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Photoshop: Backgrounds and Textures

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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Adobe Photoshop Courses Visual Arts Courses Image Enhancement Courses Compositing Courses

Course Description

Overview

Learn how to transform relatively straightforward photographs into distinctive visual art, using Photoshop backgrounds and textures.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Extending the power of photographic imagery
  • Backgrounds and textures for your use
1. Working with Backgrounds
  • Different background ideas
  • Blending modes for high-key images
  • Masking an image
  • Photoshop selections and backgrounds
2. Where Do Backgrounds Come From?
  • Commercial sources of backgrounds
  • Creating your own backgrounds
3. Working with Textures
  • Textures are overlays
  • Textures and blending modes
  • Poetic, romantic, and dreamy effects
  • Textures for floral imagery
  • Using textures for people photography
  • It was a dark and stormy landscape
4. Licensing and Making Textures
  • Commercial texture libraries
  • Photographing your own textures
  • Texture plugin from Topaz Labs
5. Textures on the iPhone
  • Post-production workflow on the iPhone
  • Mextures app and textures
  • Distressed FX for layers and blending
  • The full-featured Snapseed app
  • Image Blender app for compositing
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Harold Davis

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