- Getting Started
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Selections & Masking - Advanced
- 3. The easiest way in the world to mask a person in Adobe Photoshop
- 4. Class Project - Select Subject
- 5. Select mask & changing a color using Photoshop - Color Range
- 6. Using Photoshop selection to fix grass & sky - Color Range
- 7. How to change the color of skin in Photoshop - Color Range
- 8. How to create an ink splash image around text - Color Range
- 9. Class Project - Color Range in Adobe Photoshop
- 10. Mask on a group rather than each layer
- 11. Advanced masking using a channels in Adobe Photoshop
- 12. Class Project - Channel Mask
- 13. How to make selections in Photoshop based on the focus area
- 14. Class Project - Focus Area
- 15. Selection trick using the smudge tool in Photoshop
- 16. Future of selections in Photoshop with Adobe Sneaks
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Preferences & Workflow
- 17. Advanced preference changes for Adobe Photoshop
- 18. How to speed up Adobe Photoshop if it’s running slow
- 19. Workflow tips & tricks like a professional in Photoshop
- 20. Advanced layer tricks in Adobe Photoshop CC
- 21. Automatically add a watermark text or logo in Photoshop
- 22. Batch or Image Process multiple images at once in Photoshop
- 23. How to put loads of images into one Photoshop file quickly
- 24. Weird Adobe Photoshop Features & Easter Eggs
- Fixing Images
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Cropping & Aligning & Distorting
- 29. How to reshape images without distorting in Photoshop content aware scale
- 30. How to use Content aware move in Photoshop
- 31. How to use Content Aware extend in Adobe Photoshop
- 32. Removing objects using content aware fill in Photoshop
- 33. Class Project - Content Aware Fill
- 34. Cropping tricks delete pixel & reveal cropped content in Photoshop
- 35. Automatically crop & rotate scanned documents in Photoshop
- 36. Crop angled images to straighten perspective cropping Photoshop
- 37. How to trim the white away from the edge of an image in Photoshop
- 38. Automatically align layers in Adobe Photoshop CC
- 39. How to reshape images using the Puppet Warp in Photoshop
- 40. Class Exercise - Puppet Warp
- 41. How to change the perspective in Photoshop Perspective Warp
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Color
- 42. How to color black & white image in Photoshop
- 43. How to create a Duotone effect in Adobe Photoshop CC
- 44. Class Project – Duotone in Adobe Photoshop
- 45. How to create the Glitch effect in Adobe Photoshop
- 46. Class Project - Glitch Effect in Adobe Photoshop
- 47. Color grading with orange & teal effect in Adobe Photoshop
- 48. Class Project - Color grading in Adobe Photoshop
- CC Libraries
- Typography
- Artboards
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Retouching
- 57. Advanced tricks for Healing Brush for retouching in Photoshop
- 58. Don’t forget about clone Tool Stamp in Photoshop
- 59. How to use the Patch tool for retouching in Photoshop
- 60. Class Exercise – Retouching in Photoshop
- 61. How to retouch in Photoshop using face aware in Liquify
- 62. How to use vanishing point to mocking up designs in Photoshop
- 63. Vanishing point - cloning & healing at an angle in Photoshop
- 64. Class Exercise - Vanishing Point in Photoshop
- 65. Fixing & retouching skin tone in Adobe Photoshop
- 66. Retouching eyes by enhancing in Adobe Photoshop
- 67. Retouching eyes with a little bit of fakery in Photoshop
- 68. Fully faking believable eyes in Adobe Photoshop
- 69. Class Project – Eyes in Photoshop
- 70. How to realistically whiten teeth in Adobe Photoshop
- 71. Class Project – Teeth in Photoshop
- Layers
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Visual Styles & Effects
- 75. How to create a double exposure in Adobe Photoshop
- 76. Class Project - Double Exposure in Photoshop
- 77. How to create a watercolor painting effect in Photoshop
- 78. Class Project – Watercolor in Photoshop
- 79. How to Decay Pixel explosion Dispersion Method in Photoshop
- 80. How to make exploding shoe effect in Adobe Photoshop
- 81. Class project – Decay in Photoshop
- Video & Animated Gifs for social media
- Web Design
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3D
- 89. How to make 3D text & 3D logos in Photoshop
- 90. How to add and change 3D materials & textures in Photoshop
- 91. Using cameras & depth of field in 3D Photoshop
- 92. Adding lights & casting shadows using Photoshop 3D
- 93. How to export a high quality 3D image from Photoshop
- 94. Class Project – 3D in Photoshop
- 95. How to create fake 3D lines & type in Photoshop
- 96. Fake 2.5D gradient effect with paths in Photoshop
- 97. Class Project - Fake 3D in Photoshop
- Mock-ups & Presenting Your Work
- Exporting
- What’s Next
14 - Class Project - Focus Area
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Video Transcription
All right, I have got a fun class project for you. This tomato, that chopping board. The rules are in the Class Projects Word doc. This one here, Class Project - Focus Area. Both the files are in Project 03. And the rules of engagement are, you have to use the Focus Area to get started. You'll have to tweak it using anything you like, but probably select a Mask. And the one that I'm interested in is how good your shadow ends up being.
Not a graded test, everyone's going to do something different, but please post what you do, even if you think it's bad. It might be bad, that's okay. Your post might make somebody else feel better. If his is average, yours is bad, makes things feel good. Plus we're all here to learn, so post it and tell us what you did. How you did it, whether-- you can do the detached Drop Shadow option.
Well you might just paint it in, there is no Blending Mode you used. Maybe you didn't use black for the shadow, maybe it was a brown. Try and make it look realistic. You have to work out which way the light's being cast. It looks like, from there from this one, slightly different from this one. You don't have to just use these features here, make sure you do these, but you can use anything else to kind of color grade or add noise.
Anything you like for the class project, and at the end, post it, at any of these places up here at the top, I'd love to see what you do. Onward to the next video.
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Ron Doran - 3 months ago
Select focus area with drop shadow
Good progress Ron, I'd keep having a play and see what alternative you come up with.
Anuj Kumar - 3 months ago
here it is:)
Good experimentation here Anuj
Ron Doran - 3 months ago
V2 updated the shadow effect as per comments from Emma
Bold shadow
cheryl ramsay - 2 months ago
Focus selection and a 'linear light' drop shadow.
Awesome work! Super believable :)
Loz - 2 months ago
Tomato
Good job here!
Daniel Kyriacou - 2 months ago
Focus Area Project
XINJUAN DENG - 2 months ago
shadow is hard to adjust
Good effort
Juan Zapata - 1 month ago
Focus Area Project
Very creative using two. Good experiementation
Glenn Mathisen - 1 month ago
Hmmm...
Good blur on the edging Glenn
smoey - 1 month ago
Detached shadow used, low opacity 34%. Adjustments on colours made on both the tomato and overall pic. Not too convinced of the shadow direction, perspective and blending of tomato to background. Happy to hear your critique Dan/BYOL team.
Good work Smoey. Maybe try make it a bit darker and I'd go a bit more extreme to the right for your shadowing. Keep it up! :)
Sara King - 1 month ago
Really big tomato or really small chopping board? - who knows!
Haha massive tomato. Good work on the shadowing
Annemarie Johnson - 3 weeks ago
Now I'm hungry.