Learn about the differing components of Photoshop layers and the range of features you can employ to allow for non-destructive editing with limitless possibilities.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Explore the Art of Photoshop Layers
- Thinking in Layers part 2
- Thinking in Layers part 3
- Thinking in Layers part 4
- Thinking in Layers
- Multiply and Screen: darkening and lightening blend modes
- Multiply: Create a simple double exposure effect
- Screen: Create a lens flare
- Overlay: Dodge and burn
- Soft Light: "Orton" effect
- Luminosity: Control color
- Overlay: Add texture
- Composite with Linear Burn, Divide, and Vivid Light
- Hand tinting: Color Blend Mode vs Neural filter
- Overlay: Add grain
- Hard Light, Screen: Create an atmospheric book cover
- Overlay and Threshold: Create a limited color poster
- Using Filter Blend Modes
- Soft Light: "Pep Ventosa" effect
- Using the Divide blend mode to create a line drawing
- Blending images with a gradient layer mask
- Create a "layer sandwich"
- Texture blending
- Combining filter masks and layer masks
- Create a line drawing using a layer mask and smart filter
- Apply texture with a layer mask
- Combining a layer mask with the Puppet Warp filter
- Intertwining with layer masks and Liquify
- Create a simple clipping mask
- Create a clipping mask grid
- Exploring the potential of clipping masks
- Clipping masks and linked layers
- Mask one thing with another
- Create a long exposure effect
- Create a painterly landscape
- Create a knockout effect
- Retouching with layer mask
- Blending exposures with layer masks
- Combining Levels and layer masks
- Adjusting color and tone
- Shifting colors with Hue/Saturation
- Combining color and black and white
- Using Shadows/Highlights as a filter
- Create a monotone
- Create a cyanotype with legacy gradients
- Using the Channel Mixer on an infrared image
- Create a stylised portrait with Threshold
- Create a screenprint look using Color Fill layers
- Create a vintage travel poster using Posterize
- An overview of layer stacks
- Using the Mean image stack mode
- Using the Median image stack mode
- Combining stack mode with blend modes and layer masking
- Next Steps
Taught by
Nigel French
