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
Smart Object Overview
our next topic will be smart objects and smart objects have the potential of completely changing the way you think about Futter shop, depending on what you do now in previous sections of Photoshopped, The Complete Guide, we've used smart objects. We use them once when we're playing filters, and so it's very nice way of doing it. But let's jump in and really dig deep into the concept of a smart object. Some. I'm going to duplicate this image here by going to the image menu in choosing duplicate when I duplicated, I'm gonna call it not smart. So you know that that version is not going to be utilized. Smart objects. Then we have two versions of that image open. I want to be able to see them side by side, so I'll go to the window menu, choose, arrange and choose to up vertical, which will show the images side by side. And at this point, I'm going to take the image on the right. Uh, and I'm going to go to the layer menu, choose smart objects and say, convert to smart object. Now when I do t...
hat, watch what happens in my Layers panel. If you look at the little thumbnail picture. If that layer and you look in the lower right corner of it, When I convert this to a smart object, you'll see an extra icon appear there. Now. The first time you ever do that, you might get a little warning that comes up, and it just tells you something about, um, if need to edit the contents of this to double click on the layer. Just see aware, if something comes up the very first time you do that, there should be a don't show again check box. I suggest you turn it on and click OK, because after this lesson you'll be quite versed in smart objects. So now the image on the right is a smart object. The image on the left is not. They look the same, but they're not gonna always act the same. Whenever you create a smart object, it is like taking your image in putting it into a protective sleeve. Imagine it's something like a Ziploc bag, and by putting it into a smart object, it's going to protect the original contents of that layer. So anything I do to it from now on will not be able to to change the original contents. I can still change the look of the picture, but I always can get back to the original look. So first I'm gonna work on the not smart version and I'm gonna unlock its little layer here because it's a background layer and there's only certain things I can do to the background. If I clicked the lock symbol, though, I could do anything to it. And what I'd like to do here is first I'm going to apply a filter to this, and when I filter it, let's see. I'm gonna come down and maybe just sharpen the image and all kind of over sharpen it so it looks really sharp. Click OK, and if I zoom up on it and I choose undo, you see before and after it's over sharpened. Then I'm going to scale and rotate the picture to scale and rotate something. Usually I go to the edit menu and I choose free transform or I type will the keyboard shortcut command T control team windows and I'm going to scale this really small like that small. It also rotated and press return or enter to indicate that I'm done move into the middle of my document. So if I zoom in, that's all we got. Then I'm gonna do the same thing to the image on the right. That's the one that is a smart object. With that one, I'll go to the filter menu. I'm going to sharpen it in o apply in Sharp Mask. It looks like it's remembering the settings I used on the other one, so just click OK, and then I'll go to the edit menu and choose free transform. This is one of those things where you got a warning that you just choose. Don't try again and click, OK, and I'm gonna make that again very, very small, much smaller than that. And I'll rotate it, press return or enter. So now we've down approximately the same thing to both images. I don't know if I haven't exactly the same on both. I doubt it, but it's close enough. The main thing is, the image on the left is not a smart object, and because of that, it does not remember what the old version of the image looked like. Especially if I were to save this image, close it and open it a month later. Sure, because right now I could choose undo to get it back. But imagine it was saved, enclosed so that it doesn't retain any kind of a history. Well, now I'm gonna take that image on the left. And let's say I didn't want it to be quite that small. So I go to the edit menu, I'll choose free transform, and I'm going to attempt to scale it up when I scale it up. It does not remember how much information it originally contained. So if I attempt to get this to fill the majority of my screen, it's not gonna regain any of its quality. And if I attempt to straighten it, there's nothing that's gonna help me. Make sure that it's perfectly straight, and that is not at like a one or two degree angle compared to what it was before. I'll get it up there. I'm gonna press returner enter and you'll see how terrible the results look. Take the image on the right, though it's totally different because it's a smart object, which means the original contents of that layer, you are completely preserved in everything I do to this image will always be calculated from the original contents of that smart option. What that means is when I go over here to edit and I choose free transform first off, I doubt you can tell right now, but it's starting off differently. Do you notice that the transformation handles that are on this match the angle of this object? Whereas when I did it to the image on the left, they were straight. It never knew that I ever rotated the image in the past. But here, with a smart object, it knows that I've rotated it. And if I look up here in my options bar, I can see what angle it's been rotated to. If I select the number for the angle and type in zero impress return, that should straighten it out. So now it's back to the way it used to be. Also in the options bar. It tells me exactly what size this had been scaled to, and I could just select that and type in 100 and press return. And that's going to end up bringing this back to its original size because the transformation I've applied is just thought of as a setting attached to the layer. It's not actually changing the true contents that layer in, so I can always bring it back. But when I bring it back, I look at it and I'm like, That looks overly sharp and I'd really wish I wouldn't have sharpened the image Well, if you look in my layers panel since this was a smart object, when I applied a filter, it was applied as what's known as a smart filter. And if I would like to remove the effect, I could either turn off this eyeball were just drag this to the trash and I would see the version of it That's not sharpened war. Aiken double click on the name of the filter that's in my layers panel, and it will open up the sharpened screen here, and I could find tune the settings to get it to be more appropriate for this image. Because anything I do to that file is not going to harm the original contents that was put into the smart object, and it will always be calculated from that original contents and therefore I can easily scale it back up to original size. Rotate it back, change any filters that have been applied. It's much more versatile, whereas the image on the left just looks terrible. So what that means is, any time you plan and combining multiple images together, let's say you're going to design a little layout that's gonna show maybe six pictures, and you're going to scale them down and rearrange them in various areas. It would be best if you were to start with smart objects, because then let's say you scaled down those pictures and you started placing them side by side. And when you were done, you decided, well, they're a little too small. You want to scale them up to fit some more space. Well, if you do that and you don't have a smart object, anytime you scale things up, it's going to make your image look softer. And that's like what you're seeing on the left side of my screen. That's just an extreme example of it, but if it was a smart object, the quality would still be there
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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!!!