Adobe® Photoshop® 101

Lesson Info

Combining Exposures Composite

Adobe® Photoshop® lets you bring out the best in your photographs – learn how to navigate the powerful software in Adobe® Photoshop® 101 with Ben Willmore.

Ben will show you how to use the most important features of Adobe® Photoshop® by working through common, real-world projects and explaining the process. You’ll get to know the Adobe® Photoshop® interface and learn about the features you’ll use the most. Ben will teach you how to:

Enhance hair, eyes, and lips in portraits
Merge multiple images into a panorama
Fix bright reflections on glasses and closed eyes in a group shot
Correct photos that are under or overexposed
Create a collage of multiple images

You’ll learn how layers, selections, masks, and filters help you make a great image and find out why resolution, file formats, and color profiles matter. Ben will break down commonly-heard technical jargon so you know what others are saying and you’ll learn keyboard commands that will make your work easier.

By the end this class you’ll be confident and comfortable working in Adobe® Photoshop® and know how to troubleshoot when problems arise.

This course is part of the Photoshop Tutorials series.

Software Used: Adobe Photoshop CC 2014.2.2

Lessons

Adobe® Bridge Basics
Sorting Images in Adobe® Bridge
Processing Images in Adobe® Camera Raw Part 1
Processing Images in Adobe® Camera Raw Part 2
Image Processing Q&A
Contrast and Color
Adjustment Brush and Auto Mask
Adobe® Camera Raw Optimized Images
Lens Profile Corrections
HDR Pro Part 1
HDR Pro Part 2
Panoramas Part 1
Panoramas Part 2
Intro to Photoshop
Interface Overview
Essential Adobe® Photoshop® Adjustments
Flat vs Layers
Simple Composites with Photomerge
Stack of Prints Panorama
Combining Exposures Composite
Layer Mask Composite
Selections and Masking Part 1
Selections and Masking Part 2
Adjustment Layers Part 1
Adjustment Layer Part 2
Creating a Postcard Layout
Hand Drawn Photo Layouts
Creating a Layout with Hand Drawn Frames
Working with Frames and Textures
Customizing Frames and Textures
Saving for the Web
Correcting for Noise
Camera Profiles and Split Toning
B&W Toning
Post Crop Vignetting
Selective Clarity
Dust Spot Removal
Content Aware Fill Part 1
Content Aware Fill Part 2
Healing Brushes: Basic, Spot, and Clone
Retouching: Removing People
Retouching: Building and Clone Source
Other Retouching Techniques
GIF Animations
Creative Masking
Displacement Mapping
Creative Filters and Smart Objects
Finishing Techniques

Reviews

<p>Ben, thanks again for this course. I have taken and purchased quite a few of your courses to date. I keep thinking I will only watch to make sure I am on the right track and you always bring more to the table than the last course. Your teaching methods are the best, sorry to all the other instructors from Creative Live, but you are very easy to understand and you speak in layman's terms so we all can understand. I am following your instructions and working along with your files and it is the best! It is hard to keep up with you even when I watch you on one computer and work with the same files on another computer, to do what you are doing...impossible but I gain so much by trying. You provide so much info on each topic, it is amazing. Thanks to Karen for the PDFs, she does a fantastic job and also, for her templates/layout documents. Thanks again and to anyone who thinks this is too much money for all the videos, the exercise files and the instruction PDF, I am sorry to say but you are mistaken.</p>
Like all of the Creative Live courses, excellent training. Ben does a great job of explaining the entry part of Photoshop. A lot of things cleared up in my head and i like his easy pace into this complex program. Thanks Ben.
<p>Ben, A note of thanks for a fabulous 3 day tutorial on Photoshop. I am new to CreativeLive site and just happen to stumble across your Photoshop 101 class online, wow I'm I glad I did. I've wanted to learn to navigate Photoshop for sometime but found myself becoming more and more confused and frustrated watching video instruction and reading various articles online. You have simplified the learning process by making the class material clear and concise; after 3 days I came away with a great foundation to build on in the future. Thank you!</p>