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
Time-lapse
Now let's talk about time lapse. Here's a sequence of images that I captured in Africa. I actually sent my camera on the ground and I put a timer on the camera so we would take a picture every few seconds. And once it did that, it started capturing images and just happen to be that an elephant came into our camp in that elephant came right over near my camera, getting a little nervous by this time. And he's just eating grass and walking through camp. Well, I would like to combine these images together into a panorama, and so to do so. Come on, here's what we need to do. The first thing we need to do is we probably don't want to work with full size raw files because running them is video. My camera is 61 megapixels. That's a massive file. You don't need something that anywhere near that big for video. The second thing is, we need the numbering of these photos to be sequential. If there any gaps in the numbering like here, let's see, I have number 90 on the end. That jumps to 94 than 97 ...
than 00 They're not sequential. If we do this with a non sequential Siri's, it will assume that it should have been sequential and they'll be empty frames and it'll look really weird. So what I'm gonna do is select all I'm gonna then go to the tools menu. I'm gonna choose photo shop, and there's a choice called image Processor. Image processor is designed to scale images and save them in different file formats. And, um so we're going to use this with the image processor. I'm gonna tell it what save location I want to go to and for me. I'll put it on my desktop. Ah. Then I'm going to come in here and say resize to fit and I minds will make this eso it fits within the size of HD TV. That's 1920 by 10 80. I'm gonna keep the quality as high as it can go so we don't degrade the quality at all. And then I'm going to hit run that's gonna open each one of those images, scale it down and save them out as a J peg file, and it may take it a little while to do it. Once it's done doing that. The next thing we need to do is make sure we've dealt with the naming in that. The number on the end of each file is sequential. There are no gaps. Otherwise they'll be areas with empty frames, and we can do that again. And Bridge were going to do it by going to the tools menu and choosing batch rename take in just a moment to finish Now. I had a time. I would have adjusted these pictures. I would have selected all I would have gone into camera raw, chose, select all on camera. Move the sliders around until the images look good. Because our end result here will not be a raw file. And therefore we wouldn't get his high quality in adjustment. Uh, afterwards, then we would, if we did before, should be done in a minute here. I didn't count how many files were in there, so hopefully it doesn't take an hour for finish. Looks like it's done. Now I'm gonna return to Bridge. I'm gonna click on my desktop. In In my desktop is a folder called J Peg, and that's where it saved it. It will be called whatever file format you told it to use. I'm going to select all my typing command a go to the tools menu and choose batch rename with batch rename. I'm gonna tell it to rename it in the same folder in down here. I can create a formula for how you make a file name. I can hit the minus signs that are here to clear things out. And I'm just going to start with text and I just called image and then I'll hit this little plus sign and I'll tell it that I would like a sequence number and that means it's gonna number thes files. And I tell it, How many digits? I don't think I have more than 999 pictures in there, so three digits should be fine. Ah, but otherwise that'll be fine down here at the problem. It gives you a preview. There is an example of an existing file name. And here's what it's gonna be renamed. It's going to do it to a total of 86 files. I hit rename, and it only takes in a moment and suddenly all those files were renamed. But now we need to do something to get it to be a time lapse. And to do that, I go to photo shop, I go to the file menu and I choose open. And then I'm gonna point it at the folder that we were just in. And I'm going to select the very first file within the folder, then in this open dialogue. And this is just the normal open screen where I just went to the file menu and choose open. Once I've selected that first file down here is a check box called Image Sequence. And that's the key to making this work. Now when I choose open, it's not going to just open that first image. It's gonna open all of the images, and as long as the numbers Aaron sequence, then when I click open, it's just gonna ask me what my frame rate should be. This is going to determine how quickly this plays back. If I choose 30 frames per second, I could take the number of frames divided by 30 and that would tell me the number of seconds long. This would be so the lower than number, the longer my animation will be all do 24 frames per second as a starting point. Click OK, and it's already done to play it back. You go to the window menu and you're gonna find a choice called Timeline in. Down in the timeline is a play button right here and now we have our time lapse. If you want to save out that time lapse in a file format that is related to video. Ah, believe you could choose Let's see file export and spent a while since I've done it. So taking this moment right here, render video and then you see options related to video file formats. But the key to making that work is to ensure that the file names air in sequence, and if they're not, it's not gonna look good. Now there's something else we can do related to that, And that would be, ah, we can create looping animations and let me just see if I have fears of frame animation. Here's what I captured. Sun has already gone down its twilight. I found the outlines of some If you call him mountains, I can't think of what you calm hoodoos or something similar. And then I waited for traffic to come by. And whenever a car came by, I just hit the shutter button multiple times, and I captured these sequences. This was a while later that these cars came through, and I now want to turn that into an animation that will play those. So what I'm gonna do is select all of these by typing command A. And I'm gonna choose tools, photo shop load files into Photoshopped layers that's going to stack all these. It says it's busy if I hit. Yes, I bet you it's not busy every single time it tells me that it's busy. It never is if it ever truly is busy. What that means is back in photo shop, there's a dialogue box open like you're adjusting an image with levels, and you haven't clicked okay yet, but it will commonly complain but rarely actually have an issue. Now we're going to use that same window called timeline, so if you don't already have it on your screen, you go to the window menu, and that's where you can find the timeline. And there are two different kinds of timelines you can have, and if you go to the side menu over here. I think that's where we might be able to switch. You can have either a frame animation or a normal video animation. It's it's actually right here in the middle. There's a drop down so before where using a video timeline, which is when we had our time lapse. We want this set to frame animation, and then you want to click this button that says, Create frame animation. So now it thinks about your document is if it's an animation, there's only one frame, which it looks like our current one, and I'm going to go to the right side of the timeline. Click on the side menu and there's a choice. They're called make frames from layers, and that means just make a slide show of all our layers. So we show one at a time. So if I were to hit the play button, you can see the cars going by and doing all that stuff. But the problem is, the sky only gets bright for one of those frames. So what I want to do is I'm going to come in here and go to the side menu of the frames thing and select all the frames. So we're working on the mall, and I'm gonna turn on the eyeball for our bright sky so that it will be visible in every single one of those friends. So I made sure the frames were selected, and then I turned on the eyeball for that. I'm gonna hit play, and let's see what we have Now the problem is that that top layer obscures the view of all the layers that are underneath. So I'm gonna change the blending mode of it to, ah, choice called lighten. Lighten means only allow the areas here that are brighter than what's underneath to show up. So now let's see. Oh, I didn't have all my frame selected. So let's go to the side menu. If you want to change, that's gonna happen across all the frames. You gotta select all the frames first, then come up to this layer and said it to lighten if I did it when there was only one frame activites on Lee for that one frame worth of time. There we go. Now we got cars going by, and if you wanted to be, ah, no cars for a while hit Stop in at the very end of your animation. Just scroll to the very last frame. Click on it and there's a number underneath it. It's zero seconds. That's how long it's gonna pause at the end. I might set mine for one second. Now if I hit play the cars go by, but once against the end ital! Pause for a second before starting up again. Now, if you want to save this kind of file, this is a frame animation. You want to save this in the GIF file format? Usually I would go to file export and I'm used to using save for Web Ah, and you save it as a gift file. Then you can have these. This is how you make what they call them. My brain is thinking of panel Lodge, but that's not the case. Um, I can't think of the name, but when there's slight motion in a photo that just continuous like somebody's hair going in the wind
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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!!!