Lessons
Bootcamp Introduction
16:22 2The Bridge Interface
13:33 3Setting up Bridge
06:55 4Overview of Bridge
11:29 5Practical Application of Bridge
27:56 6Introduction to Raw Editing
11:00 7Setting up ACR Preferences & Interface
07:39 8Global Tools Part 1
16:44Global Tools Part 2
20:01 10Local Tools
22:56 11Introduction to the Photoshop Interface
07:13 12Toolbars, Menus and Windows
25:07 13Setup and Interface
11:48 14Adobe Libraries
05:57 15Saving Files
07:39 16Introduction to Cropping
12:10 17Cropping for Composition in ACR
04:44 18Cropping for Composition in Photoshop
12:40 19Cropping for the Subject in Post
03:25 20Cropping for Print
07:34 21Perspective Cropping in Photoshop
07:11 22Introduction to Layers
08:42 23Vector & Raster Layers Basics
05:05 24Adjustment Layers in Photoshop
27:35 25Organizing and Managing Layers
15:35 26Introduction to Layer Tools and Blend Modes
21:34 27Screen and Multiply and Overlay
09:15 28Soft Light Blend Mode
07:34 29Color and Luminosity Blend Modes
12:47 30Color Burn and Color Dodge Blend Modes
07:43 31Introduction to Layer Styles
11:43 32Practical Application: Layer Tools
13:06 33Introduction to Masks and Brushes
04:43 34Brush Basics
09:22 35Custom Brushes
04:01 36Brush Mask: Vignettes
06:58 37Brush Mask: Curves Dodge & Burn
06:53 38Brush Mask: Hue & Saturation
07:52 39Mask Groups
05:52 40Clipping Masks
04:11 41Masking in Adobe Camera Raw
07:06 42Practical Applications: Masks
14:03 43Introduction to Selections
05:42 44Basic Selection Tools
17:41 45The Pen Tool
11:56 46Masks from Selections
04:22 47Selecting Subjects and Masking
07:11 48Color Range Mask
17:35 49Luminosity Masks Basics
12:00 50Introduction to Cleanup Tools
07:02 51Adobe Camera Raw
10:16 52Healing and Spot Healing Brush
14:56 53The Clone Stamp Tool
10:20 54The Patch Tool
06:38 55Content Aware Move Tool
04:56 56Content Aware Fill
06:46 57Custom Cleanup Selections
15:42 58Introduction to Shapes and Text
13:46 59Text Basics
15:57 60Shape Basics
07:00 61Adding Text to Pictures
09:46 62Custom Water Marks
14:05 63Introduction to Smart Objects
04:37 64Smart Object Basics
09:13 65Smart Objects and Filters
09:05 66Smart Objects and Image Transformation
10:57 67Smart Objects and Album Layouts
11:40 68Smart Objects and Composites
10:47 69Introduction to Image Transforming
04:34 70ACR and Lens Correction
09:45 71Photoshop and Lens Correction
14:26 72The Warp Tool
11:16 73Perspective Transformations
20:33 74Introduction to Actions in Photoshop
09:27 75Introduction to the Actions Panel Interface
05:06 76Making Your First Action
03:49 77Modifying Actions After You Record Them
11:38 78Adding Stops to Actions
04:01 79Conditional Actions
07:36 80Actions that Communicate
25:26 81Introduction to Filters
04:38 82ACR as a Filter
09:20 83Helpful Artistic Filters
17:08 84Helpful Practical Filters
07:08 85Sharpening with Filters
07:32 86Rendering Trees
08:20 87The Oil Paint and Add Noise Filters
15:08 88Introduction to Editing Video
06:20 89Timeline for Video
08:15 90Cropping Video
03:34 91Adjustment Layers and Video
05:25 92Building Lookup Tables
07:00 93Layers, Masking Video & Working with Type
15:11 94ACR to Edit Video
06:10 95Animated Gifs
11:39 96Introduction to Creative Effects
06:08 97Black, White, and Monochrome
18:05 98Matte and Cinematic Effects
08:23 99Gradient Maps and Solid Color Grades
12:20 100Gradients
04:21 101Glow and Haze
10:23 102Introduction to Natural Retouching
05:33 103Brightening Teeth
10:25 104Clean Up with the Clone Stamp Tool
08:07 105Cleaning and Brightening Eyes
16:58 106Advanced Clean Up Techniques
24:47 107Introduction to Portrait Workflow & Bridge Organization
14:47 108ACR for Portraits Pre-Edits
21:27 109Portrait Workflow Techniques
18:46 110Introduction to Landscape Workflow & Bridge Organization
12:17 111Landscape Workflow Techniques
37:36 112Introduction to Compositing & Bridge
06:59 113Composite Workflow Techniques
34:01 114Landscape Composite Projects
24:14 115Bonus: Rothko and Workspace
05:15 116Bonus: Adding Textures to Photos
07:05 117Bonus: The Mask (Extras)
05:18 118Bonus: The Color Range Mask in ACR
04:54Lesson Info
Adjustment Layers and Video
Just like any other photograph, we're gonna be using things like adjustment layers on this. And with specifically when we wanna modify the look and feel of an image when we use an adjustment layer on the top, it automatically applies itself to the image and we have that adjustment layer above it and that's how it works. Well in video it can be a little bit tricky to think about things like that because if it's in the same video group it might add itself to the end instead of onto the top. This is where that thief, the clipping mask, is really important. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go ahead and make a new adjustment layer, and let's do a curves adjustment layer. By default it may already add that clipping mask there for you. If it doesn't and you've got this going on, your curve may show up at the end instead of at the top of the video. If, maybe if it's outside of the video group. Let's try this, if you put it outside of the video group then it shows up on the top in its own vide...
o area. This is one of those things that you have to think about and where it's gonna end up because sometimes it doesn't end up at the top of the video. Right now, because it's at the top of the video it will edit the video. But if you put something in that video group and it ends up on the other side, like another video, for instance, and you want that to be on the top, you have to know where your layers are in that palette. So let's just make sure that all of our adjustment layers are there with a clipping mask to ensure that it is affecting that specific video. If we had multiple videos in here we might wanna have that above because it's in the same video group. Those adjustment layers would be affecting all the videos in that video group. So what we're gonna do is we're just gonna take a curves adjustment layer, pull this down, make it darker, and make it brighter. That's increasing and decreasing the intensity of the contrast within this video. If we wanted to test that to see what's gonna happen, we press play. That curves adjustment is working on the entire video. It's not just working on one frame, it's working on the entire photo. So now with that increased intensity we've got a really nice kind of look for this image. I can add in as many other adjustment layers as I'd like here. I could do something like the HSL adjustment layer. And the hue saturation adjustment layer, if I use a targeted adjustment tool, I can maybe change the color of this water, bump this up and make it a little more on the blue side, increase the saturation of that blue to make it a little more rich. And again, like I said before, if you're gonna bump up the saturation like that you might wanna round it off a little bit with a little bit of darkness there by adding a little more value to it. If I can click on my yellows now and bump up the saturation of those yellows, maybe alter that yellow a little bit to make it a little bit more rich, and enrich the darkness of this. So if I go back to the beginning and press play that hue saturation adjustment layer is working on the entire video. Not just that one frame but the entire video. Our preview didn't look that great, so I'll turn that preview back up to 100%, move this back over here and press play. Now it looks a little bit better. Look at the video before. Look at it after. This is more like video that you would get off of your cell phone or your camera or something like that. And a lot of times our cell phones have these pre-built video editors inside them that gives us really cool effects, but here you do it in Photoshop to get more control over it. I mean look at the amount of color that we added to that, really made this a lot more vibrant. We made it a lot more rich just by using two adjustment layers. If you wanted to color grade this, we could go in, we could add a gradient map, maybe make it black and white. Or because we're using a gradient map we can change this to any colors that we want. I'll use this color because it's accessible. Drop the color down and then drop the opacity. So now it's color graded with that yellow or that cream color and the blue. If I want to change those colors I can either choose any of the gradients that I have within here or click on the color and change the color grade of this image. (mouse button clicking) You can see it working kind of on the fly as we edit this. Press OK, press OK. Now because the opacity is down pretty low it's kind of hard to see. But color grading is really important when it comes to video. With this image, maybe not quite as much, but if you've ever seen any TV production-type quality films, movies, basically anything that's gonna be a blockbuster movie is gonna have some type of color grading in it somewhere. Where you go to a place it's hot, how do you show hot without having fire there? You add a really red color grade to the image and it'll feel hot, feel a lot warmer than it actually is. How do you add the sense of cold to something without actually putting ice or water there? Well, you add a blue color grade to it. So you can manipulate the viewer as they're looking at your video just by color grading, just like we've talked about color grading when it comes to a photograph.
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Ratings and Reviews
Robert Andrews
Blake Rudis is the absolute best in teaching photoshop. His knowledge and how he presents the instruction is clear and concise - there is NO ONE BETTER. Yes, his classes require some basic skills, and maybe I'd organize the order of (or group) the classes in a different order, but, let me be clear - if anyone is to be successful or famous in the Photoshop world, it should be Blake Rudis. I strongly recommend his teaching. I started photography and post processing in 2018, and because of this class, I'm know what Im doing. The energy you get when you create something beautiful is profound, it makes you bounce out of bed (at 4AM) like a 5 year old, to go create. It's a great ride! Thanks Blake, & Thanks Creative live.
a Creativelive Student
Amazing course, but don't be fooled into thinking this is a beginner's course for photographers. The problem isn't Blake's explanations; they're top. The problem is the vast scope of this course and the order in which the topics are presented. Take layers for example. When I was first learning Photoshop (back when we learned from books), I found I learned little or nothing from, for example, books that covered layers before they covered how to improve/process photographs. These books taught me how to organize, move, and link layers before they showed me what a layer was actually for. Those books tended to teach me everything there is to know about layers (types of layers, how to organize them, how to move them, how to move them two at a time, how to move them two at a time even if there are other layers between the two you're interested in, useful troubleshooting tips, etc. ) all before I even know (from a photographer's point of view) what it is the things actually do. The examples of organizing, linking, and moving mean everything for graphic designers from Day One, but for photographers not so much. Blake does the same thing as those books. Topics he covers extremely early demand a lot of theoretical imagination for a photographer who doesn't already know quite a bit about what he is talking about. Learning about abstract things first and concrete things later only makes PS that much harder to understand. If you AREN'T a beginner, however, this course is amazing. I thought it would be like an Army Bootcamp, taking you from zero and building you into a fit, competent Photoshop grunt. Now I think it's more like Army Bootcamp for high school varsity jocks. It isn't going to take you from the beginning, but the amount you'll get out of it is nonetheless more than your brain can imagine. I've been using PS for years to improve my photographs, and even to create the odd artistic composite or two. The amount I've learned in the first week is amazing, and every day I learn something -- more like many things -- which I immediately implement to improve my productivity and/or widen the horizons of what I can achieve. If you ARE a photographer who's a Photoshop beginner, I'd take very seriously the advice Blake gives in the introduction: Watch one lesson, and practice the skills and principles you learn in that one lesson for two weeks. THEN watch the next lesson. You can't do that of course without buying the course, so it's up to you to decide whether you'd like to learn Photoshop and master Photoshop all from the same course. Learning it first and mastering it later will cost more money, but I think you'll understand everything better and have a much more enjoyable ride in the process. As for me? I'm going to have to find the money to buy this course. There is simply way too much content in each lesson for me to try to take on all at once, but on the other hand I don't want to miss anything at all that he has to share.
Esther Gambrell
WOW!!! I've been purchasing CL classes for several years now and have watched HOURS of "How-To Photoshop" classes, but this is the first one I've actually purchased because of the AWESOME BONUS content!!! SERIOUSLY??!!?!? A PLUG-IN??? But not only that, Blake is SO easy to understand, and he breaks down concepts in different ways to connect with different people's learning styles. I REALLY appreciated this approach because I am a LEFT-BRAINED creative that has an engineering background, so I really connected to what Blake was saying. THANK YOU FOR THAT! There are TONS of Photoshop courses out there, but I found this one to be the most helpful in they way Blake teaches concepts so that you know WHY you're doing what your doing. I feel like he taught me how to fish with Photoshop to feed me for a lifetime instead of just giving me a fish to feed me for one day. This is the BEST overall PS course out there!!! Thank you!!!!