Course Outline

Masking Explained

• Image selection
• Establishing a base layer
• The Color Range command
• Selecting sparkles
• Setting sparkles to Screen
• Selecting and compositing hair
• When Color Range falls short
• Selecting a base channel
• Enhancing the channel's contrast
• Dodging the highlights
• Putting the mask in play
• Reducing the edge fringes
• Adding a layer mask
• Creating a gradient quick mask
• Blurring the layer mask

Improving Focus

• Advanced Images enhancement
• Understanding sharpness
• The single-shot sharpness
• Unsharp Mask
• Understanding the Radius value
• Gauging the best settings
• Sharpening the luminance data
• USM vs. Smart Sharpen
• Smart Sharpen's Remove settings
• High-resolution sharpening
• Leave More Accurate off!
• Turn More Accurate on
• The Advanced options
• Saving Smart Sharpen settings
• Accounting for camera shake

Blurring an Image

• Gaussian Blur
• The Linear Box Blur
  Surface Blur and the rest
• The Motion Blur filter
• The Radial Blur variations: Spin and Zoom
• The Captain Kirk-in-love effect
• Averaging skin tones
• Addressing the stubborn patches
• Combining Gaussian Blur and Average
• Blurring surface details
• Smoothing blemishes while matching noise
• Reducing digital noise
• Smoothing out JPEG artifacts

Layer Fundamentals

• Behold, the layered composition
• The Layers palette
• Enlarging the hand
• Erasing with a layer mask
• Moving a layer
• Combining layers into a clipping mask
• Hair and stacking order
• Adding a frame and expanding the canvas
• Adding a vignette

Layer Comps and Grouping

• Organization: It sounds dull, but it rocks
• The terrible battle
• Assembling the base composition
• Adding adjustment layers
• Creating a layer group
• Grouping selected layers
• Making the TV lines
• Introducing layer comps
• Saving your own layer comps
• Final footnotes

Blending Modes
Parametric operations

• The power of blend modes
• Changing the Opacity value
• Opacity vs. Fill Opacity
• Meet the blend modes
• Blend mode shortcuts
• The darkening modes
• Tempering a Burn effect with the Fill value
• Saving a blended state
• The lightening modes
• The contrast modes
• The comparative modes
• The composite (HSL) modes
• The brush-only modes
• Blending groups

Effects

• layers calling
• Transformations
• Shadows
• Series duplication
• Skews and perspective-style distortions
• The envelope-style Warp function
• Introducing the Liquify command
• Adjusting the brush settings
• Viewing layers and the mesh
• Protecting regions with a mask

Vanishing Point

• Planes and perspective explained
• The Blue Gallery
• Introducing Vanishing Point 2.0
• Drawing out perpendicular planes
• Exporting the grid lines to a layer
• Cloning an image from one plane to another
• Blending the image into its new home
• Healing Brush
• Masking and shading the image
• Flat in, perspective out
• Adding perspective type
• Swinging planes to custom angles
• Wrapping art around multiple surfaces

Creating and Editing Text

• Type functionality
• Creating an independent text layer
• Editing vector-based text
• Working with area text
• Resizing the text frame
• Text editing tricks and shortcuts
• Adding a cast shadow
• Backlighting the text
• Creating type on a path
• Pasting text along the bottom of a circle
• Flip and baseline shift
• Warping text
• Scaling the warped text to taste

Summary

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