Your guide to al Masks and the Masking tools in Lightroom and Camera RAW

Masks are the biggest thing to come to Lightroom and ACR (Adobe Camera RAW) in years! These masks add a set of new AI powered tools, as well as revolutionizing how the existing tools work. With the masks panel, there are so many new ways you can use these tools together to transform your photos with powerful masks, or even layer multiple masks together. You can now treat your images in ways that were impossible before this paradigm-shift in Lightroom and Camera RAW.

You might feel a little overwhelmed by all these new tools, or a bit lost because existing workflows have been turned on their head. Perhaps, you are comfortable with the new tools, but want to explore creative ways to use them and unleash their full time-saving and photo-transforming power. Lightroom uses Camera RAW as it’s develop module, they are exactly the same. If you are using ACR inside Photoshop, or Lightroom this course is designed for both.

This course is the key to mastering masks and ai tools inside Lightroom/ACR. This 3-hour course, taught by Photoshop/Lightroom Guru, Colin Smith, will help you understand how all the mask tools work, how to use them and how to choose the best settings.

Once you Learn and understand the tools, we put them into practice with real-world projects. These projects show you how these tools work together to accomplish your goals. You will discover fun and creative ways to add magic to all your images and really make then stand out from the crowd. You will be surprised at how easy it is to get professional-looking results, in less time than you think.

This course is an investment that will pay for itself over and over. Stop stumbling your way through, and learn the techniques of the pros. Your images can start looking better today! It doesn't matter if you are new to masks, or already have experience, this course will be invaluable to you.

All instructor files included!

Your instructor, Colin Smith, has worked professionally in the industry for over 2 decades and has worked with companies like Adobe, Apple, NVIDIA and Disney. His work has been featured in Time Magazine and the New York Times. He is well-known for his ability to make even complex tasks seem simple. Colin’s tutorials have been viewed over 100,000,000 times on youtube and PhotoshopCAFE.com and he has written 21 books.

Includes: 26 lessons | 3 hours running time | All instructor images

What You Will Learn

MASK BASICS             

1. What's a Mask? The purpose of a Mask
2. ACR vs LR Differences between Lightroom and Camera Raw Masks
3. Anatomy of Mask Panel Mask Settings and Prefs
4. Mask settings Mask Panel Settings
5. Add, Subtract and Intersect Basics of add subtract and intersecting masks
6. Combining selections How to use different ai masks together

MODIFYING MASKS    

7. Manually Refine Mask Fix the edges of a mask manually
8. Masking hair Refining hair masks
9. Refine Edges with Range Mask Use Range Masks to fix edges of selections

TYPES OF MASKS     

10. Sky Masks Making nice sky masks, beyond the basic sky ai selection
11. Selecting the Background Selecting the background to edit it separately
12. Linear Gradients How to use linear gradients
13. Radial Gradients Creating spots of light with the radial gradient
14. Range, color  Making selections based on color
15. Luminosity Range Masks Make Masks based on Brightness
16. Depth Range Make selections by Depth Maps (distance from camera)

PROJECTS       

17. Change Background color Change the color of background, simple lesson
18. Retouch People Automatically retouch people with powerful ai masks
19. Change color of Anything How to change the color of a specific object like clothing
20. Add background light  Add a light on the background and edges of subject
21. Brush Basics How to use the brush and settings
22. Dodge and burn, sculpting light Paint with shadow and light to add amazing depth to an image
23. Add a Rim Light Create a stunning edge light, or rim light
24. Dramatically Relight Scene Combine Masks to add dramatic lighting to a scene
25. Batch Process masks How to Sync ai masks across multiple images in Lightroom and Camera Raw
26. ai Mask Presets Make Presets that automatically adjust images

All Lesson files are included and a PDF Table of contents

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Your guide to the world of ai image generation in Photoshop

Everyone's talking about the brand new Generative Fill in Adobe Photoshop. It's the hottest new thing! And for good reason, this is the biggest update to Photoshop in it's history. You can now remove impossible things from images, because ai literally creates whatever is missing. You can generate almost anything to add to your images and even expand outside your image boundaries and Photoshop will create whatever you need.

When the dust clears, you will realize there are limitations to this feature. Many people are struggling to get the best results out of this powerful tool and even to get their heads around what GenFill can do and how to do it. It's very important for you to get an early grasp of these tools if you want to keep up, and even get ahead of the crowd.

Lucky you, you found this course! In the easy-to-follow style Colin Smith is famous for, he walks you through Generative Fill in Photoshop.  With decades of experience working in the real world and training for Adobe, Apple, Nvidia and many others, he really knows Photoshop on a level that few do. But he has a knack to make learning fun and easy, and even complex things, will seem simple. Even new users will be able to follow along with this course.

You can follow along step-by-step, using Colin's photos (They are all included).

When you have finished this course, you will get a jump-start on other people. Any confusion, or fear will be gone. You will have a clear understanding of what Generative Fill is, and isn't. You will know what you can do with it and when to use other Photoshop tools. You will be ready to confidently move forward with this new tool and apply it to your own imagery. Whether you are just wanting to clean up your photos, or create fantastical works of art, your imagination will be your limitation.

Includes: 23 lessons | 2 hours running time | All instructor images

What you will learn..

1. Intro

2. Overview What is Generative Fill and What can it do?

3. How to get Access Where to get Generative fill in the beta and trouble-shooting

4. Generate a scene from scratch  Generating multiple objects to create a scene

5. Extend image  How to add to the edges of an image

6. Fix panorama  Remove the transparency from the panorama edges, tips for better resolution

7. Remove crowds Remove crowds of People from photographs

8. Remove crowd, keep person  Remove crowds, between a person and a landmark

9. Remove Anything Easily remove impossible obstructions from photographs

10. Generate Objects How to generate new objects and fit them into an image

11. Replace Objects Change objects in a photo into different objects

12. Duplicating and moving an image Move an image and blend it into the background

13. Combining variations Combine different parts of different generations

14. Change Background How to change the background and fix trouble spots

15. Adding reflections Add realistic reflections

16. Adapting Depth of Field How to generate for Depth of field. How to alter the base to have distance blur

17. Density Water and Controlling direction Make objects look submerged and control direction and placement

18. Ai and retouching, changing color How to change the color of an object, without it changing

19. Bridge and blend images together How to Blend two different photos into an extended scene

20. Compositing with your own photos Make a composite with your own photos

21. Composite your photo into ai scene Create a fantasy composite starting with your own photo

22. Actions and ai How to create actions with generative ai commands

23. Conclusion and discussion on ai Where do the Images come from? Will I be replaced by ai?

All Lesson files are included and a PDF Table of contents

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Learn ACR Inside out. (Created with Camera Raw 2023. ACR 15.2 Feb 2023).

Do you ever look around and see amazing photographs and wonder how they look so good? Let me tell you. Half the magic comes from post production. You need the right tools and the knowledge to use them correctly. You are in luck!

Adobe Camera Raw is the best tool! With the latest huge updates like ai and powerful masking, ACR is more powerful than ever! You have the tools, now you just need the knowledge.

You couldn't ask for a better teacher than Colin Smith. Popular conference speaker, founder of one of the world's most popular training sites and author of 21 books, Adobe calls on Colin to do training for them (Some of his tutorials are built right into Photoshop).

Colin Smith, will guide you through every module, tool, and slider with ease and in a fun, conversational style that feels like chatting with a friend.

Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned pro, this course is perfect for anyone looking to learn the ins and outs of the latest version of Camera Raw. All the new Masking and ai tools are covered in depth. In this downloadable course, Colin walks you through the best way to approach the most common challenges you will face in bringing out the hidden masterpiece in every photo.  From basic orientation to advanced techniques, you'll learn how to correct color and tone, fix problems, and add the finishing touches that make your images pop. Your images will look better than ever. Plus, you'll discover how to make your edits repeatable with color profiles, presets, and ISO Adaptive Presets.

But that's not all! You'll also learn how to integrate ACR with other Adobe tools like Photoshop and Lightroom. And with Colin's images included in the course, you can follow along and make the same edits as your instructor.

Don't waste your valuable time searching for answers to your ACR questions. Download the course and bonus lesson files today and start mastering Camera Raw in no time. And if you're not satisfied, we'll refund your purchase - though we doubt you'll need it! So what are you waiting for? Get started now and unlock your creative potential.

Includes: 54 lessons | 7 hours running time | All instructor images | Over 30 bonus presets and profiles

What you will learn..

GETTING STARTED Welcome, and orientation

OPEN PHOTOS IN ACR How you open photos in Camera RAW matters

PANEL MANAGEMENT + Tips Customize the panels for your workflow

ADJUSTMENT SLIDERS

AUTO ADJUSTMENTS Fix photos in a single click

BASIC ADJUSTMENTS The bread and butter adjustments

WHITE BALANCE Remove color cast, get correct colors

CURVES Pinpoint control over tone

CURVES COLOR Amazing control over color with Curves. Learn about 6 primary colors

COLOR MIXER Take control over every aspect of your colors

CHANGE COLORS OF OBJECTS Change colors into any other color, like magic, but much easier

COLOR GRADING Create cross processed, sepia, filmic and creative color tones

CALIBRATION Fine tune camera colors and choose the correct processing version

BLACK AND WHITE The best ways to convert photos to Black and White

GRAIN Add filmic Grain

VIGNETTE Add a Vignette effect

SHARPENING Make your images sharp, exactly where you want it

NOISE REDUCTION Remove color and luminance noise for clean, smooth images

MASKS and AI

MASKS BASICS How updated masks work in Camera Raw

SELECT OBJECT Select anything with a magic brush

SELECT SKY Automatically select skies

RADIAL TOOL Relight your photos and make super vignettes

GRADIENT TOOL graduated application of adjustments

INTERSECT A powerful way to use masks

ADJUSTMENT BRUSH Paint on adjustments

DODGE AND BURN Paint with shadow and light

SPLIT LIGHTING Use Masks to work with Split Lighting

RANGE MASKS Use color and tone to refine selections

DEPTH RANGE Use Depth maps from mobile Portrait mode

REFINE MASK EDGES A Trick to clean up a mask edge

FACIAL RETOUCHING Full facial retouch, skin softening, eye and teeth enhancement

WORKFLOWS

CROPPING How to crop for composition and to fit a size

STRAIGHTEN Make everything all level

REMOVE HAZE Cut through haze and glare

SPOTTING Removing dust and spots

OPTICS Fix color fringing and barrel distortions

REMOVE DISTRACTIONS Remove anything from a photo with these upgraded tools

FIX DISTORTIONS Correct Lens distortion

REDEYE Blast the red eye from humans and animals

PRESETS

SNAPSHOTS Be free to experiment

PRESETS How to use and make your own presets

ISO ADAPTIVE PRESETS Make intelligent presets that change to match your ISO

USING PROFILES How to use the powerful Camera Raw Profiles

CREATING PROFILES How to make your own color profiles

ADVANCED CREATING PROFILES How to make your own color profiles with LUTS

CAMERA RAW DEFAULTS Automatically select profiles for specific cameras

MULTI IMAGE MAGIC

HDR How to make an High Dynamic Range photo from bracketed photos

MAKE A PANORAMA How to stitch a seamless, sweeping panorama

HDR PANORAMA Make a panorama that is also in HDR

COLOR GRADING VIDEO Add cinematic looking color grades on your video (in ACR!)

SAVING AND RESIZING Save your photos in different format and sizes

INTEGRATION

LIGHTROOM AND ACR How to sync an image from ACR to Lightroom and back

BRIDGE WITH DEVELOP SETTINGS Apply and remove adjustments without even opening ACR

PREFERENCES What all the preferences do and which settings Colin recommends

THANKS AND GOODBYE Next Steps

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Full versions of

Lightroom Classic 2023 For Digital Photographers

Photoshop 2022 For Digital Photographers

Adobe Camera RAW 2023 For Digital Photographers

This is your chance to grab our 3 top training courses for a bundle price and Save $60!

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This training is updated to include all the features of the latest version of Lightroom Classic 12 (Updated December 21 2022)

Now in its 10th edition, this award-winning training has been updated (5 hours of brand new content in the develop module alone). All the new masks and AI tools covered IN DEPTH.

Do you need to Learn Lightroom Classic? I mean, really learn it. Are you frustrated because your Lightroom catalog is a mess? Maybe you just want to make your photos look better (how about a LOT better, like the ones you see "rockstar photographers" doing). Imagine having all of your photographs perfectly organized and being able to find what you want instantly. Imagine being able to quickly make your photographs look pristine or even push it a little bit beyond the normal, with confidence.

Maybe you have tried other training and it was incomplete, scattered and confusing. You just wished someone would tell you HOW to do it but also explain WHY something works, so you can reproduce it on your own library of photographs. I'm going to guess you are also tired of heady, overly technical instructions and just want a knowledagable friend to sit down and explain Lightroom Classic to you.

This is the A-Z Lightroom training. LIBRARY // DEVELOP // OUTPUT. Three complete courses in one, with zero overlap.

This is what makes this training so unique. You have an award winning (3X Guru award, Time Magazine, PPA awarded) expert, who is known for his calm, conversational style, that is friendly and easy to understand and follow. Colin was named one of the top 20 instructors at Adobe Max (Ranked by 15,000 attendees).

We didn't assume we know everything about your needs. We asked our very large community (you were possibly one of them) specifically what they struggle with the most and need to learn. We received hundreds of responses and acted on it. As a result, we beefed up the areas that people struggle with the most and produced this, what we believe to be the most complete, finest Lightroom Classic training anywhere.

In 140 digestible lessons, we will go though Lightroom Classic together in depth. This 15+ hour course will train you as well as serve as a valuable reference library for the future. We go beyond just the tools (they are all explained of course and all the latest features are covered in depth. ). You will learn workflows and strategies. How to build catalogs and organize your photos. How to find anything. How to migrate to different computers or hard drives. How to find missing images. How to clean up your Catalog and how to structure it in the first place. Workflows and steps to fix and polish your photos and videos (yes, videos). How to add the finishing touches to make your images stand out from the rest and quickly retouch and finesse details. How to automate many things to shave hours off your workflow. The steps for printing and outputting books, slideshows and much more.

If you are a complete beginner, you won't be left behind, if you are more experienced, you will love learning the new tools and workflows of Lightroom Classic as  well as lots of hidden and undocumented tips and tricks.

No matter your level, you can quickly master Lightroom Classic with effortless ease.

This is the most comprehensive video on the market for Lightroom.  Learn how to import, organize, develop and output all your captures with effortless ease. Enjoy in-depth coverage, pro techniques, secret tips and Colin’s way of breaking down even the most complex tasks into quick and easy to understand techniques. You’ll spend less time in front of the computer and more time behind the camera!

If you are new to Digital Photography, an old-hand or someone looking to learn the "correct" way of doing things, look no further. Watch over Colin's shoulder as he demystifies Lightroom Classic. You'll learn all the shortcuts, tips and tricks from a true expert. Do you ever get frustrated with tutorials that don't work in the real world? In many cases Colin shows you multiple methods so that you can choose the one that's best for your photo.

This is not like other training videos. The techniques aren't from a classroom bubble. This is what works today in the real-world. There are no monotone presentations with boring uninspiring images. You'll learn tons, you'll have fun and most of all you'll be inspired. See why millions of people are passionate about PhotoshopCAFE training. (50,000,000+ visitors to date). Yes, that's million.

This complete training course contains 15+ hours and 140 lessons of Full HD Video. It's actually 3 courses in one.

If you make photographs: Beginner to professional, this is the training you have been waiting for. You’ll not only learn the HOWS, you’ll understand the WHYS!

Included:

Sample Catalog with Exercise files so you can follow along. 

Free update in November 2022, so you will be current with the next version of Lightroom too!

Special Bonus: 30 Lightroom Classic Presets and 8 Custom Color Profiles included!

PDF Table of contents so you can easily find what you need. 

3 courses in 1 - LIBRARY - DEVELOP and OUTPUT

Download right now and begin your journey in Lightroom Classic today!

You aren't alone, join the millions of photographers who are part of the PhotoshopCAFE community!

The complete training for Lightroom Classic (2023 version)

3 courses in one!

Course #1: LIBRARY

Getting Started

1. Welcome
   Set up exercise files, import sample catalog
2. Newest Features
   Up to speed with what’s new
3. Overview
   Lightroom in a nutshell
4. Lifecycle workflow
   Birds eye view of the entire Lightroom workflow
5. Preferences
   Essential Lightroom preferences
6. RAW
   Raw files explained
7. XMP sidecars
   Understand XMP, your key to sharing raw files outside Lightroom
8. DNG
   What is DNG and how Lightroom can help
9. Importing from a card
   How to import images from your camera card
10. Importing Locally
    
Import images from your internal/external drive
11. Auto Import
    
Set up a watch folder to automatically import images
12. Tethered Shooting 

    Connect your camera to shoot directly into Lightroom
13. Create custom Identity Plates
    Customizing Lightroom to display your name, logo and end markers
14. Panel Management
    Tips and tricks for working with panels

Viewing

1. Volume Browser
   Viewing disks and space remaining
2. View Options
   The best ways to view your photos
3. Library Filmstrip
   That filmstrip at the bottom is really useful
4. Grid View
   Working with Grid view, thumbnails and view options
5. Stacking
   Making molehills out of mountains
6. Auto Stacking
   Automatically stack photos by capture time
7. Lights Out Mode
   Viewing your photos on a virtual light box
8. Loupe
   Get a closer look at your images
9. Compare
   Comparing 2 images to choose the best one
10. Survey View
    Viewing multiple images at once
11. Understanding Previews
    How previews work, make them efficient
12. Smart Previews
    Work on your images without them being physically present
13. Dual Monitors
    Working on Multiple monitors

Library/Catalog

1. Catalogs
   Setting up your Catalogs
2. Upgrading Catalogs
   Upgrading Older Catalogs
3. Export catalogs
   Export Catalogs from Lightroom
4. Merging Catalogs
   Managing your images on 2 computers
5. Catalog change disk
   How to add or rename a drive without breaking things
6. Catalog move to other computer
   How to move to a new computer without breaking things
7. Find Missing images
   How to locate and relink missing images
8. Integrating with Lightroom CC/Mobile
   How to sync Lightroom Classic with Lightroom CC/Mobile
9. Folders
   How to manage and use folders
10. Collections
    
How collections become your main organization tool
11. Quick and Target Collections
    A neat way of speeding up organization
12. Smart Collection
    Automatically create live collections
13. Backup
    Backup catalogs and your images

Metadata

1. Metadata
   Understand metadata and apply it to your photos
2. Metadata Templates
   Save metadata templates and presets, then re-use them
3. Rating, Flag, Label options
   Ratings, flags and labels options
4. Ratings
   Rate your photos
5. Flags
   Use flags to mark photos
6. Labels
   Identify photos with colored labels
7. Filter Bar
   Find anything with the Filter Bar
8. Keyword basics
   How to use keywords to organize images
9. Suggested Keywords
   Use the new Suggested Keyword feature
10. Keyword sets
    
Save time with custom keyword sets
11. Painter tool
    Using the painter tool to turbocharge your multiple image workflow
12. Facial recognition
    Setup and training Lightroom to find and sort faces
13. Time Change
    Sync the time-zone of your photos

COURSE #2 - DEVELOP

Adjustments

1. Straighten
   
Level crooked horizons
2. Cropping
   Crop to specific sizes and for creativity
3. Lens Corrections
   Fix keystoning and barreling
4. Camera Calibration
   Choose the process version and compensate for your camera color
5. Color readout
   See the color values of images
6. Histogram
   Histograms explained and used
7. White Balance
   Remove color casts from photos
8. Quick Develop
   Making adjustments in the Library panel
9. Auto Corrections
   1-Click fixes, how to fine tune auto corrections
10. Basic Adjustments
    Basic Adjustments panel explained
11. Curves
    Understanding and using curves for targeted adjustments
12. Color control
    Use HSL and color control
13. Dehaze
    cut through haze and fog, or add some for effect
14. Texture
    Add or reduce surface texture
15. Noise reduction
    Remove the grainy noise from a photo
16. Chromatic Aberration
    Removing color fringes
17. Sharpening 

    Make your photos nice and sharp
18. Open up shadows
    Fix a backlit subject
19. Fix Dark Photos
    How to rescue a dark, underexposed image
20. Fix Overexposure
    How to rescue a bright, overexposed image
21. Fix bright images
    2^nd example of fixing overly bright images
22. Punch flat color
    Add color to dull images
23. Virtual copies
    Working on duplicate versions without filling up your hard drive
24. Batch processing
    Save time by editing multiple images at once
25. History
    Use history as an advanced undo
26. Snaphots
    Experiment with different edits and easily revert back
27. Black and White
    
The best way to enhance black & white photos and convert color to black and white
28. Color Grading
    Create stunning color grades, including split tone and cross processed looks
29. Presets
    1-click effects with Presets, how to make your own
30. ISO Adaptive Presets
    Presets that change based on ISO
31. Loading Presets.
    How to install Presets into Lightroom
32. Color Profiles
    Use powerful profiles to process color
33. Loading Color Profiles
    How to install custom color profiles in Lightroom
34. RAW Defaults
    Automatically use different settings on cameras

Retouching

1. Redeye
   Get rid of the dreaded redeye with ease
2. Retouch faces
   Reduce blemishes, wrinkles, whiten eyes and teeth
3. Cloning and Healing
   Remove anything from a photo
4. Spots and Dust
   Remove spots and dust from photos for a perfect finish
5. Change colors of objects
   Learn how to change the color of individual objects in a photo

Selective Adjustments

1. Mask Panel
   Learn to use the brand new Masking in Lightroom
2. Select Sky
   Use the AI powered sky selection
3. Select background
   Use AI masks to select subjects and backgrounds. Blur the background in LIGHTROOM!
4. Intersecting masks
   What is intersect? How do you use it?
5. Adjustment Brush
   in-depth look at the adjustment brush to paint on your adjustments
6. Dodge and Burn
   Add 3D depth and make your photo pop with a fresh approach to dodge and burn
7. Gradient Adjustment
   Seamlessly adjust skies and more with the gradient tool
8. Radial Filter
   Change the lighting to your landscape photos
9. Range Masking
   Selectively hide or show adjustments to specific regions automatically
10. Range Masking Depth Map
    Use the Depth Map from a smartphone (HEIC image) to mask objects
11. AI Face retouching
    AI masks select part of face automatically
12. Select People
    Automatically select individuals for a group, or the whole group
13. Lens Vignette 

    Compensating for lens vignette. Add a vignette for a creative feel
14. Special FX Vintage effects
    Create a vintage effect, including light leaks
15. Day to Night
    Turn Daytime into nighttime

Advanced Adjustments

1. Lightroom and Photoshop
   How to use Photoshop and Lightroom together
2. Batch Processing
   Save time by Editing Multiple photos at once
3. HDR
   Create High Dynamic Range Photos in Lightroom
4. Panorama
   Stitching a Panorama Image in Lightroom
5. Advanced Panorama
   Multi-layered panoramas and fix keystone
6. HDR Panorama
   Auto Make an HDR Panorama


Video

1. Video Intro
   An intro to working with video in Lightroom
2. Video Color Grading
   How to apply creative adjustments to videos to create stunning looks
3. Combine Video
   Trimming and combining video shots

COURSE #3: Output

1. Video Export
   Getting your video out to the world
2. Watermarks
   Create Watermarks that can be used all over Lightroom
3. Exporting images
   How to produce photos for social, web, multimedia, print etc.
4. Exporting Presets
   Automate the process of exporting your photos
5. Multi Batch Exports
   Run multiple exports at once
6. Email Photo
   email photos from Lightroom

Maps  Geotagging your photos
using built in google maps


Printing

1. Soft Proof
   Prepare your images for printing
2. Printing 

   How to print correctly from Lightroom
3. Picture Package/Contact Sheets
   Making multiple picture packages and contact sheets
4. Custom Layouts
   Layout pages for books or printing/Exporting

Slideshows

1. Impromptu Slideshow
   A Quick Slideshow from anywhere
2. Slideshows 

   Setting up a slideshow
3. Customize Slideshow 

   Customize your Slideshows
4. Slideshow Custom Text
   Adding custom text to slideshows
5. Pan and zoom
   Slideshows Add an animated Ken Burns effect to photos
6. Slideshow Video
   Use Videos in Slideshows
7. Music to Slideshows
   Add music to your slideshow presentations
8. Export Slideshows
   Exporting Slideshows for use online or presentations

Books

1. Book Overview
   Getting Started with books, use Auto Layout
2. Custom Layouts
   Customize photo and page layouts
3. Text and finishing Book
   Work with text and finishing techniques for books

Web

1. Web Galleries
   Make a webpage, overview of web galleries
2. Build a Web Gallery
   Creating and publishing a web gallery
3. Thanks and Goodbye


Previous version of the training have twice won Hot One awards as the best training video of the year from (PPA) Professional Photographer's of America

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Learn how to use the creative tools that are critical to Photoshop; Layers, Layer Masks, Blending Modes and ore. Layers are the control center for almost everything you do in Photoshop. Layer features can appear complex and confusing. In these practical and fun lessons, you will realize that Layers and Masks don’t have to be difficult.

Rather than merely listing off features, we present real-world projects where we will put all these features to use. As you work your way through the inspiring projects, you’ll learn all the features, but more importantly, you’ll learn where and how to use these techniques, as well as why.

If you are new to Photoshop, the first few lessons will explain the basics, so you don’t get lost when we dive into the projects. If you already know these basics, feel free to jump right into the projects. The lessons can be viewed in any order.

By the end of this training, you will be very comfortable working with Photoshop layers, layer masks, blending modes, adjustment layers, smart objects, clipping groups and a whole lot more. You will learn how to combine images and blend them together seamlessly. If you have ever wanted to create collages, web graphics, magazine art, brochures, posters, NFTs, or just cool art for fun, this is the place.

What sets this training apart, is the almost 30 years of Real-World experience your instructor, (Colin Smith) has from working as a commercial Photoshop artist/Designer. You have probably seen his work in magazines, album covers, ads, billboards, websites and more. Colin is the real deal, but he also loves to teach, and paces the content in a way that you can follow along and understand. These is no gibberish jargon here, just practical, conversational instruction.

This course will help you to understand how to approach creative tasks in Photoshop with confidence. You will be happy with the results. You’ll learn how to get the highest quality results in a fraction of the time.

All the images used are included, so you can follow along step-by-step.

What you will learn

Layer Basics:
How layers work

Layer Mask basics
Learn the basics of how layer masks work

Layer Mask basics 2
Deeper into layer masks and controlling mask transparency

Smart Objects
Why you should use Layer Masks

Blending modes
Understand the different Blending Mode groups

Hide white or black
Hide paper without selections

Clipping Groups
Constrain anything to the transparency of another layer

Photo collage
PROJECT. Break a photo into pieces in this creative project

Blend if
How to hide backgrounds without selections. Cutout without cutting out

Straighten circle
Prepare an image for a brush or pattern

Seamless patterns
High Tech backgrounds and more

Grungy distressed brushes and type
Get that distressed effect on anything with these custom brushes you will create

Photo edges
Add high energy edges on your images

Frames
How to put a face in a circle and more

Roll your own textures
Make highly useful, reusable overlays

Reusable signature watermark
Add a signature or watermark to your art or Photos

Colorize black and white
Turning black and white line art into color

Working with hand drawn art
How to clean up scanned art

Polaroid effect
PROJECT. Make a photo look like a Polaroid print

Create a collage
PROJECT. Put what you have learned together, to make a multi Layered Collage

Double exposure Effect
PROJECT. Put what you have learned together, to make a cool Double exposure effect

Bonus Layer Masks
Simple Layer Mask Basics in a simple project, to recap the basics, if you need it.

All instructors images included so you can follow along.

PDF Table of Contents and Blend Mode notes included in the extras folder.

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Curves are one of the most powerful features in Photoshop. They allow you to target the exact tones of your images and change them with precision in a way no other tool can. Curves also offer unparalleled control over every aspect of color in your images.

For all  Photoshop versions CS4-2023

This is why pros spend a lot of time in curves and use them as go-to tools for retouching, photography and design. The challenge is curves appear difficult to figure out and a lot of the advanced functionality is shrouded in secrecy.

The purpose of this course it to help you understand exactly how curves work, and unlock the secret workflows and techniques. You will use the power of curves to give your images that professional, polished look that can only be achieved through this powerful and wildly creative tool.

Colin Smith is one of the world’s leading Photoshop experts (he does training for Adobe, Apple and Disney) and has used Photoshop professionally for almost 30 years. He uses curves daily, and will impart this knowledge to you quickly, without fluff. He has a special gift to break down complex tasks into fun and easy to understand methods, in plain English. You could be mistaken for thinking curves are easy, because that’s how you will feel by the end of this course.

This course will help you to finally “get” curves and be using them natively as part of your workflow. You will approach your images differently, with the confidence to make the tones and colors look exactly like you dreamt of. You will understand curves and learn lots of hidden tricks and techniques, you didn’t even know existed.

This is a course Colin has been wanting to create for a long time, and he is proud to now get this training into your hands, so you can take the next step in your Photoshop journey. By the way, Curves aren’t unique to Photoshop. A lot of what you learn here will transfer over to many other software packages.

You owe it to yourself, your clients, and images to finally master Curves in Photoshop

What you will learn

Intro
What to expect from this course.

Understanding Curves Pt1
How Curves work, understanding what curves do and how they do it.

Understanding Curves Pt2
Interactively demonstrating how curves allow you to target different image tones

Curves Settings
All the different settings and preferences in the Curves dialog box. A crash course on Color science is included in this lesson.

Brighten Dark Images
Use double curves to brighten up dark areas in an image while protecting the highlights.

Dodge and Burn
How to even out the lighting in an image by selectively dodging and burning with curves. Adding sunlight and warmth.

Curves in ACR
Adobe Camera Raw has powerful point and parametric curves. How to use them and use the onscreen HUD controls.

Use Eyedroppers
A powerful way to automatically set the contrast and remove color-casts from images.

Fix Color Cast
How to remove a color cast from an image quickly

Fix Color Contamination
Sometimes you get cross-lighting, or color contamination from additional light sources. How to remove the contamination and even out the lighting.

Copy Exact Colors
Perfect colors by the numbers. Change the color of an object to perfectly match another object.

Color Grade
How to add a high-end color grade to give your image a cinematic, or fashion look.

LAB Color
Make separate adjustments to Luminosity and color. This allows you to push the color and texture without the image looking fake or processed.

Duotones
How to create duotone and tritone images as an effect or for print. Learn about channels and color libraries.

Auto Settings
How to use Auto settings and what each of the 4 different algorithms do, so you can choose the correct one.

Using Presets
How to create, save and load curves presets. (3 bonus presets included with the downloads).

outro
How to get more information and continue your learning journey

All instructors images included so you can follow along.

3 bonus Curves Presets included

PDF Table of Contents and Session notes included

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It's here! The long awaited update to our flagship Photoshop training. Learn Photoshop 2022 now (Fully applicable to Photoshop 2023).

This 10th edition of our award-winning training has been re-imagined to take advantage of Photoshop 2022, with every lesson using the latests tools and techniques and taking full advantage of new features and workflows including new neural filters and new ACR features. This is the fastest way for you to master Photoshop and transform your photos, even if you are new to Photoshop.

This training is created with one goal in mind. Helping you to get the absolute best result possible, in the shortest time possible, and to do that consistently, no matter what the Photoshop imaging challenge you face. Right now, you may be intimidated by the complexity of Photoshop 2022. When you have finished this training, (I don’t care if you’re 14 or 84) Photoshop will be as familiar as a glove and you’ll have the confidence to take on any task. That’s when you can really have fun and enjoy creating wonderful imagery, and let your imagination take over as the mechanics become second nature.

Let me ask you something. Have you been struggling to learn Photoshop, or to find a truly great course that will teach you what you need to know without hours of time-wasting talk or gimmicky techniques? Would you like to personally learn from an instructor that is widely recognized as one of the world’s top experts, and actually uses Photoshop every day? Have you seen photos and wondered how they look so good, clean and detailed, as well as how they get those particular looks (By now, I’m sure you realize, it’s not all in camera).

Your search is over, you have just found the training you need to transform all your images. Broken up into easy bite-sized lessons and delivered in well-paced plain English, you will work your way through some of the finest Photoshop instruction you can find anywhere. It will be like watching over Colin’s shoulder as he reveals the techniques and tricks that he has learned over 20 years of creating award-winning images for some of the biggest brands in the world. There is a reason that Adobe calls on him on a regular basis to speak at their conference (Adobe MAX, where he was awarded Max Master) and represent Adobe at places like YouTube and Sony Kando. Adobe even asked Colin to create some of the tutorials that are built right into Photoshop. Colin has also written 20 books on Photoshop, so he knows his stuff and wants to pass on this knowledge to you in a friendly and conversational way.

Whats' in this training?

• Download securely and safely right now and start learning immediately
• Comprehensive with 83 videos, packed with information and tips
• Latest techniques and workflows
• Covers all the key new features in Photoshop 2022
• Everything you need to know to confidently work with photos in Photoshop 2022
• Simple language and conversational delivery, even a beginner can follow along
• Deep enough, with advanced techniques like luminosity masking and frequency separation, that an experienced user will learn new things
• Hidden tips and secret tricks generously sprinkled throughout

Includes:

• All the same lesson files used by Colin (Your instructor)
• Bonus actions, LUT
• Cheat sheet for Luminosity Masking, Frequency Separation and High-Pass Sharpening
• You are delighted, or your money back (as always at PhotoshopCAFE).

If you are a photographer, designer, hobbyist, anyone who works with images, beginner to professional, this training is for you!

YOUR INSTRUCTOR

Colin Smith is a Los Angeles based digital artist, photographer and trainer. He is founder of one of the worlds most popular websites for creators, PhotoshopCAFE.com. Which has received over 50 million visitors. As an Award winning digital artist, Colin has 3 guru awards under his belt. His work has been featured in most of the industry magazines as well as Time Magazine and the New York Times.

His client list includes, Toyo Tires, Microsoft, Saatchi and Saatchi and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, David Lee Roth.

As a leading trainer, Colin has written 20 books, and too many video courses to count. His training clients include Adobe, Apple, Disney and Edison International. He is a regular speaker at major conferences,  including Adobe Max, PPE, WPPI, Photoshop World, Creative Pro and Imaging USA. He runs a popular youtube channel (photoshopCAFE) with over 270,000 subscribers.

When he isn’t at his computer, Colin can be found pursuing his passion of travel and capturing beauty with this drone and camera. 

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Using Photoshops built in Robots

I have a simple philosophy in Photoshop, if you are doing the same thing over and over, you are doing it wrong. There must be a quicker way. I have observed many people’s workflows and I often cringe. Most people waste too much time, they are spending hours, or even days toiling away for days on tasks that could be easily automated, or performed in a few keystrokes. I too made all those mistakes, and wasted all that time in the past. Slaving away, knowing there must be a better way, but no one showed me.

Some may call it earning your dues. I call it being inefficient. So, I made a point of learning how to work efficiently, after all, I have a computer, shouldn’t that be doing all the heavy lifting for me? I found out almost everything in Photoshop can be automated, and now automation is part of my daily workflow. Now, I go home at a reasonable hour each night and no longer work weekends, (that’s a big deal for a self employed person). Automation isn't just for the big stuff too, you can be saving time on every image you are working on, even automating small tasks, reducing 10 clicks to a single click.

Best of all, it’s not magic, anyone can learn how to automate their workflow in Photoshop, and I show you exactly how to do it in this new course. It’s actually quite easy once you have things set up and you know how. Automation is a secret that the most efficient pro’s use, but hardly anyone tells you about.

It doesn’t matter if you are working on a single image, or a catalog of thousands of images, automation will save you a lot of time and double, triple or even 100X your productivity. If you are doing this professionally, this translates into more income. If you are doing it for fun, you can automate the boring repetitive stuff and save your energy for the stuff you really enjoy working on.

This is one of those times where the time you invest learning will be rewarded back many times over. Don’t waste another second, get Photoshop 2020 Actions and Automation right now.

What’s in this course

This course contains 21 lessons in full HD video. The lessons take you from the beginning; running and creating simple actions that can automate most tasks. You will then learn how to create more complex actions and then batch process them to multiple images. You will become intimately familiar with actions and be creating conditional actions, droplets and even data driven workflows. Yikes, that sounds hard? There is absolutely no programming required and anyone can do it. The only prerequisite is a basic knowledge of how to use Photoshop.

Everything we will be doing is currently in Photoshop 2020. We will also be using scripts and workflows to speed up the way you do everyday tasks such as combining all your windows into a single layered document in a few clicks, making and using LUTs, editing a single photo and applying that setting to all the photos in a folder without leaving bridge. You will also learn how to create contact sheets and many more time-slashing things.

You won’t approach Photoshop the same way after this course.

Included in this download

• 23 videos in Full HD.
• All the image files Colin Uses
• Extra files such as the assets for the Variable lesson
• Action collection with the actions that we make in this course
• Image Processor Pro script (This is open source)

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(For Photoshop 2020 works on newer versions too) - (16 lessons work for CS6)

If you have ever struggled with selections in Photoshop (we all have), this is the tutorial you have been searching for. These 19 lessons get straight to the point and teach you exactly what you need to know. All photos aren’t the same, and neither should be the way you select them.

Out of all the tasks in Photoshop. The #1 place where people struggle is with selections. Even simple cutout tasks can be challenging, hair has pieces missing, the edges are not clean, and it feels like you are spending too much time trying to cut things out. And the pen tool? How is it supposed to work again?

We get it! This can be very frustrating. Everyone hates wasting time with tools that don’t seem to work. Maybe you saw a tutorial, but it didn’t work on the photo you were using, or worse, it looked ok on a tiny screen, but didn’t hold up on close examination (AKA The real-world).

For 20 years, working with demanding clients from Hollywood to Silicon Valley, Colin Smith (Winner of 3 Guru awards + author of 20 books) has dealt with almost every selection challenge you can imagine. The trick is having multiple techniques in your “Photoshop toolbelt” and using the best tool for each job. Not just using the tools correctly, but also knowing the trade secrets. You know, the hidden modifiers and tips that make the tools work the way they should and how to combine the techniques for rapid cutouts.

Colin has figured out which tools work the best and which are a waste of time. (Hint, forget the magnetic lasso tool and background eraser). In a friendly, conversational manner, you will learn battle-tested selection and masking techniques, the same ones used by today’s top pros.

Learn how to tackle trees, hair, complex shapes and even transparency with confidence. Colin shows “brute force” techniques that will enable you to cut out anything, even with very busy and muddled backgrounds. Lots of insider tips and tricks are sprinkled throughout to make some tasks surprisingly easy and quick.

If you combine the techniques demonstrated in this almost 4 hour master class on selections, you will never have to fear a selection task again. This is suitable for beginners through advanced users. All the lesson files are included, so you can follow along step by step. This isn’t anything like sitting in a classroom, listening to a lecture, It’s more like sitting next to Colin in his studio and working with him.

ALL COLIN'S IMAGES ARE INCLUDED, SO YOU CAN FOLLOW ALONG
BONUS: PDF GUIDE ON USING THE PEN TOOL IN PHOTOSHOP

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