Photoshop for Beginners: Essential Training
Lesson 43 of 49Camera Raw: Graduated Filter
Mark Wallace
Photoshop for Beginners: Essential Training
Mark Wallace
Lesson Info
43. Camera Raw: Graduated FilterLessons
Class Introduction
00:52 2Introducing Photoshop
02:37 3The Class Materials
01:36 4How To Open Files
01:42 5Using The Home Screen
02:35 6Exploring The Interface
03:30 7Getting Additional Help
01:36 8Understanding Workspaces
05:11Tools and The Options Bar
03:50 10Why You Should Use a Tablet
04:31 11Finding Hidden Tools
04:23 12How to See What You’re Working On
08:12 13Selecting Things
08:01 14More Selection Tools
12:25 15Testing the Magic Wand and Quick Selection Tools
07:25 16The History Palette – Undoing Things
05:24 17Resolution and Bit Depth
07:03 18Photoshop Preferences
01:31 19Menu and Item Shortcut Keys
02:39 20Non-Destructive Editing
02:57 21Working with Layers
12:19 22Groovy 3 Exercise
11:43 23Layer Effects and Styles
05:38 24Layer Masks – Karen on Beans
08:33 25Using Adjustment Layers
05:38 26Martian Karen
03:37 27Advanced Compositing Using Layers
08:43 28Non-Destructive Editing Techniques
05:22 29Understanding Smart Objects
07:28 30Smart Sharpen
06:42 31Understanding Histogram
06:24 32Adjusting Curves
03:48 33The Healing Brush Tools
10:26 34The Clone Stamp Tool
07:47 35The Burn and Dodge Tools
05:55 36Understanding RAW Files
01:44 37Adobe Camera Raw
04:18 38XMP Sidecar Files
02:14 39Camera Raw: Edit
12:24 40Camera Raw: Crop & Rotate
03:13 41Camera Raw: Spot Removal
04:56 42Camera Raw: Adjustment Brush
08:17 43Camera Raw: Graduated Filter
05:40 44Camera Raw: Radial Filter
05:11 45Camera Raw: Red-Eye Removal
02:04 46Camera Raw: Snapshots and Presets
09:39 47Neural Filters
10:09 48Portrait Retouching Session
36:53 49Scenic Retouching Session
11:25Lesson Info
Camera Raw: Graduated Filter
let's take a look at the graduated filter. It's similar to the adjustment brush, but it's used for areas when you have a hard line so I'm going to disappear from the video right here so you can see exactly what I'm doing. And over here on the right hand side, I have this graduated filter. Notice here we have these very strong vertical lines in the image and right here on this one, the glass is not tinted and so we have a different color temperature than we do here. Maybe we have different exposures. So if I wanna change just this area right here, I could brush that all in but there's a better way to do it. I can use a graduated filter. So I'm going to grab the graduated filter over here and then I'm going to click and drag. Okay, so now I'm doing this intentionally. You can see we have a green side and a red side. If I take my exposure and go very far down, you can see that on the green side of this filter, that's the area that's applying this selective edit. In this case it's an expos...
ure on the red side, that's where nothing is being changed. And between these two things, that's the transition area where the filter is fading from fully on to fully off. So you can change how big that transition is from a lot to not very much. You can also click in the middle and move this filter around so you can put it anywhere you want. You can also click on the outside and you can drag this around so you can move it any way you want. You can have it horizontal or vertical. And so the farther out you choose to move this, the more control that you have. And so I'm going to move this over. I accidentally just created a new one. I don't want to do that. Someone had delete to get rid of that. Don't click on this, click right in the middle and move that over to this and that is lined up pretty well. I'm going to make the transition a little bit tighter and now I just want that exposure to be just very, very soft. Maybe something like negative 25, you know, maybe take the tent down a little bit. So now I have matched this area with this area. We can see that. So I'm turning it off, turning it on. It's a very subtle thing but you can see how this graduated filter really makes a big difference. I'm gonna hit okay on this to return to Photoshop and then I want to go over remember we opened in the previous session, this beach image. So what I want to do with this is double click on that layer. We go into adobe camera raw. I'm gonna go back here to the graduated filter. This is where graduated filters really come in handy. Now one of the things I'm noticing right away is this is crooked. So just because it bothers me. I'm gonna go up to the crop tool, I'm gonna click on this little level here. I am going to click on the horizon and it's going to fix that for me. So now that's fixed. Let's go back here to the graduated filter and now we want to work with the sky and the foreground independent of each other. So I'm gonna fit this in the screen. We've got our graduated filter. I'm going to reset these selective edits so I can start from scratch. Then I've got my uh my graduated filter here when I click and drag, Okay, we can't really see anything here. So let's see what we're doing. There we go. Remember the green side is the side with the filter. The red side is the side without the filter. So I'm gonna make this transition area something about like this. And make sure that I have this lined up with the horizon. I'll pull this up just a little bit and now let's do some things to this sky here. So let's make the whites really white. Let's make the color temperature a little warmer. Let's make the texture much higher. So we're only affecting the sky. We're not doing anything to the bottom area of this image. And so that works much much better. So the other thing that we're noticing here is with this transition area or messing up these rocks or doing some transitions to these rocks here and so I don't want to do that. So what I can do here is look at this, I have a paintbrush and an eraser. So we can, we can combine the features of the adjustment brush with the graduated filter. So let's look at our mask option to see where we've done our edits. You can see that we've got a bunch of white over here, meaning that this filter is applying itself to these rocks. So what I can do is get the eraser and I'm going to get a brush that's about 05, looks pretty good. That feather is pretty good. And then what I can do is I can come over here and just on the rocks, I can paint off that graduated filter. Just gonna paint that off when they get a smaller brush, paint that off right there. So we've got the filter on the ocean, but not the rocks. So I am going to turn that off now. We can turn off the overlay to sort of see that and the eyeball, that's before, that's after. So we've changed just this area of the image using a graduated filter with the benefit of painting off and on some areas like an adjustment brush. This is a really fantastic tool
Class Description
AFTER THIS CLASS YOU’LL BE ABLE TO:
- Navigate and customize the Photoshop interface.
- Edit images using non-destructive techniques.
- Use layers and layer masks to create composite images.
- Retouch portraits using advanced retouching techniques.
- Develop scenic photos using tonal and color correction techniques.
ABOUT MARK'S CLASS:
The perfect workshop series for Adobe Photoshop beginners. This class assumes that you are new to Photoshop and want to learn how to retouch and adjust your images.
This workshop is a comprehensive overview ofAdobe Photoshop. By the end of this workshop you’ll have the skills you need to edit your images using Photoshop.
These sessions are jam packed with hands-on activities which allow you to learn by doing. Sample files are included with the workshop so you can follow along with hands-on exercises.
The sessions begin with a solid foundation and add new techniques and principles until you have mastered your post-production workflow.
By the end of this workshop you’ll have a clear understanding of the Adobe Photoshop interface, and the most commonly used tools. You’ll be able to edit scenic and portrait photos. You’ll have a solid understanding of color correction and skin retouching.
This workshop has everything you need to master Adobe Photoshop.
WHO THIS CLASS IS FOR:
- Photographers with little or no experience with Photoshop.
- Photographers with limited or no experience with Lightroom or other post-production software.
- Portrait photographers who want to know how to do basic skin retouching.
- Scenic photographers who want to know how to do basic color and tonal corrections.
- Photographers who want to know how to do basic compositing.
SOFTWARE USED:
Adobe Photoshop 2021
Adobe Bridge 2021
Adobe Creative Cloud (all apps)
ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR:
Mark Wallace is a photographer based in the United States. Best known for his web-based video series Digital Photography One on One and Exploring Photography sponsored by Adorama.
Millions of people have watched Mark’s videos on YouTube, and the numbers continue to grow. Mark has a strong social media following on Facebook and Twitter, where he spends time interacting with viewers and workshop attendees.
In 2014, Mark left the United States to embark on a 2-year worldwide adventure. He visited 28 countries and captured thousands of unique photographs across the globe.
In 2016 Mark decided to give up planes, trains, and automobiles and is now exploring the world on his motorcycle.
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Katie
Mark did a great job at explaining things and going over them multiple times throughout the lessons. My only issue was that sometimes it went a little faster than I could keep up and I needed to rewind it a bit and start again. But from someone who has never worked in photoshop before I 100% recommend this class to anyone trying to learn.