Take your Photoshop skills to the next level. Updated for 2021, Deke's flagship Photoshop training course covers more advanced features and techniques.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome to Photoshop One-on-One
- Previously on Photoshop One-on-One
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Until next time
Taught by
Deke McClelland