Photoshop CC 2019 One-on-One: Advanced

Take your Photoshop skills to the next level. Updated for 2019, Deke's flagship Photoshop training course covers more advanced features and techniques.

Discover how to be the best Adobe Photoshop user you know. This comprehensive, project-based course is the second in a series of three courses by industry pro Deke McClelland. Deke doesn't just talk about the advanced features in Photoshop—he ties each concept to a clearly defined task, ensuring that you close out each chapter with a practical understanding of how things really work. Deke dives into the automated selection tools in Photoshop, as well as the Color Range, Focus Area, and Refine Edge commands. He covers such power features as Smart Objects, the Liquify filter, and the new Content-Aware Fill. Plus, you can learn how to use layer effects, Levels and Curves adjustments, Lens Correction and Perspective Warp, Smart Sharpen, and so much more.

Introduction

• Welcome to One-on-One
• Previously on Photoshop CC 2019 One-on-One

16. The Advanced Selection Tools

• 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

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 good old 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 and otherwise warping a layer
• Transform and duplicate in one operation
• Transform and duplicate keyboard shortcut
• 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
• Applying Photoshop effects to Illustrator art
• Trouble-shooting 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 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
• Drawing a rectangle with round corners
• Making your path outlines easier to see
• 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
• 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 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

27. Advanced Camera Raw

• Photoshop’s most powerful plug-in returns
• Automatic lens correction and DNG
• Chromatic Aberration and Defringe
• Auto-correcting a JPEG image
• Lens correction assists straightening
• The Transform tool and Auto Upright
• Painting with the Adjustment Brush
• Using the Graduated Filter tool
• Using the Radial Filter tool
• Using the Range Mask option
• Enhance Details

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 and White adjustment
• Customizing a Black and White adjustment
• Tinting an image
• Blending black and white with color
• Convert to black and white 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