Non-Destructive Editing
Lesson 13 from: FAST CLASS: Photoshop for Beginners: Essential TrainingMark Wallace
Non-Destructive Editing
Lesson 13 from: FAST CLASS: Photoshop for Beginners: Essential TrainingMark Wallace
Lesson Info
13. Non-Destructive Editing
Lessons
How To Open Files
01:10 2Using The Home Screen
01:49 3Exploring The Interface
02:36 4Understanding Workspaces
03:04 5Tools and The Options Bar
01:56 6Finding Hidden Tools
02:31 7How to See What You’re Working On
06:19 8Selecting Things
07:06More Selection Tools
10:34 10Testing the Magic Wand and Quick Selection Tools
03:55 11The History Palette – Undoing Things
02:47 12Menu and Item Shortcut Keys
02:28 13Non-Destructive Editing
02:14 14Working with Layers
09:11 15Groovy 3 Exercise
10:38 16Layer Effects and Styles
04:25 17Layer Masks – Karen on Beans
06:41 18Using Adjustment Layers
04:36 19Using Filters
03:06 20Advanced Compositing Using Layers
07:42 21Non-Destructive Editing Techniques
03:17 22Understanding Smart Objects
05:16 23Smart Sharpen
04:36 24Understanding Histogram
04:08 25Adjusting Curves
03:46 26The Healing Brush Tools
07:28 27The Clone Stamp Tool
05:24 28The Burn and Dodge Tools
03:41 29Neural Filters
07:52Lesson Info
Non-Destructive Editing
So, what we're gonna do here is we have this image of Karen and I wanna convert this to black and white. So I can go to image, well I need to click on that. Image adjustments and there's all these adjustments that I can make here. Now, just so you know, these adjustments are destructive. These are destructive things. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna change this image to a black and white image by saying image adjustments, black and white. And then it's gonna ask me for a black and white mix. So how am I gonna adjust that? I'll say, okay, now this image is black and white but if I saved it and I wanted to go back to the color image, I can't. I have destroyed all of the color information. It's not there. The history palette is gonna be wiped out. So I can't undo it there. It's forever black and white. I don't wanna do that, that's destructive editing. So what I'm gonna do is use the history palette to go back to the beginning of this edit. And instead of using the image adjustments ...
I'm gonna use something that we're gonna learn about a little bit later called an adjustment layer. So I can go down here to the lower right hand corner. There's this little half circle here, half moon and I can click on this and say black and white. Again, I get the same exact dialogue box. I can make the same exact adjustments, and then it's done. Now, if I want to save this, it will save just like it is. And you'll see over here, we have two different layers. And then if I in the future, think, you know I'd really like to have that to be color. Well, I can, I can undo that change that I made. It's non-destructive. So there are all kinds of techniques that allow us to change our images and then anytime in the future into infinity if we wanna undo those, we can. And so as much as possible, if there's a choice to do something destructively or non-destructively we always want to choose the non-destructive edit. So in the future, we can change things any way we want. And speaking of changing things any way we want, one of the most powerful features for non-destructive editing and other types of editing in Photoshop are layers.
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