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
Content Aware Fill
There's another tool we have here. It's called the Content Aware Fill Tool, and if you're familiar with Photoshop dating back to, you know, CS5, CS6, this was breakthrough, cutting edge technology back then, that now has kind of just found its way into other tools, where what you're seeing with the Content Aware Move Tool and what you're seeing with the Patch Tool, those are all things that actually do, kind of source, this fill technology. So if we were to go and use Content Aware Fill, there's a couple reasons why we would use this, and one of them, first of all, let's make a selection for some of these rocks here and I'll show you Content Aware Fill first there. So if I go there and I grab, I zoom in here and I grab this rock and I wanna fill this in. Let's say I didn't wanna use something like the Clone Stamp Tool, or I didn't wanna something like the Patch Tool, for some reason or another. I wanted to select multiple areas, like maybe press shift and select this area too. I could ...
then come up here, press shift F5, or go to edit. Shift F5. Why is it, oh, 'cause I'm stuck up here. If you're stuck in here, it's not gonna work. Shift F5 and then go to content aware, and select color adaptations so that it does help the color around it, and if we press OK... It's not gonna do what I want it to do. That's interesting. (laughs) Shift F5 and content aware. Let's turn color adaptation off, let's see what happens there, press OK. Okay, hold on one second. Shift F5, color adaptation, let's see if the blend mode is the problem here. Maybe we'll change it to normal, press OK. There we go, it was a blend mode. So as it was trying to fill in those areas, it was using the blend mode of soft light to fill in those areas, which is not what I wanted. I want it to literally take a selection for me, so setting it to normal was what did that for me. So if I zoom in here, we can see that if I press command or control D to deselect that, we've got a hard edge around there. It did a good job of filling that stuff in. All that stuff disappeared, right? But it's got that hard edge around it. One thing that I did not show you was selections. That you can also do while you have a selection available, is if you go up to select, and you go to modify and go to feather, this will feather the edge before we even do the Content Aware. So if we feather that edge by, let's say five pixels, press OK, and then we go to shift F5, and then Content Aware Fill, it's gonna feather that edge so we don't get quite as much of a hard edge. Hmm, it didn't do it quite as well as it did before. (laughs) It didn't like that feather. Let's go ahead and go back to our selection here. Let's go back here, just act like that didn't happen. Okay, we'll go select this and then select this, and then we go to select and we'll go to modify and we'll go to feather, change this to two pixels, press OK. And then shift F5 and then Content Aware, yeah. We had too many pixels selected. So at five pixels, it was selecting so much of that area around it that when it came in and did the feathering, it also did too much of a color adaptation because of the amount of pixels that we had feathered there, but if we just do two pixels, it does pretty well. But this is basically the technology that we used long before all the other tools were around. Now where this can be helpful, is, let's say with this image, we wanted to extend the sky a little bit. Okay, so let me go ahead and turn this layer off, make this an un-background layer and go to image and go to canvas size. Right now, with this set to canvas size, I'm saying that the width of this image is 20 by 13. If I change this mode down here to relative, and I change the height to two, that's gonna give me a relative height increase on both the top and bottom of the image, but if I go ahead and do this, that's gonna make sure that the height increases by two inches up and not two inches down and up, okay? So once I do that and press OK, I've added two inches to the top of my canvas. So if I wanted to fill this area with the rest of those clouds, I would use one of my selection tools, like maybe the Magic Wand, click that area that's empty, and I would use something like the Content Aware Fill to fill that in. Shift F5, Content Aware Fill, it's gonna do some calculations and it's gonna fill that sky area in. This can be great if you've taken a shot, so you've got a shot, imagine a building, you got the top of the building, a city skyline, and one of those buildings is just creeping into the top and now you've got a compartmentalized image that has stuff on the left, stuff on the right, building in between. Well we want air to breathe around that top area. So instead of dumping that file, you can just add some area to it, fill that area in with Content Aware Fill, and now you've got the area replaced. I do have to give you some words of caution here though. When we do this, it might make a seam, and we don't want a seam. If it does make a seam, and you see a seam of transparency underneath there, just go ahead and take a step back, and now we're gonna go up to select, go to modify, and go to expand, and we're expanded by two pixels. So what that does, just that two pixels, is gonna allow Photoshop to see more of the area below it, below that selection, and feather those two areas together. Shift F5, Content Aware Fill, press enter, and we're good to go. And actually what it did there was it made a much better fill, and even if you look at the top of that sky, it even made it look like it's branching out into a perspective, pretty interesting. That added more sky. So that's areas that use Content Aware Fill. What's happening there though, we got repeating patterns, don't we? There's a lot of repeating patterns there that we would not want the viewer to see. If that was the case, we could then come to something like the Clone Stamp Tool, take different areas. Maybe a bigger area from over here, alt or option, click here to make it kind of blend in a little bit better, break up any of those repeating patterns that we would see in the image so that the viewer doesn't really see that we used something to expand the sky.
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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!!!!
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