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
Create Sharable Actions
Now let's look at how we can enhance actions to make them more user friendly, especially if you're gonna share them with other people. In one of the other lessons that is part of the complete guide. We had one called advanced retouching in. In that lesson, I used in action that comes with that lesson that was called Frequency Separation. And I have that action here, and you can see all the steps that contained within. The problem is not everybody is going to be using an action within a few days of creating it. It might be a year before you end up deciding you need to use an action again. And so if I happen to have that action that came with the advanced retouching lesson when you played it, it did something in Gazi and Blur came up. And if you start applying this action a year after you acquired it, you might not remember what he is supposed to do when Ghazi Ambler comes up in. So let's figure out how we could put instructions into her action to tell the user of the action what they sh...
ould be doing. So here I'm gonna click cancel. I'm gonna revert our image back. So it's like the original in Let's see, we can modify this action to add instructions. We were right at this step of Gazi and Blur. I want to put in what's called a stop directly before that. If I want to put it in before that, I need to click on the step above, because any time you record a new step in your action, it's always added directly about blow the step you are working on now I want to go to the side menu and there is a choice called Insert Stop in Start Stop means in certain message that's going to stop the action in prompt the user in some way. So if I choose insert stop, I can type a message. I can say, Uh, when you continue this action for out, I'll say it this way Anyway. I'm telling them in this particular action what you're supposed to do. He's blur the image until just the fine detail goes away. But you can still recognize objects, and so I somewhat worded that. Then, at the bottom, there is an allow continue button that if you turn that on when this message appears, there will be a choice of continuing. And if they were to hit it, the action will just continue on. If you don't turn on, allow, continue. What it means is what you're requesting is something they need to do. That might be a multi step action. It might be telling them, Go open a picture of a texture You like war type in your name or something else that I couldn't just let the action continue. So I'm gonna turn on allow, continue click OK, And now if you look in my action, you'll find there's a new step. It's called Stop, and if you expand it, it just have the text that's in there and let's see what happens now. When I play this action, click on the name of the action. I'm gonna end up clicking the play button, and now it tells me the exact text that I typed in Gazi Ambler shows up. Adjust the amount until the ships a fine instead of file. All right, then I'm gonna click OK or click Continue, I should say, and then Ghazi and blur shows up. And now I have an idea of what I'm supposed to do. There's the fine detail. Fine detail is gone right about there. Click OK, and now it's done what it's needed to now. I had a typo in there. How do we fix a typo? Why fine which step it's in? Send that step called Stop expanded and right there is a tax. Just double click on this. It will bring open the step that you had the and I can change the text look OK and we can modify. Then there's one other thing you might want to end up doing in your actions. Let's say you have an action that ends up adding space to your document. And whenever you're done applying that action, what you wish it would do would be zoom out so you could fit the image in the window that you're currently looking at. Well, when you're recording in action, there's a whole bunch of commands that are completely ignored when you record in action, and that is any step that does not have the potential of changing the contents of your picture and changing your view like the zoom in zoom out kind of you would end up not changing the true contents of the file that's there, and therefore it's just ignored. If you end up, watch a record a brand new action and I'll call it zoom to fit. And if I end up going to the view menu insane, I want to view it at 200% view. And then I come out here and say, Let's zoom in further look in my actions panel and notice it's not recording anything at all. Or if I use keyboard shortcuts like Command zero to zoom out. Not recorded all because that doesn't change the contents of the file and therefore the actions panel ignores it. So how can you have it? Apply those things even though they're usually ignored? Here's how you can do it if you go to the side menu. The actions panel There is a choice called insert menu item, and if I choose insert menu item, then a little screen comes up and it's just waiting for me to choose something from one of the men use. If I go to the window, our view menus and I choose fit on screen now, it just wrote down the name of whatever I chose from a menu. I click OK, and now that's a step in my action. An instance of when you might want to do that is, let's say that one of the steps in your action, uh, sharpens and image well in order to see sharpening, you shouldn't be zoomed out in your picture. You really should be viewing it 100% view to actually see the effect of that sharpening. So why not have a step in your action that inserts a menu item? And it just has you go to the View menu in Choose 100% view. That means you're seeing all the detail in the image. Then, after it goes beyond the step that sharpens your picture, if it's asking you for settings for the sharpening, that is. Then afterwards, again insert menu item in, Tell it to fit on screen at the end of the action so it doesn't end up being zoomed in all the way on your image. So actions take a while to get used to, and there's a lot of trouble shooting involved. But I find it's really worth it for anything that's either repetitive, extremely complex or something where you just not gonna remember the steps? Then see if it's something you might be able to record as an action.
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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!!!