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 Retouching: Glass Glare
in the last section. I kind of on the fly mentioned about glass glare. And I hate to just leave something hanging like imagine in your head that we're doing this. I want to touch on that before I move on. Because I did look around. I knew I was pretty sure I had photos on here where I had done this example. So here's that same guy with some glare of his glasses and I asked him trying to keep relatively still, and I did not have a tripod. So I was holding my camera tryingto keep my camera fairly still and then took a second photo where he'd taken his glasses off. So those are the two photos I have. I'm gonna take both of them and shoes to load them into Photoshopped layers. That means two layers in the same document. Now, when I look at it, you can see there's some movement going on there, and obviously, when it where his eyes are are the most important thing, so they don't quite line up. So I'm gonna ask photo shop to see if it can help, and I'll try that first. So I select both layers...
I have my move tool selected and depending on your version of photo shop in my version, there is now little button right here for auto align layers. If you don't see that button you call the Edit menu and she was auto align layers. So either way, what this does. It's a pretty magical thing, because when you do that, it attempts to see if it can't line both layers up to see. Now it's still a little off, but it's really, really close. So the manual way to line up two layers if you're kind of if, you know there are things that are the same like his eyes. If you change the take the top layer, change the blend mode to difference. Anywhere where the two layers are identical, it'll be Jet Black. So I'm gonna try and nudge this with my move tool and make it so that I don't see anything. They're just black where his I should be. So it's much easier on this monitor. Let's look over here and do it just kind of nudging around. I'm trying to get really close. I'm not. May not be jet black, but you can see it's It's pretty black at this point. So now let's put that back normal. So now all I need to do is on this layer. This is the layer with the glasses on it. I add a layer mask, take my paintbrush. It's like a bigger brush. See what I'm doing here with black as my foreman color. And I just mask the area where I'm seeing the glare in the glasses and what I'm doing is showing through to his I layer below just like that, being very careful not to mask this area cause I don't want the edge of his glasses to go away. But look at the difference there. Where I'm sorry. Do it this way. So you see the eyes air moving slightly. But remember, I've also zoomed into very high zoom to see that back. A normal view. All we're really seeing is glare going away. Okay, so I want to show you that because just saying it out loud didn't seem to be as effective as showing how the hard part is remembering at the time, we were taking a portrait to tell the person to take the glasses off and not do it when you've changed anything else, you can't walk away and go. Oh, wait and walk back and try and get exactly the same angles. You want to do it at that moment when you're of the same place, you're holding the camera Still etcetera. So anyway, I just wanted to throw that in there since I was able to find it.
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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!