Object Selection Tool in Photoshop

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107 lessons / 16 hours 21 projects Certificate of achievement

Overview

Course Overview

Hi there, my name is  Dan and I am an Adobe Certified Instructor for Photoshop  - this is the Advanced Photoshop course.

This course is not for people new to Photoshop. This is for people who already know the fundamentals. It is for people who have their own ways of doing things but believe there really is a better, faster way to work. 

We will start by learning the best selection techniques available. I promise, by the end of the first section what took you 30mins to mask will now take you 30 seconds. 

What am I going to get from this course?
  • 13+ Hours of content!
  • 10+ Interactive exercises
  • 68 downloadable resources
  • You'll learn the best selection and masking techniques
  • You'll know how to fix images that look 'hard to fix'
  • You'll master advanced levels and curves tricks, specifically with skin, adjusting and enhancing colors
  • You'll learn how to enlarge images without distortion and what to do when things go wrong
  • You'll know how to convincingly remove all kinds of objects from images
  • My favourite: You'll master the ability to distort, bend and reshape images
  • Lets look at how current trending styles are super easy to duplicate
  • You will become a type nerd. We'll use font pairing in Typekit. We'll also use Photoshop's ability to guess fonts
  • Your Artboards skill will be mastered
  • A master of retouching, you will become!
  • You'll learn to edit videos in Photoshop, who'd have thought?
  • We'll also create awesome cinemagraphs, AKA: Moving pictures!
  • You'll learn to master 3D in Photoshop!
  • You'll learn lots about professional, reusable mockups, techniques and shortcuts!

Here's some of the things we'll be doing in this course:
We will correct 'hard to fix' images and learn what to do with blurry images. We will master Advanced Levels & Curves tricks and will work specifically with skin, adjusting and enhancing colours. 

You will learn how to enlarge images without distorting them and also, what to do when things go wrong. 

We will learn how to convincingly remove all kinds of objects from images. My personal favourite section will show you how to distort, bend & reshape images.

We will look at how current trending visual styles are easily created, duotones, glitches and orange/teal colour grading.

We get 'type nerdy' and use font pairing in Typekit. We will use Photoshop to identify the fonts used in an image and learn how to work with hidden glyphs & ligatures as well as variable & open type fonts.

You will master artboards while you are learning how to make easily updatable multiple sized social media & ad banner graphics. 

There is a big section on advanced retouching techniques, advanced healing, advanced cloning & patching. 

You will learn how to edit videos in Photoshop. We will also animate static images creating parallax videos plus the very cool cinemagraphs sometimes called 'living pictures' - great for social media. 

You will learn to master 3D in photoshop. We will finish off the course with professional, reusable mockup techniques & shortcuts. 

This course has a strong focus on workflow. We use real world, practical projects and show you the professional techniques and shortcuts which will save you hours using Photoshop. Throughout the course I have many class exercises for you to use in order to practice your skills. 

Who am I? 
As well as being an Officially Certified Expert by Adobe, I’m photoshop guru and user with 18 years Photoshop experience. I make tutorial videos directly for Adobe and will again this year be presenting a seminar on  Photoshop at Adobe’s 20 thousand attendee strong Max Conference.  

If you can’t remember the last time you sat down and went through the updates in Photoshop, let this course be your one stop professional development and upgrade path.   

Even if you consider yourself a heavy user, I promise there will be things in here that will blow your Photoshop mind. Sign up now!

Course duration 13 hours 45 mins + your study.



Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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I 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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Transcript

Hi everyone, this is a weird video, where we watch a video together. We're going to sit down side by side and watch YouTube. Why am I forcing you to do this? You don't have to, skip along, but what I wanted to show you is kind of the future of Photoshop. Just so that you're in the know, I love being in the know. And it's all about masking out things out of images. It's something called 'Deep Fill', which is something Photoshop is developing in the background. It's not in the product yet but will be in the future. Just gives you kind of a secret back stage pass of what they're doing. They announced that at last year's Adobe MAX conference, which is their big conference they have every year, at something called the Sneaks, which is in the last days. It's my most favorite part of the whole conference. They just kind of show you stuff that's going on in the background. Not available yet but will be, and it's pretty amazing. So let's watch it together now, you can skip ahead to the next video, or later on just go and check out Project 'Deep Fill', otherwise sit back, relax, I've skipped the intro. Let's just jump in.


Please welcome Jiahui Yu. Thank you. Hi, I'm Jiahui, and today I'll introduce some image hole filling technologies. As you all know that Photoshop already have, a very powerful image hole filling tool called Content Aware Fill, which can be used to remove distracting objects or undesired regions in an image to make it nicer. It works well in most cases but in my case here is quite complicated. Here, I have a saved file So I want to remove this thing here because it's annoying me. So I'm masking it in here. And let's see what Content Aware Fill can give us. Well! Now I have one, two, three, four, I've got four eyes now. I'm just going to talk over this, and annoying everyone. 


The mere reason for this failure is because the Content Aware Fill does not try to understand the image. And it's only relying on copying the surrounding areas, the surrounding pixels into the hole. We believe a good image hole filling system should be able to understand the face, and fill the nose with the nose, not the eyes, or mouth, or something else. So to bridge this gap and solve this very challenging image hole filling problems we introduce Project 'Deep Fill'. We leverage the power of Adobe Sensei, deep learning and develop that 'Deep Fill' that can understand the image. Here, let's see how it performs. 


I press that 'Deep Fill' button, and yes it can. Cool, huh? What if we master the entire eyebrow? Can 'Deep Fill' return us a new one? Well, let's try it. Here I masked the eyebrow, well, let's see Content Aware Fill first. Well, this time it copies the mouth into the location of the nose. And let's see the 'Deep Fill'. Well, it can successfully hallucinate a new eyebrow for you. We know that 'Deep Fill' works on faces, but in most cases, people travel around the world, and take photos, and find some people you want to remove. For that project, in my case-- here, I take a photo in Perth Canyon National Park. Well, it's wonderful, beautiful weather, but I find two people on the top. So what I'm going to do is, I take the photo-- what he's trying to explain in the background, is that Adobe Sensei is their kind of machine learning artificial intelligence. Watch what happens. Watch it disappear, was this the right one? This image is part of high resolution. It's a bad version.

 
What Adobe Sensei is doing is, it's looking at other people's images that they've found online. That's crazy, it goes out and says, you've taken this photo of a popular spot. I'm going to go off and see if I can find it-- Adobe Sensei is going to go off and see if they can find it online, and grab data from there and put it into your image without you asking. Crazy. Wait for it. This one looks visually realistic, but it's not semantically correct because it's not an arc anymore. So with our 'Deep Fill', by the way, we can mask multiple regions, and hallucinate it in one shot. Let's see it. And yes, this is the Deep Fill. Cool, huh! One more thing, given that Deep Fill users have no control over, what 'Deep Fill' will feel in this master region. Of course, we can provide multiple solutions for users to choose. 


Another thing to mention is that, if you are like me, kind of cross over into the video world, they're looking to do this exact same thing but in live action. So, like people's videos that have gone online can be used, to mask out live actions of people walking in front of your video of the Eiffel Tower, can be masked down, because there are enough videos online. Enough data to kind of re-represent that. It's the best I can take into now. So, using 'Deep Fill', let's see how it forms. And yes. This is the AI-powered user guided image whole filling technology. Project 'Deep Fill'. Sense. That is awesome. 


They just have a bit of a chat afterwards. So yes, it's just looking at data that exist online, and tries to use your image, Photoshop dives into the internet, and says, well here's some images that are the same, or we think are the same, and starts using that to put it together, rather than what's just in the image. They call it Adobe Sensei as their kind of like, background robot learning, machine learning Artificial Intelligence stuff. You'll see more and more of this into Adobe. Content Aware Fill is pretty amazing by itself, but when we get into this kind of, like reaching out, out of Photoshop and out of the image, things are going to get pretty cool. 


Also know, this is Adobe MAX, this is in Vegas last year. It was my first time, it was so good. If you are going to this year's one in LA, drop me a line. What we'll do is, if any students are going, and we want to hang out, we'll just grab a beer one night and we'll see if we can get a few students together. And we'll just have a little chat, doesn't have to be anything too special, but if you are going to Adobe MAX, let me know. That is enough YouTube watching together. Let's jump into the next group of videos. haere rā.

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