Lessons
Day 1
1Course Intro
05:55 2Layer Masks
15:37 3Adjustment Layers
23:47 4Clipping Masks
08:38 5Intro to Groups & Smart Objects
23:44 6Quick Mask
09:18 7Defining & Creating a Brush
14:49Smart Objects & Filters
20:56 9Smart Objects from Adobe Camera Raw & Lightroom
13:23 10'Blend If' Sliders & Blend Mode Shortcuts
09:35 11Photographing & Scanning Textures
28:08 12Scanning Objects
10:23 13Photographing Smoke
30:17 14Building Frames from Illustrator Brushes
16:59 15Using Adobe Brush CC
35:59 16Managing & Saving Brushes
13:13 17Changing the Behavior of Brushes
23:25Day 2
18Type Techniques
17:22 19Type Tool Presets
18:06 20Patterns
33:52 21Overlaying Texture
15:31 22Layer Mask Edges
45:01 23Refining Edges
08:05 24Adding Borders
15:53 25Displace Filter Edges
20:45 26Using Illustrator Elements
15:33 27Creating Reusable Effects
09:27 28The Role of Actions
35:46 29Smart Filter Techniques
30:56 30Basic Painting Tools
05:53 31Turn a Photo into a Painting
19:43 32Oil Painting Filter
18:45Day 3
33Making Color Pop
23:48 34Color Grading
20:10 35Split Toning
08:50 36Luminosity Mask & Feathering
16:57 37Other Artistic Effects
12:22 38Creative Layout Options: Layer Comps
17:26 39Building Basic Templates
23:26 40Creating Smart Object Templates
25:44 41Quick Retouching: Skin
32:49 42Quick Retouching: Teeth
09:04 43Quick Retouching: Hot Spots
08:05 44Quick Retouching: Eyes
08:32 45Quick Retouching: Content Aware Move & Extend Tool
19:41 46Quick Retouching: Glass Glare
03:44 47Adding Finishing Touches to Photographs
19:57 48Displacement Filter
10:21 49Adding Suggested Elements
20:14 50Saving Files
19:20Lesson Info
Basic Painting Tools
I want to talk a little bit about painting and things of that nature. So first of all, let's talk a little about color and how we can pick color. Gonna do a whole section tomorrow on working with the colors of a photograph I want Talk about picking colors like If you're choosing the palette of colors going to use for different things, there's some interesting options that are available to us if you have a photograph open. If you please click eye for eye dropper that gives you the little eyedropper tool. Then, of course, whatever you click on that becomes your foreground color. Thank if you choose the color to say I'm gonna use that several times, wrote this project. I don't wanna have to every time I try and figure out what color was that? So another former preset to include with the ones we talked about, like brushes and things like that are swatches. So if I go to my swatches panel, it just has a whole bunch of colors that Adobe said. Here's some colors for you, but there's no rhyme ...
or reason, just colors. But since I picked that color there, I move my mouse over. Get this weird looking little pink bucket icon. If I click, this is Would you like to say that as a swatch preset So I could name it something like, You know, whatever the name of my corporate color one Whatever it is, you know, something that makes sense to you. Click. OK, now it appears in this watches pounds with any time if you're working and you need to go Oh, where was that color again? It's always gonna be in there. Any new colors you add will get to the end of this so you could end up with a whole bunch of them. So same kind of tin pocket before you can go the preset manager and save out those swatches as like a set of swatches. What is also interesting is when you open the color picker. We have all these choices, of course, of course, for how we choose a color, including percentages and numbers from different color schemes that people use. But one thing that's kind of interesting. Let me set this up so we can actually use it if you're in photo shop and you open the color picker, the color picker and the eyedropper can actually sample color from anywhere, not just your photograph. So when I move over to the photograph, there's my eye dropper and it's saying, there's that color. There's that color. But if I click and hold on my photograph and then drag look of that, I'm now outside. Of course, that's bridge, and I'm actually picking colors from photographs I don't even have open. I'm just seeing them in bridge. If that was a Web browser and that was the corporate colors of company ABC, I could go to their website. Okay, that's the calling to use for this particular project. So the eyedropper is really smart. It can pick up color from anywhere. The trick is you have to open the color picker, start in the window, and then when you move outside, it can pick something else up from any where you can see. And it could be an interface. That could be another photo. It could be a logo. Doesn't matter. Eso again if you haven't actually opened it yet, and especially if it's on a website, I wanna download it open and just want to say I want that color right there. Once you've done that, then it will tell you what how the color is made up and when it's made up of. And it will tell you Hexi decimal values and again right from in here. If you want to, you can add to this watches as well. So the more you do that, then you start building up collections of colors that you can actually use. Adobe has another app. I talked yesterday briefly about the brush app. There's also an app called cooler and act sorry. It's now called Adobe Color, which is another app on your phone where you can point your phone at a color scheme, and it senses the colors. When you click OK or click the button, it captures it a set of swatches and, for example, in here in my library here is a color scheme that I pointed my phone at something and it said We'll hear some color So now I can make use of those in a project so there's lots of different ways you can get color if you do have the other APS in the Adobe program, you can also, um, export swatches from one program to use in another self years and with a corporate customer who says, I use these colors of my corporate colors from illustrator they can export them for you in a, um ah mode called Adobe Swatch Exchange, which means it's a generic format that all adobe app skin using loaded Mintier swatches panel. That way, there's lots of ways of getting color. Another thing, which is a little more unusual but kind of interesting is if you're looking at a photograph like this and trying to see, I just wanna get a sense as to what colors Aaron here. Overall, I find sometimes if it's too much information, I get overwhelmed with trying to choose a color. So this is another case where I might decide to temporarily take advantage of things like some of the smart filters and do things again like, let's do this one surface blur. If you do surface, blur a lot. It's kind of taking away some of the detail and just letting you look at kind of spotting colors. That's one possibility. Sometimes we want to see. Is there an overriding kind of color feel to this image overall, so another option would be to do the filter, and there's one that's called average blur average. And it averages at all the colors that, well, the overriding look of this is that particular color something. Use that for color correction, or it's a nice way to pick kind of a complimentary color that goes with something you're doing. So that's another option as well. And because of smart filter, of course I can say OK, never mind, Don't want to do that. Wants to throw that away. Go back to where it waas.
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Ratings and Reviews
karlafornia
I like Dave's teaching style: methodical, well-organized, VERY knowledgeable, interesting, relevant, and delivered with a really good sense of humor (he's a very snappy dresser, too!). Most of all, his lessons are most useful in teaching me how to save time processing my photos in a NON-destructive way and with a stream-lined workflow. This particular class is not only versed in technique, but I LOVE how he encourages creativity through experimentation and "playing" and pushing the envelop with the program. that is not as scary as it sounds because Dave is all about working with smart objects, smart filters and other such ways designed to save us from destroying our photos or work that has to be redone or scrapped because we went down a road of no return.
a Creativelive Student
Dave has a brilliant (as well as humorous) way of teaching and I always learn something new from him. I have purchased many of his previous classes and love every one of them! Thank you for another great course!