AV for Photoshop CS6 205 – Photo Retouching and Adjustment

Learn how to make your best photos even better in this 54-tutorial course on Photo Retouching and Adjustment with pro photographer and popular Photoshop educator, Dan Moughamian. This course starts with a strong foundation demonstrating how to customize Photoshop’s key settings, menus and keyboard shortcuts specifically for photographic workflows. Here, those new to Photoshop will gain valuable insights into some important concepts such as color mode, color spaces, profiles, and bit depth before diving into Photoshop's powerful retouching features. Next, you’ll learn how to leverage some of Photoshop’s most powerful tools and filters! You will see how easy it can be to accurately refine the detail, color, and composition in your photos, using popular tools like the Healing Brushes, Patch tool, Blend Modes and the new Blur Gallery. Dan also reviews the top methods for making and refining selections, as well as how to magically remove unwanted objects from your photos. Then you will takes these strategies to the next level, as you learn how to harness Photoshop’s super powerful amazing Content Aware functionality. You’ll learn how to effortlessly scale, move and patch images with this new intelligent algorithm to create seamless edits of even the trickiest photos. Dan brings it all together by demonstrating the most useful Adjustment Layers and Smart Filters for photographers. He demonstrates how to get your photos to look exactly the way you remember them BEFORE capturing them. You will see how easy it can be with Photoshop, to make the digital version of your scene, look just how you remember it! You’ll even learn how to “heighten reality” by creating fun Tilt-Shift effects, flattening perspectives with the new Adapative Wide Angle filter, adjusting and replacing colors, and even applying popular HDR effects to your photos! Table of contents: 1. Welcome 2. General Preferences 3. Interface Preferences 4. File Handling Preferences 5. Performance Preferences 6. Customizing the Photography Workspace 7. Creating Custom Keyboard Shortcuts 8. Creating Custom Menus 9. Overview: Color Mode and Bit Depth 10. Understanding Image Size 11. A Quick Primer on Color Spaces and Profiles 12. Overview: Color Settings 13. File Format & File Information Tips 14. The New Crop Tool (Crop & Straighten) 15. Creating and Refining Lasso Selections 16. Creating and Refining Quick Selections 17. Creating and Refining Color Range Selections 18. Generating Layer Masks from Selections 19. The Clone Stamp Tool - Part 1 20. The Clone Stamp Tool - Part 2 21. The Clone Stamp Tool - Part 3 22. The Patch Tool 23. The Spot Healing Brush 24. The Healing Brush 25. Dodge & Burn - Part 1 (Dodge Tool) 26. Dodge & Burn - Part 2 (Burn Tool) 27. The Sharpen Tool 28. Creating an Alpha Channel for Local Corrections 29. Content-Aware Scale Command 30. Content-Aware Move Tool 31. Content-Aware Patch Technique 32. Content-Aware: Remove Power Lines and Similar Distractions 33. Painting with Blend Modes: Vivid Light 34. Painting with Blend Modes: Soft Light 35. Using the Fade Command 36. Blending Past & Present with the History Brush 37. Blur Gallery: Foreground Blurs 38. Blur Gallery: Background Blurs 39. Blur Gallery: Tilt-Shift Look 40. Edge Sharpening with High Pass 41. A Few Words on Adjustment & Filters 42. Adjustment Layer: Balancing Contrast with Levels 43. Adjustment Layer: Perfecting Contrast with Curves 44. Smart Filter: Shadows and Highlights 45. Smart Filter: Flattening Perspective with Adaptive Wide Angle 46. Image Adjustment: 32 Bit HDR Toning 47. Image Adjustment: Replace Color 48. Adjustment Layer: Color Toning with Photo Filter 49. Adjustment Layer: Changing Multiple Colors with Hue & Saturation 50. Adjustment Layer: Tweaking Color Intensity with Vibrance 51. Adjustment Layer: Black & White 52. Adjustment Layer: Channel Mixer (Black & White) 53. Converting Colors for Web Output 54. Closing