ADOBE PHOTOSHOP?
Become a
Photoshop Master
This course contains over 25 hours of training designed to teach you everything you need to master Photoshop.
We'll start by learning the basics of how to navigate Photoshop's interface, what the different file types are we'll encounter in Photoshop (and when to use different types), the most common and fundamental tools in Photoshop and so much more.
No matter what challenges we'll come across in Photoshop, this course will teach you the features, tools and operations you'll need to know so you can conquer whatever projects come your way.
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01
Understanding Frequency Separation
Frequency separation is a common technique used by professional portrait photographers and retouchers around the world. In this course, we'll learn what frequency separation is, why it's helpful, how to set it up in Photoshop and even how to save time by building an action we can use to set up frequency separation in any of our other projects.
02
Advanced Photoshop: Woman in the Moon
We'll learn how build a creative image using a portrait photograph. We'll learn how to extract someone from the background while retaining details like their hair. You'll also learn how to draw shapes, add textures, building realistic glow and blending workflows.
03
Advanced Photoshop: Forced Perspective
We'll learn how to combine two photographs to make someone look smaller than they are using a forced perspective technique. Along with advanced masking and painting techniques, we'll learn how to manipulate images, add lighting and even more advanced blending workflows.
04
Advanced Photoshop: Falling Down the Rabbit Hole
We'll learn how to combine numerous photographs together for an Alice in Wonderland inspired piece of fantasy art. We'll also learn painting techniques, advanced masking workflows and how to add the illusion of motion to images.
05
Advanced Photoshop: Creative Maternity
Everyone's seen the typical maternity photos. Make your work stand out as we'll learn the step-by-step process of building a creative maternity photograph.
06
Advanced Photoshop: Autumn Themed Compositing
AWe'll learn how build a creative image using a portrait photograph. We'll learn how to extract someone from the background while retaining details like their hair. We'll also learn how to draw shapes, add textures, building realistic glow and blending workflows.
CURRICULUM
- Section introduction (1:06)
- Rulers and guides (14:52)
- Mini Project: Using guides to slice a panorama for Instagram (15:00)
- Grids and snapping (7:58)
- Alignment tools (5:14)
- Mini Project: Using auto-align to create a panoramic image (7:52)
- Copying and pasting (12:50)
- Undo, redo and the history panel (10:30)
- Using the history brush (5:39)
- Basics of the paint brush (11:14)
- Working with actions (9:00)
- Canvas size vs image size (9:43)
- Section introduction (1:09)
- Understanding the concept of layers (5:05)
- Creating, duplicating and deleting layers (9:57)
- Understanding the concept of layer masks (4:50)
- Creating, duplicating and deleting layer masks (9:29)
- Clipping masks (5:23)
- Mini Project: Tips & tricks for painting layer masks (8:43)
- The background layer (4:06)
- Working with locked layers (7:05)
- Layer opacity vs layer fill (5:31)
- Organizing layers (8:46)
- Understanding blend modes (7:25)
- Merging layers (9:14)
- Layer styles overview (8:28)
- Section introduction (1:14)
- Selection workflows in Photoshop (3:45)
- Marquee selections (5:45)
- Using lasso tools (11:48)
- Magic wand tool (7:06)
- Quick selection tool (6:04)
- Quick mask mode (10:12)
- Mini Project: Selection tips & tricks (9:43)
- Select subject & select and mask (9:32)
- Saving and loading selections (6:47)
- Section introduction (1:01)
- Understanding the concept of adjustment layers (2:08)
- Adjustment layers vs destructive adjustments (6:39)
- Black & white adjustment layer (7:51)
- Controlling adjustment layers with masks (3:34)
- Controlling adjustment layers with clipping masks (3:54)
- Levels adjustment layer (12:15)
- Understanding the histogram (14:07)
- Hue/saturation adjustment layer (10:44)
- Curves adjustment layer (9:13)
- Photo filter adjustment layer (3:19)
- Mini Project: Working with multiple adjustment layers (10:30)
- Project introduction (2:19)
- Getting the files for this project (2:58)
- Understanding the concept of frequency separation (4:23)
- Setting up our low frequency (5:13)
- How to add the high frequency details (5:25)
- Understanding the technical stuff (13:32)
- Retouching workflow with frequency separation (6:57)
- Working smarter with actions (9:00)
- Project introduction (1:14)
- Getting the files for this project (2:58)
- Building our background (6:05)
- Positioning our model's photo (7:26)
- Masking workflows (7:43)
- Speed edit: Masking (5:01)
- Hair painting workflows (8:05)
- Speed edit: Hair painting (5:18)
- Portrait retouching workflows (11:30)
- Speed edit: Retouching (5:33)
- Adding skin texture (8:09)
- Creating the moon shape (5:54)
- Adding the moon's texture (7:44)
- Painting shadows on the ground (6:52)
- Building the moon's glow (11:04)
- Adding clouds (8:45)
- Adding fireflies (9:29)
- Overall color grading (9:11)
- Project introduction (1:30)
- Getting the files for this project (2:58)
- Placing the teacup photo (3:41)
- Masking the teacup and saucer (10:49)
- Adding the background (4:38)
- Creating shadows (10:40)
- Adding our model's photo (1:52)
- Masking workflows for our model (6:41)
- Speed edit: Masking our model's photo (5:03)
- Workflows for painting hair (6:48)
- Speed edit: Painting the hair details (5:09)
- Optional photo tweaking (14:03)
- Adding shadows for our model (5:37)
- Matching light in our scene (7:56)
- Adding overall effects (8:57)
- Project introduction (1:15)
- Getting the files for this project (2:58)
- Rough placement of our elements (7:33)
- Preparing our Photoshop document for masking (3:42)
- Masking workflows for the body (9:18)
- Speed edit: Masking out the body (5:11)
- Masking out the hair (7:44)
- Masking workflows for the dress and leg (5:38)
- Speed edit: Masking the dress and leg (5:22)
- Painting workflows for the hair (7:31)
- Speed edit: Painting the hair (5:11)
- Building the background elements (12:23)
- Positioning our model in the background (3:27)
- Adjustments to the legs and dress (11:35)
- Starting to blend our model into the background (11:50)
- Continuing to blend our model into the background (10:03)
- Adding some light to the top (7:21)
- Bringing leaves into our image (10:21)
- Tweaking our leaves (4:31)
- Adding motion to our model (4:54)
- Color corrections (7:43)
- Speed edit: Additional tweaks (5:05)
- Project introduction (1:51)
- Getting the files for this project (2:58)
- Creating our Photoshop document (7:34)
- Cleaning up our model's photo (11:47)
- Workflows for extracting our model (6:25)
- Speed edit: Masking out our model (5:30)
- Preparing our layers for cleanup (6:13)
- Cleaning up our background (8:01)
- Continued cleanup (13:04)
- Adding detail to our model's hair (3:04)
- Positioning the Earth (6:11)
- Painting glows on the Earth (8:05)
- Continuing to paint glows (3:58)
- Adding a base layer of clouds (7:58)
- Continuing to add clouds (8:22)
- Cleaning up repeating patterns (9:00)
- Finishing our Earth edits (6:48)
- Adding the moon (4:53)
- Painting glows for our moon (4:43)
- Finishing the edits for our moon (6:42)
- Positioning our other planets (5:21)
- Fixing a few things in our image (6:37)
- Blending our planets into the sky (5:51)
- Building our foreground stars (10:40)
- Continuing to blend our foreground stars (5:25)
- Adding stars to the background (6:43)
- Painting stars by the planets (8:13)
- Finishing up our image (7:31)
- Project introduction (1:40)
- Getting the files for this project (2:58)
- Changing the color of the background leaves (8:43)
- Adding leaves to the foreground (6:50)
- Adding the falling leaves (8:46)
- Compositing sun rays (8:03)
- Changing the sweater color (11:44)
- Adding more sun rays (6:40)
- Final color grading (4:07)
Meet your Mentor
HI, I'M DAN
LEFEBVRE
My career has spanned experience as a web developer to motion designer to 3D artist with a focus on fluid dynamics and VFX to building a production system for a multi-million dollar online tutorial e-learning company to leading a content marketing team with millions of readers to creating an award-winning podcast heard around the world.
With my teaching background coupled with a unique set of experiences, you'll have the opportunity to learn in a manner that will help you learn the tools and techniques to become a Photoshop master.
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