One of things that you may have discovered about Photoshop is that if you play and if you tinker a little bit, you'll discover that there are so many different ways to do the same thing. Well, here I want to show you another technique, another way for creating a border or an edge effect. In order to create this effect, let's go ahead and click on the Adjustment layer icon, and this time let's just choose a Solid Color. Here, let's go ahead and choose a color for our border or our edge. Perhaps we want to use black or maybe even white. Next click OK.
Well, here we can see that this white, well, it's covering up all of our image. So we need to click into the mask-- not the adjustment but the mask. You will notice there are these little brackets around the mask showing me that that's what I'm targeting and then double-click that. This will open up our Properties panel, and here we can choose Invert. That will then fill this mask with black so that it's concealing all of the white. We can't see any of this white adjustment. The next step is to go ahead and choose our Brush tool.
With the Brush tool, what I want you to do is to choose a creative brush. If you scroll down, you have a number of different creative brushes. Say, for example, one like this, we can go ahead and increase the brush size and then click and paint across our image. We want to make sure we're painting with white, and we want to make sure we're painting on this mask. And as we move our cursor across the image, we're able to paint on this masked layer, and this gives us the ability to have this really sharp or fine tune edge.
We can also get really creative with edges like this, based on the different types of brushes that we have. For example, if we go back to our Options bar, we can choose this brush which I had selected previously, this Leaf brush. Here, I'll make the size a little bit smaller and then go ahead and just click and drag around the edge of the image. As we do that, you can see really what's happening is it's filling up that edge with this particular brush, which happens to be this leaf pattern. And this just makes for something which is kind of interesting or fun.
And in a sense all that's happening is in this Solid Color layer, we're just revealing or concealing part of this Solid Color. We can change this by double-clicking on this icon here and choosing a new color and that's then just going to sit on top of our photograph. And by using this technique and by really understanding masking, we can constantly make changes to this until we find something that we think might work well with our particular photograph. We can also change the overall intensity of the opacity there or the saturation or brightness value, and again, you have a lot of options.
And the beauty of working with masks, as I've mentioned before, is that they're flexible, they're continually editable. You can always make changes after the fact. And if you don't like, perhaps, something that you've created with one brush, you can always click in your mask and go ahead and choose another brush. Here, I'll go ahead and choose perhaps a more normal soft edge brush. Then next, what I'm going to do is I'm going to paint with black because I don't like some of these leaves here which have come into the picture, so I'll go ahead and paint with the black in order to hide those.
So I'm now erasing or hiding those by simply clicking and painting in that mask and customizing what's appearing here in regards to the overall edge or border effect. And by doing this, well, it just gives us a lot of flexibility, and sometimes it enables us to come up with some pretty creative and interesting effects.
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4/26/2012The course details the features and techniques behind enhancing and retouching photos, preparing them for print and online publishing, and much more. Chris demonstrates how to make basic edits in Camera Raw, develop and save color profiles, work with layers and selections, tone and sharpen, and retouch images while retaining their natural character.
Chris also shares some creative tips and project ideas, such as converting a photo to black-and-white and enhancing a portrait with hand-painted masks. The course also covers workflow details, such as organizing images in Bridge and Mini Bridge, optimizing Photoshop preferences, and calibrating your monitor.
- Getting started with Bridge and Mini Bridge
- Setting up color and performance preferences
- Calibrating your monitor
- Improving images with the basic controls in Camera Raw
- Creating, aligning, and organizing layers
- Using masks for removing or blending images and for sharpening
- Working with vibrancy, hue, and saturation controls
- Enhancing color and tone with Levels
- Using Curves and masks to enhance brightness, color, and tone
- Mastering the art of blending modes
- Correcting and replacing color
- Burning and dodging
- Converting to black and white
Skill Level Beginner
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Introduction
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Welcome55s
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1. Strategies for Learning
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2. Getting Started with Bridge and Mini Bridge
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Adding metadata and keywords4m 47s
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Renaming images1m 45s
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Working with Mini Bridge4m 36s
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3. Color Settings and Preferences
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Modifying zoom preferences4m 20s
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Changing HUD brush options3m 41s
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Opening up documents in tabs4m 11s
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Choosing cursor preferences5m 14s
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4. Foundations of Color Management
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Introducing color profiles5m 17s
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Setting up your studio1m 59s
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5. Getting Started with Photoshop
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Introducing the Tools panel4m 53s
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6. Understanding Digital Images
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Introducing image resizing3m 42s
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Resizing images effectively3m 48s
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7. Working in Camera Raw
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What is Camera Raw?2m 47s
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8. Utilizing Layers
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Introducing layers2m 22s
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Working with layer opacity3m 29s
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Aligning layers1m 32s
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Creating new layers4m 53s
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Organizing layers2m 31s
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Adding layer style effects5m 28s
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Creating a clipping mask6m 50s
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Targeting and moving layers2m 13s
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9. Making Selections
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Using the three lasso tools4m 56s
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10. Using the Masking Panel
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Introducing masking1m 14s
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11. Adding Custom Borders
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Using prebuilt borders4m 13s
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12. Improving Your Images with Adjustments
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13. Using Levels to Correct and Enhance
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Working with auto levels3m 36s
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Creative tip: checking in2m 38s
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14. Making Color and Tone Adjustments with Curves
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15. The Art of Blending Modes
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Using blending shortcuts2m 4s
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16. Correcting Color
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17. Enhancing Colors
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Creative tip: shoot more1m 37s
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18. Burning and Dodging
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19. Converting to Black and White
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The power of black and white4m 14s
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20. Working with Filters
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Introducing Smart Filters3m 36s
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Applying Smart Filters6m 20s
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Working with Tilt-Shift Blur3m 52s
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21. Removing Noise
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22. Basic Image Cleanup
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Basic portrait retouching3m 15s
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Brightening the eyes2m 30s
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Retouching selected areas5m 27s
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23. Correcting Distortion and Perspective
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24. Combining Multiple Images
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25. Sharpening Your Images
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Working with Smart Sharpen6m 17s
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Using Unsharpen Mask4m 49s
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26. Getting Your Images Online
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Sharpening for the web3m 5s
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Creating a web gallery5m 49s
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27. Desktop Printing
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Adjusting printer settings3m 43s
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28. Working with Video
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Exporting a project2m 15s
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Conclusion
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Goodbye35s
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