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
Dissolve Mode
right now, we're going to get into blending modes. Blending modes is a menu you're gonna find in many areas of federal shop. The primary area that you see it is at the top of your layers panel, where if you have multiple layers in your document, whichever layer you have active, you can find a menu at the top that usually says normal and has a long list of choices. You'll find the same menu when used a paint brush tool and many other tools. And if we can get you a general understanding of that menu, then you're gonna be able to do a lot more and Photoshopped. So let's jump right into photo shop and get started. So I'm gonna create a brand new empty layer here. So click on the new layer icon at the bottom of my layers panel, and I'll choose a paint brush tool and with a soft edged brush, I'm just gonna paint on my image. Just have something to work with. Then I'll go to the top of my layers panel, and that's where you gonna find the blending mode menu. That menu will be great out if you'...
re working on the background layer because that menu determines how the layer you're working on is going to blend in with the layers that are below it, and you can't have any layers below the background, so it doesn't appear when the background layer is active. But when you have a layer above, then it should be active. I click here and we get this long list of choices. Well, that list, if you take a look at it, is divided up into various sections. You see those horizontal lines that break it up well, The reason why it does that is because each blending mode that is found within a section is they're all related to each other. They have some common qualities, and it's more important to understand the common qualities of each section than it is to understand the individual choices found within a section. Because if you understand the way one works, then you will find that the others are just variations on that theme, and therefore, if one choice in a particular category would be useful, you can probably try all the choices that are in there for the same type of a purpose. So at the very top. We have normal mode in a normal mode. There's nothing special done to cause the layer you currently working on to blend with the layer that's underneath nothing special. So that's what every layer starts out as below that is a choice called dissolve. It's not one that he used very often, but let's take a look at it in dissolve mode. The contents of the current layer can either be completely opaque, meaning that you cannot see through it at all or could be completely transparent, meaning missing or gone. You can't have anything that's partially transparent. You might call that translucent. So if there's anything you can partially see through, that area is going to change when we change it to dissolve mode. So take a look at the paint you can see just near the right edge my screen and notice that the edge of it has a soft edge where it slowly fades out than in that fadeout region. You can start seeing through it more and more and more well. That's where dissolved mode is going to kick in and let's see what happens when I change it to dissolve. Now it's still trying to simulate that edge fading out, but it's doing it by to see here, Frank Zoom where I need to, but it's doing it by using solid pixels. Here we go, and that's dissolving out, and you can paint when it's in that mode. You might want to try lowering the opacity of your brush because that should make it to your brushes. See through. And then when you paint, you're gonna find it has a dissolved appearance. Now the problem with this is that I might like that dissolved appearance for certain things. But it's a temporary function of that layer. I can't do things like, for instance, blur that and have those little specks take on a soft edge because all blurring does to the contents of a layer like this one is it would cause that fade out to be more gradual, that's there, and then dissolved mode would kick in right afterwards and make it look like this. I wouldn't be able to get a soft appearance, so let me show you how I could make this a little more usable. What I'm gonna do here is I'm gonna create a brand new empty layer by clicking on the new layer icon. And then I get a position that layer below the one that's in dissolved mode. I'll click on the one that's in dissolved mode, and now what I'm going to do is choose merge down. If I choose merge down, the contents of the current layer are going to be deposited on the layer below. The layer below is in normal mode. That's how all layers began. And so it's going to attempt to retain this visual look but doing it in normal mode. And so what that's gonna end up doing to this layer is any areas that have been temporarily hidden because we're in dissolved mode will actually be thrown away. And so let's try it out. I'll go to the layer menu. I'm gonna choose merge down, and now, if you look at my Layers panel, we still have the same appearance in my document. But this layer is now in normal mode, and that means there's nothing special causing it to have this effect. That effect is native to the layer now in, so I could come appear to my filter menu, for instance, maybe do a little motion blur and get a different look in my image. Now. You might not having a great idea of when you would want that, because all I did was paint on a layer. But what I might be doing instead, I'll throw that layer away is that might be using the text tool to put some text on my image. And here I'll be creative and use just the default text. Then I could go to the bottom of my layers panel, click on the letters F X and add something like maybe an outer glow, which would create a glowy thing behind this. Bring my opacity up. I'll bring up the size. She'll make it fade out a bit and that type of stuff click. OK, well, what if I take that glowy thing that represents the shape of this text? I can somehow get it into dissolve mode, so it looks like little speckles, so it'll look different. And if I merge it into an empty layer, then I'm able to do things like apply filters to it. Maybe that little motion blur, So then I can create a glow around my tax that looks quite different than normal. it has texture to it now. It's not as easy to do that as you might think, because this is a setting attached to a layer. But I can go to the layer menu and there's a choice in there called layer style and right there is my outer glow. If I chose that, I would go into the settings I was just using to, um, create that outer glow. But what I'm gonna do in here is there is a choice called create layer. And what that means is take any effects that are attached to this layer. It could be a drop shadow. Could be an outer glow. Could be anything that you've added from that FX menu at the bottom of your layers panel and watch what happens in my layers panel when I choose, create layer instead of being a setting attached to this layer, where you can see it over there with an eyeball that says Outer glow. When I choose create layer, it becomes its own independence layer, and so, therefore, because its own layer, I can now change its blending mode, and I might choose to use something like dissolve. So now I have that glow around my text that looks a bit different. I can further modify it by running a filter, maybe a blur it. Or maybe I come down and distort it using something like Ripple. In this case, I think the ripples a little too Ah, basic. So let's go for a motion blur instead. Oh, it's still in dissolve mint. I was wondering why it wasn't looking right. I got the A fact onto its own layer. I set it to dissolve, but its remaining in dissolved Modi did not do the final little trick we needed to dio. Then that was gonna create a brand new empty layer, put it underneath it and then merge that down. That's what got it to be in a normal layer. So let's go to the layer menu. Choose. Merge down its wondering why, like Ripple didn't really have a visual effect. Well, I need to have that layer in normal mode, and that's how I could get it that way. Now it can come here and try something. Let's see if Ripple actually produces ah result. Yes, it gave me, um, or randomised edge. Or I could come up and motion blur to get a completely different look. So on occasion, I find that choice of dissolve to be useful mainly when I want a speckled appearance to something. So I lower the opacity of something so you could usually see through it. But in dissolved node, it won't be able to be ableto BC through instead of will be defused these little specks. Ah, and then I just have to merge it into an empty layer so that I can further enhance it. Eso that's dissolved mode, not a mode that I use every day.
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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!!!