Lessons
Introduction To Adobe Photoshop
04:05 2Bridge vs. Lightroom
06:39 3Tour of Photoshop Interface
18:21 4Overview of Bridge Workspace
07:42 5Overview of Lightroom Workspace
11:21 6Lightroom Preferences - Saving Documents
08:19 7How To Use Camera Raw in Adobe Photoshop 2020
05:10 8Overview of Basic Adjustment Sliders
13:09Developing Raw Images
30:33 10Editing with the Effects and HLS Tabs
09:12 11How to Save Images
03:37 12Using the Transform Tool
04:48 13Making Selections in Adobe Photoshop 2020
06:03 14Selection Tools
05:55 15Combining Selection Tools
07:37 16Using Automated Selection Tools
17:34 17Quick Mask Mode
05:07 18Select Menu Essentials
21:28 19Using Layers in Adobe Photoshop 2020
13:00 20Align Active Layers
07:29 21Creating a New Layer
06:15 22Creating a Clipping Mask
03:02 23Using Effects on Layers
11:24 24Using Adjustment Layers
16:44 25Using the Shape Tool
04:39 26Create a Layer Mask Using the Selection Tool
04:39 27Masking Multiple Images Together
15:15 28Using Layer Masks to Remove People
10:50 29Using Layer Masks to Replace Sky
10:04 30Adding Texture to Images
09:11 31Layering to Create Realistic Depth
05:35 32Adjustment Layers in Adobe Photoshop 2020
05:29 33Optimizing Grayscale with Levels
10:59 34Adjusting Levels with a Histogram
03:37 35Understanding Curves
06:18 36Editing an Image Using Curves
18:41 37Editing with Shadows/Highlights Adjustment
07:19 38Dodge and Burn Using Quick Mask Mode
07:14 39Editing with Blending Modes
08:04 40Color Theory
05:59 41Curves for Color
16:52 42Hue and Saturation Adjustments
08:59 43Isolating Colors Using Hue/Saturation Adjustment
13:33 44Match Colors Using Numbers
16:59 45Adjusting Skin Tones
05:25 46Retouching Essentials In Adobe Camera Raw
10:52 47Retouching with the Spot Healing Brush
07:53 48Retouching with the Clone Stamp
06:51 49Retouching with the Healing Brush
04:34 50Retouching Using Multiple Retouching Tools
13:07 51Extending an Edge with Content Aware
03:42 52Clone Between Documents
13:19 53Crop Tool
10:07 54Frame Tool
02:59 55Eye Dropper and Color Sampler Tools
08:14 56Paint Brush Tools
13:33 57History Brush Tool
06:27 58Eraser and Gradient Tools
03:06 59Brush Flow and Opacity Settings
04:17 60Blur and Shape Tools
11:06 61Dissolve Mode
09:24 62Multiply Mode
15:29 63Screen Mode
14:08 64Hard Light Mode
14:54 65Hue, Saturation, and Color Modes
11:31 66Smart Filters
11:32 67High Pass Filter
13:40 68Blur Filter
05:59 69Filter Gallery
07:42 70Adaptive Wide Angle Filter
04:43 71Combing Filters and Features
04:45 72Select and Mask
20:04 73Manually Select and Mask
08:08 74Creating a Clean Background
21:19 75Changing the Background
13:34 76Smart Object Overview
08:37 77Nested Smart Objects
09:55 78Scale and Warp Smart Objects
09:08 79Replace Contents
06:55 80Raw Smart Objects
10:20 81Multiple Instances of a Smart Object
12:59 82Creating a Mockup Using Smart Objects
05:42 83Panoramas
13:15 84HDR
11:20 85Focus Stacking
04:02 86Time-lapse
11:18 87Light Painting Composite
08:05 88Remove Moire Patterns
06:11 89Remove Similar Objects At Once
09:52 90Remove Objects Across an Entire Image
05:46 91Replace a Repeating Pattern
06:50 92Clone from Multiple Areas Using the Clone Source Panel
10:27 93Remove an Object with a Complex Background
07:49 94Frequency Separation to Remove Staining and Blemishes
12:27 95Warping
11:03 96Liquify
14:02 97Puppet Warp
12:52 98Displacement Map
10:36 99Polar Coordinates
07:19 100Organize Your Layers
11:02 101Layer Styles: Bevel and Emboss
02:59 102Layer Style: Knockout Deep
12:34 103Blending Options: Blend if
13:18 104Blending Options: Colorize Black and White Image
06:27 105Layer Comps
08:30 106Black-Only Shadows
06:07 107Create a Content Aware Fill Action
08:46 108Create a Desaturate Edges Action
07:42 109Create an Antique Color Action
13:52 110Create a Contour Map Action
10:20 111Faux Sunset Action
07:20 112Photo Credit Action
05:54 113Create Sharable Actions
07:31 114Common Troubleshooting Issues Part 1
10:23 115Common Troubleshooting Issues Part 2
07:57 116Image Compatibility with Lightroom
03:29 117Scratch Disk Is Full
06:02 118Preview Thumbnail
02:10Lesson Info
Blur and Shape Tools
all right, we have other tools in our tools panel we have not gotten to yet. Let's move down just below our Grady int tool. We have a tool that looks like a drop of water. That's the blur tool, and the blur tool can be used to blur your photograph, of course. So if I come in here and I want something to not be as crisp, I could use this tool in just paint across an area and the more I paint the blurrier gets. But it's rare for me to do something like that, too. A photograph. It's not rare at all for me to do it. When using other features and photoshopped me see if I can show you an example. Let's say I made a selection. Maybe I used the quick selection tool, and I paint it over this guy's head in his arms in that a refined it a little bit. Right now I'm holy now Option Ultima windows, which takes away see if I can refine it just a little bit in ah session that we had. That was about selections. I used a feature that's called quick mask mode, So if you're not familiar with it. Be sure y...
ou watch the complete guide session on selections, but to use quick mask mode, I ended up having a selection on my screen, and then I ended up typing the letter. Q. I'm gonna do that right now, and it's going to take the selection I have and display this quick mask gives me a red over life. Well, often times I find that that transition between this area that's read that indicates it's not selected in the area that doesn't have run on it is to crisp. It's too abrupt of a transition. Maybe it's something like his arm here is getting to be out of focus. And if it's getting to be out of focus, then I might need that edge to be softer. So matches the edge quality of the picture. And if that's the case, then let me see if I can create this condition. I'll make a crisp edge here. His arm is slightly out of focus there. Well, then I'm gonna end up grabbing that blur tool and with the Blur tool active, I just come in here and I'm blurring the edge of the mask when I paint to try to get it to match the blurring us of the edge of his arm, because that's the type of selection I would need if I wanted to truly isolate that person accurately. So any time I end up with the selection that looks like it's too crisp of an edge, especially when viewed in quick mask mode, I get into quick Mass by typing Q. And then I grabbed that blur tool and I'll go right around the edge and therefore I can get a selection that boasts, has a crisp edge near the top and has a softer edge near the bottom. Now there are all sorts of other tools will use a lot of them and other sessions, but the one I might want to talk about now is the shape tool. Let's create a brand new document for that, and I want to show you how the shape tool, which allows you to draw very simple shapes If you look at the shapes that air here we have rectangles, rounded corner rectangles, ellipse, polygon line and custom custom. When you choose it at the top of your screen in the options bar, there'll be a choice over here called shape. And if you click there, you'll have all sorts of different shapes to choose from. Well, sometimes you don't find the custom shape you want, and you just can't find it here, too. Use what you likes. I want to show you how you can create more complex shapes using these simple original ones that are available in this case, I'm gonna use the polygon. And what I'm gonna end up doing is I'm gonna click on my image and drag and you'll see that you get a polygon. If I drank straight down and I hold the shift key shift will ensure that I'm moving straight down instead about an angle. I'm gonna create something that looks about like that. Now let's see how we can make that a much more complex shape. I'm gonna come in here and go to the edit menu, and there's a choice in here called Free Transform in. Since I'm working on a path that says free transform path when I choose that I could get a transformation and I could end up rotating this. But right now I'm limited to rotating this by pivoting it around this center of this object. They made a change a while ago. In photo shop. There used to be a cross hair in the center. If you ever transformed something and to simplify things because people didn't know what that cross hair meant, they took it away. But if you turn on this little check box in your options bar right there, when you're transforming that little cross here in the middle comes back. That's what it used to look like. An old versions of photo shop. That's the pivot point. And that means if I rotate something rotated around there, well, I'm gonna click there and drag it down here in the middle of my document. So now if I rotate, it's gonna pivot around here. So when I grab this, you can see that it would go all the way around like that. But when I rotate it right now, it'll let me rotate it to any angle. If you hold down the shift key wind roads heading, it's gonna limit you to 15% increments, I believe. And if I go right to about there now, the tips of the polygon kind of matches, so I'll do that now The problem is, it ended up moving the original. I wish it would have moved a duplicate. Well, I'm gonna come up here and there's a choice. When you choose, Transform called again. And that means to use the exact same settings I just used. So there I can get another one. So then there's a way to get it to duplicate as it transforms. Well, it happens to be that in photo shop, if you hold down the option key when you tell it to do it again, option, which is alter Windows, means to do it on a duplicate. So I just went in here and I found what is the keyboard shortcut for again? It's shift command T. So I was just typing a keyboard shortcut, and I type that one. But I added the option Kia's well, all time windows. So that means what I was typing was shift option command T on a Mac. That would be shift Ault control T and Windows, and that ended up duplicating the shape each time it was transformed. And I get this Well, then, if I change my tool here, I'm gonna grab the Ellipse tool which will allow me to draw a circle or oval. And I'm gonna click in the center of this. And there's actually a way to find the center by doing what you do is with this whole layer active you transform. But you have to get the whole thing selected, and then you can pull out guides to march the center. I'm not gonna do that right now, but I'm gonna grab this a lips tool and in the options bar, you can tell How is it going to interact with things up here? Should have created new one or should add or subtract. I choose that it should add to this. If I got it set correctly, I'm gonna click in the middle and then I'm gonna draw like that in order to be able to do it from the center, you have to hold on the option key Ultima windows. Then I can tell it to subtract war. I can tell it to combine, which is gonna add, and you can get us fancy as you want here. Go out to about there on a new shape and then I'll tell it to subtract so you can see how I've made a gear out of otherwise simple shapes. And so with this, you can create really complex shapes using simple tools as long as you experiment, and each time you use the shape tool you come up here and look to see. Is it gonna make a brand new layer? Where is it going to combine with what's already there or take away from it? And I happen to use some of those features in order to start with simple shapes, end up with complicated results in There's my Results. Then finally, if I want to style eyes this, I'm gonna go to the window menu and there's all sorts of panels we can use here, too stylized. This if I come in and choose, let's say my swatches panel. Well, here I got a bunch of colors I could use. If I just click on the colors, we can change what it looks like, but that looks a little boring just with a solid color in it. So let's go to the window menu. We could instead come here and use styles in styles we're gonna add like three D and drop shadows to it, so I'm just gonna click on the choices that are found in the styles menu or a panel to see if I can find something I like. They're nice with, with the edge on it. There are all sorts of panels that we can end up with their all found under the window menu, so experiment with what you have. The one that I would suggest you use quite frequently is one called color. The one called color, could be a replacement of your color picker and how usually I click on my foreground color and something shows up where I can change colors. Well, I can just do the same thing here. Just pick the general color you want from this vertical bar. Grab a shade of it from the big area. You can customize this by going to the side menu. I like using the one called Color Wheel because then I see a wheel of color and I can pick whatever color I want out of that and then in the middle, where there's a triangle, I can pick a shade of that color. And so that's one that I use quite frequently. Notice the color panel. Once I've gotten a color. I like Aiken. Store it here in the swatches panel at the bottom. Just hit the little plus sign and you'll store the color there. So all sorts of things we can do here with our tools in our panels It will take you quite a while before you really get a sense for all of them. I tried to go in there and show you the ones I use most frequently, but we will get into other ones. In other sessions here in Photoshopped, The Complete Guide.
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Noel Ice
I am an avid reader of photoshop books, and an avid watcher of photoshop tutorials. I have attended (internet) several hundred of presentations. In the course of this endeavor, I have found my own favorite photoshop websites and instructors. Creative Live is probably the bargain out there as well as among the top three internet course sites. I have to say with great enthusiasm that the best Photoshop instructor is Ben Willmore. There are many great ones, but truly, he is the best I have come across, and, as indicated above, I have watched literally 100s of tutorials on Photoshop. I have seen all of Ben's courses, I think, and among them, this one is the best by far, and that is saying a lot, because that makes this course the best course on Photoshop to be found anywhere. I am going back and watching it twice. Not only is it comprehensive, but Ben is so familiar with his subject that he is able to explain it like no other. This is crème de la crème of Photoshop classes. I have been wanting to write this review for some time because I have been so thoroughly impressed with everything about this class!
ford smith
Highly recommended if you want to take your Photoshop skills to the next level. Ben Willmore is clear, concise, and professional. He also has a good speaking voice that is not distracting but also keeps you engaged. Lastly, I would recommend that as you become more advanced, increasing the speed of the video (one of the options given on the menu)...especially if you've gone through the course once before and maybe want to watch it again. The double speed is very efficient as you become more advanced in Photoshop. Thanks for the help Ben!
a Creativelive Student
Wow. I cannot communicate the value of this course!! The true value in this course is how the instructor identifies workflows you'll need before you'll ever realize it, repeats important information without it becoming annoying, and explains the "why" behind the techniques so well that even if you forget the exact method, you can figure it out via the principles learned. Excellent value, excellent material, excellent instructor!!!