Learn what every modern photographer needs to master Photoshop, including using AI, cropping, improving exposure, masking, converting to black and white, and more.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Photoshop for the modern photographer
- Why, how, and when to use Photoshop
- Get familiar with the workspace
- Learning the essential tools
- Selecting the perfect color settings for photography
- Choosing the best preferences
- Challenge: Setting up Photoshop properly
- Solution: Setting up Photoshop properly
- Improving a photo quickly
- View, zoom, and pan around your photos
- Fixing a crooked image
- Crop an image to a specific size
- Cropping an image for Instagram
- Save and export your photos
- Challenge: Improve and crop a photo
- Solution: Improving, cropping, saving, and exporting
- Changing the background
- Changing a select portion of the background
- Improving the background of a product
- Expert sky replacement
- Using crop with Generative Fill to improve the composition
- Improve an interior lifestyle photo with AI
- Extend a studio background with AI
- Getting creative with AI
- Creating a strong conceptual portrait with AI
- Challenge: Sky replacement and adding clouds
- Solution: Sky replacement and adding clouds
- The power of layers
- Understanding layer order
- Selecting layers
- Using adjustment layers to create better color
- Blurring the background
- Whitening teeth
- Creating three distinct color looks
- Improving the eyes and smoothing skin
- Challenge: Selecting layers and improving eyes
- Solution: Selecting layers and improving eyes
- Removing distractions with the retouching tools
- Using the Clone Stamp Tool, Healing Brush Tool, and Remove Tool
- Spot healing
- Retouching with AI tools
- Retouching with the Remove Tool and Spot Healing Tool
- Challenge: Retouching away distractions
- Solution: Retouching away distractions
- Selecting rectangular shapes
- Learning how to select circular shapes
- Selecting polygonal shapes
- Advanced selections with the Object Selection Tool and Quick Select Tool
- Improve and refine your selections for better results
- Adding to selections for even better results
- Challenge: Selecting a surfboard and changing the color
- Solution: Selecting a surfboard and changing the color
- Creating three looks with one image
- Converting an image to black and white
- Creating a beautiful black and white landscape image
- Creating better black and white conversions
- Using Camera Raw for even stronger black and white conversions
- Using color balance adjustments to create a stylized look
- Creating multiple stylized looks for one image
- Using Camera Raw and blending modes
- Challenge: Creating two looks for one image
- Solution: Creating two looks for one image
- The foundations of masking
- Brightening a select area with adjustments and masking
- Darkening a select area with adjustments and masking
- Start to finish: Improving the light with masking
- Changing color with selections and masks
- Challenge: Improving the light with masking
- Solution: Improving the light with masking
- Changing the shape of a hat with Liquify
- Changing the shape of a person
- Instantly smooth the skin in a portrait
- Better skin smoothing with two steps
- Working with the Blur filters
- Challenge: Improving a portrait with filters
- Solution: Improving a portrait with filters
- Sharpening options in Photoshop
- Selecting and sharpening the focus area
- Sharpening a travel photo
- Sharpening workflow
- Special effect sharpening
- Challenge: Sharpening a studio photo
- Solution: Sharpening a studio photo
- Next steps
Taught by
Chris Orwig