Overview
Daniel Scott
Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor
instructorI discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.
Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.
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Hi everyone, welcome to the Dehaze video...
now I have hinted at dehaze throughout the course, I've actually just used it...
but this video here, we'll go into a bit more detail...
about how to use it, how to use it responsibly...
and how to fix some of the artifacts it creates when it does its work...
so this is before, this is after...
gets rid of the atmospheric haze, oh, so good...
plus it's super good for clouds...
so also I will show you how to use it within a mask...
because we don't want the foreground, we just want the background...
and the mountains to be dehazed, a.k.a. made more awesome.
I'll show you how to mask and work with some of the more trickiest guys, oh...
I'll show you that it's not just good for hazy mountains and clouds...
it's good for seas as well, look at that, oh...
check out the sea spray down here, before, after, very nice...
and I'll show you that it's awesome for taking photographs...
of your super car, in the rain, watch, look at all the drips...
ah, drippy goodness...
all right, let's get started.
All right, to get started let's create a new album...
and we'll throw all our Exercise Files in there ...
we're going to call this one "Dehaze"...
I accidentally had one selected, so it's added that to it, let's go in here...
now if I hit just my backspace key...
it's going to delete it from the album but not my photos, which is awesome...
let's add some photos to my album...
and in your 'Exercise Files' there is one called '08 Noise & Dehaze'...
and grab all of the dehazers...
now I want to start with this one here, this mountain range...
and let's just drag the slider up...
I've teased the dehaze loads in this course already, so, like...
there's a bit more to get into it, obviously...
but let's just crank it up and let's see what it does...
it's like, I don't know, it's spectacular, it's amazing...
it is also really overused...
so you're going to leave this course, and be like me when I first learned it...
yank, and have 'Dehaze' at maximum on everything, that's okay...
you might need to get it out of your system...
but we'll kind of, you know, throughout this video...
I'll show you how to kind of use a little bit more considerately...
let's talk about what it's doing, it's basically just doing...
up here, contrast, and increasing the saturation...
but it's not doing it...
the contrast tends to do it just to the like really darks and really lights...
just kind of bring them apart to kind of have more contrast...
and the saturation, yeah, does what saturation does...
but what dehaze does differently...