Photoshop CC 2015 One-on-One: Advanced

Take your Photoshop skills to the next level. Updated for 2021, Deke's flagship Photoshop training course covers more advanced features and techniques.

Introduction

• Welcome to Photoshop One-on-One
• Previously on Photoshop One-on-One

16. The Advanced Selection Commands

• Color Range, Focus Area, and more
• Introducing the Color Range command
• Customizing a Color Range selection
• Localized Color Clusters and Detect Faces
• Selecting a real-world photographic object
• Cleaning up with the Wand and Brush tools
• Refining your mask to absolute perfection
• Shading the airplane to match the sky
• Infusing the airplane with sky colors
• Adding a custom Motion Blur effect
• Adding a rocket plume
• Introducing the Focus Area command
• Using the Focus Area tool
• Cleaning up a jagged Focus Area mask
• Finessing hair and other details
• Using the Select > Subject command
• Using the Select > Sky command
• The Sky Replacement command
• Shift Edge and Fade Edge

17. Layer Masks and Edge Refinement

• Compositing like a pro
• Static selection vs. dynamic layer mask
• Perfecting mask edges with the Smudge tool
• White reveals, black conceals
• Real-world layer masking
• Combining multiple passes of Color Range
• Painting away gaps in a layer mask
• Making your mask the best it can be
• Feather and Density = even better hair
• Introducing the Select and Mask command
• Refine Hair and Object Aware
• Edge Detection and Smart Radius
• Remember Settings and Save Preset
• Using the Refine Edge Brush
• Enhancing the cloud man composition
• Bringing back Refine Mask

18. Scale, Rotate, Skew, and Warp

• Meet the transformations
• Introducing the Free Transform command
• Using the reference point
• Skewing and distorting a layer
• Bending warping a layer
• Transform and duplicate in one operation
• Transform and duplicate keyboard shortcuts
• Setting the Free Transform frame color
• Transforming a selection outline
• Repeating one or more transformations
• Customizing a repeated transformation
• Transforming and warping text
• Filling text with a warped gradient

19. Smart Objects

• Photoshop’s indestructible envelopes
• Three ways to create a Smart Object
• Applying nondestructive transformations
• Applying nondestructive distortions
• Masking Smart Objects
• Editing the contents of a Smart Object
• Applying editable smart adjustments
• Applying and blending Smart Filters
• Editing a filter mask
• Applying Camera Raw as a Smart Filter
• Opening a Camera Raw Smart Object
• Two ways to duplicate a Smart Object
• Protecting editable text
• Using nested Smart Objects
• Editing text inside a nested Smart Object
• Pasting a Smart Object from Illustrator
• Troubleshooting Illustrator Smart Objects

20. Image Reconstruction

• Restoring missing details
• Uncropping a photo by expanding the canvas
• The Content-Aware Scale command
• The Content-Aware Fill taskspace
• When to turn Color Adaptation down or off
• Restoring a missing photographic element
• Fitting a photo to a custom print size
• Applying an image stack mode
• Combining a stack mode with Spot Healing
• Erasing people with the Median mode
• Blurring away registration problems
• Auto-blending multiple depths of field
• Auto-blending with more flexibility

21. Liquifying an Image

• Perfecting the human form
• Introducing the Liquify filter
• Using the Pucker and Bloat tools
• The Twirl, Push, and Smooth tools
• Using Liquify’s masking tools
• Face-Aware Liquify
• Special face-recognition scenarios
• Making direct edits with the Face tool
• Resetting any and all facial features

22. Vector Shapes

• Photoshop’s alternative to pixels
• How vector-based shape layers work
• Introducing the Shape tools
• Rounding the corners of a live rectangle
• Controlling the visibility of a path outline
• Creating a dashed or dotted border
• Aligning and positioning a shape
• Custom shapes and the Shapes panel
• Duplicating and distributing shapes
• Creating your own custom shape
• Designing a custom shape in Illustrator
• Selecting, modifying, and combining shapes
• The wily ways of the Line tool
• Drawing a line with an arrowhead
• Curving a line with the Convert Point tool
• Blending vectors with a pixel-based photograph

23. Blend Modes

• Blending layers
• Normal and Dissolve
• Using the Dissolve mode
• Multiply and the other darken modes
• Using the Multiply mode
• Screen and the other lighten modes
• Using the Screen mode
• Using the Dodge and Burn modes
• Overlay and the contrast modes
• Using the Overlay and Soft Light modes
• Difference, Exclusion, Subtract, and Divide
• Capturing the differences between images
• Hue, Saturation, Color, and Luminosity
• Blend mode keyboard shortcuts
• The Brush tool blend modes
• The remarkable “Fill Opacity Eight”
• Blend If: This Layer and Underlying Layer
• Using This Layer and Underlying Layer

24. Layer Effects

• Depth, contour, and texture
• Applying a drop shadow
• Working with Fill Opacity
• Applying an inner shadow
• Working with Global Light
• Creating a blurry, spray paint-style type
• Creating your own custom contour
• Introducing Bevel and Emboss
• Combining multiple layer effects
• Copying effects between layers and groups
• Assigning multiple strokes to a single layer
• Combining multiple drop shadows

25. Levels and Curves

• Mastering the histogram
• Correcting an image automatically
• Customizing a Levels adjustment
• Previewing clipped pixels
• Understanding the gamma value
• Making channel-by-channel adjustments
• Cleaning up scanned line art
• Cleaning up complex mechanicals
• Quicker layer masks with Levels
• Introducing the Curves adjustment
• The Curves Targeted Adjustment tool
• Assigning shortcuts to adjustment layers

26. Lens Correction and Perspective Warp

• What to do when everything is crooked
• Introducing Lens Correction
• Distortion, aberrations, and vignette
• Adjusting angle and perspective
• Using the Perspective Warp command
• Fine-tuning your perspective adjustment
• Evening out color and lighting
• Quilt Warp (also know as Envelope Warp)
• Multi-point Quilt Warp
• Quilt Warp tips and tricks

27. Advanced Camera Raw

• Photoshop’s most powerful plug-in returns
• Automatic lens correction and DNG
• Customizing lens corrections
• Chromatic Aberration and Defringe
• Auto-correcting JPEG or TIFF images
• Lens correction assists straightening
• Using the powerful geometry controls
• Painting with the Adjustment Brush
• Using the Graduated Filter tool
• Using the Radial Filter tool
• Auto Mask and Range Mask
• Enhance and Super Resolution

28. Black and White Photography

• Shoot in color, convert to black and white
• Three ways to convert to grayscale
• Introducing the Channel Mixer
• Mixing a custom black-and-white image
• Creating an infrared/snow effect
• Introducing the Black & White adjustment
• Customizing a Black & White adjustment
• Tinting an image
• Blending black and white with color
• Convert to black and white in Camera Raw
• Color grading in Camera Raw
• Color grading: Blending and Balance

29. Duotones and Colorization

• Infusing black and white with color
• Quick colorization
• Creating a professional-quality sepiatone
• The best of the best: Gradient Map
• Loading the Photographic Toning gradients
• Loading tailor-made gradients
• Designing your own custom quadtone
• Creating psychedelic arbitrary maps

30. Sharpening Details

• How sharpening works
• Introducing Unsharp Mask
• Blending your sharpening effect
• Reining in sharpness with a filter mask
• Introducing Smart Sharpen
• Remove: Lens Blur and Reduce Noise
• Preventing shadow/highlight clipping
• Compensating for camera shake
• Further compensating with Emboss
• Sharpening with the High Pass filter
• Painting with the Sharpen tool

Conclusion

• Until next time