Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Advanced

Improve your Photoshop skills by learning about advanced features and techniques, including how to refine selections and masks, transform subjects, work with blend modes, and more.

Introduction

• Welcome
• The new Photoshop CC 2017 interface

16. Color Range and Focus Area

• The best in automated selections
• 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

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
• The Global Refinements settings
• Edge Detection and Smart Radius
• Refine Edge Brush and Decontaminated Colors
• Turning day into night with Camera Raw
• Blending hair into a nighttime sky
• Bringing back Refine Mask

18. Scale, Rotate, Skew, and Warp

• Meet the transformations
• Introducing the Free Transform command
• Skewing and distorting a layer
• Bending and otherwise warping a layer
• Creating a cheerful bat-faced moon
• Real-world scaling and compositing
• Quick-and-dirty layer masking
• Transform and duplicate in one operation
• Removing the color from a layer
• Transforming a selection outline
• Repeating one or more transformations
• Transforming and warping text
• Filling text with a warped gradient

19. Smart Objects

• 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 smart objects from Illustrator
• Applying Photoshop effects to Illustrator art
• Troubleshooting Illustrator smart objects

20. Image Reconstruction

• Restoring missing details
• "Uncropping" a photo by expanding the canvas
• Using the Content-Aware Scale command
• Restoring a missing photographic element
• Fitting an image 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
• Adjusting the roundness of a rectangle
• Creating a dashed or dotted border
• Drawing and aligning custom shapes
• Creating your own custom shape
• Designing a custom shape in Illustrator
• Selecting, modifying, and combining shapes
• Duplicating and centering shapes
• Centering a star inside a circle
• Beveling your shapes with Pillow Emboss
• Combining shapes into a smart object
• Applying lighting and photorealism
• Converting text to a shape layer
• Editing the shape of a character of type

23. Blend Modes

• Blending layers like a pro
• 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

24. Layers Effects

• Depth, contour, and texture
• Applying a Drop Shadow
• Working with Fill Opacity
• Applying an Inner Shadow
• Working with Global Light
• Creating blurry, spray paint-style type
• Creating your own custom Contour
• Introducing Bevel & 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

27. Advanced Camera Raw

• Photoshop’s most powerful plug-in returns
• Automatic lens correction and Defringe
• Auto-correcting a JPEG image
• Auto-correcting an undocumented photo
• Auto-Straighten, Transform, and Upright
• Using the Tone Curve graphs
• Painting with the Adjustment Brush
• Using the Graduated Filter tool
• Using the Radial Filter tool
• Dehaze and Post-Crop Vignetting

28. Black and White Photography

• Shoot in color, convert to black & 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 Grayscale in Camera Raw
• Split Toning in Camera Raw

29. Duotones and Colorization

• Infusing black and white with color
• Quick-and-dirty colorization
• Creating a professional quality sepia tone
• The best of the best: Gradient Map
• Loading my free, 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