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Photoshop One-on-One: Advanced

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Overview

Take your Photoshop skills to the next level. Updated for 2021, Deke's flagship Photoshop training course covers more advanced features and techniques.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome to Photoshop One-on-One
  • Previously on Photoshop One-on-One
16. The Advanced Selection Commands
  • 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
  • Using the Select > Sky command
  • The Sky Replacement command
  • Shift Edge and Fade Edge
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
  • Refine Hair and Object Aware
  • Edge Detection and Smart Radius
  • Remember Settings and Save Preset
  • Using the Refine Edge Brush
  • Enhancing the cloud man composition
  • Bringing back 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 warping a layer
  • Transform and duplicate in one operation
  • Transform and duplicate keyboard shortcuts
  • 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
  • Troubleshooting 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 a photo 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
  • Introducing the Shape tools
  • Rounding the corners of a live rectangle
  • Controlling the visibility of a path outline
  • Creating a dashed or dotted border
  • Aligning and positioning a shape
  • Custom shapes and the Shapes panel
  • Duplicating and distributing shapes
  • Creating your own custom shape
  • Designing a custom shape in Illustrator
  • Selecting, modifying, and combining shapes
  • The wily ways of the Line tool
  • Drawing a line with an arrowhead
  • Curving a line with the Convert Point tool
  • Blending vectors with a pixel-based photograph
23. Blend Modes
  • Blending layers
  • 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 a 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
  • Quilt Warp (also know as Envelope Warp)
  • Multi-point Quilt Warp
  • Quilt Warp tips and tricks
27. Advanced Camera Raw
  • Photoshop’s most powerful plug-in returns
  • Automatic lens correction and DNG
  • Customizing lens corrections
  • Chromatic Aberration and Defringe
  • Auto-correcting JPEG or TIFF images
  • Lens correction assists straightening
  • Using the powerful geometry controls
  • Painting with the Adjustment Brush
  • Using the Graduated Filter tool
  • Using the Radial Filter tool
  • Auto Mask and Range Mask
  • Enhance and Super Resolution
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 & White adjustment
  • Customizing a Black & White adjustment
  • Tinting an image
  • Blending black and white with color
  • Convert to black and white in Camera Raw
  • Color grading in Camera Raw
  • Color grading: Blending and Balance
29. Duotones and Colorization
  • Infusing black and white with color
  • Quick colorization
  • Creating a professional-quality sepiatone
  • The best of the best: Gradient Map
  • Loading the Photographic Toning gradients
  • Loading 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

Taught by

Deke McClelland

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