Photoshop for Photographers
Offered By: LinkedIn Learning
Course Description
Overview
Learn what every photographer needs to master Photoshop, including cropping, improving exposure, masking, converting to black and white, and more.
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- Getting the most out of this course
- Using the exercise files
- Before and after views of images
- Photoshop's role in today's workflow
- Accessing your images with Bridge
- Getting started with Lightroom
- Setting up your color settings
- Fine-tuning your preferences
- Choosing and customizing a workspace
- What is Camera Raw?
- Camera Raw and Photoshop case study
- Opening images into Camera Raw
- Improving your images with the basics
- Using the Start workspace
- Opening, saving, and closing a photograph
- Getting familiar with the interface
- Using tools and undoing mistakes
- Zooming and panning on your photos
- Expert zooming and panning tips
- Choosing and changing the screen mode
- Arranging and viewing multiple documents
- Pixels and image sizing
- Resizing an image to a smaller size
- Exporting for email and social media
- Challenge: Resizing a photo for print and online
- Solution: Resizing a photo for print and online
- Mastering the Crop tool
- Cropping and straightening your photos
- Fixing a crooked image
- Cropping projects
- Challenge: Level and resize a photo to make a 5x5 print
- Solution: Level and resize a photo to make a 5x5 print
- Why layers matter
- Creative layers case study
- Creating new blank layers
- Working with type layers
- Improving color with adjustment layers
- Applying layer style effects
- Combining multiple images into one document
- Combining multiple images and creating a color border
- Organizing layers into groups
- Challenge: Using layers
- Solution: Using layers
- Adding brightness and contrast
- Fixing exposure with Levels
- Fine-tuning an image with Curves
- Correcting exposure with Camera Raw as a Smart Filter
- Fixing an underexposed image
- Challenge: Correcting exposure
- Solution: Correcting exposure
- Using the Elliptical Marquee tool to make a selection
- Selecting and changing a rectangular area
- Selecting with the Lasso tools
- Working with the Quick Select tool
- Quick Select project workflow
- Making a selection with Focus Area
- Challenge: Selecting the subject from the background
- Solution: Selecting the subject from the background
- Introducing masks
- Improving an image with custom masks
- Feathering a mask
- Using a gradient mask to fix exposure
- Copying a mask to save time
- Challenge: Creating a color effect
- Solution: Creating a color effect
- Changing colors in Camera Raw
- Creative color adjustments with Camera Raw
- Fine-tuning color with Hue and Saturation
- Using Hue and Saturation with masking
- Changing the color of a dress
- Two steps to creating vivid and beautiful color
- Using Color Balance to create vivid color
- Challenge: Advanced work with brightness and color
- Solution: Advanced work with brightness and color
- Converting to black and white with Camera Raw
- Making a strong black-and-white portrait
- Creating better black-and-white landscape photographs
- Creating a black-and-white film grain effect
- Making more dramatic black-and-white images
- Challenge: Black-and-white landscape
- Solution: Black-and-white landscape
- Adding lens flare
- Changing focus with the Blur Gallery
- Creating a tilt-shift blur effect
- Adding a creative blur to a portrait
- Adding light with lighting effects
- Challenge: Adding blur
- Solution: Adding blur
- Sharpening with Camera Raw
- Reducing unwanted noise in Camera Raw
- Reducing unwanted noise with high-res files
- Reducing unwanted noise in Photoshop
- Sharpening your photos with Smart Sharpen
- Sharpening a multilayered document
- Using Focus Area to select the area to sharpen
- Selective sharpening with Smart Sharpen
- Challenge: Selective sharpening
- Solution: Selective sharpening
- Using Content-Aware Fill to remove distractions
- Removing an object with Clone Stamp
- Quick results with the Spot Healing tool
- Seamless retouching with the Healing tools
- Fixing a large area with the Patch tool
- Increasing image content with Content-Aware Scale
- Challenge: Removing a large object
- Solution: Removing a large object
- Improving skin with the Healing Brush tools
- Wrinkle reduction
- Whitening teeth with adjustment layers
- Changing facial structure with Liquify
- Changing shape with Liquify
- Brightening the eyes
- Improving eye shadows
- Challenge: Creating more beautiful skin
- Solution: Creating more beautiful skin
- Getting ready to print: Resizing
- Sharpening and brightening for final output
- Selecting your printer and paper size
- Choosing color management and printer settings
- Next steps
Taught by
Chris Orwig
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