Learn essential imaging skills from Photoshop Expert Richard Harrington. This video series is based on Richard’s book Understanding Photoshop CS6.
These videos provide a strong foundation of any Photoshop user. Learn more about the book at peachpit.com
This video shows you how to make the most of the video editing features new to CS6. Trim and combine multiple shots, add soundtracks, color corrections and fades, and render video files, all in Photoshop.
Master Mini Bridge with this video and learn how to quickly search and navigate through photos without leaving Photoshop. Use this tool to sort and filter images to access files with greater efficiency.
With this movie learn how to use the Camera Raw dialog to adjust color and exposure, add vignetting and crop the image. Then send it on to Photoshop to benefit from the best each program has to offer.
Adobe Bridge allows you to automate the offloading of camera. Here we see how to use it to handle file conversions, rename photos, embed preview files and assign copyright information.
Learn how Photoshop can speed the processing of scanned images. The Crop and Straighten command removes extra space and can even pull multiple images from one scan into separate documents.
This movie shows how to adjust the canvas size to add additional room around an image or make it smaller without using the Crop tool. Learn how to pin these changes exactly where you want them.
Use Power Cropping to crop and set target size at the same time. This video shows how to set an accurate cropping detail and save crop presets to use these settings later.
Non-destructive editing allows you to change your mind later, and this video shows you how you can crop an image without permanently discarding the excess information.
Remove any unwanted distortion caused by the position of the camera with the techniques in this movie. Create a crop that fits to the angles of an image and use it to set accurate perspective.
Adaptive Wide Angle Correction and Content-Aware Fill
This video demonstrates Photoshop's tools to manipulate images to get proper perspective, removing the distortion caused by wide-angle lenses and then filling in the missing pieces.
Learn how to use the Free Transform modify shape of an individual layer. Stretch, rotate, warp, flip and skew the image, and change the orientation of the scaling you apply.
This movie shows how Photoshop can intelligently transform an image using content aware scaling. It protects masked areas, allowing you to change the shape of an image without distorting key parts.
Discover the power of Puppet Warp in transforming an image. Create a mesh over an isolated object and move parts of the structure around to change various elements and get the image you need.
This video demonstrates Photoshop's marquee tools, showing you how to make and adjust rectangular and elliptical selections. Then find out how to save and go back to your preferred selections.
The Quick Selection tool automatically detects the edges of shapes within an image. This movie shows you the best way of using it to quickly and accurately refine your photos.
This video demonstrates the strengths of the Magic Wand tool and guides you through the best sampling options to make an accurate selection, comparing it to how Quick Selection is used.
The Color Range command is the best way to make a color-based selection. Build and adjust your mask and then use it to apply localized changes to your image.
This movie shows how the Color Range selection tool can be applied specifically to skin tones so that it isolates facial features, allowing you to make much more targeted adjustments to portraits.
Quick mask mode allows you to visualize how a mask will be applied and gives you various tools more easily refine the edges of complex selections for greater accuracy. This video shows you how.
Learn how to make any selection better with the Refine Edge command, particularly on tricky subjects like fur. Adjust the radius it picks up to remove rough edges and create a mask that has a gentler blend.
This movie explains how you can use existing channels to make an selection to which you can make adjustments, apply a mask and extract for use in other cases.
The Calculations command gives you the power to make a selection based on two channels, allowing you to easily select an object from a contrasting background, then use a brush to refine your mask.
You may want parts of an image printed with specific inks, such as Pantone colors. This video shows you how to prepare files for specialty printing or insertion into a page layout program.
This video shows how the Kuler utility can be used when working with color to import themes, adjust palettes and save swatches, using other people's inspiration and adding your own to the online community.
Discover how to create great new colors using the Eyedropper tool. Sample parts of an image, use the tool's comparison feature to get interactive feedback, and then name and store the swatch.
In this movie learn how to create your own custom brushes from scanned textures, load and apply create natural media type strokes. You can even adjust the shape, size and spacing for effect.
Learn the best way to use Color Replacement brush, a feature that combines both selection and paint tools to allow you to quickly change the color or a selected area.
This video demonstrates how the Mixer brush interactively blends separate colors as though they were wet, creating a painterly effect. Clean your brush to resample the colors for ultimate control.
Make use of the History brush, an interesting way to blend multiple states of an image together. Paint backwards in time to restore details of the image through applied effects.
This movie guides you through the steps to create your own custom gradients, adding different color stops and changing the opacity, center points, angles and styles.
Photoshop has a whole suite of vector drawing tools. In this movie, learn how to use them to create custom shapes, strokes and open up new creative options, particularly for more illustrative tasks.
This video gives you the essentials for creating and applying a layer mask. Discover how to ensure accurate edges, switch the mask off and on, and save the mask with the image for later use.
Refine Edge can be used to touch up an existing mask. Here we see how it can analyze textured edges and apply feathering to best handle complicated transitions between shapes.
Learn how to apply the Color Range command to build an accurate selection. This masking technique allows you to apply non-destructive changes to specific areas and touch up your image as you go.
The Calculations tool is an excellent way to create a mask to knock out the sky from an image. This video demonstrates how to create and refine a mask for the purpose of creating this transparency.
Once you've applied a mask you may want to update the content within it. Learn how to uncouple an image's content from the mask itself to give greater flexibility in your adjustments.
Photoshop CS6 offers a new engine that harnesses images and patterns to create fills, offering different arrangements to give some great effects particularly suited to graphic design or collage oriented projects.
Learn how to get the most from the Layers panel: use it to align objects, group them to behave as a single unit, lock them in different ways label, and label them with specific colors.
Repairing Panoramic Images with the Adaptive Wide Angle Command
This video lays out many of the newer methods you can use to fix perspective issues in composite panoramas, straighten out areas of distortion and fill in blank spaces.
You may have to capture a subject as two separate images. Here we see how Photoshop can automatically align these images and adjust the exposure to create a seamless whole.
Layer Comps allows you to store the condition of separate layers, including their position, visibility and layer style. This can allow you to present different design ideas within a single document.
Blending modes allow for the mixing of layers. This movie shows how you can apply them in different ways across several images and experiment to achieve a multiplicity of effects.
This video demonstrates how blending modes can be used to spice up an image. Adjust the opacity to blend two different effects and create a custom look that makes your image pop.
See how corner pinning and blending modes can help integrate separate images; transform shapes, toggle through effects and adjust the opacity to remap objects to the surface within the photo.
Filters can combine with blending modes; this movie shows you how to use this feature to non-destructively create different effects and stylized, artistic looks, pushing your filters a lot further.
Fix issues like color balance and incorrect exposure very quickly using the levels command. Here we see how to alter blacks, whites, contrast, and midtones with this easy to use tool.
Levels can provide powerful color correction tools. Learn how to interpret the histogram, add a levels adjustment layer to balance an image's color, and toggle it off and on to see the result of your changes.
This movie shows how you can isolate changes to a per channel adjustment. This can be applied to masked areas and makes it easier to fix color cast issues limited to specific places.
Master Curve Adjustments to selectively alter the contrast and exposure within an image. This tool gives you more points of control than a simple Layers adjustment, expanding your creative scope.
Learn how you can use Photoshop to get the popular hand tint effect in this video. Build it in reverse on a color image by isolating areas and using adjustment layers to non-destructively apply different tints.
This video compares the strengths of the Vibrance slider with Hue/Saturation and shows how to use these tools together. Vibrance is particularly useful for bringing out colors without affecting skin tones.
Discover how to use color channels to get the perfect balance of light and dark for monochrome images. Instead of simply stripping out color, here you will see how to achieve dramatic black and white photos.
This movie explores the different options available to create a sepia tone on your images. Experiment with Gradient Maps, Actions, and Color Lookup Adjustments to find an effect that suits your image.
Learn how you can use the colors in one image to affect another with a Gradient Map. Sample the colors you wish to apply, and experiment with blending and opacity to find the best fit for the new image.
This video demonstrates how you can quickly process and lift shadow areas while darkening highlights that may be overexposed. See how you can limit adjustments and apply them as a Smart Filter.
Here we see how the Merge to HDR Pro tool to combines multiple exposures to create one high dynamic range image. Photoshop allows you to automatically align the images and apply different presets to bring out different details and effects.
Quickly give an image more contrast with the Equalize adjustment. Learn how to blend this adjusted image with the original to add punch without looking overprocessed.
RAW files contain within them a surprising amount of information. Here we see how Adobe Camera Raw can go a long way toward recovering detail that may appear lost to over- or underexposure.
Camera Raw gives you several lens correction options. Here we see how you can use a photo's metadata to apply automatic changes for specific lenses you've used, or instead apply corrections manually.
See the Cloning tool in action in this video and discover how to remove unwanted pixels. A separate layer makes it easy to isolate and create a smooth, blended effect.
This movie demonstrates the new option the Patch tool offers for content aware filling. This makes it easy to target an area for removal, patch it over, and then seamlessly blend it with the rest of the image.
Photoshop offers various content-aware tools including Fill, Scale and Heal. By analyzing the pixels surrounding the area you're working on, they make it easy to add adjustments that look natural.
The Content-Aware Move tool is a great way to seamlessly reposition elements from a photo. Here we see how to select and move objects with this tool to recompose your photos.
This movie teaches how the Blur and Sharpen tools can be applied non-destructively by using layers to soften textures and sharpen details in your images.
Learn how you can creatively apply different Blur tools. Here we see how to apply the Bokeh slider, Iris and Tilt Shift Blurs to focus the viewer's gaze, enhance colors and add blooming to highlights.
The Dodge and Burn tools let you selectively tone an image. As these are destructive changes, this video shows how to use them with layers in a way that will allow you to return to your original image.
This video demonstrates how to use the Lens Correction filter to remove distortion. This tool can fix many problems including fisheye, perspective issues, chromatic aberration and edge vignetting.
Here we show how Adaptive Wide-Angle correction can be applied non-destructively to adjust for lens distortion caused by using a wide-angle lens, and be used to straighten the image.
This movie presents a range of techniques to repair damage to photos including cracks and blemishes. It also teaches how to bring out the detail in old photos by adjusting contrast and saturation.
Here you can find out how to replace blown out skies with an alternate backdrop. Then apply a little bit of color spill to bring out details in the scene and ensure that the composite matches.
This movie gives an overview of the Vanishing Point tool, which adds an element of perspective to the Clone Stamp tool for more natural-looking corrections.
Here we see the different options Photoshop's type engines offer for tracking, size, scale, color and alignment. It explains point and paragraph text and where you would use them.
Photoshop has some great warping features, and this movie shows how they can be applied to text. It demonstrates the presets you can use, and how to customize these settings to truly modify them.
Photoshop CS6 Extended offers a powerful 3D extrusion tool. Here we see how to use it with text to great effect, adjusting contours, angles and width for maximum impact.
Here we see how layer effects can open up a lot of different options when applied to text. With just a single click you can apply a wide range of styles, including shadows, textures, and beveled edges.
Styles aren't just for text; they can also be used for photos. This movie shows how to use this feature for photo effects including custom pattern and hue overlays and burnt edges.
This video showcases how filters can be combined to create a new overall look. Here we see how different blend modes and Smart Filters can be used together to give you a lot of flexibity.
Here we see how blending modes can be useful for filters. Discover how to combine effects in a way that allows you to work non-destructively, giving flexibility in reediting.
In this movie we see how the Blur Gallery filters can be combined. You can adjust the transition zones, and the Field, Tilt Shift and Iris blurs interact with each other to give you more options as you design.
Smart Filters can be masked so that they only affect certain areas of your photo. This video shows how masks can be used to further refine and isolate how new effects are applied.
The new Oil Paint filter is a fantastic way to add a painterly look to your images. Discover the range of stroke textures it offers, and find out how to add a pattern adjustment layer to create a canvas effect.
Actions are a great way to capture your creativity, whether you know exactly what you want or are just experimenting. Every step you take is captured in the Actions panel and saved to play back later.
The batch command saves you time by quickly applying an action to several photos at once. This video shows you how to master this process for a more efficient workflow.
There are several methods to create automated or controlled slideshows in Photoshop without the need for any presentation software. This video shows you two ways: the Actions Panel and Adobe Bridge.
This movie give you a fast way to process a large number of images for output. This is great for processing RAW files, adapting images for devices such as iPads, and applying copyright to metadata.
Learn how you can save multiple layers to separate files, a great feature for creating animations, Powerpoint presentations, or simply backing up individual layers.
The Output Module can offer so much more than slideshows. Here we see how it can be used to create contact sheets, two-by-two type prints or a customizable Web gallery.
The Save for Web dialog box gives you the chance to select the output file type and adjust the size of the images. It allows you to create an optimized version for the Web without altering your original image.
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