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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
Organize Your Layers
this time, let's take a look at advanced layers. There's so much you can do with layers. And earlier we had a separate lesson on Layer essentials. Now we're going to dive a little deeper and let's start off with how to organize your layers. Here's a complex Photoshopped document that I created decades ago. This was the back cover for a brochure that was sent out for a seminar tour that I did. Now I've blurred a lot of the pictures that are here, and that's because they were stock photos that I don't have the rights to give to you guys. And if you purchase the course, then you get this document to play with and I couldn't have those pictures. And so therefore, that's why it looks just a little bit different. But let's take a look in the layers panel. What takes to make this document? If I simply start scrolling through my layers, you can see that there's a whole lot of them. And if you look at the pictures and layers panel a lot of them, it's hard to tell exactly where something he's us...
ed within a document, and I'm not even halfway done going through my layers panel, and I could see this image has already been simplified because in one piece there, but it just keeps going and going and going. So if you create a complex document and you open it up months later and try to work with it, it could be tough to figure out what's happening in various areas. So let's figure out how we might organize these layers. So I'm gonna start turning off layers kind of one at a time in seeing which portion of the image defects so that top most layer looks to me to be a bolt that's near the upper right corner of the document. Turn off the layer below it. It's another bolt and I can see just by the layer names. There's a total of four of them. Then I see a type player that made the text disappear and then a little bar. All right. Those seem to logically belong together because they make up the top bar in this document. So I'm gonna turn their eyeballs back on and with the bottom. Most of those layers selected, Ah, hold shift and I'll click on the top layer to get all of those layers and then I'll go to the bottom of my layers panel and I'm gonna click on the folder icon. It's not actually known as a folder. It's known as creating a group. Ah, but if I click there now, those layers look like they almost got merged into one. But in reality, they're contained within this folder, and if I click on the little arrow next to it, I can expand it to see the layers that are contained within. Now, when you have a folder which is officially known as a group, then you got to think about the way the move tool is gonna work to reposition layers. If I have an individual layer highlighted active in my layers panel, then when I go in, click it within my image in drag. I'm gonna move one layer this layer right here, choose, undo. If I want to move more than one layer at a time, I can select more than one layer. In this case, I'll select both this layer in the layer above it. Then I would be moving both of those layers. But when you use folders, if the folder itself is active. It's as if all the layers contained within it are active in, therefore with just the name of that group active. When I click and drag, everything within that group moves. And so, therefore, if organized, my document in a logical fashion, those could really help me out. So let's look at some of the other layers here. I have some texts, and I see it on the right side of the picture near the top. Then I have the photo that is above the text, and I have the white background that's supposed to make it look like a Polaroid. Then I have a shadow layer. Have the photo that would be to the left of it the little base of yet. And that makes another logical grouping, which would be those two images that are supposed to be kind of a before and after image. So with the bottom most layer of that selected, I'll hold shift to get the top one, and I'll click on the folder icon. So now, if I used my move tool when that folder is active, you see those two moving together, and then I could continue doing that for the rest of the document and just grabbing each logical grouping in putting them into a folder. Well, I've already done that. I'm gonna close this document in switch to another one. I already have open here, and that one has extensively used the folder icon, just known as a group. And let's take a look at how the images now structured. So now I have one group, which is for the top bar, just as we had before. And then I have a separate one that is for all of the Polaroids that air here in the middle and then finally have another one for the whole backdrop. But you can put a folder inside of a folder, and so I further organized this image where if I opened some of these here is one called Digital Mastery logo, and that's because the logo you see here at the bottom wasn't just one piece. It moves around us if it's one piece when that group is active. But within it is the text for the word digital taxed for the word mastery and the colorful base layer that's there as well. And if I go up here to the PLO rides those have been organized into Here are Polaroids that originally featured a picture of cars which are there here's ones that had a house and so on. So each grouping is in there. Then, if you want, you can get much more detailed, and it really depends. And how many people are gonna be accessing this document in needing to truly understand how it's made? Or how often are you going to need to do the same to figure out how many of thes groups you might want to use? But if I open this up here, the one called Khar Polaroids, which are these two are then divided up into the individual red car that was here in the yellow car that was there. And I don't think they go any more than that. Yeah, but you can see that you can put a folder inside of a folder. You just select multiple layers that were inside of an existing group and click that folder icon to create another. Now that also effects how another feature and Futter shop works. If I'm in the move tool, there's an option near the top of my screen called Auto select, and I mentioned in the lesson that was about layers that I prefer to have that turned off. And therefore, when I click within my image to drag, it does it never changes which layer is active without me purposely trying to do so and that I end up using auto select manually in the way you can do that is when you're on the move tool, you can hold down the command key that's control on Windows and click on something. And if you do, it's the equivalent. Having auto Select turned on just for the moment of time that you command, click on your image control clicking and windows in their four. I can target a layer, and it's nice. Could it expands all the groups down to where you can see that particular layer? But you should be aware that there is an option up here right next to the auto Select Check box is a choice called layer or group. If this is set to group, then when I command click on my image or you have Auto Select turned on manually. Then when I come over here and I command click instead of getting an individual layer selected, it's going to select the top most group that contains that layer, and therefore I could move this shoes undo. Or if I come down here and target one of these Polaroids, it's gonna grab the top most group. And that one contains all the Polaroids. And what that means is that sometimes you can use too many of those folders if you want to be able to very quickly target and move things. And in this case, I think having this many is a bit excessive. And so what I might do here is I might expand a few of these and get it so I can see the individual Polaroid groupings, and I can select them. If I hold down the command key control on Windows and click within my layers panel. I could select the deeper individual Polaroids and then dragged them up in my layers panel so that they're no longer in those sub folders, and I can grab that base sub folder and throw it away, and it looks like I didn't get all of them out of there. Looks like there was still one in there. Probably those Yeah, grab those and drag him out and then throw that away. So I think this is around the right level of organization because now when I have Auto Select set to group, I can come in here and grab these individual polarize and move them around, which is what I might want to do when working with this layout. If you see all those pink numbers and guides those air called smart guides and if they bother you because they're rather excessive in this particular document, feel free to go to the View menu and here under show. There's a choice called Smart Guides, and you could turn that off and now those pink lines wouldn't show up. But at this level, I think it's just right for me where I can adjust my layout as needed. And if I needed to move more than one Polaroid at a time and whenever you're using auto select. If you hold down the shift key, you could make more than one active. So, for instance, if I make this one active and then usually I click over here and separately get that one. If I hold shift when I click now, I'm getting both, or I hold shift and I grabbed. This is well in this is well, so I could easily really manage things and grab many different layers. I just have to keep in mind with Auto Select. Is it set to grab an individual layer, or is it select to grab a group? And if it is grabbing a group, it's always gonna grab what you might call the ultimate parent of whatever later you're clicking on. So if it goes back and finds the, um, you know, the kind of base level group that that layer is contained within, you can always hold, shift and click on additional areas and therefore select additional groups, so you'll see me switching between group and layer, depending on the document and what I really needing to do.
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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!
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