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Raw Smart Objects

Lesson 80 from: Adobe Photoshop: The Complete Guide Bootcamp

Ben Willmore

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Lesson Info

80. Raw Smart Objects

Lessons

Class Trailer
1

Introduction To Adobe Photoshop

04:05
2

Bridge vs. Lightroom

06:39
3

Tour of Photoshop Interface

18:21
4

Overview of Bridge Workspace

07:42
5

Overview of Lightroom Workspace

11:21
6

Lightroom Preferences - Saving Documents

08:19
7

How To Use Camera Raw in Adobe Photoshop 2020

05:10
8

Overview of Basic Adjustment Sliders

13:09
9

Developing Raw Images

30:33
10

Editing with the Effects and HLS Tabs

09:12
11

How to Save Images

03:37
12

Using the Transform Tool

04:48
13

Making Selections in Adobe Photoshop 2020

06:03
14

Selection Tools

05:55
15

Combining Selection Tools

07:37
16

Using Automated Selection Tools

17:34
17

Quick Mask Mode

05:07
18

Select Menu Essentials

21:28
19

Using Layers in Adobe Photoshop 2020

13:00
20

Align Active Layers

07:29
21

Creating a New Layer

06:15
22

Creating a Clipping Mask

03:02
23

Using Effects on Layers

11:24
24

Using Adjustment Layers

16:44
25

Using the Shape Tool

04:39
26

Create a Layer Mask Using the Selection Tool

04:39
27

Masking Multiple Images Together

15:15
28

Using Layer Masks to Remove People

10:50
29

Using Layer Masks to Replace Sky

10:04
30

Adding Texture to Images

09:11
31

Layering to Create Realistic Depth

05:35
32

Adjustment Layers in Adobe Photoshop 2020

05:29
33

Optimizing Grayscale with Levels

10:59
34

Adjusting Levels with a Histogram

03:37
35

Understanding Curves

06:18
36

Editing an Image Using Curves

18:41
37

Editing with Shadows/Highlights Adjustment

07:19
38

Dodge and Burn Using Quick Mask Mode

07:14
39

Editing with Blending Modes

08:04
40

Color Theory

05:59
41

Curves for Color

16:52
42

Hue and Saturation Adjustments

08:59
43

Isolating Colors Using Hue/Saturation Adjustment

13:33
44

Match Colors Using Numbers

16:59
45

Adjusting Skin Tones

05:25
46

Retouching Essentials In Adobe Camera Raw

10:52
47

Retouching with the Spot Healing Brush

07:53
48

Retouching with the Clone Stamp

06:51
49

Retouching with the Healing Brush

04:34
50

Retouching Using Multiple Retouching Tools

13:07
51

Extending an Edge with Content Aware

03:42
52

Clone Between Documents

13:19
53

Crop Tool

10:07
54

Frame Tool

02:59
55

Eye Dropper and Color Sampler Tools

08:14
56

Paint Brush Tools

13:33
57

History Brush Tool

06:27
58

Eraser and Gradient Tools

03:06
59

Brush Flow and Opacity Settings

04:17
60

Blur and Shape Tools

11:06
61

Dissolve Mode

09:24
62

Multiply Mode

15:29
63

Screen Mode

14:08
64

Hard Light Mode

14:54
65

Hue, Saturation, and Color Modes

11:31
66

Smart Filters

11:32
67

High Pass Filter

13:40
68

Blur Filter

05:59
69

Filter Gallery

07:42
70

Adaptive Wide Angle Filter

04:43
71

Combing Filters and Features

04:45
72

Select and Mask

20:04
73

Manually Select and Mask

08:08
74

Creating a Clean Background

21:19
75

Changing the Background

13:34
76

Smart Object Overview

08:37
77

Nested Smart Objects

09:55
78

Scale and Warp Smart Objects

09:08
79

Replace Contents

06:55
80

Raw Smart Objects

10:20
81

Multiple Instances of a Smart Object

12:59
82

Creating a Mockup Using Smart Objects

05:42
83

Panoramas

13:15
84

HDR

11:20
85

Focus Stacking

04:02
86

Time-lapse

11:18
87

Light Painting Composite

08:05
88

Remove Moire Patterns

06:11
89

Remove Similar Objects At Once

09:52
90

Remove Objects Across an Entire Image

05:46
91

Replace a Repeating Pattern

06:50
92

Clone from Multiple Areas Using the Clone Source Panel

10:27
93

Remove an Object with a Complex Background

07:49
94

Frequency Separation to Remove Staining and Blemishes

12:27
95

Warping

11:03
96

Liquify

14:02
97

Puppet Warp

12:52
98

Displacement Map

10:36
99

Polar Coordinates

07:19
100

Organize Your Layers

11:02
101

Layer Styles: Bevel and Emboss

02:59
102

Layer Style: Knockout Deep

12:34
103

Blending Options: Blend if

13:18
104

Blending Options: Colorize Black and White Image

06:27
105

Layer Comps

08:30
106

Black-Only Shadows

06:07
107

Create a Content Aware Fill Action

08:46
108

Create a Desaturate Edges Action

07:42
109

Create an Antique Color Action

13:52
110

Create a Contour Map Action

10:20
111

Faux Sunset Action

07:20
112

Photo Credit Action

05:54
113

Create Sharable Actions

07:31
114

Common Troubleshooting Issues Part 1

10:23
115

Common Troubleshooting Issues Part 2

07:57
116

Image Compatibility with Lightroom

03:29
117

Scratch Disk Is Full

06:02
118

Preview Thumbnail

02:10

Lesson Info

Raw Smart Objects

Now let's explore the concept of using a raw, smart object, open a finished image first, and then I'll kind of give you an idea of how it was created. Here is my finished image, and the original version is picture I really didn't like. Let's go back and look at it. I'll get rid of any settings that are attached to this so that you can see purely what the camera captured. This is what the original picture looked like into me. It looks dull. These areas on the side need to be brighter. Need to be more vibrant. The sky I wish had detail down here on my wife is I could barely see any detail in her face and her pants, and it just really didn't like it. Well, it was a raw file, so I double clicked on the raw file, which opened in Adobe camera raw, and it decided I wanted to make the sky look better. So I did things like I brought the highlight slider down until the sky started to look good. But any time you do that, anytime you adjust sliders like highlights, shadows, clarity in De Hayes, th...

ose four sliders have a tendency of creating halos, little glowy things, and I can start to see it right along here. You see, it kind of looks like this is glowing, A brighter shade. I can also see it along here where it looks like a darker little halo. They're so I might decide the highlight slider is not the best one to get this guy to be darker. Instead, if I brought exposure down, the entire picture would get darker along with it. And the sky would look good eventually. But I would avoid those halos, so I opened the image. But when I open it, I don't open it normally, not by clicking the open image button I hold down the shift key knowing that is gonna change that button toe open object. When I opened it as an object, I know I'm gonna have a smart object. And so if I have a smart object and I double click on the thumbnail for it, if it was a raw file that it contains, it should send me right back into camera so I could make additional changes. But I want to make changes that I can mask in using photo shops masking tools. So I want to duplicate that layer. There are many different ways of duplicating a layer. If I go to the layer menu right, there's duplicate layer or layer new FIA copy or drag it down the new layer icon. It doesn't really matter right now, but I'm gonna double click on the thumbnail for that copy of the layer, and I'm gonna make a radical change to it. It's not actually gonna be a change I desire. I just want to show you what's gonna happen in photo shop when I click on OK, watch my layers panel. Do you notice that both versions of the picture updated? It didn't just change the one I double clicked on. It changed them both. And that's because any time you duplicate a smart object, it thinks that you have multiple instances of the exact same content, not dissimilar to if you're in a word processor or a page layout program, and you place a logo that's stored on your hard drive more than once. You just placed the exact same file two or three times. Well, if it's linking back to the original contents and you make a change to that original contents, It might update all of those were going to get into that when it comes to it, actually being a useful feature, but for now, it's getting in our way. So I'm gonna choose, undo by typing commands E. And I'm gonna throw away that top layer because we need to duplicate it in a special way. I'm gonna choose layer smart objects. New smart object via copy. The key word here is new. This means to create a new, independent smart object that has no idea that it happened to be the same as another one is contained within it. It's not thought of as being two instances of the same content. No, when I choose new smart object via copy, it looks like I just duplicated the layer. But that layer is now independent of the women's below it. Let's double check to me. Sure, I'll double click on the thumb now for the layer. I'll change my exposure like it did before. Click OK. And if you look in the layers panel, you can now tell that that one is independent of this. I'll choose on Duke's. I didn't really want to make that change. And so remember, I did that by layer. Smart objects. New smart object via copy. Now let's actually double click on it, and I'm gonna optimize that for a different area. Let's say I'm gonna optimize this one for the area where my wife is standing. So for that, maybe I need to brighten the image a bit. Maybe I wanna lower the contrast a little, and may I want to bring out little shadow detail and I don't care what the rest of the picture looks like. Maybe adjust the white balance, warm up her skin a bit, and I'm gonna click. OK, well, we have two versions of the image, one that looks good. Where the sky is one that's gonna look good where my wife is. So now I'm going to make a selection. Let's say I made a selection here of where this guy is, and I need to take away the area where my wife is because it got that selected. Imagine I spent the time which I'm not going to do right now to get a relatively accurate selection around her. Well, now I'm gonna get the opposite of that because I'm gonna use the sky from the image that's underneath, and I'll add a layer mask. A layer mask is only going to keep the areas that are selected. The only area that's selected currently is everything. That's not the sky in the mountain behind. So now that could be put in. Now. If you followed our advanced masking session, you could figure out how toe touch up this selection over here because this is no different than working on ah Bird's wing, where you might end up with a selection that's inaccurate. But we could get that to be accurate in what I would end up doing here is simply duplicating this multiple times, each time making sure it's creating a new smart object and then masking where I need to use each version. I've already done that in a separate document, so I'm gonna close this one. I just want to make sure you knew how I got to there, and I will show you the end result. Here's the end result and I actually interpreted the settings for this file a total of five times. Let's turn off all those different versions, get to the base image. Here's the first version of the image in. So let's say we're going to use that version just for where these vines are were in a vineyard here, and I wasn't concerned with what Karen looked like. I wasn't concerned with what the sky looked like. I was just trying to get the vines toe look good. Then I said, New smart object via copy, and I ended up processing the image again. In this time, I did it for Karen's skin, and I'll put that in here. This one was actually done near the end. Eso it could be put in underneath because it would be covered up already. So here the masking didn't have to be precise. I can show you that at the end. For now, let me turn that off. Then the next one up was for just Karen's pants because she's wearing black pants. It was next to impossible to see any detail in it, so I processed the image just so you can see a little detail. The one above that was just for her shirt, and I went into Kamerad, adjusted it until I thought her shirt look good. The one on top is used up there or it's not red, and that was for the sky. Put in like that and then working a little bit lower than this. If I hide the very bottom layer just so you can see that's what's used on the upper layers, and you can see little holes where her hands are in things. If I had to put something underneath here to fill in those areas, that's where I did. Since that was put on later on, it didn't need to be masked. Quite is precisely. But it all depends if you know how to think about layer mast unmasking. So this is a total of five different camera raw settings applied to the exact same image and then using masks, I combined them together and be able to use a smart object. Made it so I could duplicate the layer into a new smart object. Double click on it in applied different camera settings, repeat the process over and over again and use layer mass to control where they show up. After doing that, I ended up doing a little bit of retouching, so if I turn on the layer above did just see like a yellow flower at the bottom, going away and a few other little distractions. And then I ended up applying some adjustments. And so here's what happens after I just the picture that's like what you would learn in the tonal adjustments lesson or the color adjustments lesson to put this image together. But one of the key elements of pulling it off was the use of a raw file loaded as a smart object and then duplicating it into a new smart object with that special command, which is layer smart objects. New smart object via copy. And that's what I often need to do to optimize a picture where I can't get it to look satisfactory using a single set of camera settings.

Class Materials

Bonus Materials with Purchase

Lessons 1 - 6 - Handbook 1: Introduction to Adobe Photoshop
Lessons 7 - 12 - Handbook 2: How to Use Camera Raw
Lessons 13 - 18 - Handbook 3: Making Selections
Lessons 19 - 24 - Handbook 4: Using Layers
Lessons 25 - 30 - Handbook 5: Using Layer Masks
Lessons 31 - 38 - Handbook 6: Using Adjustment Layers
Lessons 39 - 44 - Handbook 7: Color Theory
Lessons 45 - 51 - Handbook 8: Retouching Essentials
Lessons 52 - 59 - Handbook 9: Tools Panel
Lessons 60 - 64 - Handbook 10: Layer Blending Modes
Lessons 65 - 70 - Handbook 11: How to Use Filters
Lessons 71 - 74 - Handbook 12: Advanced Masks
Lessons 75 - 81 - Handbook 13: Using Smart Objects
Lessons 82 - 86 - Handbook 14: Photography for Photoshop
Lessons 87 - 93 - Handbook 15: Advanced Photo Retouching
Lessons 94 - 98 - Handbook 16: Warp, Blend, Liquify
Lessons 99 - 105 - Handbook 17: Advanced Layers
Lessons 106 - 112 - Handbook 18: Actions
Lessons 113 - 117 - Handbook 19: Troubleshooting Issues
Practice Images 1: Introduction to Adobe Photoshop
Practice Images 2: How to Use Camera Raw
Practice Images 3: Making Selections
Practice Images 4: Using Layers
Practice Images 5: Using Layer Masks
Practice Images 6: Using Adjustment Layers
Practice Images 7: Color Theory
Practice Images 8: Retouching Essentials
Practice Images 9: Tools Panel
Practice Images 10: Layer Blending Modes
Practice Images 11: How to Use Filters
Practice Images 12: Advanced Masks
Practice Images 13: Using Smart Objects
Practice Images 14: Photography for Photoshop
Practice Images 15: Advanced Photo Retouching
Practice Images 16: Warp, Blend, Liquify
Practice Images 17: Advanced Layers
Practice Images 18: Actions
Practice Images 19: Troubleshooting Issues

Ratings and Reviews

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!!!

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