Lessons
Day 1
1Day 1 Pre-Show
10:54 2Flexibility & Creativity
1:34:54 3LIVE Photo Shoot for Brushes and Backgrounds
28:38 4Creating and Using Brushes and Backgrounds
1:48:23 5Finishing Touches
53:22 6Day 1 Wrap-Up
04:52Day 2
Lesson Info
Day 2 Pre-Show
Welcome Internet. Hello. Welcome to Creativelive. And today we're doing Photoshopped creativity with Dave Cross. My name is Jim ca tetchy, and I'll be your host today. And alongside me is Joe Hara Wyatt. Good morning, Joe. Are good morning. Are you today good? I'm excited for another day. I know media and so psyched. So you guys were going to be testing out our video and our sound. So please let us know for looking good and sounded good here in the studio. And if you can hear in CS and please go to the chat room and that's creativelive dot com slash chat and let us know how you guys are doing out there and let us know where you're coming from. Today we've got Dave Cross with us, who's been teaching photographers and photo shopped experts for, like, 25 years or more. So we get some more good stuff from him today. Dave, how're you doing? I'm doing great. I hope I'm looking forward. Toa our It's our last day. I'm happiest. Had Yes, it's great that to be finishing up, but it's been so much...
fun. I want to more. Yeah, I almost said, I was going to say, You know, welcome to Day Two. But it's really day for the two of four to a four four of to something like, Well, you know, life is nothing without a studio audience of how are you all today? Good. Well, if you want to give us your name where we can find you What you're excited to learn today that great start with Bob. My name is Bob Wydra. Oh, uh, I'm a commercial portrait photographer up in Snohomish County, about 35 miles north of here. I can be found at r w photo studio dot com and my Twitter handle is our wide drove aren't a b Y d r o And my my mind popped last night, so I don't know that I can absorb anymore today. The past three days have just been great. Good morning, everybody. My name is Athena Robbins, and I'm a new photographer. Have just been delving into ah photography professionally. For the first time, I'm going to be focusing on product and service and fine arts. I'm here from some inner Washington and I am so glad Creativelive is here in my backyard because after learning about this and coming toe Dave's classes. I don't know that I could live without creativelive Now. Good morning. I'm Silver Lane. Ah, you can find me at w w dot silver lane photography dot com That will link you to everything. My twitter, my Facebook. Follow me. Send me a message. I love talking to people. Um, I love Dave Cross to This has been great being here. Um, I'm totally excited about today. Yesterday was awesome with the smoke. So it got my mind thinking, What else could we use to make brushes? And I am excited toe learn the composites. So, yeah, I'm Todd Herbert. I'm Seattle based photographer. You can find me at about dot me slash Todd Hobart. I tell Dave every time he tells me something new, I saved more time. I get I don't You know, I say minutes on photo shop. Yesterday we had a huge fall back. We talked about creativity, and I went home and I fussed around with brushes for hours. I couldn't have wasted more time for a photo shop. So hopefully we're going to regain our mo mentum and, uh, today and great shot and I'm really looking forward to today's photo shoot. So very excited. My name is John Cornyn cello. I'm a photographer here in Seattle, and I want to make a portrait of you. You can find me a corner chello dot com. My background is have been photography for about 35 years. I've worked at Adobe in the community forms for 20 years. I used to think I was a photo shop expert and then on the discovered light room and forgot all my Photoshopped chops and back here to really get into compositing and learning how to use that refine edge dialogue box. Thank you, John. And it's great great seeing John in the class because, like myself and like Todd and everybody here, you know, it's great for us to be able to not only be part of what creative life brings to you guys, but that were were not just people that work here. We're also students, so it's it's pretty fun. So then you guys have any, uh, any new brushes that you came up with over over the over the night? Let me know. Well, I found one that I wanted to make. I found Inc in water, and it almost looks like smoke but colored well. I don't think that matters. Go brush those still, as a starting point it would. It would probably react differently than smoke would cause. Then you could have more interaction with it. So, yeah, believe it or not, Lottie's coffee and milk even that makes very interesting natural colors and patterns sort of like an oil and ink concept. So that was very interesting. It's almost like reading tea leaves at the bottom of a glass. Dave, can you tell her future future is be more creative right on. And I was thinking of of leaves, like definitely during the fall of like putting like leaves on white paper and kind of doing something like that to just create those, um, fractal edges for deleting. I'm always. My biggest challenge is always trying to find a brush that I can knockout hair with and find out different things. Any advice where you might well, as a matter of fact, today in our first class on compositing, I'm gonna show you my all time favorite hair trick. But it's different than you would expect Where I didn't know that was a great set up and it wasn't playing. Yes, that's it is just making sure you only take photographs with no hair. David, I know just fine, John with his, you know, the and put us on any background. And were there any other little side Tippett's we got coming today? We'll do. The other main thing is that when we do the photo shoot today, this is a style that I've been kind of playing with where it's actually a term that I coined called Photoshopped Photography. Where is taking photos with the intent of doing something to them in photo shops instead of looking at photo shop? Is that all Tweak A little bit is to take the photographs like this course graphic is eight photos put together because trying to do that all in one shot have things tossing in the air and then also just be way too difficult. I'm shooting by myself that to figure out a way to do things when I'm a one man show, and it's the simplest way is to, as we'll see, put the camera on tripod, take a whole series of shots to use that you intend to put together in Photoshopped end up with something unique. Nice. So when you're not doing photo shop stuff or photographing, what kind of hobbies do you have? Well, I don't have as much time as I used to, because in the last couple years I've been self employed and I basically run several businesses at the same time. Because I have a studio that's also a rental studio, and I do workshops and I travel on teach and just bought a new house. So that's my hobby these days is getting our house in order. I usedto sing in a barbershop group, which was kind of unusual but haven't done that in a couple of years because life got too busy. But I did that for about 15 years, probably with a tenor bass. Well, I was actually the barbershop Conserve the lead, which is the Melody Singer, because I can't harmonize if my life depended on three other guys do that part. I just sing the melody and they make it sound cool. So no demonstration. It's very tough without the other parts around with the other three guys, right? Exactly. Prompters lunchtime. But I do know you that you have uninterested in shoes. And I know I imagine that all you know, we all on the Internet know about your passion for, uh, Dave showed me a photograph of his closet because I asked him how many shoes he had, and he showed me the closet and there was a lot of shoes, and they're very good. I'm a fan and there are a lot of good, good looking ones. And Dave, tell us you were telling me a story break about this morning about going out and shopping. Well, Todd had mentioned that a store that was kind of my style down in this area. So yesterday after the show, I walked down and found it, and I walked in. Sure enough, they had a wall of the kind of shoes I'm enamored with. And the guy. The first thing he said is the shoes on sale was even better than he said, hoping not size 11. And I was like, OK, I actually am Oh, too bad, cause some guy just came in 10 minutes ago. About 22 pairs of shoes, all size 11. So you see, cleaned out of the hole, size 11 inventory and it was Some guy from Saudi Arabia came in, bought like seven shoes and then came back 15 minutes later about another 15. So he basically cleaned out is probably a good thing for me because I couldn't by any. But how odd is that that I mean, it happened to be the same size of speaking. All right, then I won't be buying shoes here today. I think the one thing we learned is we should all open shoe shops in Saudi Arabia. I sort of remember, you're telling a story about the house built in needing a closet for the shoes. That was the house that we have built was a model that you chose from, but it had Ah, fairly large walk in closet and on the other side was another bathroom, and we thought, with just the tools, I don't need 1/3 bathroom. And they said we could always make that your pantry and at 3.5 more feet to your closet, like Oh yeah, way have this. It's like we call it our walk in closet slash extra bedroom guys like ridiculously big, and we just said, Let's make this whole wall shoes. Fantastic. So of course, now I have some empty spaces to fill in. Right have that many shoes. Yet the weird thing is the only time my word these shoes is when I dress up to teach his day to day. I wear shorts and running shoes every day. So I have all these nice shoes that I wear periodically, but that's, I guess, part of what makes it fun.
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Dave is an incredible and entertaining Instructor! Easy to learn from, yet so knowledgeable about the needs of small business and creative artists. I've gained invaluable workflow and productivity knowledge that will bring extra hours back into my life. I'm all about efficiency, quality and ease in work practices, while maximizing the capabilities of Photoshop in a whole new way I never thought was possible with this software. Dave's course is an absolute "must have" in one's arsenal of photography and business tools! Information in this course is well worth the price of the course compared to what you'll gain back 10-folds on your ROI! I hope to see him back to CreativeLive again soon! What a joy to learn from him! That's some fancy footwork in Photoshop Dave! ;-)