me. So a texture by itself is not actually a texture. It's an individual layer, the individual picture that's been taken from something that looks tactile in nature, therefor texture is the word that we use for that. I like to spend a lot of time around dumpsters. They have the best textures on the planet. (audience laughter) So I tend to shoot them with my cellphone, with the flash on, because I want a washed-out look. I don't want to have shadows and depth and stuff inside that texture, because those shadows will apply themselves to the image. I want just a basic color swatch with deteriorated stuff on it. So if we think about a texture, and how we can use it in our photographs, we need to think about that texture in the layer, and think about the layer and those apps. So what can we use? We can use Blend Modes, we can use Blend IF, we can use opacity. We can use all kinds of things to get this texture to blend in with the image. So I could change this mode to Soft Light. And you can see that we have the texture, these little lines kinda rippin' through the image there. If I press Command or Control+I, I get a whole different look for that. They go from being red lines to being blue lines. Command or Control+I on any layer is gonna give you its inversion, it's gonna give you a second option. So if I change that from something like Soft Light to maybe Overlay, again it's gonna give me a different look. Press Command or Control+I, now it's gonna be more powerful and more potent because that's the difference between Overlay and Soft Light. Those two blend modes work really well together on this. Now with those other Grunge layers that we showed before, we used things like Screen, and we used Multiply. You could still use Screen and Multiply with an image that's not black and white, they just tend to work a little bit better with black and white images. So if we change this to Soft Light. Let's do Overlay, actually. We can also use opacity here. Or we could double click inside here and use Blend Modes, and Blend IF. So if I double-click on this, I can press Alt or Option on the dark areas, and let those dark areas shine though this texture, and let the light areas shine through this texture, like they aren't going to be effecting those windows at all. And there we go, K? So there's a series of textures that are included in here, and what I want you to do is I want you to play with them on your photographs using all those different apps. You got your Blend Modes, you got your Blend IF, you got your Overlay, you've got your opacity, and you've got your Fill. All those different things that can be used to modify one layer, and how it applies itself to the layer underneath. Another thing about that too is it not necessarily with textures, but with the painted background. I'm also giving you painted backgrounds here. The painted backgrounds can be used very well on images of people. So this is a perfect example. I photographed my wife on (chuckles) our basement wall. You can even see my lights in the background there. Again, I told you, whatever you have as your studio is good enough, right? Just use that. She needed a quick image to put, I forget what it was for, it was for something. She needed something as like a, it wasn't a profile image, she needed something for her business. So I said OK, just go ahead and set up, and I'll go ahead and shoot it for you. Just a quick little headshot. But I didn't have any good backgrounds to put behind her. So what I did was, I just shot her in the studio, and then I made some painted backgrounds from Textures to make them look like paintings that I could then put behind her to almost look as if I shot and photographed her on a painted backdrop. So I'm gonna go ahead and open up. I've already pre-baked this. I pre-baked it so that she is not there. Her background is not there. So open up this, open up this, open them up in Photoshop. And this will be an example of one of the painted backdrops that I'm giving you. It's not gonna look perfect right out the box. And there's a reason. I want you to be able to do different things to this so that you maybe do different colors with it, or you blur it or you do something, but this is just your base that you can add. So if I press V for my Move tool. Move this behind here. It's kinda like a composite. Press Command or Control+T to get it to fit inside this canvas, and then put it behind her. Doesn't look very good, does it? Nope, not really, but what I can do is the same trick I did before in our compositing trick. Add a new layer, B form my Brush tool, to make it look just like it would look if I were to photograph her on a backdrop that has light on that backdrop, OK? And now, I can change the color and alter this backdrop. I can make a color overlay, and maybe change that to a blueish color, or a cyanish color that'll be nice and attractive towards her skin tone and her shirt. And then change that Blend Mode to color and that will change that painted backdrop's color. Maybe drop the opacity a little bit, let some of that shine through. And, I can go to Filter, Blur, Gaussian Blur, and I can blur that painted backdrop to make it appear like it's disappearing with the bocca there. I need some further work to do on probably her portrait after this, but you can see the difference between something like that, something like that. (laughter) Hey, it's a lot better. So those painted backdrops can be used for just about anything. Don't take them necessarily for face value, 'cause if you do, they're not that pretty. You can also use Curves adjustment layers on them too. So if I were to take a Curve, on that backdrop, could brighten up that backdrop a little bit too. So it's not competing with the foreground elements. It's kinda like using a texture, but here's, it's kinda like the mixture of a composite, and a texture in a way.

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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