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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