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
Quick Mask
so some of the techniques will be using later on throughout the course to create elements that will be using in some way involved, making a selection and making sure that selection is fairly accurate. So there's lots of different techniques to make selections in photo shop. Of course, I'm not gonna go through a lot of them. I just want to talk about one particular aspect of it that can help you when you're trying to make a selection of, you will see it again. Maurin action later on with things like patterns of things of that nature. But one of things that's always struck me as being kind of unusual about photo shop is when you make a selection with whatever tool your using. The way that that that selection is displayed is with that flashing line that some people call the marching ants and which is fine. But the problem for me was always if I wanted to really tell if I had an accurate selection or not, it was almost like the marching answer in the way, because I couldn't really tell. Di...
d I get that edge completely where I wanted lined up or not? So what I used to do was do something with it like I copied in another document or something, just to see if I had it looking okay or not. So one of things that I now suggest I'm gonna get a little closer here so we can see what's happening is when you've made a selection and you're at a point where you think it looks pretty close to what you want. But you're kind of tell, Did that really line up exactly where I want is? There's a function called Quick Mask. I'm just gonna make sure clear my screen Gargamel screen redraw thing there. OK, there we go. So quick mask. What it does is it uses a similar principle to a layer mask, but the term quick means temporary. Just for a moment. It's not anything you add, and it's going to their forever. This is like temporary way of viewing something differently, and the simplest way to access that has just tapped the letter. Q. On your keyboard, you for quick mask. What that does is now puts this color overlay and shows you your selection in a very different way. So instead of seeing flashing line and trying to think it is that really what I want or not? Now, whatever is red is not selected. Whatever doesn't have red is your selection. So if you're trying to really accurately see how my doing here now you can really see where those edges are and is it really looking the way you want? So the purpose of quick mask is to help you make sure you get in good selection. Having said that, there are things we can do in quick mass that will be techniques we can use for other purposes. But for example, if I've made even a simple rectangular selection like this and I want to make sure it's exactly lining up where I want each time I press letter acute goes in and out of quick mask. So tap que go in a quick mass tapped, you go back out again. So one way to use it is simply going to quick mask. Look at it, identify the areas that you need to fix and then go back out of it and fix it in some way. So, for example, I might take my marquee selection tool. Hold on the shift key and say I also want this part added to my selection. So when you hold on the shifty and adds to the selection now when I press Q, you can see this election has been attitude. One of the ways that I use it quite a bit is, especially if you have a really busy document and we're gonna be talking about deliberately using photos with lots of information to use for some other purpose. But then it makes it even harder to see where your selection is. So when you're in this regular mode, not in quick mask there is a function called transformed selection, which puts handles on, and now you can start to drag it. But sometimes it's still a little hard to see where those handles are. So one of things that I do quite often is I'll go into quick mask and then use traditional free transform. So Commander Control T. Now you're transforming the quick mask. But as a result, see how much easier it is to see where everything is because you got that red overlay all the time. So now if you're trying to line thing up perfectly toe a particular spot. Instead of dealing with those hard to see marching ants, you're It's very clear what's happening due to this quick mask. So this particular case, if that was now lined out properly, I'd hit enter to finalize the transformation and then Q to go back to regular mo to be ready now to do something with that. So in this demonstration, I'm not gonna end up doing anything with this selection, because that's for later on. But this is The whole purpose of quick mask is we're talking about is to identify an interesting possibility. Now this works with any selection. So if you started with last, so are quick selection tool or pen tool made a selection Anything. Once you feel like you're fairly close to getting what you want, then quick mask is a nice way toe toe. Make sure it looks the way you want by default. Quick masters this button wait out the bottom you can barely see in the bottom corner if you just click on it. It's the other way of turning. That's why. Press letter Q. Because easier. But let's say that we were trying to make a selection of a red apple. If you have a red overlay in a red apple, it's a little hard to see your eyes, I think get used to it. But if you ever want to change it, you can double click on it and then pick some other color. So if it it's easier to be fluorescent green instead, then that means now my quick mask. That really disturbs me, seeing that cause I'm so using a red. But if you need it to you, that's how you would change it. Some people also like it to be more than 50% by default. It's 50% you can sort of see through to the areas, so that part's completely up to you personally. I just like it read like it normally is. And then when I do get that colored overlay, so just so you understand what's happening here. When, before we talked about a layer mask, we saw that there was that separate thing on the layers panel. That's my mask you'll see here. That's not showing there, so it's not the same as a layer mask from that perspective. However, if I look in the channels panel and make this little bigger so you can see it. You can see there's my look, the same kind of equivalent of that black and white mass like a layer mask. Differences. It's temporary. As soon as I go back out a quick mask, it goes away again. So the purpose of this is not to make any kind of ongoing thing you can use on a regular basis. It's I'm trying to make a selection that's fairly accurate, and I want to just test it to make sure there's another purpose that we can use it for. That we'll see a little later on, we start making edges and borders. That's an interesting work around, a bit of a problem we run into in photo shop that uses quick mask. Okay, now, just to put another thought in your head. Quick, Massive. Been around for a long time. Just the letter Q. Refine Edge is been in photo shop, probably since I want to say CS six, maybe something like that and its purpose normally is to take a selection of something challenging like, say, horse, with its main flying in the wind. You're trying to make that tricky selection, but I also use it sometimes again, just as a way to kind of do a double check to make sure my selection is accurate, but within another couple of different ways. So with any selection active, if you go to refine edge, you'll see it pops up with this view. And right now it's in ah, view called on layers, which is why you're seeing transparency. But as I look through them, you can see that's just like normal marching ants. But overlay it's the same as quick mask on black means. Show me my selection. Make everything else black on white, show me my selection, make everything else white, just the mask itself, or on layers and have transparency. So even though I'm not gonna actually use refine edge to make the edge any different in one dialog box, this gives me multiple ways to look at my selection and see if it's really what I want or not. Of course, depending what you're doing, you might also choose to move a slight or two in a fine edge, but the main point is that there are multiple ways to look at it. My only minor beef with it is I wish the keyboard shortcuts were the same like this instead of saying V for overlay was que for a quick mask. Is that really what it is? So if you're a keyboard shortcut person that throws you off a little bit, but this is another nice way just to kind of make sure for them whatever I'm going to do next that my selection is the park that I want. And when we talk later on about things like patterns, this becomes particularly important because making your initial selection very accurately will help you a whole lot when you're trying to make things like repeating patterns of things of that nature. Okay, so in this particular case, really, all I would do is hit. Cancel, because I was only using this for the purpose of making sure it looked the way that I want. Okay, so quick mask. We will use it in two different ways. One is just If we're trying to make a selection, want us, make sure it's in the right place for things like patterns, but also as a creative technique to make edges and borders one. The ways we can do that is actually doing an extra step in quick mass, which is a little bit interesting and different and unusual
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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.
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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!